Late post because of the arrival of my baby niece 🥰🐣, but get summer started with our gorgeous June issue! It's a good one! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🌞

ICYMI: We loved the summery warmth and tenderness in E. P. Tuazon's story about a girl learning to bike and her father's cycling club rivalry. Check it out! 🚴🏽‍♀️🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Hello, hello! "Cycle" into summer with our gorgeous, tender-hearted May issue!🚲🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

ICYMI: We were awed by @graythebruce.bsky.social's wildly creative and eerie take on predictive text. Be prepared for goosebumps. 👻 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

So proud to have edited this for publication with @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social! I learned a lot! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

I do!

@graythebruce.bsky.social’s story I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING examines the risks of typing with predictive text. Here, he shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/d83smwv

Somehow I convinced the editors @ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social to publish a 1,300-word story that does not contain a single instance of sentence-level punctuation. Shhh. Don't tell them. (For this ghost story, you may want to move any weapons out of arm's reach.) splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0426...

☀️ We're up bright and early with new staff announcements☀️ Help us in welcoming out new poetry readers and editorial assistants!! Thank you for joining the team ❤️

Was a bit delayed in sharing but our April issue is here with jelly and creepypasta and architecture and so much more! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

ICYMI: We loved (and cringed in sympathy) at Carol M. Quinn's story about the trials and tribulations of contingent faculty during the pandemic. Check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Love this.

"The ChatBot doesn’t have the moral fiber optic cables to make a stand, because it’s an algorithm, its workings a black box, its body a string of numbers. The ChatBot can’t even eat fiber" Such a brilliantly-crafted piece, stranding together different elements through powerful anaphora repetition.

'The ChatBot tells me I shouldn’t kill myself today.' Congratulations to @annablabs.bsky.social whose story, Blackboxing' is the winner of the @fracturedlit.bsky.social #flashfiction #competition ✨ #fiction #writingcommunity fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/

"he ChatBot tells me a star is a giant ball of hot gas, but Star would tell me, You’re a giant ball of hot gas, bitch. The ChatBot informs me bitch is a pejorative." Brilliant, unforgettable @annablabs.bsky.social

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

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

Interrupting my stream of Oscar posts to shout our bloomingly beautiful March issue. Please check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Y'all, social media taught me that Michael B. Jordan's dad is Michael A. Jordan. Obviously, his future kid's gotta be Michael C. Jordan.

I am generally content with the Oscars. Especially my girl Autumn.

ICYMI: We love Brett Hymel Jr.'s painfully earnest (and wildly hilarious) take on metafiction, grief, and friendship. Read it before it hits the archive! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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. 😭😭😭

!!!!!