Publications, honors and awards

Sarah has been publishing her poems in literary journals and newspapers since the 1980s

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Florida Review, Five Points, Redivider, Zone 3, SWWIM Every Day, Split Rock Review, Atlanta Review, Grist, Valparaiso Review, Potomac Review and many other journals. Many of the poems in her first chapbook, The Heart Contracts (Finishing Line Press, 2016) previously appeared in various literary publications and are listed below. Much of her more recent work is online (see Poems.)

Concrete Wolf Poetry Series Chapbook Award

for Accommodations, which was published in June 2019.

Sweet Literary Poetry Contest

Finalist, (2022)

Pushcart Prize Nominee

Nominated by Split Rock Review (2019)

Broad River Review Poetry Contest

Finalist, 2020

River Heron Review Poetry Prize

Finalist, (2022)

Pushcart Prize Nominee

Nominated by Whale Road Review (2021)

Frontier Open Poetry Prize

Longlisted, (2020)

Philadelphia Stories: Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry

Semifinalist (2023)

Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (Madville Press)

Longlisted for book-length manuscript, The Grief Committee (2022)

Books

"Accommodations"
(2019)

Sarah’s most recent chapbook, winner of the 2018 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, is now available for orders via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound. Ordering information is also available at the Concrete Wolf website.

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"The Heart Contracts"
(2016)

Sarah Carey’s debut collection of poems, The Heart Contracts, is now available for orders through Finishing Line Press and Amazon. Orders may be made online directly through the publisher’s website as well as by check or money order.

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Published Poetry Journal Covers

"Space Invaders” and “Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness"
Zone 3
(2022)
"The Brazilian Peppertrees"
Twelve Mile Review
(2022)
"By the Bridge or By the River?"
Salamander
(2022)

Review of By the Bridge or By the River? by Amy C. Roma

"Watching the Waning Gibbous Moon"
Yemassee
(2020)
"Recovery"
Grist
(2019)
"Ice-Out"
Alaska Women Speak
Fall
(2019)
"Our Last House"
Barrow Street
(2017)
"Sinkhole"
Carolina Quarterly
(2013)
"Coming Home"
Winter
(2018)
"The Changed Landscape"
The Christian Century
Spring
(2018)
"Personal Effects"
Potomac Review
(2018)
"Grandmother’s Will"
(2009)
"Upheaval"
Spring
(2007)
"My First Steps"
(2004)

finalist in the 2004 poetry competition at George Mason University

"After Dark"
Concho River Review
(2003)
"The Opal Box"
(2002)
"What Comes Out"
South Dakota Review
(2002)
"“Climbers” and “Settlement”"
The Cape Rock, the literary publication of Southeast Missouri University
Fall
(2002)
"The Heart Contracts"
Bogg
(2002)
"Breath"
Fall/Winter
(2000)
"The Service"
(1990)