When you are born of—and implicated in—violent structures of colonization, how do you pursue liberation? In The Land is Holy, an essay collection published by Radix Printing & Publishing, noam keim embarks on a journey through language, memory, and natural landscapes to reclaim a sense of kinship and belonging against the inherited violence of settler-colonialism.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreThroughout 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.”
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