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Diamond Gizelle Braxton
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Queer Black & Mexican Writer & Editor 🌈
Founder @abodepress / MFA @txstmfa
Lambda Literary, Tin House, Hedgebrook 25’

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It’s almost that time of the year again!! ✨

Our chapbook submissions open NEXT FRIDAY for poetry, prose, and hybrid chapbooks. Our teams are incredibly excited and ready to read your incredible work. Save the date and don’t miss your chance to submit to us!

#chapbooks #indiepress
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August 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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🚨COMING SOON!🚨

Join us on Sunday, August 17 at 12 PM CST for Beyond Self Translation a virtual workshop led by Angelica Dàvila, author of “Bilingual Bitch”. 📖

“Beyond self-translation” intends to question the originality of a translated poem.

Learn more: www.abodepress.com/events-1/bey...
Brown background with a yellow brown shape that says "NEW WORKSHOP" over it. Text on the photo reads: Beyond Self-Translation Date: Sunday, Aug 17 Time: 12-2pm CST Tickets: $25+ sliding scale Instructor: Angelica Davila, author of "Bilingual Bitch" Workshop Description: “Beyond self-translation” intends to question the originality of a translated poem. Bilingual writers who self-translate their work may often find themselves inspired by new ideas during the self-translation process. What do we do with these new ideas? Oftentimes, we may think that these inspirations may not have a place in the translated poem, but this may be a form of resistance within our poetic process. When we translate, we make ourselves accessible in another language. Though, as bilingual writers, should we limit ourselves to being accessible in one language over the other or should we resist? As new ideas form during the act of self-translation, our poetic process challenges us to consider whether we need to adhere to translating a poem or whether we need to embrace the fluidity of language and creativity to create new multiple and original poems that all stem from that first poem that we wanted to selftranslate. The Abode Press logo appears in the bottom left and there's a hyperlink to learn more about the workshop on the bottom right that directs to abodepress.com/workshops.
August 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It's true. We still need to make headway into reaching our first fundraising goal of $500 by the end of August.

All donations will go towards supporting increasing business operations, programming, and supporting authors and our staff.

Donate here: donorbox.org/abode-press-...

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August 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I haven't fully voiced this thought out loud except to my small circle, but...

I am finally writing a novel.
March 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Tickets are Pay-What-You-Want, with a minimum set at $25 and $10 for writers in need. All proceeds go towards paying our presenters and helping the Press pay for operational expenses. Thank you for your contribution to keeping an indie intersectional press afloat!

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Workshop description over black text that says: With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more. Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docu-poetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
March 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Join us 4/28 at 6:30PM for Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories led by Dena Igusti!

In this virtual class, we will explore docu-poetics & how incorporating archives and oral history into poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks. ✍️
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March 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Tomorrow is the last day to apply for our Virtual Retreat! Apps will not open again so don’t miss this deadline!!

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March 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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BIG NEWS! We are extending our Virtual Retreat application deadline!❤

Due to new followers and writers who missed the original deadline, we have received many requests to reopen our submissions for our Virtual Retreat this past week, we will re-open applications until 3/2!
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February 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Congratulations to our 2025-2026 chapbook winners!🏆

Please join us in congratulating our authors on their achievement!🥳

Stay tuned for more announcements regarding pre-orders, book launches, and more! Congratulations once again to our authors! Welcome to the Abode family! 🎉❤️😍
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February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I have so much going on in my personal life and I am so thankful I started hitting the gym again. Working out is my savior. We have fascists to fight. 💪🏽
January 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything:
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GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta
About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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so so proud of my bestfriend for their wonderful accomplishment!! “GOOD GRIEF” is going to be so good!!!!!! GET THOSE PRE ORDERS IN Y’ALL!!
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Please give #THAlum SG Huerta (@sgpoet.bsky.social) their flowers! Their wonderful nonfiction chapbook "GOOD GRIEF" is out now with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social! SG, we're so proud & can't thank you enough for being a part of our Workshop.

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January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Please give #THAlum SG Huerta (@sgpoet.bsky.social) their flowers! Their wonderful nonfiction chapbook "GOOD GRIEF" is out now with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social! SG, we're so proud & can't thank you enough for being a part of our Workshop.

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January 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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No city tops Houston and I really do miss the H sometimes 💔
January 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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NEW WORKSHOP! Join us on 2/26 at 630pm CST for "Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales," an open-genre workshop that discusses fairytales, fables, myths & traditional stories to explore our relationships to our bodies and the stories that we tell about them.

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Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales | Abode Press
In this open-genre workshop led by Leticia Urieta, participants will be invited to engage in a variety of readings to connect us to a deeper knowledge of ourselves and will work through a series of di...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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the good news is I’m going to have the gayest AWP of my life this year. can’t wait to share these readings with y’all! ❤️❤️
January 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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winter break has not been productive for me at all, and in fact, I fractured my finger playing rugby and now have less fingers to write my damn book with before going back to school lol
January 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Our Inaugural Retreat was such a success that I cannot wait for us to come back bigger and better than ever in 2025! Join us!! It’ll be a time 🥰🥰
abodepress.bsky.social Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Dec 23
Applications for our 2025 Virtual Retreat are open! It’s free to apply! Don’t miss your chance to apply for an amazing affordable retreat packed with additional lectures, craft talks, and panels throughout June! ❤️❤️

Apply here: abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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December 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Our renowned faculty includes Ariana Brown (Poetry Instructor), mónica teresa ortiz (Poetry Instructor), KB Brookins (Nonfiction Instructor), Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (Speculative Fiction Instructor, and Stephanie Macias (Short Fiction Instructor)!

Visit: abodepress.com/summer-retreat
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December 23, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Applications for our 2025 Virtual Retreat are open! It’s free to apply! Don’t miss your chance to apply for an amazing affordable retreat packed with additional lectures, craft talks, and panels throughout June! ❤️❤️

Apply here: abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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December 23, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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I have been writing about sex more lately and… I wish I would’ve done this sooner.
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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the book is coming! she officially has a title. all of the 7 included stories are mostly finished, and I’m entering revisions. hoping to start querying by the summer. can’t believe it.
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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We close for chapbook submissions tonight at 11pm CST! Don’t miss your last chance to submit to us!

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November 30, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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dealing with physical health and chronic neurological issues. getting closer to a diagnosis but shit’s scary out here 💔
November 25, 2024 at 6:46 PM