AAAAAAAA BABE WAKE UP NEW EPISODE OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY !!!! 🫦✨ I especially hope you check out the interview. One thing I love about editing is how much it stretches me to think about my own life & grief practice. “[T]he loss is also that: More than one world died with him.”

Descending for the Dead: leena aboutaleb on Elegy, Myth, and Writing the Afterlife — Split Lip Magazine

leena aboutaleb’s debut collection, THALASSA , follows a sister’s descent into the underworld in search for her brother. Grief moves across temporalities here, refusing to remain in place. The poems ...

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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3d ago

🍂 Let's fall into the cozy season with our new SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/JmXKHQ1 All the love to our Contributors⬇️ WORDS: Sarah Chin, Alice Markham-Cantor, Chen Chen, & Lisa K. Harris ART: Joe Karlovec PLUS: Jood AlThukair interviews leena aboutaleb

"But the power of grief should not belittle the power of joy. And joy can exist not just as a sensation but as a force towards creation." Enjoy A.D. Lauren-Abunassar's review of Summer Farah's THE HUNGERING YEARS before it hits the archive💕: buff.ly/sBpAPSj

Yayoi Kusama has passed away. I wasn’t very familiar with her as a person, but her infinity rooms have been a great source of comfort and awe for me. I feel lucky to have experienced several while she was alive—one of them especially with my friend Aly, who died in June. This week has been so sad.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97 | CNN

Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-selling artists has died, according to a statement on the artist’s official website.

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I’m sorry, but losing Tim Curry AND Miss Dolly Parton on the same day feels queerphobic in a way I can’t explain

I’d been saying this for years before she passed, but if there was ever a right way to be a wealthy person, Dolly Parton did it. She wasn’t a billionaire simply because she kept giving her money to others in need, simply because it was the right thing to do. Miss Dolly, you are forever that girl! ♥️

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An emergency. Please donate chuffed.org/project/1132...

It’s also really important to mention that this just didn’t appear out of nowhere—a lot of this began with SESTA/FOSTA. All of the places where ID verification has been soft launched (P-hub etc) is b/c of SESTA/FOSTA. They were warning us for years. They tested this on SWs first. As they always do.

Soen Ordo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...

Hi friends, earlier this month my friend Aly died. Aly was someone I'd solicited to send to me @theoffingmag.bsky.social, and they passed before we could finalize things. I hope you read their Micros and share. One's an essay; the other's a poem. I love and miss them a lot. Today is their birthday.

"I wish I didn’t know after neonatal loss" and "The Truth Is..." - The Offing

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so happy for you @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social ♥️✨

Lambda Literary@lambdaliterary.org · 3mo ago

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry: YEET! by Jason B. Crawford! @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

hi divas, I know things are tough right now for most of us, but @theoffingmag.bsky.social has hit an unexpected financial wall. the support so far has been amazing, but we need more to get through the year. if you can, please help us keep the lights on! share with your peeps, etc. thank you! 🙏🏼✨🌊

Help support The Offing Emergency Fundraiser

Last week, we had a sudden and unexpected web hosting expense that put us in a cashflow bind. Now, we are looking to our community for help. $20,000 will get us to the end of the year, but we need jus...

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I can’t explain it, but I just feel like a fortnight of thunderstorms would fix me, were it I were unencumbered by the perils of capitalism—no job, no AI, no ads, no bills to pay, no bigotry, not even the pressure to make art for the sake of productivity Just think of all the naps I could take 😩😭

IT'S HERE!🌿Ecology of the Hood by Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez is now available in our shop! buff.ly/pZ2vF3V ECOLOGY OF THE HOOD is the 2025 winner of the Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize, a collaboration between Foglifter Press and Still Here San Francisco.

Don't let my baby die in pain.He needs treatments and injections that cost £250 which we cannot afford I implore you with abroken heart and with all compassion tosend your mercy urgent Donate even if its just £25 Every bit of support means alot to us Verified Molly shah✅ tinyurl.com/Support-my-f...

hi friends, just a heads up that the Micro department @theoffingmag.bsky.social will be open for submissions on May 1st! normally we’re open longer, but we received 1K+ (!!!) submissions in our last reading period, we’re closing on June 1st. be sure to submit early! can’t wait to see your work! 🌊✨

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also divas you should peep @megpillow.bsky.social's essay from @literaryhub.bsky.social here! it's done with so much care and breath 💖 you should read it, but especially if you're a cis man. and then you should take a moment, and then you should read it again.

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

“The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…

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Daniel 🌷✨🌇@iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AAAAAAAA OMG DIVAS I JUST WOKE UP BUT NEW EPISODE OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY! 🫦✨ friends, this issue’s a stunner. I hope you peep it, especially the review of @megpillow.bsky.social’s gorgeous essay in @literaryhub.bsky.social. It wouldn’t leave me, so I figured I’d write about it.

AAAAAAAA OMG DIVAS I JUST WOKE UP BUT NEW EPISODE OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY! 🫦✨ friends, this issue’s a stunner. I hope you peep it, especially the review of @megpillow.bsky.social’s gorgeous essay in @literaryhub.bsky.social. It wouldn’t leave me, so I figured I’d write about it.

Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

unrelated reminder (because the government isn’t trying to legislate trans/nonbinary people out of existence or anything) that penile enlargement surgeries, BBLs, hair transplants, breast augmentations, etc. are, in fact, gender affirmation procedures—of which cis people are the biggest recipients

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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a bummer to not have gone to AWP for this last day and meet more people. but also, friends, when the body says sleep, says less noise, says lay down, I hope you do. we should all be getting more rest.

hi divas, there’s just three days left to send to the Micro department @theoffingmag.bsky.social before this reading period closes! we pay $25USD per micro. would love to see more Micro prose, but send send send! I would love to see your work in the queue, & please share with your friends! 🌊✨🌙

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if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

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things have been dark lately but AAAAAA BABE WAKE UP NEW EPISODE/SEASON OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is out today !!!!! I so hope you peep the review by @rachellayown.bsky.social of @chriscampanioni.bsky.social’s book, & takes such a fun, meandering personal turn in this one. well done Rachel! 🫦✨

Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J Major thanks to our contributors! WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass ART Audrey Holmes PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social

hi divas, happy new year! just wanted to share that the Micro department over @theoffingmag.bsky.social is open for submissions! I love poems, but I’d also love to see more micro prose (fiction, essays) in the queue. we pay $25USD per micro. hope to see your work, please share with your friends! 🌊✨🌙

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Thanks so much for your interest, and we look forward to reading your work. Please be familiar with the magazine and our mission before you submit.For 2025, there will be no submission fees thanks to ...

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this planet is so unserious. day after Christmas and it’s over 80 degrees where I live 😭 like wtf y’all, why does it feel like springtime !!!! (jk, don’t answer. climate change is real and everything is overwhelming and sliding into inevitable collapse lolsob)

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Seeking your support as we work toward our $5,000 goal for next year! Donate $50 and receive a free copy of our anthology. Use the link to donate today! theoffingmag.kindful.com?utm_source=i...

"I lose altitude; I fall in love with myself." Divas, I'm so terrible at updating the public on news, but I have an interview out on the blog over @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! It was honestly so lovely and fun to talk about craft choices and what I love about writing and editing. Peep it below! 👄✨

It’s Human to Want to be Seen: An Interview with Daniel Garcia by Bianca Sandoval — Split Lip Magazine

In our ongoing interview series, Bianca Sandoval chats with Daniel Garcia about being a library kid, poems and prose, the liberation of the braided essay, and how working the night shift makes writing...

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