Athena Dixon

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OPEN CALL: CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS Reading period October 1 - December 1 Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com 125 page minimum

Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!

@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!

Split/Lip Press welcomes new nonfiction/hybrid readers! Silk Jazmyne and Jer Xiong

We're so excited to welcome two new readers to the 2025 SLP Nonfiction reading team! Joining our returning NF readers Cavar, August, Tucker, E. Ce, Keene, and Maxwell ( and our fantastic NF editor @athenadixon.bsky.social ), please say hello to @silkjazmyne.bsky.social and @jerxiong.bsky.social !

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And that's a wrap! 276 applications for the two open positions on the 2025 SLP NF/H reading team...y'all really did not decide to make it easy for @athenadixon.bsky.social! We're psyched to see so much interest--and preemptively sorry that we can only take, like, 1% of you onto the team this year!

Open secrets magazine book club Opensecretsmagazine.com “I think alone is sexy. Mysterious in its heaviness. Alone seems like a choice. Loneliness doesn’t. This seems like I’ve been forgotten, passed over, discarded.” Photo of Athena Dixon and the loneliness files cover

Open secrets magazine book club September 30, 8:30 pm EST Substack live Opensecretsmagazine.com Photo of Athena Dixon and the loneliness files cover

What’s the difference between being alone and loneliness? Discuss it in Open Secrets Book Club on memoir in essays The Loneliness Files by @athenadixon.bsky.social published by @tinhouse.bsky.social. You can ask Athena questions on September 30 at 8:30 pm ET: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre...

Open secrets magazine book club Opensecretsmagazine.com “I think alone is sexy. Mysterious in its heaviness. Alone seems like a choice. Loneliness doesn’t. This seems like I’ve been forgotten, passed over, discarded.” Photo of Athena Dixon and the loneliness files cover

Open secrets magazine book club September 30, 8:30 pm EST Substack live Opensecretsmagazine.com Photo of Athena Dixon and the loneliness files cover

What’s the difference between being alone and loneliness? Discuss it in the new Open Secrets Book Club on memoir in essays The Loneliness Files by @athenadixon.bsky.social (from @tinhouse.bsky.social). Join us for a Q&A on September 30 at 8:30 pm ET! Details: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre...

I’m excited, too!

Want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next nonfiction/hybrid book? CALL FOR READERS: The details -readers are compensated, 25% of our submission fee is divided among readers -free copy of your team's chosen book -reading period October 1 through Decemberr 1 -application deadline September 15 -apply at splitlippress.submittable.com

Our nonfiction/hybrid editor @athenadixon.bsky.social is looking for a few new readers to join the NF/H team! Readers are COMPENSATED!!! Our readers typically stick with us for multiple seasons--we hope it'll be you! Link to apply in our tree and also at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Come join us!

Book cover for The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon (Tin House Books), with a grid of black rectangles with central purple dots, separated by white lines. What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-loneliness-files-2/

Book cover for Code Noir: Fictions by Canisia Lubrin (Soft Skull Press), with a black square with yellow crazing against a purple moon, tan ground and chalkboard-grey sky. Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada’s most exciting and admired writers, winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. https://softskull.com/books/code-noir/

Daily #SmallPress #books #DSPBposts: Code Noir: Fictions by Canisia Lubrin (Soft Skull Press) softskull.com/books/code-n... -and- The Loneliness Files by @athenadixon.bsky.social (@tinhouse.bsky.social) tinhouse.com/book/the-lon... Alt-text for details. 💙📚 #BookSky @catapultbooks.bsky.social

Thank you for asking me to be a part of your night!

Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon sitting next to each other, each holding books and laughing in front of a backdrop of bookshelves

Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon with two rows of event attendees behind them smiling

What an honor to be in discussion with @athenadixon.bsky.social whose work I admire so deeply. Thank you for the thoughtful questions and good laughs. And many thanks to A Novel Idea for hosting us, and to the friends who came out to support.

PHILLY!!!! Come to A Novel Idea on Passyunk TONIGHT and listen to what I’m sure is going to be an incredible discussion about all the things memoir and essay between @athenadixon.bsky.social and @jackiedwrites.bsky.social in celebration of their book, NO OFFENSE!

Purple event flyer. No Offense: Philly Book Launch with Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon on Thursday, March 20th 6pm at A Novel Idea.

Philly Philly! Come hang out at A Novel Idea on March 20th and help us launch No Offense in the greatest city of all time. I’ll be reading from the book and talking all things memoir and essay with the brilliant @athenadixon.bsky.social! Register here: anovelideaphilly.com/events/

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Athena Dixon that reads “Make the art. However it comes out, whatever the topic, or whether or not you will share it. Make it because it still lives in you and it should not, cannot, be wrested from your hands without a fight.”

Day 33 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @athenadixon.bsky.social on Beauty & Balance

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A very big welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Shanda McManus, whose memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, a series of letters to the author's murdered brother, was selected from our 2024 NF/H submissions period! We cannot wait for you all to read Shanda's book in June 2026!!!

Radical Pleasure, Volume 1 The first installment of a new monthly column by author Athena Dixon

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The first volume of my new column for Open Secrets Mag is live! Each month, Radical Pleasure will explore all the ways pleasure can manifest, how to define what it is for you, and why it’s so important to embrace that feeling no matter how it shows up in your life. Be sure to subscribe and share!

Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team? We're looking for a Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Applications open 12/5-12/15! For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com

Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor!

Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]

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NO OFFENSE: A Memoir In Essays When Jackie “came out” in 2014, right as the Trump era was revving up, she began paying closer attention to the inappropriate questions, uncomfortable reactions, and pointed assumptions about sexua…

NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS is now available for preorder! It’s about all the uncomfortable questions, conversations, and assumptions I’ve faced re: queerness and gender. But it’s also about love and representation and the awkwardness of growing up. elj-editions.com/no-offense-a....

42.2 Lindsey Pharr Unfinished Foxes✧ 2023 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest Finalist ✧ In 1952, Dimitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut selected the most docile foxes they could find in government-run fur farms scattered ...

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Thank you so much, @southeastreview.bsky.social and @athenadixon.bsky.social for giving this essay a place in the world. CW: contains descriptions of domestic violence, sexual abuse

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This joint is JUMPIN! So even though we just posted it, a smol reminder to those of you still looking for a home for your nonfiction/hybrid full-length project: we're halfway through our last month of NF/H SUBMISSIONS, so put your foot on the gas and get it sent before the end of the day on Dec 1!

I’ll likely be just as quiet here as I was over there but I’ll try!