We hope you’re loving our November issue! We can’t get over our incredible contributors and their impeccable tastes. Get to know them a little better with Now Playing: an overview of what they’ve been watching these days, and how it relates to their writing.
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We’ve published some wonderful work this year, and choosing just a few pieces to honor was tremendously difficult. But after much consideration, we’re pleased to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize!
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We are so excited to bring you work from Amy Bailey for October’s featured memoir. Here, Amy shares just one thing about how this memoir came to be.
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The Split Lip FAM was *spooky* prolific during the month of October! Check out our contributors’ and editors’ many recent accomplishments, and be sure to revisit their work in the SLM archives.
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Managing Editor Amy Rossi signs off.
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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.
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We are so excited to bring you work from Steven Duong for October’s featured poem. Here, Steven shares just one thing about how this poem came to be.
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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!
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Our October issue is launching tomorrow! We can’t wait to bring you a brand-new issue full of amazing writing, but until that moment, here’s Now Playing, a preview of some of October’s contributors, what they’ve been listening to lately, and what it might mean.
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We were thrilled when Amy Stuber, who had been a flash reader, became assistant flash editor earlier this year! If you haven’t read Amy’s writing, allow us to suggest starting with “Happy, Happy, Happy,” “Only a Little Bit Less Than I Hate Myself,” and her very latest, “Never In a Million Years.” And you can get to know Amy better here, through our 19 Rounds.
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Dare we make a fall into reading pun? Oh we dare. FALL INTO READING with our contributors’ and editors’ work from September and revisit their Split Lip pieces in our archives.
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This month’s featured poem comes from Lorena Parker Matejowsky. We are absolutely thrilled to bring you “My Bible Verse vs Your Bible Verse” and Lorena’s take on Just One Thing.
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September’s featured short story “Toyota Head” comes Nicholas Guerreiro, and we are so excited to share it with you! Check out “Toyota Head” if you haven’t already, and learn just one thing about how the story came to be.
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We have published some wonderful microfiction this year, and we are thrilled share our nominations for the Best Microfiction anthology.
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We kicked off fall submission season with a Twitter chat to cover all your questions about Split Lip — and our contests. Couldn’t make it? Here’s a recap of what our staff had to say.
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