Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi is a collection of imaginative short stories following Indian American children, teens, and young adults as they come of age in a country that often alienates them. This genre-bending chapbook hums with the steady pulse of Indian culture as diasporic youth create new worlds amid the weight of family expectations, shifting social norms, gender roles, and economic pressure. Rooted in heritage, Devi's speculative prose transports readers to new planets, ones that remind us dreaming isn't just survival, but rather, a radical act of envisioning the futures we all deserve.
The chapbook is our last one in the 2024-2025 chapbook series and we’re so excited to close out our first-ever selected books with Devi’s collection!
Available for pre-order here!
We're into our first few weeks of open submissions and are already in love with all the work we're receiving across our Poetry, Prose, and Hybrid genres. Don't forget to submit your work to us!
For our commitment to anti-racist work in the publishing world, we have FEE WAIVED submissions available for Black and Indigenous identifying writers available in Submittable.
Tue, Sep 16 | Virtual Workshop
Workshop Description: We are experiencing a renaissance of environmental writing, but little room is made to explore the relationship of war, occupation and environmental decline. We are living in the sixth mass extinction, largely due to the Western war machine. How are we to create art during times of decline? What is the role of the creative in opposition to ecological violence? Through reading poems of Jayne Cortez, Fady Joudah, and Diana Khoi Nguyen in conversations with contemporary texts about environmental harms and their long lives, participants will walk away with material that addresses the intersections of environmental harm and war making in their writing.
Through reading poems of Jayne Cortez, Fady Joudah, and Diana Khoi Nguyen in conversations with contemporary texts about environmental harms and their long lives, participants will walk away with material that addresses the intersections of environmental harm and war making in their writing.
Looking to attend but the date doesn’t work? We provide 30-day access to the workshop recording with proof of receipt. Email diamond@abodepress.com for access.
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We want to take a moment to welcome and congratulate new team members as well as recent promotions within the Abode Press family.
Teri Vela published four poems on Villain Era, a few of which she worked on at Abode’s online retreat this Summer. We’re so happy to see them out in the world, Teri!
Turi Sioson has two forthcoming poems in the Summer issue of the Hopkins Review. Congratulations, Turi!
Addie Tsai has their first academic monograph coming out September 18th. Order “Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture” here!
Our Founder & Director, Diamond Braxton "MANTÉ,” will be a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook from Sept 25 - Oct 7 to finish their short story collection. Can’t wait to read the collection!
Congratulations to these Abode staff members!! Learn more about them on our Masthead page.
Thank you, as always, for your support! We love you!
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