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Diamond Gizelle Braxton

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Queer Black & Mexican Writer & Editor 🌈 Founder @abodepress / MFA @txstmfa Lambda Literary, Tin House, Hedgebrook 25’ www.diamondgizellebraxton.com

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It’s almost that time of the year again!! ✨ Our chapbook submissions open NEXT FRIDAY for poetry, prose, and hybrid chapbooks. Our teams are incredibly excited and ready to read your incredible work. Save the date and don’t miss your chance to submit to us! #chapbooks #indiepress
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🚨COMING SOON!🚨 Join us on Sunday, August 17 at 12 PM CST for Beyond Self Translation a virtual workshop led by Angelica Dàvila, author of “Bilingual Bitch”. 📖 “Beyond self-translation” intends to question the originality of a translated poem. Learn more: www.abodepress.com/events-1/bey...
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Beyond Self-Translation
Date: Sunday, Aug 17
Time: 12-2pm CST
Tickets: $25+ sliding scale
Instructor: Angelica Davila, author of "Bilingual Bitch"

Workshop Description: “Beyond self-translation” intends to question the originality of a translated poem. Bilingual writers who self-translate their work may often find themselves inspired by new ideas during the self-translation process. What do we do with these new ideas? Oftentimes, we may think that these inspirations may not have a place in the translated poem, but this may be a form of resistance within our poetic process. When we translate, we make ourselves accessible in another language. Though, as bilingual writers, should we limit ourselves to being accessible in one language over the other or should we resist? As new ideas form during the act of self-translation, our poetic process challenges us to consider whether we need to adhere to translating a poem or whether we need to embrace the fluidity of language and creativity to create new multiple and original poems that all stem from that first poem that we wanted to selftranslate.

