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Abode Press
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Anti-racist 501(c)3 press run by POC & queer/trans folks primarily in TX. We publish books that remind us of home. 🏡

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🌟 COVER REVEAL🌟

We're excited to share the cover of our next chapbook-- Weaving Liberation by M. K. Thekkumkattil!

Weaving Liberation is the first chapbook in Abode's 2025-2026 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! 📖

Learn more and preorder here: www.abodepress.com/product-page...
Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook is a hybrid chapbook that documents one year of refusing genocide against Palestinians. Drawing connections between Palestinian liberation, the relationship with land, nursing during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, transness, diaspora, and fishing, this collection offers an archive and genuflection to the communities that have come together for Palestinian liberation. Situated in the specificity of Dena'ina Land, the chapbook's ephemera includes ceremonial scripts from actions, letters to an assembly member, and essays written in grief, rage, and desperation.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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🧡 Praise for Earth & Earth-like Planets By Devaki D. Devi 🧡

Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is the eigth (and final) chapbook in Abode's 2024-2025 lineup and is officially available to order! 📚

Get your copy here: www.abodepress.com/product-page...
"Earth & Earth-like Planets is a tour de force of contradictions and symphonies—an ode to the lost and lonely souls who belong to this universe precisely because they feel like they don't." —Valmic Mukund
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Less than two months left to submit your chapbook to us! 😲

Send us your very best Prose, Hybrid, and Poetry writing! Abode Press is looking for submissions that explore identity, origin, and culture. 🧡

Learn more about submissions here: www.abodepress.com/submissions
Graphic with text: Time is running out LESS THAN 2 MONTHS Send us Prose, Hybrid, and Poetry chapbooks Abode Press wants to read work that discusses identity, origin, and culture. Every abode is unique to the person who lives there. abodepress.com/submissions
October 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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FIGHT CENSORSHIP. FUND STORIES.

Despite the current cuts to grant funding, Abode Press is more committed than ever to amplifying underrepresented voices.

Support our goal of reaching $1,000 and together we can publish marginalized voices! 📖

Donate here: donorbox.org/abode-press-...
FIGHT CENSORSHIP. FUND STORIES. Support our goal of reaching $1,000 and together we can publish marginalized voices! A screenshot of the Abode Press Yearly Fundraiser on Donorbox.
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Happy Pub Day to Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi 🥳

Earth and Earth-like Planets is officially out for publication! 🧡 All pre-orders will be shipped as soon as possible.📦 If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can purchase one here: www.abodepress.com/product-page...
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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We’re welcoming another new member to our team! 🥳

Please join us in welcoming our new Graphic Designer, Mikayla 🧡

Thank you for being part of Abode! ☺️
Graphic with text: Meet Our New Graphic Designer Mikayla Graphic with text: Hi, I'm Mikayla, a new graphic designer at Abode Press! During undergrad, I majored in Peace & Justice and Women & Gender Studies at Pace University and am pursuing a master's in Health Communication at the City University of New York. I'm passionate about using design to amplify marginalized voices. Outside of design, I love to read, listen to music, and travel!
September 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We’re welcoming a new member to the Abode Press team! 🥳

Please join us in welcoming our new Graphic Designer, Maiu Romano-Verthelyi 🧡

Thank you for being part of Abode, Maiu!
Graphic with text that reads: Maiu Romano-Verthelyi (She/Her) Meet our new Graphic Designer Graphic with text that reads: Hi Everyone! My name is Maiu and I'm so excited to be joining the team. A bit about me, I am a queer, Argentinian American graphic designer and illustrator who just graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA in Communication Design. When I'm not building brand assets, I like to read, make art, take long city walks, and explore new restaurants. I love making new friends so don't be afraid to say hi!
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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📖 Got a chapbook? We want to read it! 🤓

Please submit your best poetry, hybrid, or fiction work to Abode Press. We are seeking chapbook manuscripts that explore themes of identity, origin, and culture.

Submissions open until 11/30! 🗓️

Learn more: www.abodepress.com/submissions
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September 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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We're excited to share the cover of Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi!

Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is a collection of imaginative short stories following Indian American children, teens, and young adults as they come of age in a country that often alienates them.
Graphic depicting the cover of Earth and Earth-like Planets. The cover is purple with a planet and stars in the background, in the foreground a white teapot pours light brown tea into a teacup. In the right hand corner of the graphic it reads "coming October 1st". Graphic with a description of the chapbook Earth and Earth-like Planets (which is included in the caption) as well as a link to preorder at abodepress.com/shop
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We're excited to introduce Marilyn Ramirez and Chase Martin as our Managing Editor team for our chapbook submission reading periods!👏

They're responsible for assigning submissions to readers, improving our reading workflow, and managing their assigned sections. 📖

Welcome to the team! 🎉
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It’s been just over a month since Sea Changes by Hayun Cho entered the world, and our very own Angela Heiser, Poetry Reader and Publicity Intern at Abode, sat down with the author to get her insight.

