Music can take you to new places, but it can also lead you back home. Had it not been for Kris Kristofferson’s Live from Austin TX, Amy Rossi may have never returned to writing. Fortunately, everything worked out for the best, and I recently had the opportunity to chat with Amy about her hair metal obsession, “bad sex” stories, and rediscovering the joys of writing.
Read MoreIf you’ve never read anything by Kaj Tanaka, it’s only a matter of time. Like all good writing, Kaj's prose can speak for itself. You’ll find that out soon enough. But before you do, a conversation with the author himself about music, faith, and the frills and fancy bits of storytelling.
Read MoreLandis Wine is a man of many masks. He’s a singer, a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter, a producer, and the list goes on and on. Alongside former White Laces bandmate Tori Hovater, he formed the new band Opin. Now with their self-titled debut album out in the world and a tour under their belt, Hovater and Wine are ready for whatever comes next. I sat down with the latter to talk about the new album, musical influences, and how parents have this uncanny ability to make music uncool.
Read MoreKara Vernor is the author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. She’s also one of my favorite writers working today. Read any story in her debut collection and you’ll want to memorize it like it’s your new favorite song. I recently had the chance to sit down with Kara and talk about how music has shaped both her writing and her life over the years.
Read MoreRichmond, VA based singer/songwriter/producer London Perry records music under the name Dazeases. Split Lip Magazine is honored and excited to give you both the exclusive premiere of Dazeases’ “Botetourt” music video along with an interview with the artist behind the music. SLM’s resident Music Guru Christopher Wolford recently chatted with Perry about everything under the sun including feminism, fashion, and what it takes to survive in today’s music industry.
Read MoreJane Liddle’s short story collection, MURDER, contains fifty tales that examine the mundane and often accidental ways homicide occurs. Written in a humorous and detached tone that is devoid of voyeurism, MURDER is one of the most memorable debut releases this year.
Read MoreIn honor of the relaunch of our site, Fiction Editor Jon McConnell is taking some time to talk to some of our amazing writers about their work each week. This week's chat is with Ashley Hutson, whose short story, “This Bridge,” is our featured fiction this week.
Read MoreIn honor of the relaunch of our site, Fiction Editor Jon McConnell is taking some time to talk to some of our amazing writers about their work each week. This week's chat is with Sheryl Monks, whose short story, ”Robbing Pillars,” is our featured fiction this week.
Read MoreSeveral weeks ago, writer Amber Sparks posted a link on Facebook, and the sample quote contained this telling passage: “Access to technology and the knowledge it provides has only made us more paranoid.”
Read MoreNo longer hanging their hats back in their native Denton, Texas, Seryn—now based out of Nashville, Tennessee—recently released their latest record, Shadow Shows, a follow-up (or riposte, perhaps?) to their 2011 album, This Is Where We Are. And the new record is, well, new is likely the best way of putting it.
Read MoreSplit Lip Press/Magazine is excited for Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and her new chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars, a Split Lip Press release forthcoming on November 1st, 2014.
Read MoreHe is the man, myth and legend, folks—Ed Harkness, runner-up of the Split Lip Press 2014 Uppercut Chapbook Awards. With his new chapbook, Ice Children, set to release in late November, we thought we'd chat with the poet on poetic matters.
Read MoreInterview: Lullskull, Ltd.
Read MoreRobert Wrigley is an institution. Besides being a decorated poet—a former Guggenheim Fellow, a two-time NEA fellow, winner of six Pushcart Prizes, author of ten collections of poetry, etc.—he is a dedicated teacher and all-around interesting person. Wrigley was generous enough to sit down with me to talk about his most recent collection of poems, Anatomy of Melancholy, and his most recent honor, a PNBA (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award).
Read MoreAfter checking out Georgia Kreiger's review of The sea with no one in it, I thought I'd see if the author would like to chat with Split Lip for a little while. The Canadian-Australian poet agreed, and we are grateful.
Read MoreSometimes when you want new music, you’ve got to dig yourself out of whichever decade you’re stuck in (don’t nobody touch my precious ’90s!) and open your ears up to something fresh & new, and nothing is more as such than Liza Anne, Nashville Tennessee’s newest young lady of verse and melody. Liza was kind enough to chat with Split Lip for a while since I am a man of questions. I want to know her secrets, to know where she gets all of those wonderful toys.
Read MoreI was at a concert in Detroit and Cameron McGill was on the bill. I was fortunate to meet the talanted singer-songwriter, but my jaw dropped when our conversation shifted to poetry. He asked if I had checked out the latest Sharon Olds book, and I was all, “Somebody else in the rock circuit knows Sharon Olds?” So we talked shop, both music & poetry, and I couldn’t help but to invite him to spend some time with Split Lip for a chat about the arts.
Read MoreA single mother rents a fundamentalist preacher’s carriage house. A pop star contemplates suicide in the hotel room where Janis Joplin died. A philandering ex-pat doctor gets hooked on morphine while reeling from his wife’s death.
Read MoreBob Hicok's seventh collection is Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon, 2013). This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), was awarded the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and published in a German translation by Luxbooks in 2013.
Read MoreAs pretentious as this is going to sound, Indianapolis is fortunate to have a band that takes itself seriously considering the city has the capacity to crush any aspiring artist, writer or band. Endiana with an ‘E’ is a bold affidavit defining the heartland as an ending, not a beginning.
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