Kristine Langley Mahler
@suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
Happy October: our nonfiction book submissions queue is now open!!! Our editor @athenadixon.bsky.social and her team will be reading your essay collections, your memoirs, and your nonfiction/hybrid book projects from now through December 1. Nonfiction Season HAS BEGUN!! splitlippress.submittable.com
"I’m a tough critic when it comes to the grooms, especially when the men look like they know they’re attractive." Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s piece “Girls in White Dresses” was published in @forgetcool.bsky.social 🥳 buff.ly/CUKOUFf
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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Love this one, Kristine!! "One afternoon, Emily and I see the episode about the ultra-Christian couple who’ve never kissed each other. We can’t get over how the girl could date this guy for three years and is ready to marry him without ever having kissed him. What if he sucks at kissing?"
Girls in White Dresses – Mahler
Girls in White Dresses by Kristine Langley Mahler The summer that we’ll turn sixteen, my best friend Emily and I seem put-on-pause, drooped over her living room couches, dreaming of our future husb…
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Kristine Langley Mahler@suburbanprairie.bsky.social · last mo.You can't forget all these VERY COOL PIECES (and very cool editors @allisonwrites.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social!) And YOU might have forgotten about TLC's A Wedding Story, but I DID NOT and IT HAS NEVER LEFT ME! More in my essay for @forgetcool.bsky.social's 1st issue <3
You can't forget all these VERY COOL PIECES (and very cool editors @allisonwrites.bsky.social and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social!) And YOU might have forgotten about TLC's A Wedding Story, but I DID NOT and IT HAS NEVER LEFT ME! More in my essay for @forgetcool.bsky.social's 1st issue <3
Forget Cool@forgetcool.bsky.social · last mo.Issue 1 is now LIVE! forget.cool/issue-1
Not St. Dolly and ALSO my Halloween King Tim Curry, off to that great Wizarding Gig in the Sky 😭
Tim Curry Worst Witch
ALT: Tim Curry Worst Witch
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This is gross & undemocratic but being decorous is getting us nowhere so I think Dems should do this too; this very app is full of people who would be absolutely amazing at shit talking MAGA on a site called, like, Ohio Diner Breaking News
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2mo ago1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
hahahahahahahahaha "blue dot" no more; more like a BLUE FLOOD washing that MF down the drain and recoloring the state WELCOME TO THE RECLAMATION, NE-01! nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/08/05/n...
National Democrats put NE-01 in its ‘districts in play’ program • Nebraska Examiner
DCCC's program is a different tier from its “Red-to-Blue” program, which the Nebraska 2nd Congressional District is in.
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Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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
Oh my gosh, what an awesome review of TQT! Thank you so much, @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social!
Patrick Thomas Henry@patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe erasure project of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, the newest book by Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, transforms a 1960s etiquette guide for girls into a crackling, second-person narrative about what teenaged girls in America really experience. Check out my review in @hfr.bsky.social!
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!
If you appreciate your indie bookstore, then show it love! I think about this *a lot,* since you can't take their existence for granted. Buy a book! Buy a coffee! Boost them on socials! Attend a reading! These sacred places only exist bc of our continued support.
John Chrostek@johnchrostek.com · 4mo agoLOCAL AUTHORS, DO NOT TREAT BOOKSTORES LIKE A RESOURCE TO BE EXPLOITED
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!
truly LOL over the downcast face graphic on the "risks of AI," that bro can't even look up from his phone for the facegrab
Went to buy my new annual national parks pass but CLICKED OUT OF THAT WINDOW as soon as I saw this year's design: George Washington's face opposite WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE MUGSHOT OF THAT FELON CURRENTLY IN OFFICE I WOULD RATHER OVERPAY FOR EACH NATIONAL PARK THAN TO HAVE TO SEE THAT CARD EACH TIME!
So are they bringing back Ask Jeeves and Lycos?
Really happy to have this conversation up in @adroitjournal.bsky.social in which I QUITE ELOQUENTLY define erasure source text as a nurse log, discuss the ethics of erasure, and admit TQT is not strictly nonfiction 😇https://theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/18/a-conversation-with-kristine-langley-mahler/
A Conversation with Kristine Langley Mahler
Kristine Langley Mahler’s erasure essay collection, Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963, was released in spring 2026. She is also the author of …
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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!
Oh WOW, what a lovely review from @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social for @coloradoreview.bsky.social about Teen Queen Training!!! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/teen...
Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963 - Center for Literary Publishing
$18.00 Buy Book About the Book Author: Kristine Langley MahlerReviewed By: Kim KankiewiczGenre: NonfictionPublisher: AutofocusPublished: 2026Pages: 160 Book ReviewThe experience of reading Kristine La...
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Kim Kankiewicz@kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 5mo agoReading Kristine Langley Mahler's new book of erasure essays, Teen Queen Training, feels at first like a game but soon becomes an excavation revealing pernicious messages that shape young womanhood. Here's my review for @coloradoreview.bsky.social. @suburbanprairie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/24xek3pr
Don't threaten me with a good time in the state where I love going unplugged anyway!!!
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoMeta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms, including Instagram, to protect the mental health and safety of children.
Come and see meeeeeeeeeeeeee
Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 5mo agoIf 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
We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n
THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT TIME! Honored to be a temporary desert dweller for the night ❤️
Stephanie Austin@stephanieaustin.bsky.social · 6mo agoWriters in community. Wine + pizza at Rift. Met @joelhans.com from Tucson/a press needs to grab Cecilia's manuscript/beautiful to hang with @suburbanprairie.bsky.social & @sudhab.bsky.social/Oscar's f-bombs were cool/Matt who I know through teaching and got to hear their work/perfect vibes
