Have you ever worked as an adjunct prof or contingent faculty? This brilliant, biting, hilarious, heart-break by Carol M. Quinn in the new @splitlipthemag.bsky.social will speak to you.
"Cogs, Heart and Soul": splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0326...
Abstract painting reminiscent of a horizon, gently textured with soft brush strokes. Pink, hill-like masses are topped by swooping gray and cream layers and curvy, blue, cloud-like forms. A yellow streak runs vertically down from the middle.
We watered and waited. Now it's ready to share. Our blossoming 🌼 MARCH ISSUE 🌼https://buff.ly/xk6gUgW
Love & Thanks to the Contributors! 🥰
WORDS Todd Honeycutt, Carol M. Quinn, @lydia_abedeen, @shannyyy
PLUS Jennifer Savran Kelly interviews Jesi Bender
ART Scott Radnidge
A tree and a forest spirit rendered in flowing lines, white silhouettes against a simple palette of greens and blues. The background is richly textured, suggestive of tall trees, pitted boulders, and hair unfurling into mist.
A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Got a little piece in The Maine Review today. If you're a sucker for sibling dynamics, tricky moms, and bugs, this one's for you: www.mainereview.com/the-buzzing-...
Gorgeous new issue of Split Lip live today!
Minimalist photograph of an adobe wall. Its sunlit, coral-and-salmon surface is etched with dancing cracks. Geometry and shadow are in sharp play against a boundless blue sky.
Here it is! Our ✨amazing✨ MAY ISSUE!
As always, much love & gratitude to our contributors 🥰
WORDS: John Jodzio, @joshdenslow.bsky.social , @cindyhouse.bsky.social & theoceanisgay.bsky.social
ART: Natalie Christensen
PLUS: Barrak Alzaid reviews noam keim
Start reading now! buff.ly/h13a7FK
I wrote about the NEA cuts and that overwhelming feeling when so many different orgs and people need our money. But there are some answers in here too, courtesy of @michaelholtmann.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social. lithub.com/on-the-lates...
You're probably better at this site than I am! Use your fine skills with the amazing Split Lip team 💕
Continues to feel impossible to write dystopian fiction in 2025.
This is the fiction you need today (peep @splitlipthemag.bsky.social's entire April issue for more)
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0425...
Black and white image of two masculine figures in a clearing with trees in the background. One is slouched, the other is mid-stride with a stick in hand. Their upper bodies are replaced with cutouts of green grass and tiny wildflowers.
A new month, a new issue of beautiful work we are PROUD to showcase ✨ May we present: our APRIL ISSUE 😍
WORDS: Vincent Perrone, Neeru Nagarajan, katiehrob.bsky.social, & Amy Thatcher
ART: Shannon Louise Barry
PLUS: @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reviews @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social buff.ly/a8ZJANg
buried underneath news of this week's financial fuckery is the ongoing revocation of 300 or more visas from students at 80 universities, mainly for speaking out about Palestine. An ongoing effort to silence speech that opposes Israeli policy and a broader charge to disempower universities.
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
Mixed-media art: a black car with neon headlights and off-kilter wheels glides through the night with a grinning skeleton family. A muscular man flies through the hatchback, carrying a gun and a skull, alongside the word “Death” in red gothic text.
🌸 We're welcoming Spring with the blossom of our new MARCH ISSUE 🌸
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Love and gratitude to our AMAZING contributors!
WORDS: Sophie Hoss, Dante Fuoco, Laetitia Keok, @eleanorfuller.bsky.social
ART: Kevin Bodniza
PLUS: Asa Drake reviews Megan Pinto
We don't publish many pieces about sports, but we have a 🏀 basketball 🏀 poem for you this month! And it's a stunner! The rhythm alone will blow your mind. Presenting Andy Chen's YOU WALK UP TO THE PARK AND THERE’S ONE CHINESE GUY: https://buff.ly/3EFWA2w
A painting with bold strokes: a mountaintop with vibrant red, pink, orange, and yellow wildflowers and luscious foliage in the foreground. Clusters of rocks dot a meadow leading to a ridge with pink outcroppings, overcast with tumultuous clouds.
Love gets us through life 💕 And we're so in love with this new FEBRUARY ISSUE 💕: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
All the love and thanks to our Contributors!
WORDS: Selen Ozturk, A.A. Tojino, Afri Arebu, Andy Chen
ART: Kathleen Frank
PLUS: Isabella Maria interviews Olivia Gatwood
I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...
JFC. It’s out in the open now.
Republicans want to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion.
The ENTIRE budget of Medicaid is $880 billion.
Attended a reading of Lauren Markham's new one, IMMEMORIAL, last night in Berkeley. Beautiful prose, great conversation, the kind of hope glimmer one needs in 2025.
They're eating the checks!
They're eating the balances!
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
space cowboys, take me away
*hides liberation plans in a science book*
All the love to the @splitlipthemag.bsky.social fam. big moves in these updates!
2025 has been rough. Reading helps. Check out our beautiful January issue!
what a story!
Last week, the Palisades were destroyed by flames. Ashes are all that remain, along with twisted piles of metal and strange, out-of-place relics of the people who used to live there.
get in loser, we're
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
