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@splitlippress.com
· Oct 1
Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
We're so grateful for you, @abigailoswald.bsky.social! Your love for our authors shines through all the work you've done, online and offline, and you've transformed our press ❤️
well, that's it—this is the best Thanksgiving ever!
can't begin to figure out how to individually thank everyone who participated in this kind, thoughtful @splitlippress.com newsletter, so for now I'll just yell into the digital ether: THANKS Y'ALL (1/3)
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can't begin to figure out how to individually thank everyone who participated in this kind, thoughtful @splitlippress.com newsletter, so for now I'll just yell into the digital ether: THANKS Y'ALL (1/3)
splitlippress.substack.com/p/what-were-...
What We're Thankful for This Year: Abby Oswald
This extra special edition of the Split/Lip Press Substack is brought to you by Gage Saylor, the SLP Marketing Director, and I’ve unapologetically hijacked the press account to celebrate three wonderf...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We're so grateful for you, @abigailoswald.bsky.social! Your love for our authors shines through all the work you've done, online and offline, and you've transformed our press ❤️
Wow! Just stumbled upon this Best of 2025 List! How weird, it's only SLP books! Best novella, best short story collection, best nonfiction and best graphic book...looks like we swept them all!
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wow! Just stumbled upon this Best of 2025 List! How weird, it's only SLP books! Best novella, best short story collection, best nonfiction and best graphic book...looks like we swept them all!
Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
ONE TINY WEEK left for our nonfiction book submissions period--after December 1, you'll have to wait nearly an entire YEAR to send us your essay collection or your memoir! It's Dead Week! No one's really working anyway! Polish 'er up and send 'er in!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
Split/Lip Press Submission Manager
splitlippress.submittable.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ONE TINY WEEK left for our nonfiction book submissions period--after December 1, you'll have to wait nearly an entire YEAR to send us your essay collection or your memoir! It's Dead Week! No one's really working anyway! Polish 'er up and send 'er in!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
+++ article about the necessity of small presses, now more than ever!
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
+++ article about the necessity of small presses, now more than ever!
Happy Publication Anniversary to @anarkissedpoet.bsky.social's essay collection HOLD ME,
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy Publication Anniversary to @anarkissedpoet.bsky.social's essay collection HOLD ME,
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
"an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!)
We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!
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I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
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We received so many terrific reader apps. Such an honor to get to work with such incredible people.
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We received so many terrific reader apps. Such an honor to get to work with such incredible people.
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
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oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
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Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here.
#writing #writingcommunity
#writing #writingcommunity
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here.
#writing #writingcommunity
#writing #writingcommunity
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
Guess who's back at the the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday? We'll be slingin' books, chattin' with y'all, and featuring two of our favorite Twin Cities authors (yes they happen to be SLP authors), @tashacoryell.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social.
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Guess who's back at the the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday? We'll be slingin' books, chattin' with y'all, and featuring two of our favorite Twin Cities authors (yes they happen to be SLP authors), @tashacoryell.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social.
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Just about a month left to submit!
Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just about a month left to submit!
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who submitted your reader applications, we'll be in touch soon!
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who submitted your reader applications, we'll be in touch soon!
Still open for ~10 more applications!
I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
November 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Still open for ~10 more applications!
Happy Halfway Day!
We're HALFWAY through our nonfiction book submissions period: if you've got an essay collection, memoir, or nonfiction/hybrid full-length book manuscript over 125pg, SEND US YOUR BOOK!
We're open through December 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
We're HALFWAY through our nonfiction book submissions period: if you've got an essay collection, memoir, or nonfiction/hybrid full-length book manuscript over 125pg, SEND US YOUR BOOK!
We're open through December 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy Halfway Day!
We're HALFWAY through our nonfiction book submissions period: if you've got an essay collection, memoir, or nonfiction/hybrid full-length book manuscript over 125pg, SEND US YOUR BOOK!
We're open through December 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
We're HALFWAY through our nonfiction book submissions period: if you've got an essay collection, memoir, or nonfiction/hybrid full-length book manuscript over 125pg, SEND US YOUR BOOK!
We're open through December 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Looking for some readers to join the @splitlippress.com fiction team! Applications will open 11/2 and close either on 11/8 or when we hit 100 subs so make sure yours is one of the first! Preview app questions and answers to FAQs below.
I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Looking for some readers to join the @splitlippress.com fiction team! Applications will open 11/2 and close either on 11/8 or when we hit 100 subs so make sure yours is one of the first! Preview app questions and answers to FAQs below.
I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
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My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with the inimitable graphic artist and award-winning writer @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social - whose new book "Graphic Rage" is available now from @splitlippress.com
Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...
Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...
Graphic Rage: An Interview with Writer and Artist Aubrey Hirsch
Writer and visual artist Aubrey Hirsch knows Clarence Thomas won’t be reading Graphic Rage – and that’s fine. Her new book isn’t meant to convert opponents; it aims to witness, validate, and …
www.vol1brooklyn.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with the inimitable graphic artist and award-winning writer @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social - whose new book "Graphic Rage" is available now from @splitlippress.com
Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...
Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...
We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3
We have one (1) copy of GRAPHIC RAGE left in the office at the old $24 rate--after that one sells, they'll all be at the new $27 price. WE APOLOGIZE! Rising print costs are real! First come will be the first served...
www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We have one (1) copy of GRAPHIC RAGE left in the office at the old $24 rate--after that one sells, they'll all be at the new $27 price. WE APOLOGIZE! Rising print costs are real! First come will be the first served...
www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
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My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!
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FYI: @stereolad.bsky.social and I collaborated on an essay trying to make sense of our Jim Steinman folie-à-deux, and it appears in this book. www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...
Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology
For the first time in print, Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, spans Xness history with 40 essays representing nearly a decade of mus...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
FYI: @stereolad.bsky.social and I collaborated on an essay trying to make sense of our Jim Steinman folie-à-deux, and it appears in this book. www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...