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ICYMI: Contributor @jailthepoets.bsky.social is discussing Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War with the Sci-Fi Short Story Club at the LAPL, TODAY 😍 RSVP or email for the zoom link here:

it's her day 💛

Damn this was good. “In those days when her mother was still alive, no matter how violently the oil boiled and smoked, the eels would not die for Ymelda.” What does it cost to get the eels to die? What if you stop paying the price? splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0225...

"scrolling google images, having searched 'trans pikachu' and, yes, found her," It's National Pokemon day! So we thought it fitting to shout out this BEAUTIFUL poem by SLM contributor and memoir reader @spaghettiutopia.bsky.social from last summer @electriclit.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4cvt1fN

The world is A LOT right now. We are still here doing our literary work, which is a balm. ✨ We have already accepted 3 pieces this week 🎉 Sending you all a big hug. Keep doing the work. It matters. We see you. 😍

Did you know that we love book reviews, micro-reviews, and author interviews? And we want to see yours! Send us your pitch or your finished piece here: https://buff.ly/32k496o

Do you use writing prompts? Can you share a prompt you love? Or an evocative photograph?

"Like any unacknowledged feeling, it grew into something much bigger, rolled around inside me until it snowballed, hard-packed and heavy." SLM's Former Managing Editor @mossyair.bsky.social has a new flash, "Only Count In One," in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💫 Read it here: https://buff.ly/4gWtqJJ

Reading is resistance. So we’re reading our favorite banned books. Which are you rereading? Which do you recommend?

If you want a Novel Writing workshop, we got just the one! 😍 Assistant Memoir Editor Jeneé Skinner has a 4-Week Virtual Workshop coming up March 5-26 with @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social . Sign up now! https://buff.ly/4jHrLKU

There's still time to check out our FEBRUARY ISSUE, fam 🥰 So much love goes into every issue 💕 https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

Janet Stapelman explores color relationships, texture, shape, and the surprises of light falling on the twisted Perle Cotton she uses in her artwork. This time last year we published her intricate "Factory with Red Lights." Find it in our archives: https://buff.ly/3SNCoze

Let's start the week with some GOOD NEWS for a change! Congrats to @saralippmann.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.com @mariannelchan.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @ilanaslightly.bsky.social @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social @sgpoet.bsky.social @bettysueblue.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social & MORE!

Oooh, shoutout to @bettysueblue.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in here for the forthcoming THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER (2026). Nobody loves on their contributors like @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, I swear.

Hey FAM! @workshops4gaza.bsky.social is bringing you an awesome writing workshop on ANIMAL POETICS with Split Lip contributor @oracleatdelphi.bsky.social on March 23rd, 2pm EST! All proceeds will go to Wisam's family in Gaza. Register here: https://buff.ly/43anhGS

Kathleen Frank paints the Western landscape in vibrant hues, capturing light and pattern in complex terrains. Check out her gorgeous work, “The Rocky Top – of the Continental Divide," in our February Issue: https://buff.ly/4ba52mU

We have to admit that January was a thorny start to the year… but the wonderful news and publications from the SLM FAM brought us solace and inspiration. https://buff.ly/4idMQuD

Last up this ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY: contributor @inauthenticity.bsky.social ‬ 's piece "A Haunting" was published in @ergot.bsky.social !! For an extra eerie evening, you can find it here: https://buff.ly/4gNPxC9

It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY and we're saying congrats!! Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social has a poem titled “Emily as We Look in the Mirror and See Ourselves” published in Schuylkill Valley journal 🎉

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY is ramping up with great news from contributor @ambersparks.bsky.social : her new book HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE, forthcoming on October 14, is available for preorder NOW!! Check it out here: https://buff.ly/3D3JkUR

Who doesn't love a good interview to start ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social interviewed @dawniewalton.bsky.social on the latest episode of @ursastory.bsky.social 🤩 Become a member now: https://buff.ly/41zRUEx

Congratulations to SLM contributor Elisa Gabbert— she is this year's Nonfiction Judge for the @pshares.bsky.social Emerging Writer's Contest! If you'd like to submit, the link is here: https://buff.ly/4b97EkJ

"We’re all monstrous in one way or another, and I like exploring that." This time last year we published @allisonwyss.bsky.social in conversation with @sillysyntax.bsky.social . Read this interview in our archives: https://buff.ly/3SEz8Gc

Hey everybody, how are you doing? For real. How are you?

It feels hard to share good news right now. But isn't now more than ever a crucial time to share art & heart & everything inside us that matters? @splitlipthemag.bsky.social shared "Just One Thing" last week, some words about the process of writing my poem in their January issue.

Today at SLM we're reading contributor @vanessahua.bsky.social 's thoughtful, urgent article on the history of American birthright citizenship in @sfchronicle.bsky.social . Read it here: https://buff.ly/3Qp0sYp

"I don’t care about tech, but I do care about humanity, and at this point, those two things are inextricable." Read this thought-provoking interview of Olivia Gatwood by Isabella Maria in our February Issue: https://buff.ly/3F1Ij00

"Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case." Former poetry contest judge @chenchenwrites.bsky.social 's poem “Summer,” (published by Poetry Magazine in 2021) was Poem of the Day at Poetry Foundation! https://buff.ly/3zSi5bM

"I need more dialogue, less moody eye contact in the piazza. There’s so much I can’t relate to. I swipe through whole cities’ dating profiles and fail to imagine calling" This time last year, we published Kurt David's GALENTINE'S DAY. Check it out!

"running the court, directing traffic, crossing over his defender and dropping him. He jumps a pass because he knows who’s scared to shoot." Read Andy Chen's YOU WALK UP TO THE PARK AND THERE'S ONE CHINESE GUY in our FEBRUARY ISSUE now! https://buff.ly/3EFWA2w

Our February 2025 edition of Now Playing features books to keep handy and what to watch while sweating it out from one of our contributors! https://buff.ly/3QngSAg

"June, always rain. Always ants after it rains. Always beetles smacking against the window..." This time last year we published Mother-Mother, Wasp-Mother by @aniking.bsky.social . Revisit it in our archives: https://buff.ly/3OSx4ct

"They scooped off the wrong tit." A cancer story like no other cancer story by Selen Ozturk in our February Issue: https://buff.ly/4hVLbtJ

"'So odd. Why haven’t I ever heard of you?' another man writes. 'I haven’t even heard of me,' I want to tell him, to tell all of them." Contributor @writesloud.bsky.social published an essay about ancestry, family, and loneliness in @theoffingmag.bsky.social . Read it here: https://buff.ly/41n18U8

“I google pictures of trans man with shaved head because I don’t have any delusions about how I look and don’t want the internet to lie to me by showing me pictures of Zac Efron.” This time last year, we published BUZZCUT by @trbrady.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/49nlBtK

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HEAD DOWN, KEEP WRITING, DON’T BE AN ASSHOLE This is our mag motto. We love a community that builds itself up.