The Fam Roundup: December 2023 & January 2024
December and January might be cold, dark months, but the Split Lip FAM was shining bright! Check out all these amazing accomplishments from our contributors and staff:
Books
Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s chapbook EVERYWHERE, TONY DANZA, winner of the 2023-24 CutBank Chapbook Contest, dropped in January.
Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee won the Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry for her second poetry collection, BANANA HEART, forthcoming Fall 2024.
Social Media & Marketing Co-director SG Huerta’s nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF will be published by Fifth Wheel Press in January 2025.
Contributor Talia Tucker debut was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews.
Contributor Shane McCrae’s collection was reviewed for The Guardian poetry roundup.
Contributing Editor Becky Robison’s book MY PARENTS ARE DEAD: WHAT NOW? will be published by Quirk Books in fall 2025.
Memoir Reader Ashley Anderson’s debut essay collection is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press in 2026.
Contributor Venita Blackburn’s debut novel DEAD IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA was released in January with MCD Books.
She was profiled in the LA Times.
She spoke with Mateo Askaripour at Books Are Magic.
She was interviewed by SLM contributor Rachel León for Electric Literature and by Marielle Rudi for The Vulture.
Contributor Erin Dorney released a new book object, featuring a found poem made from the book FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC: "The Usual Arteries" from Illuminated Press.
Poetry Reader Saba Keramati’s poetry collection SELF-MYTHOLOGY is available for pre-order from UArkansas.
Contributor Cavar’s debut novel FAILURE TO COMPLY is now available for pre-order at Featherproof. It drops Aug. 6, 2024.
Contributor Elisa Gabbert’s book ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF is out June 11 and available for pre-order.
Contributor Michael Chang’s chapbook TOY SOLDIERS is forthcoming with Abode Press.
Contributor Chloe Chun Seim’s illustrated novel-in-stories CHURN was published by Texas A&M University Press.
Contributor Gina Chung’s amphibious collection GREEN FROG comes out on March 12 from Vintage Anchor.
Contributor Diannely Antigua’s poetry collection GOOD MONSTER (Copper Canyon Press) is forthcoming May 2024.
Pre-orders opened for contributor KB Brookins’ debut memoir, which will drop in May 2024 (AA Knopf).
Publications, Interviews, & Reviews
SLM Contributor Ivelisse Rodriguez interviewed Melissa Rivero for BOMB Magazine.
Contributor Meg Pokrass published a story with Passages North.
Flash Reader Christina D’Antoni’s story was published in Heavy Feather Review.
Contributor Łukasz Drobnik wrote a foreword about Woolf’s “Monday or Tuesday.” You can (re-)read the classic piece with the humble foreword at Scratch Books.
Contributor Alejandro Varela’s story “The Six Times of Alan” appeared in The Hopkins Review.
Contributors Dare Williams and Sebastián H Páramo have poems in the latest issue of Poetry Northwest.
Contributing Editor Becky Robison’s story, “I Saw Goody Proctor Help the Devil Rotate a PDF,” can be found online or ordered as a zine at Paranoid Tree.
Contributor Ilana Masad talked with Debbie Urbanski about her novel AFTER WORLD for Esquire.
Contributing Editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s story was published in TriQuarterly.
Contributor and former Contributing Editor Chris Gonzalez, contributor Deesha Philyaw, and contributor Megan Giddings have work in the book 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg.
Contributor Kim Magowan had an index essay published in Craft Literary.
Contributor Amorak Huey’s poem was published in miCRo by the Cincinnati Review.
TONS of SLM fam were featured in The Boiler, including Amorak Huey, Dorothy Chan, and Christopher James.
Reader Tina Zhu and contributor Abbie Kiefer were published in the 50th anniversary issue of The JOURNAL (issue 47.1.).
Contributor Todd Dillard’s poem was published by Stone Circle Review.
Contributor/reader Carly Alaimo’s piece “I Don’t Want Me Either” was published in Phoebe Journal.
Her story, “Naked,” was published in The Offing Magazine.
