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Josh Denslow's debut short story collection, Not Everyone Is Special, will be published in 2019 by 7.13 Books. For more, visit www.joshdenslow.com/.

Archive EditorApril 11, 2020blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Todd Dillard

Todd Dillard’s debut collection “Ways We Vanish” will be coming out in 2020 from Okay Donkey Press. Learn more about his writing desk—er, bus.

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From the Writing Table of Leia Penina Wilson

Splinters Are Children of Wood is Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. It is available now from the University of Notre Dame Press. Learn more about her writing space.

SLMOctober 24, 2019blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of: Kathryn Ross

Kathryn Ross’s “In the World Where I Do Not Exist” appeared in Split Lip’s October 2016 issue, and her debut collection of essays Black Was Not a Label is officially out from PRONTO!

SLMOctober 18, 2019blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

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From the Writing Desk of Chelsea Biondolillo

Chelsea Biondolillo is a prose writer living just outside Portland, Oregon, and the author of two chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her debut full-length collection, The Skinned Bird, comprises lyric, fragmented essays—full of geological, ornithological and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing. It is available from KERNPUNKT Press or your favorite independent bookstore via IndieBound.

Archive EditorApril 23, 2019blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Chloe N. Clark

Chloe N. Clark's work has appeared in Apex, Glass, Hobart, Uncanny, Yes, and more. She is co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph, teaches at Iowa State University, and her debut chapbook The Science of Unvanishing Objects is out from Finishing Line Press. Her forthcoming full length, Your Strange Fortune, is being published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Find her on Twitter @PintsNCupcakes.

Archive EditorMarch 5, 2019blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Davon Loeb

Pictured in each photo is my work desk, where I teach middle school English in New Jersey. Though I spend most of my time grading papers here, this is also where I write, edit, and have workshopped poems, essays, and stories for the last eight years. I find that I am most productive “at work” while at this desk, early in the morning, when my mind is the freshest, before the home room bell rings.

Archive EditorJanuary 30, 2019blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk Of Felicity Fenton

Felicity Fenton’s multidisciplinary work (social practice, photography, installation) has been featured in public and private spaces around the globe. Most recently, her stories and essays have been featured in WOBBY, Fanzine, Split Lip Press, Wigleaf, The Flexible Persona, and The Iowa Review (forthcoming). By day she works as a Creative Director and is also a Radio Host at Freeform Portland. She calls Portland, Oregon home sweet home.

Archive EditorNovember 27, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Tasha Coryell

Tasha Coryell writes, runs, and teaches in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her debut collection of short stories, "Hungry People" was released from Split Lip Press. You can find more work from Tasha at tashacoryell.com or find her tweeting under @tashaaaaaaa.

Archive EditorAugust 10, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Ruth Williams

My desk is a style I've been using since I bought my first IKEA corner desk circa 2006. A corner desk is simultaneously expansive and comfortingly bordered, tucked as it is between two walls. In a way, I suppose a corner desk sections off your writing space in a way that makes an office out of the corner of any old room, a bonus if you've lived in 1 bedroom apartments most of your adult life.

Archive EditorJuly 26, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Tabitha Blankenbiller

1. In early 2013, my husband Matt’s company transferred his job from our home outside of Portland, Oregon to Tucson, Arizona. I had only been in the state once, as a stop on a family road trip when I was in high school. We didn’t know anyone and I found myself struggling with what to do with myself. I wrote, a lot. More than I’m writing now, which was a good thing.

Archive EditorJune 6, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Dave Housley

Pictured:
1. My laptop, an Acer Chromebook that had the best keyboard in Best Buy on the day my cat broke my old laptop (see number 3, not pictured list below). I learned how to type on a typewriter (I am old) and I am very good at typing (as opposed to writing), but tend to clack my way through keyboards in a few years.

Archive EditorMay 23, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Erin Dorney

Erin Dorney's book I Am Not Famous Anymore is available for preorder now from Mason Jar Press. Visit www.erindorney.com for more.

Archive EditorMay 18, 2018blog, from the writing desk of

From the Writing Desk of Dorothy Chan

Dorothy Chan's poem "Triple Sonnet for My Father’s Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues" appears in Split Lip's inaugural print issue and was recently featured on Poets.org. Her chapbook Chinatown Sonnets is available for purchase now, and her book Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold will be published by Spork Press on April 23 and is available for pre-order now! Visit https://www.dorothypoetry.com/ for more.

Archive EditorApril 20, 2018blog, from the writing desk of