I read this yesterday and again this morning and I can’t stop thinking about it.

"When I ask the ChatBot to tell Star to stay, please stay, the ChatBot can tell me the etymology of stay, can ask me if I want the lyrics to the Burt Bacharach song, but can never, ever stop anyone from walking out the door." Read Anna's superb winning flash; start your day a lil disembodied.

This is TOO damn good ⚡⚡

Hello, hello! My prize-winning flash in which I reflect upon AI dropped a few days ago, amidst AWP happenings. Thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Gwen Kirby for plucking this out! CW: suicide, disordered eating fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/

More fun at the Bookfair! ✨ @adrianf.bsky.social @erinvachon.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social

Poetry reader @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social with Editor-in-Chief @maureenlangloss.bsky.social and Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social! 👏 Find us at Table T960.✨

More contributor love. ❤️ It's @bettysueblue.bsky.social with @annablabs.bsky.social!

The Split Lip fam is showing👏 up👏 ❤️ Fiction contributor @kaylalightner.bsky.social with @annablabs.bsky.social. ❤️ Contributor Josh Jones with former Asst. Editor @anniejowrites.bsky.social. ❤️ Flash reader Amanda Ellard.

Flash contributor Leila Renee and SLM reader Melissa Beneche are here! 🎉 @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social

Contributor Brett Hyman Jr reads from his fiction piece GAFFNEY IS BORN from our FEBRUARY ISSUE. ✨

I'm so proud! I loved editing this story!

Our February 2026 edition of Now Playing features The Matrix, black metal, and so much more! Find it on the blog 💕 buff.ly/aNLWjlJ

Are you packing for AWP tonight? 🧳 Because we are! And we just stuffed some goodies in our bag! 🍭If you need another sweet reason to visit us at the book fair, we've got you covered. 🍬 Hungry? Swing on over to Table T960🍫

Hey friends! If you want to find me at #awp2026 in Baltimore, I’ll be hawking totes and journals at the @splitlipthemag.bsky.social table in the bookfair and presenting on archives and other ways of preserving ephemera with a ton of cool writers

I was rooting for Kaori to win gold but Alysa was my other pick. I'm so happy such effervescent skaters (and seemingly effervescent humans) won gold and silver! :-D

"Really, without Ymelda’s infinite eels, the only protein on the island was SPAM and corned beef, and those cans were getting scarce." This time last year, we published A.A. Tojino's fiction piece YMELDA'S INFINITE EELS. Find it in the archives! buff.ly/KD61Nbd

Valentine's Day might be over, but our February issue is bursting with heart. ♥️ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Before our January issue hits the archives, please check out the funny heartbreaking "Ten Times Sadie" by Stephanie Meade Gresham. Woof.🐶 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Today we shared what our contributors are reading and watching. What are you reading/watching/listening to these days, fam? 🎶 You can get recs from our contributors right here: buff.ly/gKoGAw6

I am not generally a Sports Person (TM), but the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, figure skating, the Bad Bunny Halftime Show, and the Patriots losing make me cheerful.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

www.standwithminnesota.com #StandWithMinnesota

It's a great year for movies, and the only snub that enrages me is *nothing* for No Other Choice. www.npr.org/2026/01/22/n...

Interrupting my stream of tweets about movies and Heated Rivalry to say IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE, the first @splitlipthemag.bsky.social issue of 2026 is here, and it's a tender-hearted beauty!!! ❄️🙌🎇

Oh no. Oh no. Please Heated Rivalry fandom, don't ruin one of the one things that ended my 2025 with joy. 😭😭😭

!!!!!

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ICYMI: We loved the tenderness and absurdity in this story about the approaching death of a family member. Also, I am pleased to have ushered in my first ever translation as an editor! @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

I don't even like football but I have a genetic hatred of the Packers lol. #BearDown

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

If you're headed to AWP, save the date 📆: March 5th is our fundraising reading to benefit CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth. We'll have food, drinks, and a wonderful reading 😊Check out CHARM's site for all they do to support young Baltimore writers: buff.ly/iknCACH

ERMAGERD, THE ORIGINAL SEX HATRED ON ICE MOVIE I NEED TO PUT THESE FEELINGS SOMEWHERE WHILE I WAIT FOR THE HEATED RIVALRY FINALE

Okay, officially on that #heatedrivalry train. MOAR 🏒🍆

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

E. M. Forster left a diary to King’s College, Cambridge that is basically all his notes about sex with the rule that anyone could come read it for research in person, but it couldn’t be published. You have to make an appointment and be there.

A.S. Byatt's Possession!

It's the end of a long, hard year, but I've always believed art can be a necessary mirror & a respite, even if for just a moment. I think our December issue is especially full of that human contradiction—all that melancholy and joy. Please read it. ❤️❄️ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Thank you, thank you, @fracturedlit.bsky.social and @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! 😘

ICYMI: We love @srirachachang.bsky.social's (literal) recipe for complicated in-laws and family secrets. Check out "How to Make Non-Korean Kimchi" before it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Don't be afraid to edit, FAM. Cross things out! Throw stuff out! Start again! 😆 It's all just part of the process. We know it'll be amazing in the end 💕

this was my approach in my early 20s; i had no resources, so reviewing, interviewing, hosting readings etc allowed me fresh material (review/media copies) of new books constantly, with the bonus that i was providing essential service to writing and writers on a ground level,

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...