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Monmita Chakrabarti

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🔥Contributor @monmita.bsky.social is featured in the latest issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social. You can get your copy here: buff.ly/ZfShNdN
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Monmita Chakrabarti @monmita.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm so excited to have some angry girl phenomenology in this issue of Prairie Schooner! Read my essay "Gut Feeling" in the print issue now. prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...
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Fall 2026 - Prairie Schooner
Latinx Flash Memoir Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)Joy Castro CheckpointJohn Morán González GeraniumAnnette M. Rodríguez
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Monmita Chakrabarti @monmita.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My essay about the endling Lonely George is in the latest issue of @currentaffairs.bsky.social I wrote this piece to pause and grieve something I did not want to let slip by. Read it in the print magazine now: www.currentaffairs.org/magazine
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is our fabulous 60th issue! 🦠 The dirty politics of mold 📞 Confessions of a former phone-sex operator 💊 Israel's grotesque rave culture 🗽 An interview with Amy Goodman of @democracynow.org We can't wait for you to read it! 🦩 Subscribe: currentaffairs.org/membership
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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...
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Emerald Fennell Now Going Moor-To-Moor Trying To Shock People | Defector
“My sister Emily loved the moors,” wrote Charlotte Brontë, in the introduction to a selection of Emily’s poems published in 1850. Emily had died in 1848, and had not lived to see the publication of th...
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Sometimes, I watch videos to learn the Bengali alphabet, writing the letters in my journal, then give up and forget within the next week." Enjoy @monmita.bsky.social's essay, MICRO, from our OCTOBER ISSUE before it hits the archives 💕: buff.ly/FlseDZ6
A toy SUV with the trunk open.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@monmita.bsky.social's essay MICRO explores the searing microaggressions interwoven through the pressure of popularity and conformity. Here they share just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/SaJUyG5
The author on a tree swing in an orange dress.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Without further ado, here are our wonderful nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize! ❤️ 👏 buff.ly/r1wftay
Split Lip Magazine's Pushcart Nominations! Poetry: Ally Ang, "From Holes We Emerged, and into Holes We Shall Return." Mingyu Brian Chan, "Haiku Where I Lay / With OCD, Obsessing / Over Syllables." Fiction: Priyanka Champaneri, "Good Neighbor." Max Wheeler, "Abatement." Memoir: Monmita Chakrabarti, "Micro." Kimaya Diggs, "Jump In."
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krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
love the pacing of this essay so much. everyone should read it, i felt grateful that editing it meant reading it a number of times.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"This is the problem, isn’t it? They always think we want to be them, are jealous of them." Find monmita.bsky.social's poignant memoir piece MICRO in our OCTOBER ISSUE: buff.ly/IuT1GnW
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Sit back and enjoy our OCTOBER ISSUE. 🎃 🍂 WORDS by @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social, Priyanka Champaneri, @monmita.bsky.social, & Mingyu Brian Chan. ART by Jean Shon. PLUS Nicole Zhao interviews @cherrylousy.bsky.social. buff.ly/B6xgDQJ
Front view: A worn and stained image of a pale blue Victorian house, fragmented and partly reconstructed on a birch sheet, laser-cut to the house’s shapes and into long strips intersecting with the architecture and an integrated frame.
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