Managing Editor Amy Rossi signs off.
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After reading almost 1,000 new submissions each month, we often find ourselves debating what makes writing work. Many submissions are nearly there—great concept, voice or plotting, but lack that extra ingredient. What is that ingredient exactly?
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Here, Indiana Review and Split Lip Magazine present the Collaborative Voices folio, a glimpse of the imaginative possibilities when we center community in all stages of creation.
Read MoreAt the height of our romance, high school boyfriend and I were religious about film, our sacred rituals involving late-night visits to Dunkin' Donuts and Criterion Collection DVDs. We held hands and worshipped at the P.T. Anderson altar. It was the first time I understood entertainment could be art.
Read MoreWith this issue, featuring selections from our print issue, we are inviting you, strangers and friends, into our house. Take your shoes off, and don’t mind us standing awkwardly in the foyer. We have a story to tell. We want you to stay for dinner.
Read MoreLove isn't three acts, a climax, and a finale, followed by credits thanking everyone for their efforts. Love isn't easily bought or sold. Real love is messy and complicated. Real life too.
Read MoreBefore hitting submit, I had the worst case of imposter syndrome. I did it anyway. Even if no one accepted my work, submitting felt like a radical act of self-love… Our main mission at Split Lip Magazine is to discover and nurture new voices. To find those writers who have been told their voices are too loud or silly or experimental, too {insert workshop word of choice}.
Read MoreAs 2018 winds down, we wanted to take a moment to share our gratitude for some of the incredible things we've read this year. Some new, some finding us at the right moment, and each providing us with a light in its own unique way.
Read MoreFor our last issue of 2018, I write to you from a place of darkness here in America. As one tragedy fades into another, we rarely have time to process the magnitude of what's happening… But even in moments of all-encompassing grief and fear, I'm continually surprised by what manages to flourish. 2018 was an exhilarating year for Split Lip.
Read MoreLately the internet has become increasingly agitated, and for good reason. The news is bad and our institutions are not going to save us. People are angry and the urge to yell is animalistic. But what happens if we let tweeting take the place of action?
Read MoreA collage (from the French coller, literally "to glue") is a form of art made by sticking various materials onto a backing. It's re-thinking what already exists and creating a new whole. And what is writing if not its own form of collage?
Read MoreThis is the cold truth of back-to-school. No boot, no hairstyle, no cropped baby t-shirt could change who you really are. Writers know this better than anyone. Isn't that why we write?
Read MoreAt Split Lip we've recently come to a wild conclusion: when a literary magazine's editors are women, you publish more women.
Read MoreWhen a literary magazine says “send us your best work,” what do they mean? Best by whose measure? Lately we have been thinking about what kind of work we like to publish at Split Lip. Of course we want a writer’s best work, but we also want something else.
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