New cover design! Plus an alternate option that didn't make it but I still liked an awful lot.

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 2d ago

Wake up! It's cover reveal and preorders day for Rivka Clifton's nonfiction chapbook ACTION: TRANSITION NOTES! ACTION will be published on Feb 16, but it is available for preorders (as well as ARC requests) NOW! Order at the link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/product-page... !

Wake up! It's cover reveal and preorders day for Rivka Clifton's nonfiction chapbook ACTION: TRANSITION NOTES! ACTION will be published on Feb 16, but it is available for preorders (as well as ARC requests) NOW! Order at the link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/product-page... !

Action | Split/Lip Press

Meditating on both the individual nature of transitioning and how it reverberates through a larger community, the essays in Rivka Clifton's Action pay loving homage to the shifting memorials of all bo...

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Wrapping up Blurb Week for Diego Gerard Morrison’s UPFLOW with some love from @dsparis.bsky.social 💚 Order your copy—preorders will ship very soon! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

We're continuing Blurb Week with praise from Christine Lai for Diego Gerard Morrison's incredible short story collection, UPFLOW! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

At 11:59pm CT tonight, Sept 1, this cycle is closing--speak now or hold your piece (novel or novella book manuscript) for another whole year! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

It's Blurb Week for Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW, out on October 27th (but preorders will begin shipping in mid-Sept!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social! Order at your favorite bookstore or RIGHT HERE: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

As the novel/novella reading period draws toward its close on Sept 1, a heads up that we will not be able to process any fee waiver requests after close of business today (~5pm CT) so if that was on your to-do list, make sure you DO IT!!!

We just began the final week of our novel/novella submissions period, so if you've got a manuscript you want to get in front of our eyes, you've got until 11:59pm CT next Tuesday Sept 1 to do so... splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 3mo ago

Novel and novella manuscript submissions season has officially begun! Our beloved N/N team, led by @rabblerouses.bsky.social, will be reading your +100pg book manuscripts--call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Happy (nearly) Halfway Day for our novel/novella book submissions period! If you've got a 100pg (or more) novella or a novel looking for a home, we've got a reading team and editor who are hoping they'll read your book before subs close at 11:59pm CT on Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

another banger of a flash collection, Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips pub’d by @splitlippress.com. bits of wonder woven with the everyday, each story offers this childlike sense of understanding something new and weird and glorious #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Happy Publication Anniversary Day to Sienna Liu's SPECIMEN, out 1yr today! Weaving together years of diaries, notes, text messages, and memory, SPECIMEN is an exploration of diaspora, nostalgia, writing, the creation of oneself through another, + time itself. www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

I am so excited for this! @ariel-chu.com’s a first rate talent and has a long, bright writing career ahead of her. Her manuscript blew me over with its exquisite imagery, pitch-perfect voices, and sensitive, insightful portrayals of queer Taiwanese American women pushing back against social scripts.

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 2mo ago

We're so happy and excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, @ariel-chu.com and her collection ANTIBACHELORETTE, which was selected from our 2026 short story/flash fiction submissions period! COMING IN NOVEMBER 2027! Welcome, Ariel!!!

We're so happy and excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, @ariel-chu.com and her collection ANTIBACHELORETTE, which was selected from our 2026 short story/flash fiction submissions period! COMING IN NOVEMBER 2027! Welcome, Ariel!!!

Novel and novella manuscript submissions season has officially begun! Our beloved N/N team, led by @rabblerouses.bsky.social, will be reading your +100pg book manuscripts--call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Be sure to check out our June roundup for brand-new books out from @upittpress.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @deepvellum.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social @blackwaterpress.com & @lfpbooks.bsky.social:

Books Launching in June 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in June 2026.   Heaven off the Coast by M. S. A. Bacon Fuente Fountain…

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Got home today after 10 days away (!!!) and found this beauty waiting for me. I’m even more excited about how the physical copy looks! @splitlippress.com

Please help us welcome new novel/novella readers Roy, Emma, and Tahniat, who will be joining our returning readers Rubén, Steven, Sarah, Patrick, Kameron, and Mwinji (and our fantastic editor jonah)--the whole team will be ready + waiting for your book manuscripts when submissions open on July 1st!

