Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

We're so happy and excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, @ariel-chu.com and her collection ANTIBACHELORETTE, which was selected from our 2026 short story/flash fiction submissions period! COMING IN NOVEMBER 2027! Welcome, Ariel!!!

Sei Shonagon never stops giving!

Novel and novella manuscript submissions season has officially begun! Our beloved N/N team, led by @rabblerouses.bsky.social, will be reading your +100pg book manuscripts--call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Oh my gosh, what an awesome review of TQT! Thank you so much, @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social!

Please help us welcome new novel/novella readers Roy, Emma, and Tahniat, who will be joining our returning readers Rubén, Steven, Sarah, Patrick, Kameron, and Mwinji (and our fantastic editor jonah)--the whole team will be ready + waiting for your book manuscripts when submissions open on July 1st!

If you appreciate your indie bookstore, then show it love! I think about this *a lot,* since you can't take their existence for granted. Buy a book! Buy a coffee! Boost them on socials! Attend a reading! These sacred places only exist bc of our continued support.

It's time! We can't wait to see what you have in store for us 👀 forget.cool/submissions/

Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!

truly LOL over the downcast face graphic on the "risks of AI," that bro can't even look up from his phone for the facegrab

Went to buy my new annual national parks pass but CLICKED OUT OF THAT WINDOW as soon as I saw this year's design: George Washington's face opposite WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE MUGSHOT OF THAT FELON CURRENTLY IN OFFICE I WOULD RATHER OVERPAY FOR EACH NATIONAL PARK THAN TO HAVE TO SEE THAT CARD EACH TIME!

So are they bringing back Ask Jeeves and Lycos?

Really happy to have this conversation up in @adroitjournal.bsky.social in which I QUITE ELOQUENTLY define erasure source text as a nurse log, discuss the ethics of erasure, and admit TQT is not strictly nonfiction 😇https://theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/18/a-conversation-with-kristine-langley-mahler/

Just about a month and a half until BROTHER EPISTLES is released on June 23, and we’re packing all the preordered copies (and THERE ARE A LOT) to begin shipping in the next week! If you’ve already preordered through us, watch for your shipping confirmation emails to be coming through soon!

Oh WOW, what a lovely review from @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social for @coloradoreview.bsky.social about Teen Queen Training!!! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/teen...

Don't threaten me with a good time in the state where I love going unplugged anyway!!!

Come and see meeeeeeeeeeeeee

Start gathering your application materials: our new novel/novella editor, @rabblerouses.bsky.social, is going to be looking for a few readers to join their 2026 N/N reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!!! N/N reader apps will open on May 1 and close May 8, or after we've received 250 applications

We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT TIME! Honored to be a temporary desert dweller for the night ❤️

LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING IN AZ! See you there!

And don’t forget to come see Kristine here, then Tucson for an event with @Tucson essayclub.bsky.social the next night!

Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

my dad built me a Little Free Library and we installed it yesterday and I JUST SAW OUR FIRST CUSTOMER RETRIEVE A BOOK FROM IT!

LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING IN AZ! See you there!

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

I’m SCREAMING. That lady just had to stand there???????? This country is a hostage situation.

Absolutely frying over the Pope being weak on crime. Are we supposed to rise up and be like HEY MY POPE IS ACTUALLY SO, SO TOUGH ON CRIME???

AZ is where it’s at! This week we got book launches and book festivals and next week come on out to the Desert Grit Reading Series, with: Matt Flores @sudhab.bsky.social Cecilia Savala Oscar Mancinas @joelhans.com @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & me!

I truly think erasure is one of the most accessible forms of writing, so I'm grateful to @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for allowing me the space to make a (craft) argument that might convince you too: AN ERASURE ESSAY IS REALLY JUST A MIXTAPE! www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/craf...

I'm so psyched to be working with Jonah and I can't wait to see what novels and novellas they bring us!!!

A huge welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Haitian-born psychiatrist and writer Jonas Attilus and WHAT THE GROUND COULDN'T SHAKE, his memoir of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the collective trauma and displacement that followed survivors through the aftermath. Coming in August 2027!

If I can contact this man to demand impeachment you can pressure your Congress folks too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bacon

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

TOMORROW: @marchxness.bsky.social Anthology launch event at 7pm CT! Featuring @danchaon.bsky.social, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @dellegeller.bsky.social, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @elenavox.bsky.social, @mossyair.bsky.social + @martinseay.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Coming up: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music Tucson book launch event w/ @marchxness.bsky.social. 4/19 6pm 600 S. Meyer feat karaoke, books, readings by @stephjayb.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, Drew Krewer, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, John Melillo, @angermonsoon.bsky.social, & Laura CJ Owen

Did you catch our publisher interview over on Asterism's book blog? @suburbanprairie.bsky.social talked extensively about how we select a book, why demystifying small press publishing is at the core of our processes, and why declines are (STILL!) the worst part asterismbooks.com/blog/post/br...

thirteen years and i dont think anyone's knocked off "who's this clown"

Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Helluva Palm Sunday homily

We're open in just FIVE DAYS! Get your manuscripts ready! ✨

I’m an Iowa grad who’s been living in Nebraska for 18 years so I have learned some things; good luck drowning out that GO BIG RED

Collective Soul & I are still way behind & NEED YOUR VOTE in the Elite Eight of @marchxness.bsky.social! ICYMI Last week my wife, Laura, & I did a cover & I'm unearthing it again to spur the comeback! READ & VOTE "THE WORLD I KNOW" BY NOON ET TODAY!! 👇 marchxness.com#/elite8-coll...

Honestly, it’s an introvert writer fantasy: you’re supposed to do an event, but when you show up, it turns out there was no event after all so you get to go home!

I see everyone’s “no one came to my reading 😔” and raise you one: I arrived to do a reading and THE BOOKSTORE WAS CLOSED BECAUSE THEY FORGOT TO PUT MY READING ON THE SCHEDULE (on the + side, I ran into someone on the sidewalk outside on her way to my reading bc she thought it was happening?)

I was out on Marys Peak this summer, revisiting my childhood landscape, and it broke my heart to see how much the view has been changed by the checkerboard clearcuts. Please, submit your comments to oppose more!

I AM DEAD 👑

Holy cow, @mfitejohnson.bsky.social took on Queen Celine (a VERY BRAVE KARAOKE TO DO!) here to support her @marchxness.bsky.social essay; all my respect and admiration!

YES! A solid addition to the @marchxness.bsky.social Sweet 16 performance archives! (and VOTE FOR BLINK-182, I did!)