Writing
“Deeply touched by your work and journey.”
Honors & Awards
2019 Best of the Net Nomination for Watchwoman in Blanket Sea, July 2018
2018 Pushcart Nomination for "Beyond the garden of dreams" poem in Varnish, Issue 1
Winner - Flash Fiction Contest sponsored by Old Fox Books in Annapolis, MD - 2017
Honorable Mention - 2017 Essay Contest, Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazine
2017 Pushcart Nomination for "The ologies" poem in Touch: The Journal of Healing, Volume 20
Winner, Frederick Magazine Short Story Fiction Contest, 2015
Publications: 100+ and counting
Short story - By the Spoonful, in Porcupine Literary, 2020
Poem - Saving myself, in Viscaria Magazine, 2020
Essay - Treasures, In Drunk Monkeys, 2020
Essay - Where the #&@* is Bigham?, in Bold + Italic, 2020
Poem - Palpating, in BlueHouse Journal, 2019
Two Poems - Among the Boxwood and What They Said, in Sunlight Press, 2019
Poem - Doomed to repeat it, in Last Exit, Issue 2, 2019
Poem - Crumbs at the table, in Wend, Issue 1, June 2019 (pg. 23)
Poem - The moth-eater, in Poetic Medicine (Poets Respond section), January 2019
“Absolutely beautiful”
“You, who knows how to weave 26 letters into masterpieces, are again, leaving me with no words.”
“Beautifully written and profoundly brave. ”
“Your writing and your spirit are both powerful and magnificent.”
Essay - Watchwoman, in Blanket Sea, July 2018 (Reprinted in the 2018 I AM STRENGTH anthology)
“You are a stunning writer and all around strong human.”
“wow”
Poem - Inheritance, in Tuscarora Review, 2018
Poem - Whence Comes Heaven, in Tuscarora Review, 2018
Three poems, in CURA, Issue 18, Spring 2018
Essay - Is It Legal Yet?, in Hektoen International, January 2018
Poem - Fighting the follicles, that may be my undoing, in formercactus, Issue 3, December 2017.
Two poems, in Tuck, December 2017
Essay - Unexpected Blessings, in the Same, Issue 4.2, December 2017
“made my heart burst wide open”
“This gave me goosebumps! ”
“PERFECT”
“A thousand hearty AMENs to this article. And thank you for writing it. ❤️”
“Beauteous.”
““I don’t even have words. Just sweet salty tears.”
“We are crying with you.”
2 Poems in Ordinary Madness, Volume 1, September 2017
Poem, Toil by Land or Sea, in Whale Road Review, Issue 8, September 2017
Poem, Into the Blue, in MockingHeart Review, Volume 2, Issue 3, August 2017
Poem - A Reckoning of Nanas, in Fire Poetry Journal, Issue 2, August 2017
Creative Nonfiction - Waiting on the Mountaintop, in Mortar Magazine, Issue 1, August 2017
Poem - What do we hear, in Sapphix Magazine, Issue 1, Summer 2017
Poem - Evisceration, in Sapphix Magazine, Issue 1, Summer 2017
Essay - Drilling for Oil, in Prompt Press, May 2017.
Poem - Of lifeless equivalencies, in Word Fountain, Spring/Summer 2017 issue
Poem - Waiting for the carnival, in Rise Up Review, Issue 6, May 2017.
Poem - Why her fingertip became the blade, in Serving House Journal, Issue 16, Spring 2017
Essay - Traveling at Home, in Apeiron Review, Issue 12.
Poem - Near the Mason Dixon Line on a Summer Night in 1994, in Deep South Magazine, April 2017
Poem - The Weight of Life, in Deep South Magazine, April 2017
“Mind blown!”
“I love the fire in this!”
“just wow”
“This is STUNNING”
“Wow, Sarah. . . there are so many of us who [are] not able to put words to it — but then, you do, for all of us. Thank you.”
“Holy shit, that was amazing. . . I continue to be in awe of your bravery and eloquence.”
“The way you weave words together touches the soul”
Poem - Fate Atwist, in Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 20, Autumn/Winter 2016
Poem - Gladys and the Saints, in Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 20, Autumn/Winter 2016
Poem - The ologies, in Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 20, Autumn/Winter 2016
Poem - Tenacity, in Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 20, Autumn/Winter 2016
“I hope you find as much inspiration in her words as I did when she faced adversity and with the help of her wife and her caregivers, came out stronger on the other side.”
“Beauteous”
“Sarah Bigham is a mystery. A wonderful writer in both prose and poetry, but damnit she’s a mystery.”
“Brilliantly written”
“Sarah, this is beautiful, exultant, touching . . .”
“Sarah, your essay—both in content and style—is amazing. After reading it, I looked at my life and wondered what, if anything, I have done to help others. . . If only everyone followed your beautiful, brave example . . . !”
“Thank you, Sarah, for your pain and risk.”
“Powerful, terrifying, and heartbreaking.”
“ This piece is both beauty and truth. Gorgeous❤️”
““...You echo the frustration of every person with illness and chronic pain.””
“Taking my breath away.”
Additional writing (without available links) has appeared in: Ailment, Bird’s Thumb, Dying Dahlia Review, Entropy, The Fiction Pool, The Ginger Collect, littledeathlit, Months to Years, The New Southern Fugitives, Nixes Mate Review, Poetry24, Quiet Storm, Rag Queen Periodical, Red Bird Chapbooks Weekly Read, Second Hand Stories, S/tick, StoryNews, We Are A Website, Who Wears Short Shorts?, As the World Burns (anthology); The Write Place at the Write Time; The Phoenix Soul; Snapdragon: A Journal of Arts and Healing; Halo Literary Magazine; Dulcet Quarterly; The Chaotic Review; Rabbit; descant; What Fresh Witch is This?; Soliloquies Anthology; The Fem Lit Mag; Outcast Poetry; Slamchop; Man in the Street Magazine; Varnish; The Idea Crucible; Crux Magazine; Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders; Twisted anthology from Medusa’s Laugh Press; Poetry Leaves; Cerurove; Silkworm; Wolfpack Press; and The Avenue.
*All quotes on this page taken from website responses to Sarah's posts, writing, etc.