Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
Really thoughtful. People are frustrated by local leaders and police for not doing more to stop obvious criminal gangs, but I do get that an escalation could literally start a war. But it’s exhausting for the people to have to be the ones fighting and patrolling their own neighborhoods.
When you’re heavy in the writing you google the strangest shit:
“Is there a Waffle House in Denver?”
“How to spell ‘goddammit’ correctly”
“When did Queen Victoria die?”
“What’s another word for ‘door’?”
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
CALL FOR READERS: Want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next collection of short stories/flash fiction? The details: Readers are compensated, 25% of our submission fee is divided among readers, and they also receive a free copy of their team's chosen book. Reading period is from 1/1/26 through 3/1/26 Applications open 11/2-11/8, applications will be capped at 100 Apply at splitlippress.submittable.com
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.
Love being horrified to learn just how much tech in my life runs on AWS.
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
Gah! Take my money!!!
I’m doing a (free!) virtual book launch for GRAPHIC RAGE on pub day (October 7)! You can register by clinking the annoyingly long link below to get a reminder on the day!
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Heads up that on Monday, we'll be opening up READER APPLICATIONS to join @athenadixon.bsky.social's nonfiction/hybrid reading team this October--if that should be you, keep your eyes peeled!
Y'ALL I still can't believe the way everything fell into place for this: I'm going to help @splitlippress.com give out-of-print books a new home!
We're getting ready to order the second print run (YES ALREADY, YES THE BOOK DOES NOT COME OUT UNTIL OCT 7) of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's book; if you haven't placed your order yet DO SO NOW before we sell out again!
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
a very tired and disgruntled looking man holding a large coffee with the caption “me at the job I begged god for”
all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:
Welcome to the Split/Lip Family! Diego Gerard Morrison is the author of PAGES OF MOURNING, MYTH OF PTERYGIUM, and THE WAIT. He lives and works in Mexico City. ATL coming October 2026!
Publishers Marketplace announcement: Category: Fiction, Literary. ATL by Diego Gerard Morrison, Imprint: Split/Lip Press. A darkly funny, picaresque, and hydro-ethnological collection of stories, ATL follows the path of water in and out of Mexico City while investigating themes of scarcity, pollution, corruption, and the many ways in which the ghostly lakebed of Mexico City’s past manifests in the present, to Kristine Langley Mahler at Split/Lip Press, for publication in October 2026 (world English).
We are so excited to welcome the newest member of the SLP family, Diego Gerard Morrison, and his story collection ATL, which was selected from our 2025 SS/FF submissions period!
Diego's book joins our catalog in October 2026--you are going to LOVE IT!
Got to see my book IRL for the first time today!!!!! Pre-orders are live! www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
At the start of the school year I’m very health disciplined: “let’s go running ! And kayaking! Drink smoothies at the gym!”
I’m in a very different place now: “I need a double bourbon. And a cigarette. How many slices of cake does that come with? Throw in one of those giant pretzels too.”
A drawing of me holding my new book! Cover is dark and moody, a face with glaring red eyes. In place of a mouth, a woman lies curled up in a ball.
Since nothing else is happening today, here’s a cover reveal!! My new book, GRAPHIC RAGE: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life as a Woman in America is now available for pre-order from @splitlippress.com!
You can pre-order your copy here: www.splitlippress.com/graphic-rage
Split/Lip Press @ Mission Creek Festival: April 5, 12-4pm, Spare Me! Bowling Alley in Iowa City, Iowa. BOOK FAIR IS FREE!
Good morning, Mission Creek Festival goers! Split/Lip Press will be at the Small Press Bookfair this Saturday (TOMORROW) in Iowa City from 12-4. Hope to see you there--we'll have lots of books for you to peruse (AND PURCHASE)!
Tomorrow is OPENING DAY for our Open Prose Chapbook reading period, so put those last touches on your 60-100pg darlings...
AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
ICE arrests, seeks to deport Palestinian protester in New York
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
What the actual hell are we living through? We are a country run by monsters.
🚨Inbox: Palestinian Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, a negotiator for the student encampment last spring, has been detained by DHS agents “without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”
Sometimes I feel like a fraud of a writer, like all my creative energy goes to my students. Then there are days like today where—despite a pile of teacherly projects to work on—I pushed everything aside and wrote 3500 words. As part of my fucking job. Aren’t I—in the end—just so damn lucky?
“What does the blood smell like? Sound like? Taste like? Use the full palette of sensory experience”
WELCOME MARCH XNESS! This image is of the corny, old-style Publishers Marketplace announcement that "HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: The March Xness Anthology" by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, cofounders of March Xness, will be published by Split/Lip Press in March 2026. A collection of essays spanning 8 tournaments from 40 contributors, the anthology includes writers Matt Bell, Danielle Evans, Elisa Gabbert, Raquel Gutierrez, and Elena Passarello, among others.
This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
A very big welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Shanda McManus, whose memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, a series of letters to the author's murdered brother, was selected from our 2024 NF/H submissions period! We cannot wait for you all to read Shanda's book in June 2026!!!