Contributor Lucy Zhang had a story in Westerly Mag about selling faces.
Contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poem was published in Gulf Coast.
His work also appeared in Adroit Journal
Contributor KB Brookins was interviewed by Joss Lake for Electric Lit.
Social Media & Marketing Co-director SG Huerta had a flash fiction piece in Barrelhouse’s Latine Monsters issue.
Contributor Sudha Balagopal’s story “Stump” was featured in the McNeese Review.
Former Poetry Editor William Fargason had a poem in The Common.
Contributor KB Brookins’s essay is featured in Brevity’s Special Trans Experience Issue, which was guest edited by Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc.
Art contributor Arabella Proffer-Vendetta was quoted in The Guardia about death and dying.
Contributor Tyler Raso was published in Copper Nickel.
Tons of SLM FAM appeared in Passages North issue 45: contributor Joshua Garcia, Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee, contributor Moisés Delgado, and contributor Meg Pokrass.
Contributor Martha Silano had a poem in Vox Populi.
Reader Reema Rao-Patel had a story in Hayden's Ferry Review’s latest print issue.
Contributor Joshua García was interviewed by Laura Villwereal about his forthcoming collection PENTIMENTO for Letras Latinas.
Contributor Sudha Balagopal had a holiday-themed story in Khabar Magazine.
Contributor Amy Silverberg had new fiction in Pithead Chapel.
Contributor Leila Renee and Assistant Memoir Editor Jeneé Skinner were in Kenyon Review’s latest special issue.
Art Curator Michael Young’s work from his series, “Maybe Tomorrow,” was published in F-Stop Magazine for Dec/Jan issue.
Flash reader Dawn Miller had a story in Whale Road Review.
Flash Editor Amy Stuber has a story in Alt Current’s Best Small Fictions.
Contributor Davon Loeb published an essay in The Washington Post on body image and fatherhood.
Contributor Melissa Ragsly had a flash in Fractured Lit.
Contributor Steven Duong published a story in The Drift.
Reader Rebecca Ackerman had a reported piece on ethics in design education published by Fast Company.
Contributor Kristina Ten published a flash fiction piece in JMWW Journal.
EIC Maureen Langloss had a piece in Smoke Long Quarterly.
Fiction Editor Anna Cabe had a flash piece in Atticus Review.
Awards, Honors, & Other News
Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc was a fiction finalist for the 2023 Gold Line Press Chapbook Contest.
Contributor/reader Carly Alaimo’s piece “possible future for our daughter #683” was selected by Sara Lippmann as a finalist for Fractured Lit’s flash fiction open.
Contributor Crystal Odelle won the Gold Line Press 2023 Nonfiction Contest for her chapbook TRANS STUDIES.
Contributor Taylor Byas had two poems selected as semifinalists for the most recent Crab Creek Review poetry contest.
Reader Dawn Miller’s new story, “Dead Whales were Washing Up on Beaches Everywhere,” was shortlisted for The Welkin Writing Prize.
Art curator Michael Young was a Fall 2023 Honorable Mention for the Innovate Grant.
Contributor and reader Steven Espada Dawson is now poet laureate of Madison Wisconsin.
Assistant Fiction Editors Analía Villagra and Ra’Niqua Lee are now NEA fellows, along with SLM interviewee Mary South.
Contributor Gina Chung won Asian Pacific American Librarians Association’s Adult Fiction Honor.
Social Media & Marketing Co-director SG Huerta read at the One Page Salon.
Assistant Memoir Editor Jeneé Skinner taught a workshop with Lighthouse Write in January.
Contributor Gabrielle Griffis is hosting an intergenerational book discussion of Ibram X. Kendi's STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING for Brewster Ladies Library.
Assistant Editor jj peña and reader Aureleo Sans are teaching a 4 week flash writing workshop. Sign up here: https://t.co/Y2DUiUPET9
Contributor Michael Hammerle won the December 2023 Flash Flood at the American Literary Review for his piece "Angel Numbers."
Split Lip News!
SLM was included in Chill Subs best lit mags list!