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@slipsslips.bsky.social
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We are a free, print-only broadsheet art and literary publication based out of Brooklyn, NY. If that sounds too cool for you, don't worry - we're middle-aged!

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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's the final stretch! We've been posting the types of work we'd like to see for slips slips #3 ("Distractions") - but, if it's not clear, we're open to whatever you have in mind. The deadline is the end of the month: August 31. Visit slipsslips.net for full info. What will you distract us with???
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Design? Visual experiments of all sorts: typography, graphics, information, other. We publish short-form work with big ideas. The theme is Distractions: How do you guide the eye? What that means is up to you. Send your design-based proposals or images by August 31! More info at slipsslips.net.
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What could be stranger than reality? Memoir, criticism, observation, reverie or something utterly other - slips slips is looking for all manner of non-fiction essay reflecting our issue 3 theme of distractions. Send short-form work (500 words or less) before 8/31. Full details at slipsslips.net!
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How can you resist the title, “Witty Banter About My Brain Tumor?” Sarah Wallock's piece in slips slips #2 provides just that, giving a dialogue-based glimpse into her incredible story, which you can read more about in her slips slips newsletter profile: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
slips slips offers graphic artists of all sorts a unique opportunity to experiment and play. We're excited to see your ideas for visualizing our issue 3 theme (Distractions) and discuss bold new approaches. Get full details on slipsslips.net and send up the signal for illustrators everywhere!
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Do you write stories? Short ones? With words? As in, 500 of them or less? Submit to our upcoming issue of slips slips. Theme is Distractions. Deadline is Aug 31. Send us something? Full details on slipsslips.net. And tell your fellow storytellers that we want to hear the stories they have to tell.
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As a longtime theater critic and librettist, it's no surprise @davidcote.bsky.social is attracted to the messy tangibility of slips slips—as with the stage, you can expect to get your hands dirty if you want to engage. Check out his profile in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sequential artists. Gag tableau specialists. People who draw wild stuff in a vaguely narrative format. In a word, CARTOONISTS! We want your short-form but indelible work on the theme of DISTRACTIONS. No style restrictions. Visit slipsslips.net or DM with questions, and please spread the word!
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This week’s profile flashback features NYC-based writer/photographer Lynne Burns, whose use of slips slips as an excuse to reach out to old friends demonstrates how printed paper still has the power to keep us all connected. slipsslips.substack.com/publish/post... (Photo credit: Herb Atkins)
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We're seeking submissions for our 3rd issue (theme: DISTRACTIONS) until August 31, and today we're focused on POETS. Any form, style, layout, so long as it's 500 words or less. Concrete, abstract, prose, impossible to describe - we want to see it all. Details at slipsslips.net. Spread the word!
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In this week's profile flashback, get to know @nycavri.bsky.social: an American raised in England, a published designer of board games, and a writer across mediums whose work has received acclaim from no less than crime writer Lawrence Block. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Upcoming event: We're partnering with the Flatbush branch of @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on something reckless and exciting: Creating and printing a creative newspaper from scratch in 90 minutes! Brooklyn Public Library Flatbush Thu 7/23, 6-7:30pm RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/let...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Whether you're in NYC or abroad, tune in tonight to see how this weird experiment turns out! A dozen readers, free copies for all! Meet us at @datavandals.bsky.social newsstand gallery on downtown 6 train platform at 51st & Lex, or check out the streaming link: www.youtube.com/@DataVandals...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“MAKE WRITING HURT AGAIN,” proclaims the website of two-time slips slips contributor @kawaishen.bsky.social. She's similarly uncompromising when answering questions for our newsletter profile - if we want to make change, it's gonna hurt a bit. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@emenez2.bsky.social is the subject of the latest contributor profile in our newsletter, blips blips. We promise you will never in a million years guess what piece of advice she is referring to in the quote here. See her answers to all our impertinent questions at slipsslips.substack.com
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're hosting a rush-hour takeover of the @datavandals.bsky.social Newsstand, an art gallery in the NYC subway system! Drop by to pick up a free copy and listen to some great amid with the bustle of Manhattan. Downtown 6 train platform at 51st St. Fri 6/26, 7-9pm partiful.com/e/Yu1jT93eIL...?
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our first (late) live event celebrating slips slips #2! Come join us in NYC (limited seating, hit us up for deets!) or live online for readings and presentations from more than a dozen of our NYC contributors around the theme of "Dialogues." Sun 6/7, 2pm. Streaming link: vimeo.com/event/597350...
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Submissions for slips slips #3 are open through the summer! Creators of all stripes, please send us your short-form written or visual work of any sort, on the theme of.... um... uh... DISTRACTIONS. Reach out if you have any questions, and, you know, we'll try not to forget to answer.
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slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A primer on our publication, precisely pitched to the tenor of our times. Because nothing resonates these days like faux-primitif gestures toward early 20th-century typographic experiments!
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