We hope your Pride Month has been as exciting as ours! In case you missed it, our website launched last week. You can also read our Press Update about it below:
Our staff was on a roll this month! Check out what we’ve been up to in our writing lives.
Some chapbooks for your TBR list:
Poetry reader Kimberly Wolf’s poetry chapbook How the Frogs Get Married is also available to order from Bullshit Lit. Find it here!
Poetry reader mónica teresa ortiz’s poetry chapbook have you ever dreamed of flamingos? is available to order from Garden Party Collective here.
Awards & nominations:
Founder & director Diamond Braxton’s piece “The Body as a Warzone” made the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist, along with many other friends of Abode! Read Diamond’s piece in Rejection Letters here.
Prose editor Addie Tsai’s novel Unwieldy Creatures has been nominated for Best Novel for the Shirley Jackson Awards!
Abode IRL:
Copy editor Tanya Thamkruphat’s poem “The Fortune Teller Tuts and Declares” was part of the San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health’s “Meet the Artist” exhibit, which ran from May 20-June 4.
Tanya also has a poem, “Some Days,” in the “Looking Back / Moving Forward: The Wisdom of Older Women” exhibit, which runs from May 13-August 6 at Fullerton Museum Center in Fullerton, CA.
Poetry editor SG Huerta and reader mónica teresa ortiz have poems in Raspa Magazine’s queer Latinx exhibit Aquí and Now, on display at Houston City Hall from June 19-August 25. The exhibit is also online. Find SG’s poem “Latinx Poetry” here and mónica’s poem “July 2013” here.
Our August launch is creeping closer and closer! We can’t wait to read your work.
Abode Press is a 501(c)3 nonprofit publishing press dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices. Our values are founded on intersectionality, anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and empathy. We are set to launch August 15, 2023. Donate to Abode here.