Wow! Just stumbled upon this Best of 2025 List! How weird, it's only SLP books! Best novella, best short story collection, best nonfiction and best graphic book...looks like we swept them all!

I'm thrilled to share that my book won the Indie Author Project Annual Contest in the General/Contemporary Fiction category and received a $2500 prize!!! #debutauthor #shortstorycollection #librariesrock

I wrote that one below. Unfortunately, we are already at 500 atrocities for the second term. To put that into perspective, @mcsweeneys.net catalogued 1,056 horrors for the entire first term. The pace at which the Trump administration commits atrocities has more than quadrupled.

We received so many terrific reader apps. Such an honor to get to work with such incredible people.

I always prefer for people to buy my book from indie bookstores, but the bad place is currently running a very good deal (only $11.47) if you want to take advantage: www.amazon.com/Alternative-...

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

And we got it on the west coast too—wooo prop 50!

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And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who submitted your reader applications, we'll be in touch soon!

Reminder! Applications opening soon

Writers! This is a great opportunity to engage with the community, read cool stuff, and learn so much more about your own writing. For the record, I’m not associated with @splitlippress.com but love being a reader.

Looking for some readers to join the @splitlippress.com fiction team! Applications will open 11/2 and close either on 11/8 or when we hit 100 subs so make sure yours is one of the first! Preview app questions and answers to FAQs below.

By our count, Donald Trump and his administration committed forty-nine more atrocities last month. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sep...

One month ago today. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Welp. My latest for @mcsweeneys.net

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Size doesn’t matter this fall with these stellar presses!

Psst! Need an amazing book cover? Or a beautiful, eye-pleasing interior? Give David (me, I'm David) a shot! Check out my portfolio here: www.davidwojo.com

We're close to completing our list for September. Look for it on our site next week. If you need a refresher, or, you know, lean toward masochism, here are all 416 atrocities committed by the Trump administration since the reality TV star/steak salesman/convicted felon took office.

I’m so honored that Alternative Facts is a finalist for the Last Syllable Book Award and in such good company. Congratulations to the other finalists!

Spec fic writers! Hope you'll consider submitting to @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social's open call for issue 4, due 10/15. They pay $1000 for each accepted piece, have a beautiful website, and a great social media presence. More info + submit: form.asana.com?k=65SA73Wqwg...

Come teach creative writing with us! The organization I work for--San Diego Writers, Ink--is currently recruiting new instructors, and you do not need to be based in San Diego because we also offer online workshops. Register for the information session here: writeyourstorynow.org/readings-eve...

My latest for @mcsweeneys.net, a recap of August's horrors. We're now at 416 atrocities. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aug...

Hey San Diego friends, I'll be reading from my book Alternative Facts at two awesome events in October!

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

This weekend! My event is from 11:40-12:25 in the Black Box Theater.

So we hate doing stuff like this, but as social media platforms continue to throttle indie publishers like us, we rely now more than ever on our readers. If you can spare $3 or $5 or whatever a month, it would go a long way to help us keep on keeping on. buff.ly/E4eljl9

Next week! Catch me at a live taping of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social’s podcast The Finest, where I’ll be talking fact, fiction, and fantasy with author @mosesoseutomi.bsky.social and host/novelist Julia Dixon Evans! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/kpbs-san-d...

Great piece by @michelle-herman.bsky.social

Books to read if you find a failed friendship more shattering than a failed romance.

My latest for @mcsweeneys.net, a recap of July’s atrocities #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

It's Novel/Novella Submissions Halfway Day! We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in. They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1! splitlippress.submittable.com

June is in the books. Great work again by @egreenberg.bsky.social and Cliff Mayotte. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jun...

We have switched to a monthly format for Trump’s atrocities to make the mind-spinning number of horrors easier to digest. Here’s a recap of what happened in June: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jun... @mcsweeneys.net @cliffmay.bsky.social #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Thanks for the shout-out @exactingclam.bsky.social!

Good job, NYC

Opening today at ICA San Diego @4-7 pm! I’ll be showing two video works alongside 6 other recent art school grads. The show will be up thru February 2026.

Thx @necessaryfiction.com for the opportunity to write about my research process and how I wrote a 12 page long sentence….

If you appreciate the Trump List I have been contributing to for @mcsweeneys.net, please consider making a donation so they can continue to support my work.

Hey! I made a playlist for my book at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social largeheartedboy.com/2025/06/18/e...

We have revamped our catalog of Trump's atrocities. Now, each month gets its own entry, which we hope will make it easier to read and share. Here's the list for May 2025. buff.ly/MRA3S0l

My latest for @mcsweeneys.net. We are now up to 269 atrocities. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...

We have updated our running list of Trump's cruelties, collusion, corruptions, and crimes with 59 new atrocities since early May. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

So thrilled with this fantastic, in-depth review!

Last week, I got to talk with Andrew Tonkovich, the longtime editor of Santa Monica Review, on @communityofwriters.bsky.social's Bibliocracy Radio. I also got to read a few excerpts! Listen: www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9z...

BREAKING: ICE RAID reported at Buona Forchetta tonight about a mile up the road in San Diego. Smoke bombs were used to disperse the crowd. FUCK ICE. WTF?!

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

I can’t wait for you all to read this book! ATL is lyrical, ambitious, smart, formally inventive, and urgent. It completely changed my understanding of what a fiction collection can do.