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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Big News, fam ➡️ Split Lip Magazine is pleased to announce our 2027 Best of the Net nominations!!🎉 Check out the list on our blog: buff.ly/tTfxmQU

1: A hot pink and melon marbled background with a white square listing "Poetry" nominees: Tara Betts, "This 'Accent' That I Can't Lose & They Can't Place"; Despy Boutris, "Hate Poem without a Drop of Hyperbole in It"; Quinn Franzen, "Guava Jelly"; Joan Kwon Glass, "Mascot"; Tariq Thompson, "You Look Just Like the Bastard"; Stella Wong, "Inference"

2: A hot pink and melon marbled background with a white square listing "Fiction" nominees: Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, "Jellyfish"; Graham Robert Scott, "I Can Still Hear You Breathing" and Creative Nonfiction nominees: Lydia Abedeen, "Ten Years after Being Buried Alive, I address My Sister-Wife through Our Mothers' Bodies"; Derek Maiolo, "Rescue"

3: A hot pink and melon marbled background with a white square listing "Art" nominees: Ainaz Alipour, "Skin upon Skin"; Jen Shon, "Wallpaper (1887 Frank Sr. and Flavilla Bell House): Gussie"; VANDI, "Two Faced in the Park"

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Graham (Gray) Scott @graythebruce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My haunted predictive text story from April, "I Can Still Hear You Breathing," has been nominated for Best of the Net by the wonderful editors at Split Lip Magazine. Those same editors had a substantive impact on the final version of that story, so I'm feeling very grateful to them right now.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow, look at this ginormous 10-year anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! I'm thrilled to be part of the line-up, and I can't wait to dig into all the stories! Check out my micro, "Shattered Across the Night!" And thanks to Brooksie C. Fontaine for the cool illustration!

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Shattered Across the Night — Ghost Parachute

The night is bitter. My teeth ache, frozen down to their roots. I prod them with my tongue. Sharp splinters blossom from each socket, like shattered kernels of hard winter corn. “Sheila?” No answer. W...

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really love how you can both play and be mathematical with the poetry line. It's so nimble.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Parents: One thing I am doing is looking into finding a lawyer for my daughter who is local to the area of her college & who is well-versed in sexual assault so that if the worst happens to her, she will immediately call that person BEFORE contacting police or her university.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue! www.south85journal.com/artists-stat...

My photograph overlooking NYC from a train on a bridge with text overlaid: South 85 Out Now

Fall Winter 2026
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City Country

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep thinking about how I had 2 extremely scary experiences with a man when I was an undergrad at Harvard. Yes, I reported them. Yes, there was an investigation. But he's now a successful author whose work some of you have promoted. I'm still way too afraid of him to ever say his name out loud.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The New Yorker fiction podcast saves me whenever I am sick. This episode with Paul Yoon reading Fiona McFarlane is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane

Podcast Episode · The New Yorker: Fiction · July 1 · 1h 3m

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027

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FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
Poetry
September 28, 2026

Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It dawned on me today that the migraine that has been making me miserable for weeks is a sinus infection. The pain is now so intense in my sinuses, teeth, eyebrows, & forehead & I feel such total body malaise that it must be sinus. Maybe it's both. All I know is I'm going to the dr tomorrow. 🤒

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish to be released from this dumb timeline

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know, man, this Cornell gang rape has me so down about everything. And so worried about my own girls. How can we still be in this place? When will men stop raping? I mean, I think we all know the answer is never. How do we carry on knowing this?

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ahhhhhh!!! @the-big-quiet.bsky.social in the house!!!! I am so happy about this!!!!!

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OOPS! 🫠 So sorry, FAM, we forgot to turn on FREE ART subs this month! Our bad! 🫣 They are turned on now! 🖌️ Free art subs will remain open the entire month of October! Please send us your best! 🎨

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy to see that Best Small Fictions has included this language in their submissions guidelines this year: "We will not consider work written with AI. If your journal publishes work created with the assistance of AI, please submit only pieces that were written by humans without AI assistance."

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think this Cornell rape should be causing every man in the country to be asking himself what actions he has ever taken to prevent & put an end to sexual assault, rape culture, & misogyny in general. In my experience, most men I know have done precious little to confront this societal sickness.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you ask a room of college graduates if they know someone who was raped in college, every single person would need to raise their hand. Some of us know more than one. I walked in Take Back the Night marches on my campus in the 1990s. In all these years, women have never taken back the night.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.” These are the names of the Cornell rapists. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The one upside of not having any kids home at the moment is not having to deal with meals. Food prep has been, without a doubt, my least favorite part of parenting. Not just the work of it. The chopping and grilling and buying. But the thinking. What should we make for dinner over and over and over.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve been in migraine hell this week, but my kid took a picture of this wild car filled with books & sent it to me, which made me happy. She knows me so well! Zoom in to see—it’s a bananas mix of books!

Car filled to the brim with books—books on top of books with no order. It’s a beautiful mess!

