2025 — REVIEWS — Split Lip Magazine

“All That Matters is Love”: A Review of Casey Mulligan Walsh’s The Full Catastrophe: all I ever wanted… everything I feared

I’m a huge fan of flash writing. I’m even an editor of a flash journal. Over the years, many short pieces have moved me, deeply, but there are only a handful that will stay with me forever. One of those is “Still” by Casey Mulligan Walsh, published right here in Split Lip in 2022. The 500-word flash captures the gut-wrenching moments when Walsh learns her son Eric has died in a car accident. The piece is breathless, brutal, and beautiful.

inteReviews, reviews, 2025SLMApril 14, 2025Casey Mulligan Walsh, Diane Gottlieb

Presenting Violence without Replicating It: On Megan Pinto’s Saints of Little Faith

Throughout Megan Pinto’s debut collection, Saints of Little Faith, runs a wild, looped, and knotted thread of memory. Where “Rumi speaks of sorrow as a clearing / of leaves, making space for joy,” Pinto explores the possibility that “Maybe like everything, healing has a season, dormant, but rooting.”

inteReviews, reviews, 2025SLMMarch 14, 2025Asa Drake, Megan Pinto