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Workshops

At Abode, we believe offering affordable workshops and community events is important so all writers can have access to writing tools/techniques and much needed community engagement. We strive to create safe spaces for our staff, authors, and community members.

*By attending any events/workshops, please understand no forms of bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or other discriminatory acts will be permitted, and if acted upon, will result in your immediate removal from our spaces.

Upcoming Workshops

  • Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales
    Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales
    Feb 26, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    Virtual Workshop
    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 discussions and generative writing activities to write body-focused stories.
  • Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories
    Docupoetics: Distilling Truths in Oral Histories
    Apr 28, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    Virtual Workshop
    Drawing examples from 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.
  • The Music of Minor Distractions: A Multi-genre Revision Workshop
    The Music of Minor Distractions: A Multi-genre Revision Workshop
    Jun 11, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
    Virtual Workshop
    In this course, we will pay attention to what exists at the periphery of our current drafts and move through a revision process that embraces strangeness, unmaking and remaking, and unconventional approaches to plot and/or poetics.
  • Temporary Utopias
    Temporary Utopias
    Jun 14, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
    Virtual Workshop
    Drawing upon AIDS literature for reference, Temporary Utopias seeks to provide a space of possibility in the past, present, and future tenses: example poems from queer ancestors, providing a blueprint for survival; forward-looking leaps in prompts encouraging alternative world-building; & more.
  • Writing with the Earth: An Anti-Imperialism Approach Towards Eco-Poetics
    Writing with the Earth: An Anti-Imperialism Approach Towards Eco-Poetics
    Sep 09, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Virtual Workshop
    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.
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