Spreading the News: SLM’s Favorite Newsletters
If there’s one thing that Split Lip Magazine loves, it’s a good newsletter. With everything happening in the world, the internet can be a loud, overwhelming place. But every once in a while, something sweet lands in your inbox that brightens your day—so we wanted to highlight our favorites. Here are some contributor and staff-written newsletters that our FAM opens, reads, and enjoys. We hope you find a new fav—and if you do, make sure you subscribe, share it around, and spread the love!
If you ever find yourself falling into pop culture rabbit holes, you’ll love contributor Abigail Oswald’s newsletter, Microfascination. Every month she brings to attention a new question about the world or some piece of pop culture so that you, too, can time travel through the internet.
Contributing editor Becky Robison’s unique and niche weekly newsletter, The Columbarium, demystifies the bureaucracy of death and dying with a sense of humor. She helps people whose parents have passed by providing information and practical advice regarding post-death logistics.
Kasey Butcher Santana—a contributor and co-owner of Sol Homestead—writes weekly updates about her backyard alpacas, nature, curiosity, and creativity in her newsletter, Life Among the Alpacas. Check this out if you love the environment or all things cozy!
Are you interested in the world of writing and storytelling? Contributor Tommy Dean’s newsletter, Good Trouble, breaks down writing craft while highlighting great writing and entertaining stories.
If you want to dive specifically into flash fiction, contributor Kathy Fish’s newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, is the perfect place for you. This monthly newsletter is dedicated to the art and craft of flash—filed with articles, prompts, and reading recs for you to immerse yourself in.
Former flash editor Eshani Surya’s newsletter, Surya Means Sun, offers thoughtful dispatches on writing, creating art, and existing as a brown, disabled writer. Whether or not those are identities you carry, this newsletter offers something for you—because we all live in bodies the world tries to define in particular ways.
Contributor and reader Ani King has a semi-regular newsletter, Five-ish Things By Ani Kang. It contains links to their newly published stories, book and story recommendations, writing prompts, and pictures of racoons guaranteed in every issue—count us in!
As the name implies, contributor Cameron Steele’s newsletter, Interruptions, seeks to act as an interruption—blending creative writing, tarot, occult insights, and much more—all while offering you a place to slow down and think things through. This newsletter also covers illness and narrative, and her own struggles with it.
Contributor Brandon Taylor’s newsletter, sweater weather, features essays about literature, culture, and explores so many feelings. If you value intimacy, reflection, writing, and perspective—subscribe to this one.
Wanting to hear thoughts on books and the occasional amateur comic? Then check our former flash editor Megan Jimenez’s semi-regular reading lists with her newsletter, How to Play Hopscotch, where you can become familiar with her reading life.
Pub Cheerleaders, is a newsletter by frequent SLM reviews contributor, Rachel León. It offers encouragement and inspiration for writers, along with reading recommendations. Writing and publishing can be tough, but this newsletter is upbeat, earnest, and here to cheer you on!
Here are some additional newsletter recommendations, from our inbox to yours.
Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee recommends:
They Say Poetry is Dead, by Joan Kwon Glass. Every Friday morning you can receive original, layered writing prompts, and curated poems!
Rat B*tch, a monthly newsletter which contains mostly criticism.
Feminist Giant, by Mona Eltahawy, where you can become a giant in your fight for feminism.
Reader Avery Yoder-Wells recommends:
Literary Hub, where each week, the newsletter sends an essay by a different guest author who muses about a cool aspect of their writing process—with most essays not on the lithub site!
I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand, by ND Stevenson, which offers little comics and updates about transition, mental health, career, and life in general. Avery says it’s irregularly spaced, hilarious, poetic, and may break your heart.
Assistant poetry editor Teri Vela recommends:
Girls That Never Post, by Safia Elhillo, where you can find poems, drafts of essays, book announcements and excerpts, and other regular newsletter things.
Sex Weather Climate Death, by Cal Angus, about large and small scale changes in a single body and about the planet as a whole—with additional thoughts on queer books.
Fiction editor Anna Cabe recommends:
Counter Craft, by Lincoln Michel, which focuses on articulating thoughts about fiction writing and counterintuitive craft concepts. You’ve probably heard of “show don’t tell” but maybe you need to hear “telling is just as important as showing!”
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Evangeline Lim (@ev.angline) is currently pursuing English and Media Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She is an intern at Split Lip Magazine and a weekender staff-writer at The Daily Californian. Outside of reading and writing, she loves trying new restaurants, watching romcoms, and her pet turtle, Murdtle.