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A flyer for a street side lit reading, featuring Camille U. Adams, Michelle Guerrero Henry, Aubrey Hirsch, Rax King, Sara Lippmann, Kate Tooley, and me! It shows the covers of our books and includes info about the reading: November 16 at 2pm at "Store Front West" (367 E 10th St, NY NY 10009)
NY friends, come hang November 16th!
@camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.
I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
[Hagrid voice] It's a poem, 'arry!
Heads up that if you follow us over on Instagram (same handle, @splitlippress), we're doing a giveaway... 👀
Others told me not to expect writing. I was like, "Hell no, I must!" I ended up doing what everyone else did during the residency... crying, discovering myself. Advice: You've already earned your place there. Do the writing if that's what comes. If not, your experience is still work :) Congrats btw!
The hindsight go craaaazy 🥴
if you're able to take supplements, I like L-Theanine which is meant to help reduce anxiety and elevate dopamine, thereby allowing for more focus. For energy, forcing myself to spend more of it with physical movement helps keep me awake. Also, vegetables and cold showers 😂
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
one of the strangest things is seeing how many people are fed up already with mass manufactured food (a narrative of the past 20 years: let's make tomatoes taste like tomatoes again!!) and yet are onboard with mass-manufactured art whose only intent is yield rather than being a specific object
If you haven't heard of it/tried it yet, I've been taking magnesium glycinate before bed, and I wake up feeling incredibly rested 🙂↕️
In one week, I'm offering you 2hrs of whipping your creative muscles into shape! When the class is over and you have carpal tunnel, you’ll also have EIGHT ESSAY STARTS. That you did! Good for you! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Drink all the margaritas + write all the essays! writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
Excited to have new work in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, many thanks to Andy Sia and everyone there for their edits and help with this too!!
🫶🏽 love thisss
OPEN for all prose chapbook submissions! 4/1-6/1, splitlippress.submittable.com, we've got a person with a high bun holding a snack with a mug in front of them, their face covered by a book JUST LIKE OURS WILL BE...will it be YOUR book? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! Submit your 60-100pg chapbook to us!
It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1!
We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.
splitlippress.submittable.com
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Whoa, I started a substack! ✨ Read what it's about and join me:
open.substack.com/pub/stillout...
I need to find this part of BlueSky
Me too! I don't know where you stand now but I am sooooo glad my parents were like "absolutely the **** not" 😂😂
It’s weird how you can accomplish things by simply trying to do them
Does this count
Struggling with deep panic, so to channel that productively, I'll post a reminder my partner and I just started a tiny bookstore. To be sustainable, we need to make enough to move into the building's front space to get foot traffic. ALL purchases, local or not, help a ton:
eveninghousebooks.com
Continue this stuff. This stuff matters.
Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
I feel like it's been March 31st for 8 days
I’m not at AWP in LA this year but here is my unsolicited advice: no there will not be food available at that reading later so you should just stop now and eat something.
This kid at the bar asked if we wanted to see his finger which he had recently almost severed. He said he was cutting shrooms when it happened. He ended up taking the shrooms, passing out, and didn't go to the ER until the next morning. When I asked how old he was, he said "22." I was like, Ah.
