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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 · 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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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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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

orange background with yellow lettering: OPEN CALL FOR NOVEL & NOVELLA MANUSCRIPTS, reading period July 1 through September 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.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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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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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!

A copy of a book, featuring two Black children on the cover, a sister and her brother, a top of stack of books. The books are nestled into a leafy tree.

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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 · 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 · 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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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

purple background with jellyfish and the message OPEN CALL FOR MULTIGENRE MANUSCRIPTS, reading period April 1 through June 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/03/2026

Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

cover of March Xness Anthology, a yellow book with a cassette tape on the cover

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 06/03/2026

And it's AWP Day 2! We have a full roster of authors at our booth (644) today, AND we've got our offsite from 6:30-8pm at Greedy Reads Remington, so pack your day full of SLP because we've got the authors, the books, and the places to be!

massive AWP Author Residency schedule; we'll repost this every day with the pertinent author residencies in the text of the post

SLP/March Xness offsite at Greedy Reads Remington, Friday March 6 from 6:30-8pm, readings from Hayden Casey, Aubrey Hirsch, Jillian Danback-McGhan, Shanda McManus, Raquel Gutierrez, Katie Moulton, Sejal Shah, Ander Monson

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 05/03/2026

Happy AWP Day 1! We'll see you in like an hour at booth #644: make sure to stop by during one of today's Author Residencies, because we'll have @seanseanclan.bsky.social from 11-12, @marylynnreed.bsky.social from 1-2, and Shanda McManus from 3:30-4:30!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 04/03/2026

We Have The Books (at booth 644)

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 02/03/2026

Not going to AWP? Now through Sunday March 8, use code NOAWPFORME at our website for free shipping! Wait wait, it gets even better: our backlist full-lengths are on sale for $15, backlist chaps are $10. Same prices as the bookfair!!! Discount shows in the cart, so LOAD 'ER UP! splitlippress.com

brown background, text reads AWP BACKLIST SALE, SPLIT/LIP PRESS. March 1-8, Full-length books $15, Chapbooks $10 + free shipping with code NOAWPFORME

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 25/02/2026

Just about one month until publication day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and to celebrate the upcoming Xness tournament (starts on 3/1), we’re shipping preorders today! Order yours: splitlippress.com

Yellow background with six copies of a book with a cassette tape on the cover. Beside the stack of books is a vase with yellow, white, and one orange flower.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 19/02/2026

Yes, the rumors are true: we're hosting an AWP offsite with @marchxness.bsky.social in Baltimore at @greedyreads.bsky.social! Friday, March 6th from 6:30-8pm, come on up to Greedy Reads Remington for readings from Hayden, Aubrey, Jillian, Shanda, Raquel, Katie, Sejal, and Ander!

black background, text reads: Split/Lip Press, March Xness at Greedy Reads Remington, 320 W 29th St, Baltimore MD, on Friday March 6 from 6:30-8pm, featuring readings from Hayden Casey, Aubrey Hirsch, Jillian Danback-McGhan, Shanda McManus, Raquel Gutierrez, Katie Moulton, Sejal Shah, Ander Monson

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 18/02/2026

After a deluge of incredible reader applications and some very difficult decisions, we’re thrilled to announce our brand new 2026 Multigenre/Chapbook reading team! Please help us welcome the MG/C team, who along with our MG/C Editor Erin will be ready for your multigenre books when subs open on 4/1!

abstract background, with the announcement "Split/Lip Press welcomes new multigenre/chapbook readers." Readers are Jess Alexander, Erinola E. Daranijo, Hillary Jo Foreman, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Armando Ledezma.

abstract background, with the announcement "Split/Lip Press welcomes new multigenre/chapbook readers." Readers are Priyanuj Mazumdar, Omnia Najm, Percy Schumacher, Michael Hughes Wesner, and Jisoo Hope Yoon

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 06/02/2026

Last question for @crsutton.bsky.social, we swear. And join us on Monday for our special PREVIEW NIGHT Zoom launch for Krackle's Last Movie! Link to register in our bio!

blue background, sea monster with long teeth asking "How do you hope readers feel when they turn the final page of your book?"

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 05/02/2026

We're not done with our questions for @crsutton.bsky.social--we wanted to know what the theme song for KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE should be!

blue background, vampire monster icon asking "What's your book's theme song?"

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 04/02/2026

Our third question for @crsutton.bsky.social about KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE, and it's every author's favorite question (i.e. "What's your own favorite line from the book you just slaved over writing?")

blue background with a brown, hairy monster icon, asking the question "What's your favorite line from your book?"

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 03/02/2026

We've got questions for @crsutton.bsky.social about her forthcoming book, KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE (out on February 10!), and we're doubling up today since we forgot to cross-post here yesterday 🥴

blue background, icon of a woman with a veil on her head, asking "What's the recipe for your book?"

blue background, Frankenstein woman, asking "Which authors populate your book's family tree?"

