Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social

Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!

My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.

my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator

This is so upsetting 📚

“A true roadside attraction was a brainchild of an individual with a vision. These people were usually oddball folks who lived in rural areas.” Jane Stern on roadside attractions.

My short story “Escape Hatch” is up on The Ana Issue #16 and is very inspired by Kate Folk (in particular “The Bone Ward”). www.wearetheana.com/issue-16

A question I’ve had for myself the last year or so: Will I always be this sad?

James Baldwin. I’ve been thinking about this for a year.

ICYMI: the lovely Stone Circle Review published the only thing I’ve let myself write that isn’t the novel in a year. Been a slow publishing year as a result. Grateful to Lee Potts for believing in it. It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.

For Shirley Jackson's birthday, here are two lovely breakdowns of her openings to "Hill House" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" that I like to show my creative writing students. First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...

Today I'm reading Rebecca Van Laer's short story "Self-care" from Oyez Review Issues 51. I love how she explores the tendency to heal through self-avoidance and expensive health habits, and perhaps most importantly, relationships with others. @rebeccavl.bsky.social medium.com/oyez-review/...

Hope everyone stays safe and firm out their with their boundaries over the holidays

I wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a book that is very sad but also (I think) very funny whose most recent Goodreads review claims the content made someone physically sick 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/long...

Some great short story writers on here!

Writers with short story collections: submissions are open for the W.S. Porter Prize -- winning collection gets $1k + publication regalhousepublishing.com/the-w-s-port...

order some books directly from a small press or independent bookstore, i promise there are few better feelings than directly supporting a small press or independent bookstore

I read @tonytula.com story “The Feminist” this morning after listening to him speak in Morning Writing Club yesterday and highly recommend! The shoulder pads part made me laugh out loud (literally). www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fic...

Also, we are reviving our Bluesky coupon code: use BSKY for 40% off (YES 40% OFF EVERYTHING, INCL. PREORDERS) at Split/Lip Press now through Mon 11/18. Reshare this post and we'll randomly pick a winner to receive a free copy of Hold Me on pub day! splitlippress.com/store

“Always a part of her craves the solitude that will let her mind calm down and her memory surface.” From “The Forester’s Daughter” by Claire Keegan.

So! In case you weren't following us elsewhere (or missed our posts due to DIMINISHING RETURNS on the other site), we're in the final weeks of our nonfiction/hybrid full-length books submissions period! We'd love to read yours before December 1! splitlippress.submittable.com

My short story “UFO Welcome Center” is out today on BULL and I’d love it if you’d read it 👽🛸

I have a new short story up today called “Something to Live For” in the punk issue of Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape by Michigan Quarterly Review and it would mean a lot if you would read it! Shoutout to Kimberly King Parsons for coaching me on this one and to Josh Olivier for the edits!

Today is the last day to submit your short story/flash fiction manuscript to @splitlippress.bsky.social!

Issue 1 of Black Lily zine available for pre-order now! I’m so proud to have my little goth story in here Check out Black Lily zine on instagram for more info. 🖤

I’m so excited to join the @reckonreview.bsky.social team as. First Reader for Fiction. Subs are open!

Loving these strange, modern fairy tales from Kelly Link’s latest collection.

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ presents “Good People Doing Bad Things,” a free, virtual workshop with Janice Lobo Sapigao this Friday, December 1, at 12 PM EST. Sign up at the link in our bio!

Today, at 3 pm, I am at the Chicago Humanities festival in conversation with Lindsay Hunter: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

Our 8th birthday is almost here. Thirty West is giving/gifting a free book with any book purchase through our site. Chapbooks, paperbacks, and even hardcovers from our personal libraries. This November only. No strings attached. Just place an order and we will email you.

Mine too

Don’t talk to me or my daughter again

Hypervigilance: My husband walked up quietly behind me while I was pouring a cup of coffee and I screamed. He knows better! Always in fight or flight mode. Be careful approaching me without announcing your presence or I might fight you.

1 more day (I think!) until @flanaganfilm.bsky.social’s Fall of the House of Usher starts & I’m so happy I almost can’t stand it. There should be a word for how you feel about something you’ve been waiting for, right on the eve of its arrival—not exactly anticipation, but the feeling of imminence.

You know what to do: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/