Abode Update: Final Chapbooks Selections

Announcing our 2024-2025 catalog!

We are beyond excited and grateful to finally share our first chapbook selections as a press! These gorgeous collections fit our vibe and mission: books that remind you of home and culture. Let’s get right into it!

2024
Farrah Fang - Quererme En La Luz - poetry (Texas author!)
Desiree McCray - My Sisters Look Like God - poetry
Jerrice Baptiste - Coral in the Diaspora - fiction
Stephen Rendon - Moth and Ghost at Work - hybrid (Texas author!)

2025
Michael Chang - TOY SOLDIERS - poetry
Angelica Davila - Bilingual Bitch - poetry
Hayun Cho - Sea Changes - hybrid
Devaki Devay - Earth and Earth-like Planets - fiction

A huge thank you to these brilliant writers for sharing their work with us. We’re honored their work will call Abode home.

Excited yet?? Keep reading on for brief descriptions of each chapbook, as well as exciting workshop update!

Farrah Fang - Quererme En La Luz - poetry
Quererme En La Luz is an unapologetic journey, a spiritual philosophy, a militant manifesto, a harmonious and chaotic retelling of the author’s experiences as a trans Latina navigating the gulf coast of Texas.

Desiree McCray - My Sisters Look Like God - poetry
My Sisters Look Like God serves as an invitation to embrace diversity, challenge preconceptions, and find strength in embracing one’s unique authenticity. My Sisters Look Like God is a testimony to the vibrant, vivid human experience.

Jerrice Baptiste - Coral in the Diaspora - fiction
Coral in The Diaspora captures the lives of the Haitian people as they embrace the goodness in their community. This collection celebrates the wisdom of the elders as leaders and are cherished for their commitment to make the island thrive.

Stephen Rendon - Moth and Ghost at Work - hybrid
Moth and Ghost at Work touches on themes of the self, class, family and race through innovative experimentation. This book gives the reader a tender, intimate look at what it means to live and breathe in modern capitalism.

MICHAEL CHANG - TOY SOLDIERS - poetry
TOY SOLDIERS queers language and culture to critique 21st century living. Driven by fast lingo, tight lines, and erotic vitality, this collection presses all the relevant and irreverent buttons with cunning bravado.

Angelica Davila - Bilingual Bitch - poetry
Bilingual Bitch explores the complexities of Mexican American culture through multilingual expression, generational conflict, and existing in a limbo. This chapbook is for the pochas everywhere who find themselves always wondering “which country” is their country.

Hayun Cho - Sea Changes - hybrid
Sea Changes is song, testimony, and archive of survival and transformation in the face of negotiating rage, grief, pleasure, kinship, and Korean diasporic life. This book is an ode to Asian women’s lives that reckon with the embodied manifestations of heteropatriarchy and latent colonial histories.

Devaki Devay - Earth and Earth-like Planets - fiction
Earth & Earth-Like Planets is a collection of Indian American coming-of-age flash stories, exploring family dynamics, gender roles, economic and social pressures, and more, touching often on the sometimes inexplicable experience of “feeling different.”

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We are SO EXCITED for you to fall in love with these books the way we have! Immense thank yous are in order for our incredible readers and editors, too <3 As always, stay tuned for more updates.

PS: For 2024, we are offering a workshop all-access pass! For a one-time payment of $100, you can access all 11 of our 2024 workshops! Learn more here, and check out our INCREDIBLE lineup here. We hope to write with you soon!

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