Subscribe to our Substack and read more: abode.substack.com/p/abode-feat...
Graphic with text: Abode Feature: Transcending Wounds to Dream of Hope and Healing: An Interview with Hayun Cho "I was curious about the impulse to notice and appreciate small signs of life, to hold onto..." abode.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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🚨NEW WORKSHOP🚨

Join us Tuesday, September 16 at 7 PM CST for Writing with the Earth: An Anti-Imperialism Approach Towards Eco-Poetics a virtual workshop led by Ashia Ajani.

Get your tickets: www.abodepress.com/events-1/wri...
Graphic with text that reads: Writing With The Earth: AN ANTI-IMPERIALISM APPROACH TOWARDS ECO-POETICS Writing Workshop with Ashia Ajani We are experiencing a renaissance of environmental writing, but little room is made to explore the relationship of war, occupation and environmental decline. We are living in the sixth mass extinction, largely due to the Western war machine. How are we to create art during times of decline? What is the role of the creative in opposition to ecological violence? Through reading poems of Jayne Cortez, Fady Joudah, and Diana Khoi Nguyen in conversations with contemporary texts about environmental harms and their long lives, participants will walk away with material that addresses the intersections of environmental harm and war making in their writing. Tue, Sept 16 7pm CT $25+ sliding scale VIRTUAL WORKSHOP www.abodepress.com/workshops
August 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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🔥The wait is over!!!🔥

Abode Press is officially open for chapbook submissions in hybrid, poetry, and fiction. Submit your best manuscripts that speak to home, identity, and culture now until November 30th. We're excited to read your work!

Learn more and submit here: www.abodepress.com/submissions
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August 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Can't donate? It's okay! Share this post to help us reach more people who may want to support an anti-racist publishing press run by queer/trans folks in the South. Thank you as always to our community for supporting us! We couldn't do what we do without you and your love and support.
red background with text that says: The truth: we still need to make a lot of headway to reach our first goal of $500 by the end of August. Donations will help offset the costs of increasing business operations, programming, and supporting authors and staff. Thank you to our community for helping support us in any ways you can. It truly makes the difference! Support us by making a donation or sharing our fundraiser with anyone who wants to support an anti-racist publishing press with strong values. Thank you for your support and love!
August 13, 2025 at 4:00 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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🚨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 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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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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Apply to work with our reward winning faculty such as Ariana Brown, KB Brookins, mónica teresa ortiz, Kayla Kumari, and Stephanie Macias here: abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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February 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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At our 2025 Virtual Retreat, you will:

🧑‍🎓Attend 2-3 lectures, panels, and craft talks weekly.
🤝 Network with other writers and authors.
✍️ Expect generative sessions and opportunities to give or receive feedback.
🎤 Show your work at open mic events& invite family or friends.
Workshops in fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, and nonfiction Access to 2-3 lectures, panels, and craft talks weekly Networking opportunities with other writers + authors Free to apply!! (Donations are appreciated) Cost: $250-$400, sliding scale Applications open via Submittable in mid-December Partial scholarships available Acceptances will be sent Mid-March Learn more: www.abodepress.com/summer-retreat
February 16, 2025 at 4:42 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!
Graphic with black background and beige text that says "Applications for our 2025 Virtual Retreat are extended!!" We heard you! We’re extending our Virtual Retreat applications deadline!! Due to an influx of new followers and writers who missed the original deadline, we have received many requests to reopen our submissions for our Virtual Retreat, and for this one time, we will do so and re-open applications until Sunday, March 2nd! For submitters who have already applied, please note this will not impact your application or the timeline of notification (all submitters will be notified in March), and we thank you for getting those wonderful submissions in on time. This is the LAST chance to apply to the Virtual Retreat (it's free to apply!), so don't miss it and please share with anyone who may be interested. We look forward to reading your submissions!
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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✨ happy pub day to “Toy Soldiers”!! ✨

Michael Chang’s chapbook “Toy Soldiers” is officially out for publication!! Due to the holidays, the books were delayed in shipping but are officially shipped and all pre orders will be shipped as soon as books are received!

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January 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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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