Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

Hey friends! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is looking for new volunteer readers in fiction and flash. I'm a co-fiction editor, and we're a really nice crew! Spread the word and apply yourself!

Hello, hello! Get lost in our September issue this week! It's a doozy! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

"Darryl didn’t think he was lonely. He had the dogs and his thoughts and now his plants." Max Wheeler's "Abatement" in the @splitlipthemag.bsky.social September issue is so tender and strange and transporting... splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0925...

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

media: i'd like to see the left wriggle out of this one! [the shooter is revealed to be a psycho right winger like nearly all shooters] media: ah, well, nevertheless

lead the kind of life where your death will probably not be followed by a wave of threats against black universities

omg yes

Huzzah! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nope.

I hate it here.

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

ICYMI: We love all the doubling, the escalating wrongdoing, in Amelia Valasek's "Mud Season." Check it out before our September issue drops, and it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Yay @whatll-i-do.bsky.social! Anne has such a tender, exacting touch with editing. <3

How we feel reading your work. 🥰 🥳 Don't forget we're currently OPEN for submissions!

“I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed” whew

I love all sorts of well-considered criticism. Good criticism creates meaning in a different way than art. <3

Jesus fucking Christ.

This is grim news. A healthy publishing world needs critics.

Anyway, I wish social media wasn't so broken because I finally got around to seeing S2 of Interview with the Vampire, and oooohhhh, I have so much I want to talk about.

From "Refaat Writes Back" newsletter, here: refaatwritesback.beehiiv.com/p/if-i-must-...

Once, I wrote a short story for a Poe adaptation class instead of a paper, which I lovingly refer to as "'The Masque of the Red Death' filtered through Angela Carter." After intermittent submission, it's finally been picked up for a Poe anthology. Check her out! www.jayhenge.com/index.html

One more crucial aspect here is that Republicans are confident they can do this stuff and SCOTUS will back them up, but if a D president or congress were to try to do the same, SCOTUS would find a way to block it. (See, e.g. student loans)

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

wrote this last month!

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

It's summer, and our June issue is sizzling. Come and get it! 🌞🔥🍳 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

ICYMI: Check out @joshdenslow.bsky.social's unsettling exploration of marriage and family from our May issue! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

April showers bring our May issue! @splitlipthemag

ICYMI: Before the May issue splits away, please check out Vincent Perrone's story of a decoupling.

Vincent James Perrone’s story “Collaboration” contains attempts to decouple, wine stains, rabbit bites, and the afterlife. Here he shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/xtOjWSD

Reading a webtoon set in what I think is supposed to be Regency London, and it's enjoyable but the fashion and accoutrements are all over the place, and my eyes, they twitch.

I got an American pope (a Chicagoan pope, no less) for my birthday. What a world.

Lapsed Catholic here, so I'm too jaded to really admire anyone from the Vatican, but Francis I was truly the best Pope you could probably ever get from the institutional Church. Fingers crossed we get anyone with the half the openness towards a changing world and moral backbone.

✨ BIG NEWS! 💫 We are expanding our social media team! Do you love supporting the literary community? Would you like to join the Split Lip FAM? Stay tuned for more details! The application for two new Social Media Directors will open next week! 💖

It's spring! It's spring, and with it came tax season and our stunning April issue. 🌹🌷💵💸 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

ICYMI: We were captivated by Phil's fierce, larger-than-life voice as soon as we encountered it in the queue. Spend some time in her company! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social @eleanorfuller.bsky.social

Here are some FANTASTIC newsletters by and recommended by the SLM FAM! Featuring @abigailoswald.bsky.social @rebb003.bsky.social @monaeltahawy.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social & many more! buff.ly/6nyDbgQ

Post a movie from the year you turned 18.