Diamond Gizelle Braxton

@diamondgbraxton.bsky.social

Queer Black & Mexican Writer & Editor 🌈 Founder @abodepress / MFA @txstmfa Lambda Literary, Tin House, Hedgebrook 25’ www.diamondgizellebraxton.com

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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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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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!

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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!

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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FICTION
Jonathan Wlodarski
Recipes for Grief
POETRY
Aerik Francis
BODYPOLITIC
Kris Cho
Chosun Cowboy
Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa
tow Survive an Asthma Attach
na climate Apocalyose
M. K. Thekkumkattil
HYBRID
Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook
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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!!

Tin House@tinhouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

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...

Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales | Abode Press

In this open-genre workshop led by Leticia Urieta, participants will be invited to engage in a variety of readings to connect us to a deeper knowledge of ourselves and will work through a series of di...

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That "intellectual diversity" and "free speech" were trojan horses for right-wing power-grabs has been obvious from the start and I remain disappointed how many supposedly rational folks took bad-faith actors at their word.

Grant Hayden@granthayden.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Intellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...