Excited for this! (& long live Lost/Found!) 🎊

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 3mo ago

Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!

our new Lost/Found imprint acquisition is official! I'm SO excited for y'all to read + rediscover @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social's EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE! reading this eerie + surreal story of survival made me feel a little stronger + more stubborn in my own life; I hope it does the same for you 📚

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 3mo ago

Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!

Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!

New cover design!

Electric Literature@electricliterature.com · 4mo ago

🚨 Cover Reveal 🚨 “Upflow” by Diego Gerard Morrison is coming from @splitlippress on October 27, 2026. Read more about the book and how its cover came to be: buff.ly/47WRaxJ

Cover reveal for Diego Gerard Morrison’s Upflow, designed by the one and only @mrwojorising.bsky.social! These fictions about Mexico’s water system are incredible. Pre-order yours today from @splitlippress.com. Thanks @electricliterature.com for featuring.

Electric Literature@electricliterature.com · 4mo ago

🚨 Cover Reveal 🚨 “Upflow” by Diego Gerard Morrison is coming from @splitlippress on October 27, 2026. Read more about the book and how its cover came to be: buff.ly/47WRaxJ

We're psyched to have the cover for Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW revealed at @electricliterature.com today, and we're QUITE pleased to announce that preorders for UPFLOW are now available!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Upflow | Split/Lip Press

A darkly funny, hydro-ethnological collection of stories following the path of water in and out of Mexico City, investigating themes of scarcity, pollution, and corruption as the ghostly lakebed of Me...

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Electric Literature@electricliterature.com · 4mo ago

🚨 Cover Reveal 🚨 “Upflow” by Diego Gerard Morrison is coming from @splitlippress on October 27, 2026. Read more about the book and how its cover came to be: buff.ly/47WRaxJ

Continuing @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @suzannekovenmd.bsky.social for BROTHER EPISTLES!

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 4mo ago

Second day of Blurb Week for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, and we've got these kind words from Danielle Ofri!

Second day of Blurb Week for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, and we've got these kind words from Danielle Ofri!

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 4mo ago

It's Blurb Week for BROTHER EPISTLES by @shandamcmanus.bsky.social, out on June 23rd (but preorders begin shipping this week!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

It's Blurb Week for BROTHER EPISTLES by @shandamcmanus.bsky.social, out on June 23rd (but preorders begin shipping this week!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Just about a month and a half until BROTHER EPISTLES is released on June 23, and we’re packing all the preordered copies (and THERE ARE A LOT) to begin shipping in the next week! If you’ve already preordered through us, watch for your shipping confirmation emails to be coming through soon!

CLOSED! We capped out at 250 reader applications this morning--thank you to everyone who applied, we'll be in touch <3 PS: please do not email us your resume saying you're hoping we can take a late application; when we say it's closed, we mean it's closed, and we'll be deleting those emails unread

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 5mo ago

UPDATE: application is now live! Find the link to apply in our profile or click here: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/35361...

UPDATE: application is now live! Find the link to apply in our profile or click here: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/35361...

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 5mo ago

Start gathering your application materials: our new novel/novella editor, @rabblerouses.bsky.social, is going to be looking for a few readers to join their 2026 N/N reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!!! N/N reader apps will open on May 1 and close May 8, or after we've received 250 applications

If you're anywhere near Des Moines, Iowa, we'd love to see you at the #dsmbookfestival2026 on Saturday! SLP will be tabling and our books are SHARPLY marked down—we're talking $10 full-lengths—plus we'll be debuting Speed-Date-a-Book. Curious? YOU SHOULD BE! Hope to see you there!