INCOMING!!! Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: on Jan 8, we'll be opening for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Novel/Novella Book Editor! Our beloved Kate Finegan is stepping down this year from her position (which she initiated for us in 2020!).

Preorders help small presses and authors tremendously but that’s not why they’re important on a soul level. Preorders matter because they’re acts of faith. You trust the order will come through, the book will be good, which means something in this low-trust society we’re trapped in.

Happy new year! We're now open for fiction collections. The most recently published book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt Is b @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was recently longlisted for the PEN/Bingham award. Could YOU be next? Dust off that manuscript, and send it to us!!!

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GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

happy new year indeed 😁

Short fiction writers, finish out 2025 by polishing up your book manuscript, because TOMORROW we open for short story and flash fiction book submissions!

New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters! open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

✨ Exciting news: Our friends over at @splitlippress.com have been longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection! 🔥 buff.ly/WT75zX9

WE HAVE BEEN ALL-CAPS SCREAMING AT SLP HQ SINCE WE FOUND OUT!!! CONGRATS, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social!!!

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my book is on here???? i am unable to comprehend this occurrence

Congrats, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social !

We're hugging everyone we see because we're so thrilled: @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 's book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!!!

we have good newssssss coming (and OMG IT IS SO HARD NOT TO SAY ANYTHING YET, ESP. WHEN OUR INTERNAL EMAILS ARE ALL CAPS-ING AND !!!)

Two months until publication day for KRACKLE’S LAST MOVIE by @crsutton.bsky.social and we’re stocked up with copies in the office right before the holiday season swings into high gear—we’ll begin shipping preorders in just a couple of weeks! Order your copy at splitlippress.com !

Final few hours to get your nonfiction book submitted to @athenadixon.bsky.social and the crew! After 11:59pm CT, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

We're so grateful for you, @abigailoswald.bsky.social! Your love for our authors shines through all the work you've done, online and offline, and you've transformed our press ❤️

Wow! Just stumbled upon this Best of 2025 List! How weird, it's only SLP books! Best novella, best short story collection, best nonfiction and best graphic book...looks like we swept them all!

Reminder that our FREE SHIPPING code (found in our 11/1 newsletter) is good through Dec 1. Works on orders of all sizes! This holiday season, don’t retreat to the couch with your phone when you need to escape your relatives—BRING A BOOK! www.splitlippress.com

ONE TINY WEEK left for our nonfiction book submissions period--after December 1, you'll have to wait nearly an entire YEAR to send us your essay collection or your memoir! It's Dead Week! No one's really working anyway! Polish 'er up and send 'er in! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

+++ article about the necessity of small presses, now more than ever!

Happy Publication Anniversary to @anarkissedpoet.bsky.social's essay collection HOLD ME, "an electrifying multiplicity of novel forms, spanning the lyric to the diagnostic, the ghost note to the terminally online" (thx Blake Butler!) We're so happy to have it—and jade—with us at SLP! Ebook now $5!

I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...

We received so many terrific reader apps. Such an honor to get to work with such incredible people.

Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!

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Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here. #writing #writingcommunity

Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now... www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Guess who's back at the the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday? We'll be slingin' books, chattin' with y'all, and featuring two of our favorite Twin Cities authors (yes they happen to be SLP authors), @tashacoryell.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social.

Just about a month left to submit!

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who submitted your reader applications, we'll be in touch soon!

Still open for ~10 more applications!

Happy Halfway Day! We're HALFWAY through our nonfiction book submissions period: if you've got an essay collection, memoir, or nonfiction/hybrid full-length book manuscript over 125pg, SEND US YOUR BOOK! We're open through December 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Looking for some readers to join the @splitlippress.com fiction team! Applications will open 11/2 and close either on 11/8 or when we hit 100 subs so make sure yours is one of the first! Preview app questions and answers to FAQs below.

I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.

My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with the inimitable graphic artist and award-winning writer @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social - whose new book "Graphic Rage" is available now from @splitlippress.com Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...

We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)! www.splitlippress.com

FWIW, we just added a coupon code so you can still get @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book at the old $24 price--use code GRAPHICRAGE at splitlippress.com/store <3

We have one (1) copy of GRAPHIC RAGE left in the office at the old $24 rate--after that one sells, they'll all be at the new $27 price. WE APOLOGIZE! Rising print costs are real! First come will be the first served... www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage

My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!

FYI: @stereolad.bsky.social and I collaborated on an essay trying to make sense of our Jim Steinman folie-à-deux, and it appears in this book. www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...

Amid everything else, preorders for the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music are open! Includes possibly the only thing I will ever try to write about music, from the 2023 80s fadness bracket, on Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight! www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-...

10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!

Aubrey makes this so easy. Ordered my* copy of Graphic Rage today from @splitlippress.com - can't wait to get my hands on it. *It's actually a gift for a visiting graphic artist relative who lives in Colombia, but you can bet your ass I'll gently read it before gifting it to her.

10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!

I tried to pre-order @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social 's latest book, but it turns out it was just published! Can't wait for this one to arrive.

Happy book birthday, @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social!! Folks, I’ve read “Graphic Rage” and it’s INCREDIBLE! In fact, I interviewed Aubrey recently about it and soon you can read that too. But buy this book first; and read it with your whole family (hamsters too).

🚨IT’S MY BOOK’S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!🚨 You can join me on zoom for a virtual launch event tonight at 8pm ET! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1LXOngHxQIuz7ryxFNJGHA%23/registration

Happy Publication Day to @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social and her incredible comic collection GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA!!! Time to celebrate! Aubrey will be in conversation with @robhollywood.bsky.social TONIGHT at 8pm ET--registration info in our bio. 🎉🎉🎉

it's October, which means i am once again reading nonfiction manuscripts for @splitlippress.com and you should submit something cool