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June 29, 2018
We held a Twitter chat in May to talk about becoming a paying market -- and anything else our readers wanted to know about all things Split Lip. If you missed it (or want a refresher...), enjoy this recap!
Why did you want to pay Split Lip contributors?
Maureen Langloss: I really hate the idea that so many people have that writing is a hobby. It takes so much blood, sweat, & tears. It is work. And it deserves payment. We writers should not have to write for free. Plus, we really want writers to have th...
June 28, 2018
That's right! The feature is Just One Thing, but this week, you get a two-fer. We're wrapping up the week with the author of our June issue featured short story, Buffy Shutt. Be sure to check out her wonderful story "Inventory Control" if you haven't (or hey, give it another read!). Here, she gives us just one thing about the story's inspiration:
"I have had migraines. I had an image of a woman sick with a migraine lying in a dark room and able to communicate with her kids only via code. Funnily...
June 26, 2018
Martha Silano is the author of this month's featured poem, "You can't trust." If you haven't read it yet, just open up another browswer tab real quick. We'll wait.
She brings us this quote from Marcel Duchamp, saying, "I have been obsessed lately with slowing down my life, my way in the world. This has been part of self-improvement project I began a couple of months ago, beginning with committing to a 6 am yoga class at least 2x a week, taking FB, Twitter, and Instagram apps off of my phone (and tryin...
June 22, 2018
Welcome back to Real World: Editors, where we find out what happens when editors stay polite, but also start getting real!
The next two parts will focus on submission pet peeves and how to keep things as easy as possible on both sides of the submission manager.
Episode 3: Submission Pet Peeves
What are things you'd advise submitters not to do? What might a really well-intentioned submitter (ie, not someone who sends a diatribe in response to a rejection) might be doing that comes off badly?
Kaitlyn And...
June 19, 2018
Our June issue has entered the world, and we're kicking of a new round of Just One Thing with this month's featured memoir writer Felicity Fenton, who shares with us something you might now know about "To and From":
"To and From" was taken from a larger collection I just finished that considers the body, adolescence, and faulty connections I’ve experienced (to myself and others). The memoirs required me to dig back into some of the most uncomfortable territory I’ve known. Questionable lovers, bad be...
June 18, 2018
Writing breakup stories is hard. They might be easy stories to tell a friend but writing them, putting them down on the page in a compelling way, is always difficult. Why? Because everyone has a breakup story. Everybody has been dumped, everybody has dumped somebody else. Just about everyone has left someone for another, or been left for another. It's familiar. It's common. It's fucking ordinary. Your pain is your pain and it is always profound, but for a reader to care, the way you tell the story mu...
June 14, 2018
We're just a day away from releasing our June issue, and we can't wait to share it with you. Thankfully, there's Now Playing to hold us over. Here's a preview of our wonderful contributors, what they've been playing lately, and what it means to them:
Felicity Fenton
I’ve been playing Lithics new album “Mating Surfaces" on repeat: https://lithics.bandcamp.com/ They're one of my favorite bands from Portland who sound a little like some older favorites like The Fall and Red Krayola, but with a little more...
June 12, 2018
We hope you've been loving Just One Thing as much as we have! Our contributors have shared a variety of behind-the-scenes details that expand our enjoyment and understanding of their work. We're closing out the May edition of Just One Thing with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, author this month's flash fiction, "Ghost Story." We highly recommend rushing back to re-read it after you learn about this one thing:
"Ghost Story" was first written with the pronoun we not they: "We wanted to meet a ghost."...
June 8, 2018
Last time on Real World: Editors, Split Lip editors answered questions about the submission process for their particular genres. This week, editors from a few other journals weigh in on the following question:
Episode 2: Paying In Exposure
Do you feel like our magazine pays in exposure/publicity? How do you keep up with former
contributors? How do you promote current contributors? Are there downsides to promo/publicity (or things that people might not think about)?
Tyler Barton, Fear No Lit, formerly wit...
June 6, 2018
1. In early 2013, my husband Matt’s company transferred his job from our home outside of Portland, Oregon to Tucson, Arizona. I had only been in the state once, as a stop on a family road trip when I was in high school. We didn’t know anyone and I found myself struggling with what to do with myself. I wrote, a lot. More than I’m writing now, which was a good thing. I flirted with steampunk lifestyle choices, which didn’t work out because I couldn’t suspend my disbelief and claim that I’d arrived by b...
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