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Exciting book news!!!!

Welcome to the Split/Lip Family! ACTION! Rivka Clifton is the transfemme author of Muzzle (Jackleg Press) and Wrong Feast (Baobab Press), as well as the chapbooks Mot and Agape (from Osmanthus Press). She has work in: Pleiades, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, and other magazines. Coming February 2027

Welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Rivka Clifton! Selected from our 25 Open Prose subs period, her NF chap ACTION uses music and film as objects of reflection to feel through transitioning and understanding the self both physically and metaphysically. Feb 2027! You are going to LOVE IT!

It's Novel/Novella Submissions Halfway Day!

We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.

They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!

splitlippress.submittable.com

Hey @autofocusbooks.bsky.social and @tahomareview.bsky.social, guess who's boothed up next to you at AWP26? SEE YA IN BALTIMORE! ❤️

A little taster-thread with some recent coverage of our books on other platforms...

@seanseanclan.bsky.social's HOLY AMERICAN BURNOUT! on Belletrist's Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DMLN6mZ...

and @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's GRAPHIC RAGE on frannie for thoughts' YouTube: youtu.be/3cvTjfzVFkg?...

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!

We know you've been reading SPECIMEN--don't forget to register for our launch event TOMORROW, July 19 at 6pm CT! Moderated by @athenadixon.bsky.social, Sienna and Heather will read and be in conversation with one another. You won't want to miss it! Link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's publication day for SPECIMEN! We're so happy to have Sienna Liu's book-length essay, which is officially out today (if you don't have your copy yet, you know where you can get it: www.splitlippress.com/specimen ). Join us at her Zoom launch on Saturday at 6pm CT! (link to register in tree)

❤️❤️❤️ so happy to have you on the team!!!

Truly so cool to work with the @splitlippress.com editors. When you have a meeting, everyone is ready to fight for the death for their favorite manuscripts, and it's inspiring af. Everyone is so passionate and loving about books and writing. Indie presses forever.

Last question before pub day on Tuesday (!!!) for Sienna and SPECIMEN: if you haven't ordered your copy yet, there's still time!

www.splitlippress.com/specimen

Hey Sienna, what's the theme song for SPECIMEN?

(tip to those of you who've gotten your preordered copies already: try listening to the answer on a loop while reading!)

Day 3 of our 5 Questions for Sienna Liu and we 10x agree with her answer to "What's your book's book soulmate?"

Ah, so the day has arrived when we need to bring this chestnut over from ye olde Twitter archives. PLEASE shop small/local/direct whenever you can!!!

Another day closer to launch day for SPECIMEN, another question for Sienna...

SPECIMEN by Sienna Liu comes out in just over a week on July 15, and we've got some questions for her--starting with the title of her book!

OPEN FOR NOVEL & NOVELLA SUBMISSIONS! July 1 through September 1, send them via splitlippress.submittable.com

It's that magic time, novelists + novella-ists! You've got 2mos to send our beloved + well-practiced novel/novella reading team your >100pg books: call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1 because we want to read it!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

OPEN FOR NOVEL & NOVELLA SUBMISSIONS! July 1 through September 1, send them via splitlippress.submittable.com

It's that magic time, novelists + novella-ists! You've got 2mos to send our beloved + well-practiced novel/novella reading team your >100pg books: call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1 because we want to read it!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

opens at midnight CT tonight...if you want to preempt our Official Announcement (with a nice graphic and everything)

A little heads up to our novelists and novella-ists out there--we'll be opening our annual Novel/Novella submissions period on July 1, so start GETTING THEM READY FOR PRIME TIME!

Hold Me by jade vine A lyric essay collection celebrating and investigating the interplay of language, sorrow, and hope while exploring queer and agender identity alongside the complicated backdrop of family…

jade vine’s HOLD ME (@splitlippress.com‬) is on our #PrideMonth reading list:

In these lyric essays, vine “moves through doom fest after doom fest to assemble memories, chains of afterimages, and a register of metaphors.”
www.splitlippress.com/hold-me

Wrapping up Blurb Week for SPECIMEN with love from Maggie Olszewski and a promise that "Anyone who has ever grown apart from anyone will find solace in the book’s expert effort to make sense of another."

Order your copy today--preorders ARE SHIPPING NOW!

www.splitlippress.com/specimen

Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed In Mary Lynn Reed’s debut short story collection, young queer women travel America’s back roads, roaming through the South, Midwest, New York, and California, while questions of gender and identity…

Read a short fiction collection from @splitlippress.com‬ & our #PrideMonth reading list!

In Mary Lynn Reed’s PHANTOM ADVANCES, “young queer women travel America’s back roads … while questions of gender and identity ride shotgun.”
www.splitlippress.com/phantom-adva...

More SPECIMEN Blurb Week praise from Dylan Fisher: "Liu strings together minute pieces of evidence—a tender text exchange, a dreamed Parisian scene, a Bolaño quote—to imbue what we so often mistake for the casualties of everyday life with purpose and meaning."

www.splitlippress.com/specimen

We continue Sienna Liu's Blurb Week with praise for SPECIMEN from Marie Darrieussecq , who was "happy and intrigued to find the spirit of Henry James' THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE like a pulsating animal in Liu’s book."

Us too! ❤️

You, From Below – Em J Parsley At only fifty pages, YOU, FROM BELOW is epic in scope.

Psyched to read this great review of YOU, FROM BELOW by @emjparsley.bsky.social, a "eco fable that’s deeply contemporary," in @fullstopmag.bsky.social. Read the full review here: www.full-stop.net/2025/06/13/r...

Second day of Blurb Week for SPECIMEN by Sienna Liu, who "turns sentences into little emotional whirlwinds and flays friendships open for what they really are: our greatest unwritten love affairs. An ode on fire to youth" (thx Simon Wu!)

Preorder your copy at www.splitlippress.com/specimen ❤️

"Koi t-shirtsy, poetry-swooned, meta-anecdotal over a lover named E, Sienna Liu's 'four-dimensional rose' SPECIMEN is a blend of atmospheric nostalgia and bilingual love," thanks to Vi Khi Nao

Welcome to Blurb Week for Sienna Liu's book-length essay SPECIMEN, out on 7/15 (but preorders are shipping now at www.splitlippress.com/specimen!).

Contaminated by literature and compelled by the impossibility of translating one another, two young lovers fall in love against their better judgment.

@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social‬ talks about his debut story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS (@splitlippress.com‬) with Maya Chari necessaryfiction.com/interviews/u...

felt flowers and copies of Sienna Liu's SPECIMEN on a table

A SUMMER DELIGHT: copies of SPECIMEN are in the office + we've begun shipping preorders!

If you were waiting until pub day (July 15) to place your order, DON'T—have your copy in hand and join us at our launch event for SPECIMEN on 7/19!

Links in bio to purchase + register for the launch 🖤