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some simple math: If a lit mag charges $20 or more for a single contest submission & receives about 1000 submissions, they're making $20,000 on these fees. If they run several contest a year or simultaneously, it adds up. Even if they generously pay judges & winners, it's a lot.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I thought about poems so much last week that I cannot think about poems at all this week. Poems really take it out of you! They are such an intense way of thinking and writing!

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve got a new poem in the September issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. It’s about the daughter my mother always wanted and the sister I dreamt of having.

IN THE FOREST OF MY OWN TEARS I SUDDENLY REMEMBER WANDA

It's the name my mother would've given her daughter if she ever had one instead of yet another son. Wanda.
I used to dream of climbing trees together & playing wizard of the forest together, though not in the forest of my tears.
This was always in the forest of my laughter. Always, despite how sad I got at times that my mother didn't get to have you.
Back then I climbed trees every day. These days I'm lost in the thickets of my phone. The other week I kept missing calls, turns out I forgot to turn off "do not disturb." Eventually I remembered, but couldn't remember how to actually do it, to say, Yes, I want to be disturbed again-by my phone, & by the world, I guess.
Then I googled it, instead of just asking Jeff (I think you would like Jeff), because I didn't want it to be a whole production again, a customer service situation, except between lovers, & I am the worst

customer & the worst lover when trying to figure out my own phone. True, I'm a bit (Jeff would say a lot) of a Luddite. Well, a Luddite who's a screen fiend, & isn't that the perfect storm, wait, is that the right proverb, is it an idiom, I think you would know, Wanda. & now I'm remembering French class, how I adored learning new idiomatic expressions— lifit's Idiomatic Expressions Time! That's what happened in my head. How often I wished, Wanda, that you were at school with me. Say, only a year above me, but wise & capable of forming really cool sentences in French, & you'd never tease me in any language, or just a little, for what went on in my head. & after school we'd race from the bus to our favorite tree, though already we were a tad old to be playing like that, we'd play, we'd climb, we'd take turns being wizard of the forest, & laugh, we'd laugh so vast. At some point in our tree, you'd tell me which boy you liked, if any. Then I'd chime in with which one, or ones I liked. & though I could guess, & now know, thanks to my best friend Sam (you'd like him too), that having sisters can be very complicated, including or especially big sisters,

back then I believed, needed to think that I could tell you every big thing. I could tell my sister, & then it was okay for a while that I couldn't tell anyone else in the family, it was alright because I had you. You, Wanda, & maybe that's sort of what she was thinking, believing, too, in her own forest early mornings or late at night, up in her own magical oak, when my mother was dreaming so hard about you.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Help! I’m using a mortar & pestle to grind flax seeds to add to my breakfast for the fiber boost & I think I’ve fallen victim to old people Instagram.

Mortar & pestle with ground flax seeds in bottom.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We watched THE INVITE last night and, wow, did we love it. Such a funny, well-done movie. I knew nothing about it & it's a film that surprised me so many times. I recommend going into it not knowing anything.

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"My big brother Tennessee slurps spaghetti scissored into bits to prevent choking. “Bro, I’m envious of your waist,” I tease." What a stunner.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HOLY SHIT I HAVE A FULL DRAFT POETRY COLLECTION WITH A TITLE AND SECTION HEADINGS AND IT'S EIGHTY FUCKING PAGES!! AND I KIND OF LIKE IT!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The polling is encouraging. However, I also think people are embarrassed to admit they are voting Republican right now. So they lie to pollers.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More positive flu tests at my kid’s college. It has arrived early so get your shots!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/09/2026

democratic advisors apparently love losing and hate water

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know, Ed Sheeran could do something really great & apologize & accept responsibility for choosing the coward's path & make amends. Wouldn't it be amazing if he did that? If he stood up for someone besides himself? I really think we need more people out there changing their minds.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Poetry prompt: tree with single lavender flower.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AHEM. This interview with Deesha Philyaw about publishing, and the reality of finances for writers, and facing rejection is great, and you should really read it. Scratch is an entirely reader-supporter independent literary publication. Please check us out and subscribe here: talkscratch.com

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m sorry but is anyone else annoyed by this moment in the NYT’s Annie Dillard obit: “That she was a photogenic young woman coming to grips with raw nature … was undeniably part of the Dillard mystique.” She was one of our best writers! & he’s ascribing her “mystique” to her looks! Just fuck that!

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This baby is now 60 pages. It has an organizing principle. So much shaping to do, pieces to add, to subtract. But this feels possible and maybe even okay.

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Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

School's back in session! 🚌 Curl up with our September issue when you need a break! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the truth is that we all think boobs are kind of weird and ugly, like fat dead mice curled up on our chests, but they’re better than having thighs." Stunning story. The language, the voice, the narrative arc. Wow. @alicemdashc.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/0926/a...

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Thighs — Split Lip Magazine

We aren’t convinced we need our thighs to run so we start there, pulling and prodding at them until Hannah P gets too eager and leaves bite marks like little pink moons on her own knee.

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