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Monmita Chakrabarti
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Essayist with stage fright.
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"Sometimes, I watch videos to learn the Bengali alphabet, writing the letters in my journal, then give up and forget within the next week."

Enjoy @monmita.bsky.social's essay, MICRO, from our OCTOBER ISSUE before it hits the archives 💕: buff.ly/FlseDZ6
A toy SUV with the trunk open.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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@monmita.bsky.social's essay MICRO explores the searing microaggressions interwoven through the pressure of popularity and conformity. Here they share just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/SaJUyG5
The author on a tree swing in an orange dress.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Without further ado, here are our wonderful nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize! ❤️ 👏 buff.ly/r1wftay
Split Lip Magazine's Pushcart Nominations! Poetry: Ally Ang, "From Holes We Emerged, and into Holes We Shall Return." Mingyu Brian Chan, "Haiku Where I Lay / With OCD, Obsessing / Over Syllables." Fiction: Priyanka Champaneri, "Good Neighbor." Max Wheeler, "Abatement." Memoir: Monmita Chakrabarti, "Micro." Kimaya Diggs, "Jump In."
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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love the pacing of this essay so much. everyone should read it, i felt grateful that editing it meant reading it a number of times.
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Oct 20
"This is the problem, isn’t it? They always think we want to be them, are jealous of them."

Find monmita.bsky.social's poignant memoir piece MICRO in our OCTOBER ISSUE: buff.ly/IuT1GnW
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
"This is the problem, isn’t it? They always think we want to be them, are jealous of them."

Find monmita.bsky.social's poignant memoir piece MICRO in our OCTOBER ISSUE: buff.ly/IuT1GnW
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 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