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cassie mattheis
@cassiemattheis.bsky.social
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she/her • appalachian; memoirist; essayist & enthusiast in everything.
editorial assistant @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
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🍂 Let's fall into the cozy season with our new SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/JmXKHQ1

All the love to our Contributors⬇️
WORDS: Sarah Chin, Alice Markham-Cantor, Chen Chen, & Lisa K. Harris
ART: Joe Karlovec
PLUS: Jood AlThukair interviews leena aboutaleb
Cover art for Split Lip Magazine's September 2026 issue by Joe Karlovec  featuring a section of his “Eviction Notice.” Jacquard textile, 5-part installation, 78″ x 104″, 2020.
September 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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☀️ Our team has more book recs! Editorial Assistant @cassiemattheis.bsky.social read THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES over the summer. 🐝
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. “I've had it on my TBR forever; finally got around to that and loved it!” Recommended by Cassie Mattheis, Editorial Assistant.
August 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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after copyediting this month’s (very insightful) interview with author kate broad, i read her novel as well and loveeeed its complexities.

whole may issue is gorgeous!! 💐
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · May 15
Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼

WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris.

ART by: Christopher Dunlap.

PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad.

✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
A dizzying painting: crooked, tessellating cubes in red, orange, yellow, olive, sky blue, and lavender — a bold red imprimatura energizing every surface. The cubes’ white faces recede and flatten at once, the canvas pulsing with geometric tension.
May 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼

WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris.

ART by: Christopher Dunlap.

PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad.

✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
A dizzying painting: crooked, tessellating cubes in red, orange, yellow, olive, sky blue, and lavender — a bold red imprimatura energizing every surface. The cubes’ white faces recede and flatten at once, the canvas pulsing with geometric tension.
May 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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love you london ❤️
May 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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attention all essayists! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social wants to see your best work. we publish essays under 2k in our memoir section. we are omnivorous, but i would love to see micro memoir, interesting forms, joyful essays, graphic and image/text work. but don’t count out your lovely quiet essay!
April 28, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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so excited about this news 🥳💗
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Apr 21
☀️ We're up bright and early with new staff announcements☀️ Help us in welcoming out new poetry readers and editorial assistants!! Thank you for joining the team ❤️
April 21, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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recently 🫧

(emerging / trying out this platform again and hoping it sticks)
April 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼

WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen.

ART by: Ainaz Alipour.

PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7
Lightly-wrinkled textile portrait: color-blocked fabrics pieced together with zigzag-stitch line work. A dark green figure with red nails carefully threads the thick brows of a redhead with voluminous hair. A quilt-like pattern fills the background.
April 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Sit back and enjoy our OCTOBER ISSUE. 🎃 🍂

WORDS by @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social, Priyanka Champaneri, @monmita.bsky.social, & Mingyu Brian Chan.
ART by Jean Shon.
PLUS Nicole Zhao interviews @cherrylousy.bsky.social.

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Front view: A worn and stained image of a pale blue Victorian house, fragmented and partly reconstructed on a birch sheet, laser-cut to the house’s shapes and into long strips intersecting with the architecture and an integrated frame.
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁

WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
ART by Valerie Marshall
AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston
PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti

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Technical-style drawing with an isometric view of industrial buildings on a square plot of land, surrounded by a crevasse on all sides, enmeshed with tree roots. A wonky forest with striped antelopes forms a desolate stronghold around the complex.
September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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We're thrilled to be back from our break, and we want to know what books you loved in July. Drop us some recs!📚
August 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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forgot about everything else for a while and spent two perfect weeks deeply lost in my beloved appalachia ⛰️
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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
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.
May 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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im late posting about it (as usual) but two weekends ago on the recommendation of a friend i squeezed into this tiny glorious english bookstore in paris and it was just everything you dreamed about as a kid who loved books. it’s a beautiful feeling to discover a set of sliding bookshelves. 📚
May 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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i love italy and art and humanity and my best friend and orange trees and standing in the middle of a place that was buried in ash for hundreds of years and marveling at the beauty of everything.

alternately, i went on vacation!
April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
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.
April 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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excited to have this personal piece on my biological father and my childhood daydreams featured in rebirth, the recent anthology by the selkie. 🍓

ebook link: theselkie.co.uk/product/rebi...
March 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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✨ Contributor and SLM Reader, @cassiemattheis.bsky.social , has an amazing book recommendation for you! 💫
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, recommended by Cassie Mattheis. Included the graphic is a photo of Cassie holding the book. Background is pale green and ecru to match the book cover.
March 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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february issue is gorgeous all around but this memoir in particular has stuck with me since the moment i laid eyes on it. it is so tender and beautiful ❤️ read and feast!
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Feb 15
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
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.
February 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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suffering through my second head cold of 2025 (already) but there are some little joys ☀️
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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food for thought question recycled from my twitter: as a writer on trauma themes, where’s the balance between shock value and emotional resonance? how do you express trauma without sounding purely shocking and how do we know when a trauma is ready to be written about?
February 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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trying to move with the (strange and unsettling) times by giving bluesky a shot 🦋 hi, i heard it can be nicer here!
January 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM