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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 2h
Nonfictioneers, get ready for tomorrow...👀
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New cover design! Plus an alternate option that didn't make it but I still liked an awful lot.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14/09/2026
Wake up! It's cover reveal and preorders day for Rivka Clifton's nonfiction chapbook ACTION: TRANSITION NOTES! ACTION will be published on Feb 16, but it is available for preorders (as well as ARC requests) NOW! Order at the link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/product-page... !
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Action | Split/Lip Press
Meditating on both the individual nature of transitioning and how it reverberates through a larger community, the essays in Rivka Clifton's Action pay loving homage to the shifting memorials of all bo...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 04/09/2026
Wrapping up Blurb Week for Diego Gerard Morrison’s UPFLOW with some love from @dsparis.bsky.social 💚 Order your copy—preorders will ship very soon! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
green waves background, quote from Daniel Saldana Paris about Diego Gerard Morrison's Upflow: "An unforgettable constellation of stories where water isn’t only water: it is also memory, violence, root and destiny."
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 02/09/2026
We're continuing Blurb Week with praise from Christine Lai for Diego Gerard Morrison's incredible short story collection, UPFLOW! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
green waves in the background, and this quote from Christine Lai about Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW: "A moving, shimmering kaleidoscope of a book that unfolds as a collection of narratives, histories and ecocriticism, Upflow brilliantly conjures the lacustrine past and arid present of the megacity to examine the lives, beset by loss and precarity, reflected in the flowing body of water.”

—Christine Lai, author of Landscapes
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/09/2026
At 11:59pm CT tonight, Sept 1, this cycle is closing--speak now or hold your piece (novel or novella book manuscript) for another whole year! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
orange background, yellow lettering: LAST DAY, open call for novel & novella manuscripts, reading period July 1 - September 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/08/2026
It's Blurb Week for Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW, out on October 27th (but preorders will begin shipping in mid-Sept!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social! Order at your favorite bookstore or RIGHT HERE: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
Background is green waves, with Joyelle McSweeney's blurb for UPFLOW by Diego Gerard Morrison: "Fluvial and lacustrine...Upflow is a work of both stamina and tenderness, a lyric hydrology."
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 28/08/2026
As the novel/novella reading period draws toward its close on Sept 1, a heads up that we will not be able to process any fee waiver requests after close of business today (~5pm CT) so if that was on your to-do list, make sure you DO IT!!!
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 25/08/2026
We just began the final week of our novel/novella submissions period, so if you've got a manuscript you want to get in front of our eyes, you've got until 11:59pm CT next Tuesday Sept 1 to do so... splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/07/2026
Happy (nearly) Halfway Day for our novel/novella book submissions period! If you've got a 100pg (or more) novella or a novel looking for a home, we've got a reading team and editor who are hoping they'll read your book before subs close at 11:59pm CT on Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
orange background, yellow letters: HALFWAY THERE: OPEN CALL FOR NOVEL & NOVELLA MANUSCRIPTS, reading period July 1 - September 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com
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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
another banger of a flash collection, Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips pub’d by @splitlippress.com. bits of wonder woven with the everyday, each story offers this childlike sense of understanding something new and weird and glorious #smokelong #blurbchallenge
Book cover of Tucker Leighty-Phillips’ collection Maybe This is What I Deserve. Cover image features a realist painting of two people conversing in a large hole in a tree with snow all around.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 15/07/2026
Happy Publication Anniversary Day to Sienna Liu's SPECIMEN, out 1yr today! Weaving together years of diaries, notes, text messages, and memory, SPECIMEN is an exploration of diaspora, nostalgia, writing, the creation of oneself through another, + time itself. www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
cover of SPECIMEN: an essay, by Sienna Liu. Image is the book cover, featuring a piece of art with two figures looking at a scene together, but apart
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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I am so excited for this! @ariel-chu.com’s a first rate talent and has a long, bright writing career ahead of her. Her manuscript blew me over with its exquisite imagery, pitch-perfect voices, and sensitive, insightful portrayals of queer Taiwanese American women pushing back against social scripts.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 08/07/2026
We're so happy and excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, @ariel-chu.com and her collection ANTIBACHELORETTE, which was selected from our 2026 short story/flash fiction submissions period! COMING IN NOVEMBER 2027! Welcome, Ariel!!!
Welcome to the Split/Lip Family Nov 2027: Antibachelorette! 

Ariel Chu is a Taiwanese American writer from Eastvale, California. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, where she serves as the fiction editor of Gold Line Press and Nat. Brut. In 2020, Ariel received an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Syracuse Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. Ariel's work has been published by Joyland, Black Warrior Review, and The Masters Review, among others, and she has received support from Kundiman, the Steinbeck Fellowship, the Luce Scholars Program, and the P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Antibachelorette is her debut collection.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/07/2026
Novel and novella manuscript submissions season has officially begun! Our beloved N/N team, led by @rabblerouses.bsky.social, will be reading your +100pg book manuscripts--call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Be sure to check out our June roundup for brand-new books out from @upittpress.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @deepvellum.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social @blackwaterpress.com & @lfpbooks.bsky.social:
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Books Launching in June 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in June 2026.   Heaven off the Coast by M. S. A. Bacon Fuente Fountain…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Got home today after 10 days away (!!!) and found this beauty waiting for me. I’m even more excited about how the physical copy looks! @splitlippress.com
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 17/06/2026
Please help us welcome new novel/novella readers Roy, Emma, and Tahniat, who will be joining our returning readers Rubén, Steven, Sarah, Patrick, Kameron, and Mwinji (and our fantastic editor jonah)--the whole team will be ready + waiting for your book manuscripts when submissions open on July 1st!
Split/Lip Press welcomes new novel/novella readers: Roy Acuna, Emma Deshpande, and Tahniat Islam
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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Excited for this! (& long live Lost/Found!) 🎊
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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
our new Lost/Found imprint acquisition is official! I'm SO excited for y'all to read + rediscover @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social's EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE! reading this eerie + surreal story of survival made me feel a little stronger + more stubborn in my own life; I hope it does the same for you 📚
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 15/06/2026
Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New cover design!
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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cover reveal for Diego Gerard Morrison’s Upflow, designed by the one and only @mrwojorising.bsky.social! These fictions about Mexico’s water system are incredible. Pre-order yours today from @splitlippress.com. Thanks @electricliterature.com for featuring.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 28/05/2026
We're psyched to have the cover for Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW revealed at @electricliterature.com today, and we're QUITE pleased to announce that preorders for UPFLOW are now available!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
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Upflow | Split/Lip Press
A darkly funny, hydro-ethnological collection of stories following the path of water in and out of Mexico City, investigating themes of scarcity, pollution, and corruption as the ghostly lakebed of Me...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 20/05/2026
Continuing @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @suzannekovenmd.bsky.social for BROTHER EPISTLES!
"Brother Epistles is all a memoir should be, unsparingly honest, insightful, riveting. It left me changed--and deeply moved." --Suzanne Koven
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 19/05/2026
Second day of Blurb Week for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, and we've got these kind words from Danielle Ofri!
"Brother Epistles is an act of both remembrance and reckoning. Shanda McManus confronts what it means to grow up Black in America and the intimate human cost of a nation's indifference. A powerful meditation on grief, love, and survival." --Danielle Ofri
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 18/05/2026
It's Blurb Week for BROTHER EPISTLES by @shandamcmanus.bsky.social, out on June 23rd (but preorders begin shipping this week!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
title "Brother Epistles" with two shapes, one teal on the left, one red-orange on the right, and the quote "From politics and pop culture to the haunting regrets and what-ifs we survivors know so well, McManus paints Monir, and readers, an indelible portrait of the grieving life. This is an extraordinary and extraordinarily courageous book." --Deesha Philyaw
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 12/05/2026
Just about a month and a half until BROTHER EPISTLES is released on June 23, and we’re packing all the preordered copies (and THERE ARE A LOT) to begin shipping in the next week! If you’ve already preordered through us, watch for your shipping confirmation emails to be coming through soon!
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 04/05/2026
CLOSED! We capped out at 250 reader applications this morning--thank you to everyone who applied, we'll be in touch <3 PS: please do not email us your resume saying you're hoping we can take a late application; when we say it's closed, we mean it's closed, and we'll be deleting those emails unread
CLOSED: call for readers for novel/novella team is now closed
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/05/2026
UPDATE: application is now live! Find the link to apply in our profile or click here: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/35361...
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Split/Lip Press - 2026 Novel/Novella Reading Team
Join the Split/Lip Press Novel/Novella Reading Team!  We're open for a couple of additional readers for the 26NN reading season (July through September 2026). The 2026 Novel/Novella manuscript reading...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 30/04/2026
If you're anywhere near Des Moines, Iowa, we'd love to see you at the #dsmbookfestival2026 on Saturday! SLP will be tabling and our books are SHARPLY marked down—we're talking $10 full-lengths—plus we'll be debuting Speed-Date-a-Book. Curious? YOU SHOULD BE! Hope to see you there!
