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We are so so very excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, Crystal Odelle and their collection MYTH FEST, selected from our inaugural 2026 multigenre submissions period! MYTH FEST will be published in February 2028, and WE CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO READ IT! Welcome, Crystal!!!

photograph of a person with black hair and a jean jacket, along the bio: Author of Trans Studies, Crystal Odelle (they/she) is a storyteller of trans/polyamorous/whore practice, writing and revising into the desire for something like a life. Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Split Lip Magazine, smoke and mold, Apogee, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/10/2026

Happy October: our nonfiction book submissions queue is now open!!! Our editor @athenadixon.bsky.social and her team will be reading your essay collections, your memoirs, and your nonfiction/hybrid book projects from now through December 1. Nonfiction Season HAS BEGUN!! splitlippress.submittable.com

purple text on brown background: OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION MANUSCRIPTS. 125 page minimum, reading period October 1 - December 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I’m a tough critic when it comes to the grooms, especially when the men look like they know they’re attractive." Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s piece “Girls in White Dresses” was published in @forgetcool.bsky.social 🥳 buff.ly/CUKOUFf

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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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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love this one, Kristine!! "One afternoon, Emily and I see the episode about the ultra-Christian couple who’ve never kissed each other. We can’t get over how the girl could date this guy for three years and is ready to marry him without ever having kissed him. What if he sucks at kissing?"

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Girls in White Dresses – Mahler

Girls in White Dresses by Kristine Langley Mahler The summer that we’ll turn sixteen, my best friend Emily and I seem put-on-pause, drooped over her living room couches, dreaming of our future husb…

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can't forget all these VERY COOL PIECES (and very cool editors @allisonwrites.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social!) And YOU might have forgotten about TLC's A Wedding Story, but I DID NOT and IT HAS NEVER LEFT ME! More in my essay for @forgetcool.bsky.social's 1st issue <3

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not St. Dolly and ALSO my Halloween King Tim Curry, off to that great Wizarding Gig in the Sky 😭

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Tim Curry Worst Witch

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is gross & undemocratic but being decorous is getting us nowhere so I think Dems should do this too; this very app is full of people who would be absolutely amazing at shit talking MAGA on a site called, like, Ohio Diner Breaking News

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Read it and weep, I'm bringing the Bing to @marchxness.bsky.social this tournament!!!

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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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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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh my gosh, what an awesome review of TQT! Thank you so much, @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social!

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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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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If you appreciate your indie bookstore, then show it love! I think about this *a lot,* since you can't take their existence for granted. Buy a book! Buy a coffee! Boost them on socials! Attend a reading! These sacred places only exist bc of our continued support.

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's time! We can't wait to see what you have in store for us 👀 forget.cool/submissions/

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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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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

truly LOL over the downcast face graphic on the "risks of AI," that bro can't even look up from his phone for the facegrab

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Went to buy my new annual national parks pass but CLICKED OUT OF THAT WINDOW as soon as I saw this year's design: George Washington's face opposite WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE MUGSHOT OF THAT FELON CURRENTLY IN OFFICE I WOULD RATHER OVERPAY FOR EACH NATIONAL PARK THAN TO HAVE TO SEE THAT CARD EACH TIME!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So are they bringing back Ask Jeeves and Lycos?

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Really happy to have this conversation up in @adroitjournal.bsky.social in which I QUITE ELOQUENTLY define erasure source text as a nurse log, discuss the ethics of erasure, and admit TQT is not strictly nonfiction 😇https://theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/18/a-conversation-with-kristine-langley-mahler/

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A Conversation with Kristine Langley Mahler

Kristine Langley Mahler’s erasure essay collection, Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963, was released in spring 2026. She is also the author of …

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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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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Don't threaten me with a good time in the state where I love going unplugged anyway!!!

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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

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT TIME! Honored to be a temporary desert dweller for the night ❤️

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING IN AZ! See you there!

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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

And don’t forget to come see Kristine here, then Tucson for an event with @Tucson essayclub.bsky.social the next night!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

my dad built me a Little Free Library and we installed it yesterday and I JUST SAW OUR FIRST CUSTOMER RETRIEVE A BOOK FROM IT!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING IN AZ! See you there!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’m SCREAMING. That lady just had to stand there???????? This country is a hostage situation.

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Absolutely frying over the Pope being weak on crime. Are we supposed to rise up and be like HEY MY POPE IS ACTUALLY SO, SO TOUGH ON CRIME???

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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

AZ is where it’s at! This week we got book launches and book festivals and next week come on out to the Desert Grit Reading Series, with: Matt Flores @sudhab.bsky.social Cecilia Savala Oscar Mancinas @joelhans.com @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & me!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I truly think erasure is one of the most accessible forms of writing, so I'm grateful to @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for allowing me the space to make a (craft) argument that might convince you too: AN ERASURE ESSAY IS REALLY JUST A MIXTAPE! www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/craf...

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm so psyched to be working with Jonah and I can't wait to see what novels and novellas they bring us!!!

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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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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If I can contact this man to demand impeachment you can pressure your Congress folks too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bacon

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Don Bacon - Wikipedia

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Coming up: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music Tucson book launch event w/ @marchxness.bsky.social. 4/19 6pm 600 S. Meyer feat karaoke, books, readings by @stephjayb.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, Drew Krewer, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, John Melillo, @angermonsoon.bsky.social, & Laura CJ Owen

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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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kara🐆 @karaonza.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

thirteen years and i dont think anyone's knocked off "who's this clown"

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most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

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