Please join us in celebrating our chapbook shortlist! 🥳
We received over 226 submissions and we want to honor our shortlisted writers and their amazing work.🧡
Thank you to everyone who submitted and congrats! 👏
We'll announce our official chapbook catalog within the next few weeks! 🎉
What a wonderful first time virtual retreat. Well thought out, organized and focused on QBIPOC having a space to create writing friendships and connections. If you are queer and you write you must apply for this retreat, it could change your life. Zaira Gomez, 2024 Attendee
I was thrilled to be a part of the Abode Press 2025 retreat. They offered a superb selection of talks, workshops, and panels, and were always communicative and accountable. I definitely would recommend this retreat to every writer who wishes to expand their community, hone their craft, and get tangible, helpful feedback on their work. Sofía Aguilar, 2025 Attendee
I had such an incredible experience: I am so grateful to my generous, amazing cohort of talented writers; my instructor KB, who was phenomenal at creating such a warm, supportive space; and most of all for Abode for existing. I dont have the budget to attend some of the more expensive, larger retreats and I do not feel that Ive missed anything. I would recommend this retreat and really hope to stay in touch with all of the amazing people Ive met. It is so precious to have a space that supports and uplifts the stories of queer, BIPOC, and does it so well. Amy Zhou, 2025 Attendee
CHECK OUT TESTIMONIALS FROM LAST YEAR'S RETREAT 👉
Applications are open now for our 2026 Virtual Retreat starting June 7th! 🧡
It's free to apply! Applications close March 7th. Learn more here: www.abodepress.com/2026-virtual...
Our 2025 Chapbook Reading Period is now closed!
Thank you to everyone who submitted 🧡
We received 226 submissions (a new record)! 🎉🎉🎉
Our team is hard at work reading all of your submissions! All responses will be sent in January! 🗓️
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Abode is expanding and will be acquiring full length prose titles in 2026🥳 To help us with this exciting new growth at Abode, we have some open positions!
Learn more about available roles and how to apply: www.abodepress.com/jobs
Applications due December 10
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SUBS CLOSE ON NOV 30 🗓️
Send us your very best Prose, Hybrid, and Poetry writing! Abode Press is looking for submissions that explore identity, origin, and culture. ✍️
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Cover Design by: Nadia Rausa 🎨
All orders will be shipped by late November. There are only 100 copies of this chapbook available, so make sure to get your copy while you can! 📦
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.
🌟 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...
"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
🧡 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...
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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
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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! 📖
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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...
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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!
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! ☺️
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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!
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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📖 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
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
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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.
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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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.
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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...
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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🔥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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🚨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.
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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!
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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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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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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
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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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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