Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook is a hybrid chapbook that documents one year of refusing genocide against Palestinians. Drawing connections between Palestinian liberation, relationship with land, nursing during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, transness, diaspora, and fishing, this collection offers an archive and genuflection to the communities that have come together for Palestinian liberation. Situated in the specificity of Dena’ina Land, the chapbook’s ephemera includes ceremonial scripts from actions, letters to an assembly member, and essays written in grief, rage, and desperation. Pre-order here!
In Weaving Liberation, M. K. Thekkumkattil demands an end to the US-sponsored Israeli genocide in Gaza, and an end to occupation, colonialism, and imperialism in all their forms—intimate, bodily, political, structural, societal. Dreaming of liberation while demanding accountability, this is a book that refuses borders to imagine collective care.” —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Terry Dactyl
About the Author: M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them) is a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian Liberation. They write about care work, kink, relationship with land, among other things. They received a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award and fellowships from Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in Black Warrior Review, smoke and mold, ___figuration, Autostraddle, Fence Magazine, Year Round Queer, & In the Future There Are No Hospitals. Their debut essay collection, The Sexuality of Care, will be published by Feminist Press in 2026. IG: thekkumkattilmk
We’re having our first sale of the year! All chapbooks are 25% off if you use the code Fallsale25, valid until November 15th. Don’t miss your chance to get a chapbook with us! Check out our bookstore here.
Dec 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM CST : Virtual Workshop
Workshop Description: Building on the foundation laid in the first workshop, participants will dive deeper into Western imperialism’s impact on the environment and how writers grapple with those impacts in their writings. Reading work by contemporary poets Cianga, Golden, Maya Salameh, this workshop begs the question: how are we to interpret the ecological vulnerability of our time through language, place, history and emergent knowledge? How can we re-embed ourselves into the natural world, and remind ourselves of our responsibility to it? This layered response allows for a deeper engagement with ecological works and moves beyond the aesthetic/sensorial into ethical and stewardship capacity. Participation in the first workshop is not required.
Ashia Ajani is a sun shower, an overripe nectarine, a carnivorous plant, a glass bead. They are the author of one poetry collection, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) and a forthcoming collection of lyric essays, Tending the Vines (Timber Press, TBA). Her writing is a kaleidoscope of her work as an eco-griot & abolitionist.
Tickets are $25 minimum for general admission and $10 for writers-in-need. All proceeds go towards paying our presenters and helping the Press pay for operational expenses. Thank you for your contribution to help keep an indie intersectional press afloat! Get your tickets here.
This year we’ll be tabling at Houston Zine Fest, which will take place at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art on Nov 15 from 12-6pm. We’ll be tabling with all of our chapbooks and zines, and we’ll also have information about our 2026 programming and goodies! Stop by and come see us Houston!
Haven’t had a chance to submit your chapbook yet? We close for submissions on November 30th, and you don’t want to miss your chance to submit to us.
Abode Press wants to read work that discusses identity, origin, and culture. Every abode is unique to the person who lives there. We want to read about the ghosts in your closet, the heritage that guides your cooking, the cultural emblems that decorate your walls. Because when someone invites you into their abode, they’re letting you see a piece of themselves. At Abode, we believe it’s important to prioritize these narratives to create a world with better empathy, understanding, and compassion for others.
To clarify, we are not specifically asking for work that takes place inside of a home; we are simply curious about the people who live in them. Submit here!
We want to take a moment to acknowledge accomplishments in the Abode Press family.
Poetry Reader, Cheyenne Williams has a poem in the upcoming anthology “Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms & Futurisms” by Torrey House Press! Preorder here!
Managing Editor, Marilyn Ramirez is having a story read as part of Stories on Stage Davis. Congrats, Marilyn!
Virtual Retreat 2025 Alum, MP Vare’s chapbook Daddio: An Iterative Erasure was published by Bottlecap Press this week and last week their essay “Family Ecology” was in The Audacity. Congratulations!
Hybrid Reader, Sarah Alcaide-Escue was accepted to do a writing retreat with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and The Himalayan Writing Retreat in June. Congrats!
Congratulations to these Abode staff members and alum!! Learn more about them on our Masthead page.
Thank you, as always, for your support! We love you!
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