This month, Split Lip will be donating 50% of all proceeds from Tip Jar and expedited submissions to the Time’s Up Fund.
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Julie C. Day is this month's featured fiction writer, and her story "Re-Stitched" was Longform Fiction's pick of the week last week (woohoo!). Here she gives us fantastic cats, a bonus Now Playing, and the single best word for:
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Shea Stripling is a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine. Her book No One Will Ever Believe You is available now from Hypertrophic Press.
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We are thrilled that Olatunde Osinaike is January's featured poet. Go read his poem "still life as open casket, still Black & alive" immediately if you haven't already.
Read MoreOur January issue launches today, and it is filled some gorgeous, necessary words. If you're wondering what inspires our contributors, here's a peek into what they've been playing lately:
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Listen Loud is a monthly rundown of music and music-related odds and ends from all corners of the internet. Feast your eyes (and ears) on this month’s list below.
Read MoreThis month at Split Lip we're looking back in order to look forward… We're thinking about the way our past—personal, historical, emotional—shapes our future. And we're wondering: If we forget where we've been, will we ever get where we're supposed to go?
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This month’s featured image, “Primordial,” comes from Amber Morrison, an artist and writer from British Columbia. We were wowed by the way her sense of light and color renders the familiar strange and asks the viewer to reconsider the world around them. She talks about her approach here:
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We were thrilled when Stephanie Anderson, already one of our readers, became our new Editorial Assistant last fall. We've dusted off the 19 Rounds for her tackle.
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Ingrid Jendrzejewski is this month's featured memoir writer. If you haven't checked out "Freefall is a Compound Word" yet, you're missing out. Here, she completes the puzzle of December's Fightin' Words by giving us the single best word for:
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It's the first Fightin' Words of 2018, but we're still celebrating our stellar December issue and some Decembery questions. This week's words come from Jake Sullins, one of this month's featured fiction writers and photographer of produce stand signs:
Read MoreI think we all know the narrative of 2017 was heartbreak. For me, add to it lots of stress at home—sick kids/sick me, vomit by the bucket-load, ever-diminishing time to write. Most of the year, I felt like I was on that bus on the way up to Machu Picchu again. No guard rails. The driver racing switchbacks, the world getting steeper, blurrier, car-sickier. A slight turn was all we’d need to careen off the mountain into the hungry mouth of eternity.
Read MoreWe had a blast responding to your questions on Tuesday night! Thanks to everyone who sent questions our way. If you missed our Twitter chat or if you just want to pretend you're hanging out with us some more, here's a recap of our questions and answers.
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Welcome to December's Fightin' Words. Katie Welch, owner of a hundred-year-old piano and one of this month's featured fiction writers, kicks us off with the single best word for:
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