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It's the final stretch! We've been posting the types of work we'd like to see for slips slips #3 ("Distractions") - but, if it's not clear, we're open to whatever you have in mind. The deadline is the end of the month: August 31. Visit slipsslips.net for full info. What will you distract us with???

Design? Visual experiments of all sorts: typography, graphics, information, other. We publish short-form work with big ideas. The theme is Distractions: How do you guide the eye? What that means is up to you. Send your design-based proposals or images by August 31! More info at slipsslips.net.

As a poet, musician, and publisher, @skullhum.bsky.social is an all-around creative explorer. But as he demonstrates in his dialogue-poem “Parched,” there’s one frontier he won’t cross. Read the whole interview in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

Last month, an adventurous group of Flatbush community members and friends of slips slips came together to do the impossible: create an 8-page printed publication from scratch in under 2 hours. Learn how we pulled it off, and get a closer look at the result: slipsslips.substack.com/p/we-made-a-...

What could be stranger than reality? Memoir, criticism, observation, reverie or something utterly other - slips slips is looking for all manner of non-fiction essay reflecting our issue 3 theme of distractions. Send short-form work (500 words or less) before 8/31. Full details at slipsslips.net!

How can you resist the title, “Witty Banter About My Brain Tumor?” Sarah Wallock's piece in slips slips #2 provides just that, giving a dialogue-based glimpse into her incredible story, which you can read more about in her slips slips newsletter profile: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

slips slips offers graphic artists of all sorts a unique opportunity to experiment and play. We're excited to see your ideas for visualizing our issue 3 theme (Distractions) and discuss bold new approaches. Get full details on slipsslips.net and send up the signal for illustrators everywhere!

Do you write stories? Short ones? With words? As in, 500 of them or less? Submit to our upcoming issue of slips slips. Theme is Distractions. Deadline is Aug 31. Send us something? Full details on slipsslips.net. And tell your fellow storytellers that we want to hear the stories they have to tell.

As a longtime theater critic and librettist, it's no surprise @davidcote.bsky.social is attracted to the messy tangibility of slips slips—as with the stage, you can expect to get your hands dirty if you want to engage. Check out his profile in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

Sequential artists. Gag tableau specialists. People who draw wild stuff in a vaguely narrative format. In a word, CARTOONISTS! We want your short-form but indelible work on the theme of DISTRACTIONS. No style restrictions. Visit slipsslips.net or DM with questions, and please spread the word!

This week’s profile flashback features NYC-based writer/photographer Lynne Burns, whose use of slips slips as an excuse to reach out to old friends demonstrates how printed paper still has the power to keep us all connected. slipsslips.substack.com/publish/post... (Photo credit: Herb Atkins)

Reminder that next week we're collaborating with the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to stage a one-of-a-kind event: We're gonna make a newspaper in an hour and a half. How will it go? Depends on how many of you show up. Learn more in our latest newsletter post: slipsslips.substack.com/p/lets-make-...

We're seeking submissions for our 3rd issue (theme: DISTRACTIONS) until August 31, and today we're focused on POETS. Any form, style, layout, so long as it's 500 words or less. Concrete, abstract, prose, impossible to describe - we want to see it all. Details at slipsslips.net. Spread the word!

In this week's profile flashback, get to know @nycavri.bsky.social: an American raised in England, a published designer of board games, and a writer across mediums whose work has received acclaim from no less than crime writer Lawrence Block. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

Upcoming event: We're partnering with the Flatbush branch of @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on something reckless and exciting: Creating and printing a creative newspaper from scratch in 90 minutes! Brooklyn Public Library Flatbush Thu 7/23, 6-7:30pm RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/let...

Get the full report on our recent Rush-Hour Literary Happening with @datavandals.bsky.social - two hours of creative commotion on a sweltering summertime subway platform: slipsslips.substack.com/p/sweaty-swa...

Whether you're in NYC or abroad, tune in tonight to see how this weird experiment turns out! A dozen readers, free copies for all! Meet us at @datavandals.bsky.social newsstand gallery on downtown 6 train platform at 51st & Lex, or check out the streaming link: www.youtube.com/@DataVandals...

“MAKE WRITING HURT AGAIN,” proclaims the website of two-time slips slips contributor @kawaishen.bsky.social. She's similarly uncompromising when answering questions for our newsletter profile - if we want to make change, it's gonna hurt a bit. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...

@emenez2.bsky.social is the subject of the latest contributor profile in our newsletter, blips blips. We promise you will never in a million years guess what piece of advice she is referring to in the quote here. See her answers to all our impertinent questions at slipsslips.substack.com

We're hosting a rush-hour takeover of the @datavandals.bsky.social Newsstand, an art gallery in the NYC subway system! Drop by to pick up a free copy and listen to some great amid with the bustle of Manhattan. Downtown 6 train platform at 51st St. Fri 6/26, 7-9pm partiful.com/e/Yu1jT93eIL...?

2pm ET today I will be reading my flash fiction story “Your Untitled Masterpiece” as part of a @slipsslips.bsky.social event. Folks can tune in here: vimeo.com/event/597350...

Our first (late) live event celebrating slips slips #2! Come join us in NYC (limited seating, hit us up for deets!) or live online for readings and presentations from more than a dozen of our NYC contributors around the theme of "Dialogues." Sun 6/7, 2pm. Streaming link: vimeo.com/event/597350...

Our newsletter today provides some background and insight on why we chose "Distractions" as the theme of our upcoming third issue. Submissions are open through the summer, so read on to learn more about what we're looking for and how to send us your short-form written or visual work!

Submissions for slips slips #3 are open through the summer! Creators of all stripes, please send us your short-form written or visual work of any sort, on the theme of.... um... uh... DISTRACTIONS. Reach out if you have any questions, and, you know, we'll try not to forget to answer.

Please consider following our newsletter (slipsslips.substack.com), which focuses on taking a deeper dive into the work and thoughts of our many contributors (more than 80 in issue #2)! Our most recent profile contains powerful wisdom and inspiration from @julialeebarclay.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a short comic about my pen-pal days published in @pencilmagazine.bsky.social #3: The Letter Writing Issue. I also put a call for new correspondents in @slipsslips.bsky.social #2, as it turns out I greatly miss writing letters. If it sounds interesting, why not drop me a line?

A primer on our publication, precisely pitched to the tenor of our times. Because nothing resonates these days like faux-primitif gestures toward early 20th-century typographic experiments!