😍 It's such a joy to celebrate our literary community this year at #AWP25. So happy to see contributors Joshua Garcia, Crystal Odelle, Aidan Tojino, & Samina Najmi with our amazing staff @ziskayt@krysmalcolmbelc & @annablabs 😍
ALT Krys Malcolm Belc and Crystal Odelle at AWP
ALT Joshua Garcia and AJ Jolish at our AWP table
ALT Samina Najmi & Anna Cabe at AWP with great smiles!
ALT Anna Cabe and Aidan Tojino at our AWP table. More smiles!
In our ongoing interview series, AJ Jolish chatted with Split Lip’s very own Analía Villagra about tarot, temporality, and the perfect places to read. buff.ly/3ZfWwwL
ALT Analía stands in a field of rocks with mountains lying low in the background. She is wearing a hat and athletic clothes and smiling against a blue sky
"She was not the kind of person to go quietly, so I wanted to make a little noise in her honor." In our ongoing interview series, SLM intern @Ziskayt talks with fiction editor @hazmatcat about childhood, superpowers, and more: buff.ly/3KRRRee
ALT A childhood photo of fiction editor Janelle Bassett
“Jane froze.
Something was touching her leg. Something soft was touching her leg. She closed her eyes, counted to ten, and then looked down.”
from “The Dawn of the Cat Lady” by AJ Jolish (SC ’25) 🐈⬛
agave-review.com/dawn-of-the…
This excerpt is from the poem “Ode To A Box Filled With Smaller Boxes” by Adi Jolish @Ziskayt, at @urbanschool, an Honorable Mention in this year's High School Anthology Contest, judged by @higeorginamarie.
Register here for the launch: tinyurl.com/mpchighschool#youthpoetry
me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles
god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying
i made my own embroidery based on @ziskayt’s design!! mine isn’t as good but i really liked hers so i needed to remake it!! i’m filling the spaces of the d20 with the colors of the seasons.