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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 9h

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

The film Barbie triangulates how we experience others and how they experience us. Meditating on both the individual nature of transitioning & how it reverberates through a larger community, these essays pay loving homage to the shifting memorials of all bodies moving through time’s one-way terminal.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14/09/2026

Action is a love letter to the music, film, people, and places that have shaped Rivka Clifton's transition. A synthesizer’s knobs emulate the modulation of pleasure within a changing body. A text from a childhood friend ghosts the sadness existing within the joy of becoming oneself.

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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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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

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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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 · 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

We have about 10 signed bookplate copies remaining, so IF YOU HAVEN’T preordered yet, I’d suggest you get your order in with us ASAP. Looking forward to sending out this book that @ranaawdish.bsky.social called “an astonishing act of resurrection” into your hearts and minds. ❤️ Link to order in bio!

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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

Our readers typically stick with us for multiple seasons (and this is the first time we've opened up for novel/novella readers SINCE 2020 WHEN WE STARTED THE PERIOD!!!) so we're really looking for the best fits--and we hope it'll be you! See you on 5/1 when apps open!!!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 24/04/2026

Our NN editor jonah would also love to hear about 1-3 novels or novellas you recently read and enjoyed. What did you enjoy, what drew you to the book(s), and/or what stood out and made it/them memorable? (Feel free to be as concise or elaborate in your answers as you wish.)

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 24/04/2026

We'll be asking for a short bio statement, any relevant journal/reading experience, and any personal novel/novella writing experience (writers often make the best readers). Most of all, let us know why you are specifically interested in reading for Split/Lip Press!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 24/04/2026

Yes, this position is fully remote. Yes, we are open to international applicants. The time commitment is ~2hrs/week during the reading period. 25% of the submission fee proceeds are split equally among all readers, who also receive a copy of the team's chosen book upon publication.

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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're so excited to have jonah on the SLP editorial team, and also excited to announce that we'll be opening up reader applications for the novel/novella reading team (!!) in about 3 weeks (keep your eyes peeled to our socials for exact dates). But for now, please help us (re)welcome jonah!!!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 09/04/2026

jonah urges readers to act regularly and stridently for Palestinian, Sudanese, and Congolese liberation, and for the liberation of all oppressed people across the world.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 09/04/2026

jonah wu is a NYC-based fiction writer + essayist w/ work featured in Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Seventh Wave, + beestung. They are a 3-time Pushcart Prize nominee + winner of Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of 2022.

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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.

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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 · 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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