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 29/01/2026

HELLO AND YES THIS IS GOOD NEWS! We're ecstatic to share that @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS has been named a FINALIST for the @penamerica.bsky.social 2026 Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

copy of the PEN announcement, shows Hayden's book along with the four other finalists for the Robert Bingham Prize

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 28/01/2026

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

CALL FOR READERS in yellow, on an abstract multicolored background. The question: Want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next multigenre and/or chapbook?

The details: Readers are compensated. 25% of our submission fee is divided among readers. They also receive a free copy of your team's chosen book. Reading period runs April 1 through June 1. Applications are due February 6. Apply at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 27/01/2026

Only 2 weeks until @crsutton.bsky.social's KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE is in the world--and you're invited to a special preview launch the night before! Join us on Mon Feb 9 @ 8pm CT for our KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE Zoom launch event, feat. Chelsea in conversation w/ fellow SLP author @emjparsley.bsky.social!

blue background with triangular shapes holding the words: Krackle's Last Movie Launch Event, Chelsea Sutton in conversation with Em J Parsley. Monday, February 9, 8pm CT, link in bio. There are also three monster icons, a veiled woman's head, a Bride of Frankenstein, and a pink sea creature with devastatingly long teeth

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 26/01/2026

Let's go!!! It's cover reveal and preorders day for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's BROTHER EPISTLES! BROTHER EPISTLES will be published on June 23rd, 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/brother-epistles !

image shows the book cover for Brother Epistles, by Shanda McManus, and it features two children in a blue coat and red shirt, smiling for the camera. The girl is pointing at her brother.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 15/01/2026

DEADLINE EXTENSION! We've had several folks reach out who'd appreciate a little more time to get their applications together. So we're extending the application window through 11:59pm CT on January 18th. Use your holiday weekend wisely! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 15/01/2026

We've got praise during this Blurb Week for @crsutton.bsky.social's novella KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE from M.M. Olivas! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14/01/2026

Continuing @crsutton.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @shingai-be-like.bsky.social for KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 13/01/2026

Second day of Blurb Week for @crsutton.bsky.social's forthcoming novella, KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE, and we've got these kind words from Anjali Sachdeva!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 12/01/2026

Welcome to Blurb Week for KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE, @crsutton.bsky.social's novella out on February 10th (preorders are shipping now!) www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 07/01/2026

Hello, hello hello!!! We are so excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, @mikebove.bsky.social, and his novella A CATALOG OF IMAGINARY HOUSES, which was selected from our 2025 novel/novella submissions period! COMING IN MAY 2027! Welcome, Mike!!!

Announcement is on a background with green, purple, blue, and yellow sketched houses. Mike's bio photo is also present.

your basic Publishers Marketplace announcement, but on the same background with the colored houses

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 05/01/2026

INCOMING!!! Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: on Jan 8, we'll be opening for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Novel/Novella Book Editor! Our beloved Kate Finegan is stepping down this year from her position (which she initiated for us in 2020!).

teal square background, green square with text: WANT TO JOIN THE SPLIT/LIP PRESS TEAM? We're looking for a novel/novella book editor! Applications open 1/8 - 1/15. For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/01/2026

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

blue background with the text "OPEN CALL: FLASH FICTION & SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, Reading period January 1 - March 1, Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com"

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 18/12/2025

We're hugging everyone we see because we're so thrilled: @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 's book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!!!

photo of Hayden Casey and his book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, against a golden confetti-laden background!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 10/12/2025

Two months until publication day for KRACKLE’S LAST MOVIE by @crsutton.bsky.social and we’re stocked up with copies in the office right before the holiday season swings into high gear—we’ll begin shipping preorders in just a couple of weeks! Order your copy at splitlippress.com !

A vase of flowers sits on top of copies of Chelsea Sutton‘s novella, KRACKLE’S Last Movie. The flowers are in colors that match the monster faces on the cover and its blue background; an additional copy is turned out to face front and rests atop a video cassette.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/12/2025

Final few hours to get your nonfiction book submitted to @athenadixon.bsky.social and the crew! After 11:59pm CT, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Blue background, OPEN CALL: CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS. Split/Lip Press Reading Period October 1 - December 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com, 125 page minimum

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 25/11/2025

Wow! Just stumbled upon this Best of 2025 List! How weird, it's only SLP books! Best novella, best short story collection, best nonfiction and best graphic book...looks like we swept them all!

repeating covers of YOU, FROM BELOW; SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS; SPECIMEN, and GRAPHIC RAGE. Looks exactly like the Electric Lit graphic for all the Best Ofs.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 25/11/2025

Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK! www.splitlippress.com

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