Athena Dixon
@athenadixon.bsky.social
Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction/Hybrid Editor for Split/Lip Press. Rep: Danielle Bukowski. Philly via Ohio.
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Athena Dixon
@athenadixon.bsky.social
· Jan 22
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!
Just about a month left to submit!
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!
@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!
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just about a month left to submit!
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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!
@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!
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!
@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!
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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 !
September 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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!
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!
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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...
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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...
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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...
September 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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...
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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
September 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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Heads up that on Monday, we'll be opening up READER APPLICATIONS to join @athenadixon.bsky.social's nonfiction/hybrid reading team this October--if that should be you, keep your eyes peeled!
September 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Come join us!
Big opportunity alert: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Creative Director!
More details at the app link in our bio ( splitlippress.submittable.com), but everyone's favorite point to note:
*yes we pay*
Really looking forward to hearing from you all!
More details at the app link in our bio ( splitlippress.submittable.com), but everyone's favorite point to note:
*yes we pay*
Really looking forward to hearing from you all!
May 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Come join us!
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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
April 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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
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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.
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
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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!
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/
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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!
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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/
March 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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/
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Day 33 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @athenadixon.bsky.social on Beauty & Balance
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February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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!!!
February 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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!!!
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!
January 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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!
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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]
Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]
December 5, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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]
Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]
Two more days to submit your manuscripts 🚨🚨🚨🚨
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!
November 29, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Two more days to submit your manuscripts 🚨🚨🚨🚨
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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....
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…
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November 20, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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....
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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
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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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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November 19, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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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
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!
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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!
November 15, 2024 at 3:28 AM
I’ll likely be just as quiet here as I was over there but I’ll try!