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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It's true. We still need to make headway into reaching our first fundraising goal of $500 by the end of August. All donations will go towards supporting increasing business operations, programming, and supporting authors and our staff. Donate here: donorbox.org/abode-press-... 🧵
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I haven't fully voiced this thought out loud except to my small circle, but... I am finally writing a novel.
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Want, with a minimum set at $25 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 keeping an indie intersectional press afloat! www.abodepress.com/events-1/doc...
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With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more. Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docu-poetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Join us 4/28 at 6:30PM for Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories led by Dena Igusti! In this virtual class, we will explore docu-poetics & how incorporating archives and oral history into poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks. ✍️
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Tomorrow is the last day to apply for our Virtual Retreat! Apps will not open again so don’t miss this deadline!! abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
BIG NEWS! We are extending our Virtual Retreat application deadline!❤ Due to new followers and writers who missed the original deadline, we have received many requests to reopen our submissions for our Virtual Retreat this past week, we will re-open applications until 3/2!
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Due to an influx of new followers and writers who missed the original deadline, we have received many requests to reopen our submissions for our Virtual Retreat, and for this one time, we will do so and re-open applications until Sunday, March 2nd! For submitters who have already applied, please note this will not impact your application or the timeline of notification (all submitters will be notified in March), and we thank you for getting those wonderful submissions in on time. This is the LAST chance to apply to the Virtual Retreat (it's free to apply!), so don't miss it and please share with anyone who may be interested. We look forward to reading your submissions!
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Congratulations to our 2025-2026 chapbook winners!🏆 Please join us in congratulating our authors on their achievement!🥳 Stay tuned for more announcements regarding pre-orders, book launches, and more! Congratulations once again to our authors! Welcome to the Abode family! 🎉❤️😍
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FICTION
Jonathan Wlodarski
Recipes for Grief
POETRY
Aerik Francis
BODYPOLITIC
Kris Cho
Chosun Cowboy
Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa
tow Survive an Asthma Attach
na climate Apocalyose
M. K. Thekkumkattil
HYBRID
Weaving Liberation: An Archival Chapbook
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I have so much going on in my personal life and I am so thankful I started hitting the gym again. Working out is my savior. We have fascists to fight. 💪🏽
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...
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GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta
About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
so so proud of my bestfriend for their wonderful accomplishment!! “GOOD GRIEF” is going to be so good!!!!!! GET THOSE PRE ORDERS IN Y’ALL!!
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Please give #THAlum SG Huerta (@sgpoet.bsky.social) their flowers! Their wonderful nonfiction chapbook "GOOD GRIEF" is out now with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social! SG, we're so proud & can't thank you enough for being a part of our Workshop. buff.ly/4hoIQqX
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
No city tops Houston and I really do miss the H sometimes 💔
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
NEW WORKSHOP! Join us on 2/26 at 630pm CST for "Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales," an open-genre workshop that discusses fairytales, fables, myths & traditional stories to explore our relationships to our bodies and the stories that we tell about them. www.abodepress.com/events-1/rec...
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Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales | Abode Press
In this open-genre workshop led by Leticia Urieta, participants will be invited to engage in a variety of readings to connect us to a deeper knowledge of ourselves and will work through a series of di...
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
the good news is I’m going to have the gayest AWP of my life this year. can’t wait to share these readings with y’all! ❤️❤️
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
winter break has not been productive for me at all, and in fact, I fractured my finger playing rugby and now have less fingers to write my damn book with before going back to school lol
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our Inaugural Retreat was such a success that I cannot wait for us to come back bigger and better than ever in 2025! Join us!! It’ll be a time 🥰🥰
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our renowned faculty includes Ariana Brown (Poetry Instructor), mónica teresa ortiz (Poetry Instructor), KB Brookins (Nonfiction Instructor), Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (Speculative Fiction Instructor, and Stephanie Macias (Short Fiction Instructor)! Visit: abodepress.com/summer-retreat
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Applications for our 2025 Virtual Retreat are open! It’s free to apply! Don’t miss your chance to apply for an amazing affordable retreat packed with additional lectures, craft talks, and panels throughout June! ❤️❤️ Apply here: abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I have been writing about sex more lately and… I wish I would’ve done this sooner.
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
the book is coming! she officially has a title. all of the 7 included stories are mostly finished, and I’m entering revisions. hoping to start querying by the summer. can’t believe it.
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We close for chapbook submissions tonight at 11pm CST! Don’t miss your last chance to submit to us! abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
dealing with physical health and chronic neurological issues. getting closer to a diagnosis but shit’s scary out here 💔
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are officially in our LAST week for chapbook submissions!!! We close for submissions on Saturday, November 30th by 11pm CST. Make sure to get your chapbook submissions in on time and don't miss us!! abodepress.submittable.com/submit
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Axel @sadboyslowjams.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm still raising funds for top surgery, for the time I'll be put of work and the travel costs. They have me on file now at my surgeon's! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ax...
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Donate to Support Axel's Journey to Self-Realization, organized by Axel Kolcow
My name is Axel & I'm trying to get something off my chest. I'm a trans … Axel Kolcow needs your support for Support Axel's Journey to Self-Realization
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Coming up on 14 Dec, an online writing workshop with @melissafebos.bsky.social and Donika Kelly called Directed by Desire, inspired by the poems of June Jordan. All proceeds to the Sameer Project, a life-sustaining mutual aid collective in GZ: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/dir...
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Directed by Desire — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “Directed by Desire” here . Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60USD). In this multi-genre online workshop, Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly will lead particip...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
That "intellectual diversity" and "free speech" were trojan horses for right-wing power-grabs has been obvious from the start and I remain disappointed how many supposedly rational folks took bad-faith actors at their word.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21/11/2024
15 Dems joined MAGA Republicans to vote YES on HR 9495. Here's a breakdown of this bill & how devastating it is for non-profits, free speech, & basic civil rights: www.qasimrashid.com/p/alert-hr-9... Fascism is taking hold and these 15 Democrats are happily helping. Just indefensible.
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
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a conversation with Bri Gonzalez, author of A Wellness Check
queer poetics! bipolar poetics! Chicanx poetics! pop-culture poetics! so many exclamation marks!
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
my poem "small violences" is out with the new Latine lit mag Cuéntame Literary ✨ it's short, but the TLDR is fuck borders, fuck assimilation cuentameliterary.com/2024/11/15/s...
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Small Violences | Cuéntame Literary
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to announce I was accepted into Hedgebrook for their 2025 residency program! I cannot wait to live in a little cottage for two weeks and work on my full length projects ✨ eternally grateful!!!!!
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We are very pleased to offer you a Hedgebrook residency for 2025! Thank you for the time and intention you put into your application for Hedgebrook's Writer in Residence program. We received 839 applications for the 2025 residency season, and we were able to offer 35 residencies. Our Residency Program Coordinator will be reaching out in the coming week to schedule your residency.
We can hardly wait to welcome you to the land and into your sweet, cozy cottage where you can write, create, and rest, uninterrupted before joining your cohort for the evening gathering and meal!
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CesarPoet @cesarpoet.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
When I say they are Christo-fascists, that is exactly what I mean. It is not hyperbole.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One of the most helpful things you could share with people right now. Five free workshops for new organizers over December and January.
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We are officially accepting workshop proposals for 2025!❤️ We’re looking for proposals from creative, thought leaders who align with our anti-racist, anti-colonialist, intersectional, and empathetic values. We love workshops that can tie in themes of home, identity, and culture. Link in bio 🔗
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
SO MANY THOUGHTS, the first being that Mythal is a scapegoat for the much juicier moral quandary of Solas as a rebel god leading a slave rebellion in this political era. They pulled their punches and depoliticized an extremely political story
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I actually woke up this morning and just started writing… who am I?
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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Whoa y’all. It’s real. It’s really coming. & this is only the beginning. & I Hope It Helps —both for real for real and more than ever. Spring 2025 & maybe just right on time. 🫶🏾 nightboat.org/book/i-hope-...
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I Hope This Helps – Nightboat Books
Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.
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Abode Press @abodepress.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our writing workshop at 5pm CST titled “Becoming Humananimal” is today! Attendees will read works examining the ways animals, trees, mushrooms, the living beings around us make a home (art), gather food (sustenance), and experiment w/ ways of being and play. www.abodepress.com/events-1/ope...
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Open-Genre Writing Workshop: Becoming Humanimal | Abode Press
In this online class taught by Si-Min Chong, attendees will read works examining the ways animals, trees, mushrooms, the living beings around us make a home (art), gather food (sustenance), and experi...
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Diamond Gizelle Braxton @diamondgbraxton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
my girlfriend is a dream 😩
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MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi besties my new chap is out: www.abodepress.com/product-page...
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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Announcing THE BEST TRANS HORROR OF THE YEAR, an anthology reprint series spotlighting trans horror authors. We are now seeking submissions. Learn more here: ghoulish.rip/now-consider...
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Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Never announced this here but!! my darling daughter of a **debut** short story collection, EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, found a home with Ecco Books!! So excited and grateful to share this book with you all next summer 🩵
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/11/2024
Reminder that @haymarketbooks.bsky.social is giving away these ten books including by @prisonculture.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and others. Get in on it. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to ...
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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
She’s so close, y’all - pls help help her escape hell, & share this
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