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December 22, 2017
We had a blast responding to your questions on Tuesday night! Thanks to everyone who sent questions our way. If you missed our Twitter chat or if you just want to pretend you're hanging out with us some more, here's a recap of our questions and answers:
What's the biggest lesson you've learned from editing Split Lip in 2017?
Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Editor-in-Chief:1. Plot matters. 2. Titles matter. Bonus #3: For memoir you've got to have a story somewhat bigger than yourself. As Ray Shea said to me once...
December 20, 2017
Welcome to December's Fightin' Words. Katie Welch, owner of a hundred-year-old piano and one of this month's featured fiction writers, kicks us off with the single best word for:
What I'm wishing for: proximity
Ugly holiday sweaters: cringeworthy
The shortest day of the year: candles
My sense of style: woolly
Finishing a book: ambivalence
Something that smells different than it tastes: victory
When everyone stands up to get off a plane: futile
Catching a glimpse of a full moon: twitterpated
December 18, 2017
If you missed our last live twitter chat with Split Lip EIC Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice -- or if you had so much fun you want to repeat the experience (like us) -- you're in luck! This Tuesday, 12/19, Kaitlyn will be chatting on Twitter, and this time she'll be joined by a whole host of other SL editors! Maybe you're making some new year's resolutions about submitting, or you've always wondered just what it's like to put together an issue. Perhaps you want to know how submissions are approached by an editor...
December 14, 2017
Our last issue of 2017 drops tomorrow, December 15! It's been such an exciting year at Split Lip, and we're thrilled to give you a little preview how we'll be wrapping it up. Here, a few of December's contributors share what they've been playing:
Katie Welch
Played, on my hundred-year-old upright piano, the solo arrangements for Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas. I bought the sheet music about two decades ago, and I get out the increasingly yellow, dog-eared pages every year in the run-up to C...
December 12, 2017
There's always something exciting brewing at Split Lip, but this just may take the cake. The mantra coined by editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Split Lip Press editor Amanda Miska as a panel for Barrelhouse's Conversations and Connections conference -- Head Down, Keep Writing, Don't Be An Asshole --is now a tee shirt! And it features the brand new Split Lip logo, designed by Denise Weber.
The shirt comes in traditional and fitted styles and is available now for a limited pre-sale. For $25, inc...
December 7, 2017
Pictured:
1. Our cat, Mindy. But we call her Mimi. She loves sleeping and warm things. I do most of my writing on my made-up bed.
2. My newish MacBook with Badlands + Blue Ridge Parkway stickers. My old one broke prettymuch at exactly the same time I sold my novel. Life, right?
3. A California mug of rooibos tea. I drink a lot of rooibos tea and I love California.
4. The current manuscript I'm working on.
5. An ARC of my debut novel Whiskey & Ribbons because I like looking at it/having it around.
6. My Kin...
December 5, 2017
We continue our celebration of the hard-working readers who help keep Split Lip running with Lori Sambol Brody, who reads flash fiction for us. So when Lori's reading your flash, what makes her say yes?
"A chill in the spine as I read the last word, a swoon at the use of language, a feeling that the piece is much larger than the space it inhabits, a lovely sentence and image, a satisfying ending, a story arc."
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Lori Sambol Brody lives in the mountains of Southern California with a family of backyar...
December 1, 2017
It's been a busy November for the Split Lip FAM! Catch up on what all our contributors have been up to, and don't forget to revisit their work in the Split Lip archive:
Contests
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Split Lip Press’ Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest launched November 1st. Deadline January 15th, 2018.
Books
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Erin Dorney’s book of poetry will be published by Mason Jar Press in 2018.
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Devin Kelly’s book In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen is out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms.
Publications, Interview, and...
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