New cover design!

Cover reveal for Diego Gerard Morrison’s Upflow, designed by the one and only @mrwojorising.bsky.social! These fictions about Mexico’s water system are incredible. Pre-order yours today from @splitlippress.com. Thanks @electricliterature.com for featuring.

We're psyched to have the cover for Diego Gerard Morrison's UPFLOW revealed at @electricliterature.com today, and we're QUITE pleased to announce that preorders for UPFLOW are now available!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Continuing @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @suzannekovenmd.bsky.social for BROTHER EPISTLES!

Second day of Blurb Week for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, and we've got these kind words from Danielle Ofri!

It's Blurb Week for BROTHER EPISTLES by @shandamcmanus.bsky.social, out on June 23rd (but preorders begin shipping this week!), and we're kicking things off with these kind words from @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

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!

CLOSED! We capped out at 250 reader applications this morning--thank you to everyone who applied, we'll be in touch <3 PS: please do not email us your resume saying you're hoping we can take a late application; when we say it's closed, we mean it's closed, and we'll be deleting those emails unread

UPDATE: application is now live! Find the link to apply in our profile or click here: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/35361...

If you're anywhere near Des Moines, Iowa, we'd love to see you at the #dsmbookfestival2026 on Saturday! SLP will be tabling and our books are SHARPLY marked down—we're talking $10 full-lengths—plus we'll be debuting Speed-Date-a-Book. Curious? YOU SHOULD BE! Hope to see you there!

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

"An accomplished debut which interrogates the experience of being marginalized and stereotyped"--we love this review of Chelsea's KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE at @strangehorizons.bsky.social--thanks, @hanacarolina.bsky.social!!!

very excited and honored to be the new SLP novel/novella editor!!! ❤️ keep your eyes peeled for our call for applications to join the reading team (a great way to dip your toe into editorial work!), and i'm excited to read all of your lovely book submissions this summer!

We are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.

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!

Awesome to see & hear @marchxness.bsky.social essays that I've been thinking about for YEARS read tonight by their authors. Have you picked up your copy of the anthology yet? If not you can get it here & you'll be glad you did: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Join our March Xness Anthology Zoom launch in 24 minutes! Register here for url: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Substack tourney recap coming your way this weekend but we wanted to invite you to our HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC ZOOM book launch TUES 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern. Register: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Tomorrow night on Zoom! Hear my lovely spouse @martinseay.bsky.social read from the astoundingly good @marchxness.bsky.social anthology with lots of other brilliant writers!

I get to be online with all these cool people on Tuesday evening (4/7, 7pm CT) for the launch of the March Xness anthology Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music from Split Lip Press. I can’t promise that my kids won’t barge in and wreak havoc. Register at: tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

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

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...

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

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send us your words!

Since some of my mutuals have manuscripts I had to share! Split/lip press is a well-regarded indie press especially for experimental, hybrid, and literary work. Check this out! ✨

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

The March Xness Anthology is here! Thank you SO MUCH to @splitlippress.com and to everyone who's contributed to the Xness anthology and the tournament as a whole ❤️🎸🥁

The @marchxness.bsky.social anthology we've all been waiting for is finally here! So thrilled to have my essay on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" of Dirty Dancing fame included in this much-anticipated mixtape of phenomenal writing. Get yourself a copy today!!

I'm gonna plug the Xness anthology at my reading tonight 🫡

It's here! Super stoked for this anthology and to have an essay in it—the first I ever wrote for @marchxness.bsky.social, on the Creatures’ Exterminating Angel, Virginia Woolf, misogyny, and learning to trust myself as a musician. I love this tournament and community, and so glad to be part of it!

Having blundered my way into the lottery this year on my first try, I can testify that the @marchxness.bsky.social essay is a genre unto itself, and one I'm into. Ordering!

Cannot wait to get my hands on this. Congrats, Xnessers!

It’s time! I am beyond honored my extracurricular essay on how grunge did NOT kill glam metal is included among such stellar work!

The @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is out today! I love this tournament, and I’m so glad to have one of my essays from years past got included: “The Best Christian in the World,” about Creed’s “My Own Prison” and my own fallout with Christianity, among other things. So much good writing in here!

OH SHIT LET'S GOOOOOO

If you love music writing, you need this anthology. I'm beyond honored to have my (favorite) March Xness essay included: "There Are Many Atlantic Cities, and One Belongs to Levon Helm," on The Band's Springsteen cover and my (felon, dreamer, liar, dead) dad, a fellow son of New Jersey.

So excited for this @marchxness.bsky.social anthology from @splitlippress.com! I will be reading at @fandmcollege.bsky.social as part of their #emergingwritersfestival, which begins tonight, 3/30/26 and HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC will be there, sold by @pocketbooksshop.bsky.social. 🔥💓🎵

And allow us to remind you that it's release week for Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: the March Xness anthology. It's like this whole tournament got shrunk down into book form! Thanks to @splitlippress.com for bringing this beauty into the world: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

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...

And it's AWP Day 2! We have a full roster of authors at our booth (644) today, AND we've got our offsite from 6:30-8pm at Greedy Reads Remington, so pack your day full of SLP because we've got the authors, the books, and the places to be!

Reminder to all of you in Baltimore that our Xness meetup is at 5ish tomorrow at The Pink Flamingo (300 W 30th) just up the street from the Xness event with @splitlippress.com at 6:30 at Greedy Reads REMINGTON

Happy AWP Day 1! We'll see you in like an hour at booth #644: make sure to stop by during one of today's Author Residencies, because we'll have @seanseanclan.bsky.social from 11-12, @marylynnreed.bsky.social from 1-2, and Shanda McManus from 3:30-4:30!

We Have The Books (at booth 644)

Bonus that if you order today, I'll get your books shipped out--otherwise you have to wait until I get home, exhausted and bedraggled, on Sunday

Not going to AWP? Now through Sunday March 8, use code NOAWPFORME at our website for free shipping! Wait wait, it gets even better: our backlist full-lengths are on sale for $15, backlist chaps are $10. Same prices as the bookfair!!! Discount shows in the cart, so LOAD 'ER UP! splitlippress.com

Packing @awpwriter.org book swag for my @splitlippress.com HALFWAY FROM HOME collection about restlessness, nostalgia, and environmental collapse. I’ll be signing books in a few places at the conference and handing out these plantable wildflower seed bookmarks and pencils so see events below!

Pretty psyched and honored to be included in this @marchxness.bsky.social essay collection, out from @splitlippress.com this month! Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social 🔥

ALSO if you are new to @marchxness.bsky.social we have a brand spanking new collection of essays from our first 10 years, available from @splitlippress.com

📚Book mail! 😍 Just in time for March Sadness 1990s Edition to kick off this Sunday … the new anthology from @marchxness.bsky.social @angermonsoon.bsky.social @meganc.bsky.social @splitlippress.com