I'm sorry but the only Rapture I recognize is the House of Jealous Lovers www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HP0...

Glad to see Disney walk it back, but like, I don’t know I’m going to bother resubscribing? Love to see corporate panic but also these tariffs are HITTING and I’d rather use the money to afford, I don’t know, eggs.

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I am very tired of boycotting places but I am more tired of being propelled down this funnel into fascism

For anyone else canceling their Disney+/Hulu account, just an FYI that you've got to search "how to cancel" on the Help page, then scroll to the bottom and click "contact us" and then you'll get the button to cancel. If you try to cancel from your acct page, it will endlessly refresh but NOT CANCEL.

Just made myself a spirit-free drink to celebrate!!!

I could actually cry and I might--I just got an acceptance for an essay I've been trying to place since 2022, and it found a home at one of my literal favorite journals!!!

this is some eclipse-ass shit

I still believe there should be a podcast where we all get to read our long essays aloud because god knows no one reads them when they're published

Our nonfiction/hybrid editor @athenadixon.bsky.social is looking for a few new readers to join the NF/H team! Readers are COMPENSATED!!! Our readers typically stick with us for multiple seasons--we hope it'll be you! Link to apply in our tree and also at splitlippress.submittable.com

Happy eclipse season! May the things that need to be transformed within you begin to transform, and may you be agents of helping this world to transform as well. Me, I’m out here watching for the snakes and finding, instead, small bouquets of good intentions. Hoping the same for you all.

Heads up that on Monday, we'll be opening up READER APPLICATIONS to join @athenadixon.bsky.social's nonfiction/hybrid reading team this October--if that should be you, keep your eyes peeled!

What @hollypelesky.bsky.social said ⬇️

I have no less than 4 calendars/planners open, indicative at how horrified I am to realize it is the time to put together a reading event sched for Teen Queen Training. It comes out with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17! Where are my fellow early 2026 authors and SHOULD WE BE COLLABORATING?

My collection of essays from Autofocus Books is on sale today at Autofocus Books! An Independent Review of Books best reads of 2024, a star from Kirkus. Maybe get it? autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!

Spotted at City Lights in San Francisco over the holiday weekend: @riggstah.bsky.social’s incredible story collection, ALREADY facing out on the shelf 😍

We'll be doing one last BOOST on Monday (if @suburbanprairie.bsky.social gets her ass back on a phone during the holiday weekend), but in case we forget: NOVEL/NOVELLA SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11:59PM CT on Monday September 1! Yes that is "Labor Day." So LABOR THIS WEEKEND and SEND US YOUR BOOK!

I kind of miss when America was trying to be a democracy :/

No joke, hand-prepping and packing this many preorders is an act of service, MY PRIMARY LOVE LANGUAGE!!

If your answer is not "Teen Queen Training, Kristine Langley Mahler's erasure essay collection forthcoming with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17" then IT SHOULD BE!

PSYCHED to see what @abigailoswald.bsky.social does with our L/F imprint!!!

Very happy to have Maggie on the team with us!!! She's been doing great work already! 😍

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Book publishing will keep you humble--I just got my statement for last year's sales of Curing Season and the total number of copies sold was NEGATIVE 5!!! My apologies to whatever bookstore ordered 5 copies and had to spend the $ to return them BECAUSE THEY DID NOT SELL, but the shame is ALL MINE 😔

Visiting the Smithsonian's African American History museum fundamentally reshaped my (relatively wide! I thought!) understanding of the longitudinal impacts of slavery. It's one of the most important experiences I've had as an American.

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:

working on adjacent essays for TQT 👑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yQ...

what lyric is your north star and why did it come from "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

dreams of grandeur // schemes of candor // themes of bystander

always horrified to re-report that butt-in-chair time really DOES result in finishing the (overdue) essay

I have 9 copies of Human/Animal (@wlupress.bsky.social) & a bunch of the original animal sketches. DM receipt of donation to one of the gazafunds.com/all campaigns+your mailing address & I'll ship (within the US). $25=signed copy $50=signed copy +1 drawing $100=signed copy +2 drawings

I have seen like three horror movies ever, but I am still obsessed with one plot-point from Jeepers Creepers: someone had to apply to the DMV for the vanity plate BEATNGU

so the Twitter suppression really was real: I posted on insta yesterday & since I had to use a photo, I did my old PM announcement for TQT from May 2024... & people were reacting/congratulating me LIKE THEY'D NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE! Like I hadn't screamed it out on Twitter back in the day WHICH I HAD!

a moment for all the selves we've outgrown

I was really blessed to have my work supported by editors/mags when I was working on TEEN QUEEN TRAINING. Having erasure essays from TQT published mid-project gave me confidence, and I want to pass that confidence forward. Are you experimenting with a project and want to submit work? (keep reading)

If I just keep writing memoir no one can ever suggest I do an AMA

It's cover reveal and preorders day for @crsutton.bsky.social's KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE! We're so psyched about this gorgeous cover from our favorite book designer, @mrwojorising.bsky.social, feat. custom art from Adrián Tre Polo! Preorder + ARC request at www.splitlippress.com/krackles-last-movie

A secret thing is that even after you are no longer a student (as I finished my program SEVEN YEARS AGO), you can still bring your laptop, park anywhere because school's not in session yet, sneak back onto the wifi, and do your day's work from your university's library

Welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Rivka Clifton! Selected from our 25 Open Prose subs period, her NF chap ACTION uses music and film as objects of reflection to feel through transitioning and understanding the self both physically and metaphysically. Feb 2027! You are going to LOVE IT!

LET'S GO, NEBRASKA!

That feeling when you get the notification that FIVE of your library requests have all come in and are waiting for you to pick them up

Been looking forward to seeing this published for a while! Way to go, Kristine!

This is one of the hardest pieces--both literally and formally--I've written. Started in a class with @civitaveritas.bsky.social, aided through revision with @killerbreeze.bsky.social, now published at TIMBER: it's "Newport, 1991"--my lipogram. timberjournal.org/archive/newp...

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

We're getting ready to order the second print run (YES ALREADY, YES THE BOOK DOES NOT COME OUT UNTIL OCT 7) of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book; if you haven't placed your order yet DO SO NOW before we sell out again!

When I say I’m a fan of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social, it’s not just because I’ve published 1 book with them + have another coming out in Feb (I CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE Teen Queen Training!!)—it’s bc I genuinely love the work they publish. I don’t collect a press’s entire catalog unless I mean it ❤️❤️❤️

We know you've been reading SPECIMEN--don't forget to register for our launch event TOMORROW, July 19 at 6pm CT! Moderated by @athenadixon.bsky.social, Sienna and Heather will read and be in conversation with one another. You won't want to miss it! Link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We have our chapbook editorial team mtg this afternoon for SLP and let me tell you, the order of my top picks has been SLIP-SLIDING all over the place as I do rereads! That's why I'm so glad it is a COLLECTIVE DECISION!!!