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September 29, 2017
We were (and still are!) overjoyed that Katie M. Flynn joined the FAM as Fiction Editor this summer. Here, she goes 19 Rounds:
1. Early bird or night owl?
Early bird
2. What was your worst haircut?
I had a perm once in the 80s, sort of short and mushroom-shaped.
3. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Well, that would be terrible, but if I had to choose, it’d be something from Mozart’s Requiem. Maybe Kyrie? No, Rex tremendae. Technically, it’s a mass in movemen...
September 27, 2017
As we enter the final countdown for the Split Lip Summer Mixtape Contest, the editorial FAM has been spending a lot of time blasting judge Juan Martinez's fantastic playlist. Like a great story prompt does, it inspires different feelings and memories in each of us. Here's a sampling of our favorite tracks:
Eric Rasmussen, fiction reader
I couldn’t have been much older than eleven when I first heard the song “Spider” by They Might Be Giants, played by my local college radio station, listened to on a clo...
September 21, 2017
This summer, the Split Lip Editorial FAM grew by three, and one of those new folks we were thrilled to welcome is W.S. Lyon, Reviews & Interviews Editor. Here, he goes 19 Rounds, and not to be all click-bait headline about it, but it is very possible he has won Round 7:
1. Early bird or night owl?
Mourning dove
2. What was your worst haircut?
I've had so many it's hard to choose. I guess it's sort of a knack. I still have a close friend who calls me Spikes, because, well, in high school I wore my hair i...
September 19, 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words. A round of Fightin' Words maximizes one single word. You put them both together and you get the stylings of this September's featured memoir contributor, Robert James Russell:
What's the single best word for:
1) What you're avoiding: Students
2) Your favorite Halloween costume:
3) Your superstition: Spiders
4) Your sense of style: Denim
5) The night before the first day of school:...
September 14, 2017
Our September issue launches tomorrow. Get ready by checking in with a few of our contributors, what they've been playing, and how it makes them feel:
Robert James Russell
So, when I’m working on a new project, I often pluck songs randomly out of the ether—yet, to me, they inhabit this new project, act as a soundtrack—and then listen to them in perpetuity. Like, legit, on repeat, nonstop. (My wife is mostly used to it now. But, still, I’m sure it has to be horribly annoying for everyone but me.) Right...
September 13, 2017
We recently hit 2000 followers (and then some!) on Twitter, and to celebrate, we ran a #SplitLip2000 promotion: share with us your favorite Split Lip pieces, and we would curate a playlist just for you. We loved reading your responses! The winner, chosen at random, was none other than August's featured poet, Hannah Craig, who shared her love for Terrell Terry's poems.
In order to get a sense of Hannah's tastes for the perfect playlist, we asked her a few questions:
1) What was your first favorite song...
September 11, 2017
We aren't ready to say goodbye to summer, so we're extending our Summer Mixtape Flash Fiction Contest to September 30!
Check out our official contest page and our contest FAQ, then crank up judge Juan Martinez's playlist and get to writing!
September 7, 2017
We're so excited about the Summer Mixtape Flash Contest -- our first-ever flash fiction contest. And judging from the number of entries we've already received, you are too!
Contests can be a different beast from regular submissions, though, so we opened up a Twitter FAQ, giving our readers and submitters a chance to ask their burning questions:
What inspired this contest?
Our love of music! We have a music editor, Christopher Wolford, who regularly makes playlists and conducts music-related interviews....
September 5, 2017
Summer is winding down, but the August issue fights on with Fightin' Words Hannah Craig, author of this month's featured poem, "Letter to My Red Gun-Dog America." Below, she pushes the challenge for single best word responses to our questions to new heights:
1) What you're avoiding: Windex
2) What makes you laugh:
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3) Your superstition: hawthorn
4) Your sense of style: marginalia
5) How you slept: timber
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