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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 · 4w agoWe'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 · 2mo agoExcited 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 · 2mo agoExcited 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!
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 · 2mo 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 · 2mo 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 · 3mo agoSecond 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 · 3mo agoIt'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 · 3mo agoUPDATE: 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 - 2026 Novel/Novella Reading Team
Join the Split/Lip Press Novel/Novella Reading Team! We're open for a couple of additional readers for the 26NN reading season (July through September 2026). The 2026 Novel/Novella manuscript reading...
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Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 3mo agoStart 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!
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
"An accomplished debut which interrogates the experience of being marginalized and stereotyped"--we love this review of Chelsea's KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE at @strangehorizons.bsky.social--thanks, @hanacarolina.bsky.social!!!
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt's Monday, it's review day at @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Here's @hanacarolina.bsky.social on Krackle's Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton (@splitlippress.com), a novel which "posits each 'monstrous' character as a voice and a face of various responses to difference."
very excited and honored to be the new SLP novel/novella editor!!! ❤️ keep your eyes peeled for our call for applications to join the reading team (a great way to dip your toe into editorial work!), and i'm excited to read all of your lovely book submissions this summer!
Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 4mo agoWe are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.
We are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.
A huge welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Haitian-born psychiatrist and writer Jonas Attilus and WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE, his memoir of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the collective trauma and displacement that followed survivors through the aftermath. Coming in August 2027!
Awesome to see & hear @marchxness.bsky.social essays that I've been thinking about for YEARS read tonight by their authors. Have you picked up your copy of the anthology yet? If not you can get it here & you'll be glad you did: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 4mo agoTOMORROW: @marchxness.bsky.social Anthology launch event at 7pm CT! Featuring @danchaon.bsky.social, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @dellegeller.bsky.social, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @elenavox.bsky.social, @mossyair.bsky.social + @martinseay.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
Join our March Xness Anthology Zoom launch in 24 minutes! Register here for url: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Substack tourney recap coming your way this weekend but we wanted to invite you to our HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC ZOOM book launch TUES 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern. Register: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat
