ALT The Music of Minor Distractions: A Multi-genre Revision Workshop led by Nicole Arocho Hernández

ALT 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. Wednesday, June 11, at 6:30- 8PM CST $25+ sliding scale

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ALT Graphic with text that reads: BILINGUAL BITCH Angelica Julia Davila's Bilingual Bitch explores the complexities of being Mexican yet growing up in the United States through multilingual expression, generational conflict, and longing for a homeland while existing in a limbo. With a sharp tongue that disrupts both English and Spanish, Davila's poems document familial and US/Mexican history through oral knowledge and chisme while lamenting lost histories. Bilingual Bitch is for the pochas everywhere who find themselves always wondering “which country” is their country. preorder at abodepress.com/shop

ALT Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales NEW WORKSHOP with Leticia Urieta February 26, 2025 6:30-8:00PM CST Virtual Workshop abodepress.com/workshops $25+

ALT Reconnecting to the Body Through Fairy Tales Fairytales, fables, myths and traditional stories across cultures offer opportunities to explore our relationships to our bodies and the stories that we tell about them. In this open genre workshop, participants will be invited to engage in a variety of readings of creative nonfiction, poetry, speculative and dark fiction and more to that connect us to a deeper knowledge of ourselves and will work through a series of discussions and generative writing activities to help them write the stories of their bodies through the lens of traditional stories. This workshop is open to new and experienced writers 18+. About the Presenter: Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She works as a teaching artist in the Austin community and is the Executive Director for Austin Bat Cave. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. abodepress.com/workshops

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ALT Graphic with text that reads: "Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, short stories, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House (Burrow Press) was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, Foglifter, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She was a 2023-2024 Tin House Reading Fellow and a 2023 Lambda writer in residence. Her fiction will be featured in the upcoming anthology Be Gay, Do Crimes, out from Dzanc Books in 2025."

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ALT Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American writer and the author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). A national collegiate poetry slam champion, Ariana holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies, an M.F.A. in Poetry, and M.S. in Library Science. She lives and works in Houston, TX, where she teaches creative writing to teens. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for over a decade.