blue background with orange blobs, upon which it is written: Split/Lip Press at DSM Book Fest, 11am-6pm, Saturday May 2, 4801 Franklin Avenue. Free admission
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 24/04/2026
Start gathering your application materials: our new novel/novella editor, @rabblerouses.bsky.social, is going to be looking for a few readers to join their 2026 N/N reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!!! N/N reader apps will open on May 1 and close May 8, or after we've received 250 applications
color fade from pink to yellow, reading "CALL FOR READERS: want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next novel/novella? The details: Readers are compensated, reading period July 1 through Sept 1, applications due May 8, apply at splitlippress.submittable.com"
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 21/04/2026
"An accomplished debut which interrogates the experience of being marginalized and stereotyped"--we love this review of Chelsea's KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE at @strangehorizons.bsky.social--thanks, @hanacarolina.bsky.social!!!
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jonah wu | 夷陵老祖 🌙 @rabblerouses.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
very excited and honored to be the new SLP novel/novella editor!!! ❤️ keep your eyes peeled for our call for applications to join the reading team (a great way to dip your toe into editorial work!), and i'm excited to read all of your lovely book submissions this summer!
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 09/04/2026
We are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.
purple, blue, and gray egg shapes along the bottom, a black and white photo of jonah in the center, and the text: Split/Lip Press (re)welcomes jonah wu, Novel/Novella Editor
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 08/04/2026
A huge welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Haitian-born psychiatrist and writer Jonas Attilus and WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE, his memoir of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the collective trauma and displacement that followed survivors through the aftermath. Coming in August 2027!
Welcome to the Split/Lip Family Aug. 2027: WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE. B&W photo of a Black man (Jonas's bio photo) and his bio: Jonas Attilus is a Haitian-born psychiatrist practicing in Minnesota. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Master of Public Health from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Minnesota. He has studied internationally in France, Greece, Germany, and Poland.
Jonas is a member of the Minnesota Refugee and Immigrant Writers Group. He writes in Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, and English. He is a 2014 Spanish-language winner of the United Nations’ Many Languages, One World (MLOW) essay contest. What the Ground Couldn’t Shake is his debut memoir.
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Martin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Awesome to see & hear @marchxness.bsky.social essays that I've been thinking about for YEARS read tonight by their authors. Have you picked up your copy of the anthology yet? If not you can get it here & you'll be glad you did: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Join our March Xness Anthology Zoom launch in 24 minutes! Register here for url: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Substack tourney recap coming your way this weekend but we wanted to invite you to our HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC ZOOM book launch TUES 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern. Register: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Tomorrow night on Zoom! Hear my lovely spouse @martinseay.bsky.social read from the astoundingly good @marchxness.bsky.social anthology with lots of other brilliant writers!
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W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I get to be online with all these cool people on Tuesday evening (4/7, 7pm CT) for the launch of the March Xness anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music from Split Lip Press. I can’t promise that my kids won’t barge in and wreak havoc. Register at: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 06/04/2026
TOMORROW: @marchxness.bsky.social Anthology launch event at 7pm CT! Featuring @danchaon.bsky.social, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @dellegeller.bsky.social, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @elenavox.bsky.social, @mossyair.bsky.social + @martinseay.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
zooming copy of the yellow Xness anthology book; MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY LAUNCH, Feat. Dan Chaon, Steven Church, Melissa Faliveno, Danielle Geller, W. Todd Kaneko, Elena Passarello, Amy Rossi, and Martin Seay. April 7, 7pm CT, register at tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 03/04/2026
Did you catch our publisher interview over on Asterism's book blog? @suburbanprairie.bsky.social talked extensively about how we select a book, why demystifying small press publishing is at the core of our processes, and why declines are (STILL!) the worst part asterismbooks.com/blog/post/br...
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Breaking Boundaries: Kristine Langley Mahler of Split/Lip Press | Asterism Books
Kristine, director and publisher of Split/Lip Press, shares the boundary-breaking work her and her team are working on. With a goal of creating more accessibility in publishing, their team works toge...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/04/2026
We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
ALERT ⚡⚡
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
send us your words!
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saltwaterflower @saltwaterflower.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Since some of my mutuals have manuscripts I had to share! Split/lip press is a well-regarded indie press especially for experimental, hybrid, and literary work. Check this out! ✨
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/04/2026
We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The March Xness Anthology is here! Thank you SO MUCH to @splitlippress.com and to everyone who's contributed to the Xness anthology and the tournament as a whole ❤️🎸🥁
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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The @marchxness.bsky.social anthology we've all been waiting for is finally here! So thrilled to have my essay on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" of Dirty Dancing fame included in this much-anticipated mixtape of phenomenal writing. Get yourself a copy today!!
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