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
🚨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...
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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Thank you!!! I’m terrified but also really excited!!!
I haven't fully voiced this thought out loud except to my small circle, but...
I am finally writing a novel.
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...
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. ✍️
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
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!
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! 🎉❤️😍
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. 💪🏽
i love you to the moon & back! ✨🌙
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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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!!
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.
https://buff.ly/4hoIQqX
It truly is the best! A part of me wants to move back but it’s a hard decision to make for so many reasons. I’ve been going back more to see family and keep falling back in love with it 😩
No city tops Houston and I really do miss the H sometimes 💔
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.
www.abodepress.com/events-1/rec...
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! ❤️❤️
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
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 🥰🥰
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
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
I have been writing about sex more lately and… I wish I would’ve done this sooner.
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.
We close for chapbook submissions tonight at 11pm CST! Don’t miss your last chance to submit to us!
abodepress.submittable.com/submit
same to you my friend!! solidarity!! ❤️🥺
dealing with physical health and chronic neurological issues. getting closer to a diagnosis but shit’s scary out here 💔
so excited for you!!!!!
