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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Last day to catch our APRIL ISSUE before it hits the archive! All the ❤️ to our contributors! 🥰 WORDS: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen ART: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social buff.ly/knF9Jgg

Lightly-wrinkled textile portrait: color-blocked fabrics pieced together with zigzag-stitch line work. A dark green figure with red nails carefully threads the thick brows of a redhead with voluminous hair. A quilt-like pattern fills the background.

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Xinyue Huang’s poems demonstrate the talents of a writer whose subjects, diction, and formal range cohere into an evolved, dynamic body of work." —Diane Seuss, 2025 KR Poetry Contest Judge. Read Huang's winning poems in our latest: kenyonreview.org/piece/my-cow...

From My Coworker Thought I Didn’t Know What A Lox Bagel Was, So He Said to Me, “It’s Just Like Sushi”
By Xinyue Huang: "if a lox bagel is just like sushi then pizza is also sushi and lasagna
is also sushi hamburger is sushi chips are sushi your lips are sushi"

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

@kathystevens91.bsky.social reads her flash ELEPHANT WALLPAPER from our APRIL ISSUE 💙

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"She started converting the spare room back into an office. The wallpaper’s coming away easily, she said, standing just outside the door." @kathystevens91.bsky.social's ELEPHANT WALLPAPER is a close look at loss. ❤️ Find it in our APRIL ISSUE, and be mindful of a CW for child loss: buff.ly/WUhJF8g

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"With my dad, there’d been a whole jerry can of ashes. I remember it was like emptying a hoover." Beautiful, poignant flash from @kathystevens91.bsky.social. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0426/k...

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Elephant Wallpaper — Split Lip Magazine

Barney, we were going to call him. It’s a family name, Amy’s dad’s middle name, after her great-great-granddad Barnaby.

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 25/11/2025

Bookmatch ends in ONE WEEK! Get your personalized book recommendations before it’s gone. secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 24/06/2025

“Trump’s decision to unilaterally strike Iran sends a clear signal to the rest of the world: multilateralism is dead, force rules above all, and any state without the martial capacity to inflict devastating pain must choose between utter subservience to the US or risk annihilation.”

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Wave of Domination | Dylan Saba

The Trump Administration’s reliance on ICE underscores a transformation toward a domestic politics of domination that mirrors its lawlessness abroad. Just as Trump felt no obligation toward any kind o...

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The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Issue Six of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring essays and fiction from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright (@maireadenright.bsky.social), Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong (@samfurlong.bsky.social), Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens (@kathystevens91.bsky.social) and Paul Whyte.🐷 Link 👇

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"Living on social media, seeing the world through its lens, is like returning to a pre-information age... As history fades, so does truth itself." Interesting on the rise of woo-woo from "manifesting" to Jordan Peterson's "tidy your room to achieve enlightenment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense

Unintelligible as it is, new book is part of a ‘manifesting’ trend offering the young and spiritually lost an illusion of control

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