Welcome to the new publishing paradigm.

Abre Tu Boca is building a new pubishing model led by:

- The Inner Voice as source
- Collective Coherence as the organizing intelligence
- Non-Hierarchical Curation through listening to what is coming through clear & ready to be received now
- Social Practice Ritual where writing is lived, spoken, witnessed, and shared

This is a publishing house for the collective voice.

And there is nothing else like it.

Weekly Publishing Rhythm

Wednesday → Write
Thursday → Transcribe
Friday → Submit (by 10 AM UTC-7)
Sunday → We Publish

Your submission must:

  • Be written from the current week’s Wednesday prompt

  • Be cleaned for typos, punctuation, spacing, line breaks. No further editing, and we mean that. Do not rewrite the voice — only make it clear enough to be heard.

  • Be submitted in the language it was written in (no translations required).

  • Be submitted by Friday at 10AM to be considered for publication.

Requirements:

  • You must be a Paid Subscriber to the Abre Tu Boca Substack to submit or have an attended this week’s in-person ATB Writing Circle where the prompt was shared.

  • If you are not yet subscribed to the ATB Press on Substack, please do so here. We do verify memberships.

Submit your piece using the form below.

Submissions Portal

Audio Recording Tips

You’ll be recording on your phone — perfect. Here’s how to get clean, usable sound with minimal effort.

Then email to abretubocapress@gmail.com.

Do this:

  1. Find a quiet space (pause and actually listen first).

  2. Set your phone down on a surface. (Holding it creates mic scratches and handling noise.)

  3. Press record → wait 2–3 seconds → start reading. (This gives us clean audio at the beginning.)

  4. Read slowly and clearly.

  5. When finished, wait 2–3 seconds → stop recording. (No cut-offs or scratchy endings.)

Listen once. Re-record if you hear:

  • Background noise (dogs, traffic, construction, people)

  • Echo or hollow sound

  • Mic scratches or bumps

  • Rushing or clipped words

Avoid:

  • Echoey rooms (empty rooms, bathrooms)

  • Fans, AC, open windows

Pro tips (& why these work):

Your car = instant sound booth.

Soft surfaces + small space = warm, contained sound.

Your bed + pillows.

Fabric absorbs sound so it doesn’t bounce or echo.

Extras:

Put your phone in airplane mode (no interruptions)

Keep the phone about a foot away from your mouth

No need to perform — just read naturally

Do you have more writing from past ATB prompts that you’d like to get out into the world?

Fantastic, because we have more opportunities coming — including ATB Curated Editions and Staged Performances. So keep typing up those handwritten pages and stay tuned. The announcements are coming on the ATB Press (Substack).