January Press Updates: Announcing Our Chapbook Winners!
plus Virtual Retreat applications!
We’re so grateful to start 2025 by celebrating incredible literature and announcing our chapbook winners! We received over 200 submissions and selected 5 phenomenal chapbooks for publication:
Fiction
Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski
Poetry
BODYPOLITIC by Aerik Francis
Chosun Cowboy by Kris Cho
How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse by Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa
Hybrid
Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook by M. K. Thekkumkattil
We also want to celebrate these wonderful shortlisted manuscripts!
Fiction Shortlist
American Television by Gemini Wahhaj
Poetry Shortlist
A HOME OF OUR OWN by Edward Gunawan
Home / Address by Anne Marie Wells
incision by Malik Thompson
I,Egg by Nonah Palmer
Pitching Alabaster by Tshaka Campbell
Prayers We Bled by Camille Hernandez
Purple Study by Sappho Stanley
Red Lines by Clare Bayard
Safe!? by Dara Kalima
Samsara by Para Vadhahong
The Skin is the House by Ayendy Bonifacio
Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work last fall! We are so excited to work with Jonathan Wlodarski, Aerik Francis, Kris Cho, Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa, and M. K. Thekkumkattil to bring their books to life!
Can’t wait for our new titles to drop? We have the brand new poetry chapbook TOY SOLDIERS by MICHAEL CHANG for sale, and pre-orders are open for Bilingual Bitch by Angelica Julia Davila!
Abode Virtual Summer Retreat - open until January 30th
Applications are still open for our second Virtual Retreat!
During the month of June 2025, we will have workshops available in poetry, fiction, speculative fiction, and nonfiction led by Ariana Brown (poetry), mónica teresa ortiz (poetry), Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (speculative fiction), Stephanie Macias (fiction), and KB Brookins (nonfiction). Attendees will also be able to attend 2-3 craft talks and lectures throughout the week.
The retreat costs $250-$400 (sliding scale). Because of this low price, applicants will be selected based off the strength of their application and alignment with our values as a press.
It is FREE to apply (though we greatly appreciate donations!) and applicants will be notified of acceptance in mid-March. All funds will go towards paying our presenters, press operations, and paying Retreat admins. Learn more and send your application by January 30th here!
Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales - February 26th, 6:30pm-8pm CT
Affordable virtual workshops is a staple of Abode programming, and our 2025 workshop lineup is live!
First up in our workshop series is Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales led by Leticia Urieta! Tickets for this workshop are $25 ($10 for writers in need).
Fairytales, fables, myths and traditional stories across cultures offer opportunities to explore our relationships to our bodies and the stories that we tell about them. In this open genre workshop, participants will be invited to engage in a variety of readings of creative nonfiction, poetry, speculative and dark fiction and more to that connect us to a deeper knowledge of ourselves and will work through a series of discussions and generative writing activities to help them write the stories of their bodies through the lens of traditional stories. This workshop is open to new and experienced writers 18+.
We hope to see you there!
Thank you for supporting us through another new year! Stay tuned for more book news, workshops, our AWP plans, and more.