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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 13d

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!

Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 16d

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!

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Maiu Romano-Verthelyi

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Sep 5

📖 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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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Earth and Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is the eighth (and final) chapbook in Abode's 2024-2025 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by early October.

Preorder now: www.abodepress.com/shop

Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi | Abode Press

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 for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by early October.…

www.abodepress.com

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 27

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! 🎉

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨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...

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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

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also note that we have limited fee waivers available via Submittable for Black and Indigenous Writers for this submission cycle. Currently, we are looking for work from writers based in the U.S., though we hope to expand our reach in the future. 🧡

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 15

🔥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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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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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!

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨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...

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thrilled to share that my hopeful dystopian poem “If I must exist here” will appear in an upcoming issue of @havenspec.bsky.social! ✨ This poem was sparked at last year’s @abodepress.bsky.social Summer Retreat, and I’m so excited that it will finally be out in the world.

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SCAREse GHOULnor @saoirsecl.bsky.social · Mar 25

Extremely excited to share that I’ve been accepted into @abodepress.bsky.social’s virtual summer retreat! I’ll be spending the summer studying under @kaylakumari.bsky.social and working on something spooky.

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Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · Mar 20

New newsletter is live! This month I wrote about some personal transitons I have coming up, storytelling and folklore and fairytales. Here are some writing prompts I featured in it from my Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairytales workshop I taught for @abodepress.bsky.social

A graphic on a mauve background with a design of vines covered in multicolored crystals woven among the green stalks on the bottom right side. In the middle in lighter pink text it says, “Embodied Fairytale Writing Prompt, Fairytales and folktales often contain rules that the characters must abide by, or even break to go on their quest and achieve the life they want. What are the rules of your body? These could be rules that were imposed upon you or that you have for your body. What happens when these rules are broken? Is there freedom gained, or something to discover?

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Sofía Aguilar @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social · Mar 20

thrilled to share that i was accepted into @abodepress.bsky.social’s virtual retreat this summer! i’m v excited to work on my next poetry manuscript with an incredible instructor & meet other folks in my cohort this june <3

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Mar 12

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!

www.abodepress.com/events-1/doc...

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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.

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Mar 12

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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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · Mar 1

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for our Virtual Retreat! Apps will not open again so don’t miss this deadline!!

abodepress.submittable.com/submit

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