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! 🎉

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! 🗓️

🌟 Join Our Full Length Department 🌟 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

⌛TIME IS RUNNING OUT ⌛ 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. ✍️ Submission guidelines and more: abodepress.com/submissions #abodepress #indiepress #publishing #chapbook

🌟 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...

🧡 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...

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

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-...

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...

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! ☺️

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!

📖 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

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! 🎉

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...

🚨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...

🔥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

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-... 🧵

🚨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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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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!

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! 🎉❤️😍