The Fam Roundup: April 2022

Normally we would have posted the April roundup a little earlier, but the end of May was so hectic! Don’t worry—now we can all take a breather and give this amazing work from our contributors and staff the attention it deserves.

Books

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s chapbook Inheritances of Hunger is now available from River Glass Books

• Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s novel Like Happiness is forthcoming from Celadon Books

• Kristine Langley Mahler’s essay collection Curing Season is now available for pre-order from West Virginia University Press

• Zach VandeZande’s story collection Lesser American Boys is now available for pre-order from Mason Jar Press

• Michelle Ross’ story collection They Kept Running is now available from UNT Press

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Assistant fiction editor Molia Dumbleton’s story “Thin-Layer Chromatography Day” was published in Pithead Chapel

• Fiction editor Anna Cabe appeared on an episode of the Micro podcast via Literary Hub

  • Anna’s micro “For All These Traces” was published in Cincinnati Review

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s chapbook Inheritances of Hunger was reviewed on the Notes App Novelist blog

  • Stella’s poem “My Neighbors Make a Ghost” won 2nd place in Narrative’s High School Writing Contest

  • Fractured Lit published her piece “The Nomenclature of Flight”

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat was reviewed in Latino Book Review

• Nicholas Guerreiro’s play “The Funeral Plot” was featured at the Or Festival in Vancouver

• Shelby Hinte’s poem “<3 Your Biggest Stan” was published in Bending Genres

• The cover has been revealed for former flash contest judge Juan Martinez’s forthcoming novel Extended Stay

• Allegra Hyde’s novel Eleutheria made Wired’s list of “15 Books You Need to Read This Summer”

  • Eleutheria was also featured in The New York Times

• Gabrielle Griffis’ album Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is available now

  • CHEAP POP published her story “The Herbarium”

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s poems “Paradise” and “My Therapist Tells Me the Abuse Wasn’t Love” were published in Electric Lit

• Cathy Ulrich’s story “The Things We Found in Your Purse” found a home in Five South

  • Alien Magazine published her story “The Ghost Always Remains”

  • She appeared on an episode of Darren C. Demaree’s A Child Walks in the Dark podcast

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “Ode to the Pillars of the Overpass Bridge” appeared in the recent print issue of Lake Effect

  • His poems “First Plea” and “Waterline” appeared in the recent print issue of Ocean State Review

• Jessamine Chan appeared on an episode of the I’m a Writer But… podcast via Literary Hub

• Wigleaf published Kathy Fish’s story “Chicago”

• Josh Denslow’s story “Superposition” found a home in Okay Donkey

• Erin Slaughter appeared on an episode of the MFA Writers podcast

• Rachel Mans McKenny’s essay “Little Girls Get to Be Ingénues—What About Big Girls?” was published in Catapult

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s novel How High We Go in the Dark was reviewed in Locus

  • How High We Go in the Dark was on Esquire’s list of the best books of 2022 so far

  • Sequoia also appeared with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on an episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast via Literary Hub

• Todd Dillard’s poem “I Don’t Know I Don’t Know” was published in HAD

• Sara Lippmann’s collection Jerks topped the February/March SPD Fiction Bestsellers List

  • The cover for Sara’s forthcoming novel Lech was revealed in Debutiful

• Five South published Beth Gilstrap’s piece “There is News Along the Ohio River, IV-VIII”

  • Her story “Extraction” was published in Reckon Review

• Maria Poulatha’s story “Take One” was published in the recent print issue of Copper Nickel

  • Flash Frog published her story “The Scales”

• Elisa Gabbert’s poem “Oral History” found a home in The Atlantic

  • Her poem “In Nature” was published in The New York Review of Books

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s essay “After a Long Day, We Sat Down to Talk About My Diminished Ovarian Reserve, and Just Then You Found a Lump in Your Breast” was published in Pidgeonholes

• K. Iver’s poem “Boombox Ode: Enjoy the Silence” was published in The Adroit Journal

• Literary Hub published Steve Edwards’ essay “When Are Men Dangerous? On Agency, Imagination, and What a Teacher Can Do”

• John Jodzio’s story “Someone Broke My Windchime” appeared in Wigleaf

• Hannah Grieco’s essay “My husband and I don’t wear wedding rings – am I really giving him ‘permission to cheat’?” was published in The Independent

  • Her poem “So many things” was published in Nurture

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan appeared on an episode of Hanif Abdurraqib’s Object of Sound podcast

• Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s piece “When It Gets Cold in the South, You Get a Jesus, You Get a Jesus, Everybody Gets a Goddamn Jesus” was published in CRAFT

• Aurielle Marie’s poetry collection Gumbo Ya Ya was reviewed in Muzzle

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s flash “Candlelight” found a home in Hex

• Alina Stefanescu’s piece “Fourteen Variations on Silence: A Meditation on the Unheard” was published in Majuscule

  • Alina interviewed Solmaz Sharif for BOMB Magazine

• Tyler Barton’s story “Hourglass” appeared in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

• Ploughshares published work by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Threa Almontaser, and Shane McCrae in their latest print issue

• Bat City Review published work by assistant fiction editor Analía Villagra and assistant print issue editor jj peña in their latest print issue

• jj peña’s piece “mi corazón quiere cantar así” appeared in Fractured Lit

• Josh McColough’s piece “Dislodged” was published in The Missouri Review

• Sam Herschel Wein’s poem “Friendship Song” found a home in Muzzle

• Grace and Gravity published Amber Sparks’ piece “As They Always Are” in their From the Attic series

• Fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s story “The Stars Yet Undiscovered” was published in Peatsmoke

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s poems “Don’t Trifle with Baboon Queens” and “Kyrielle with the Crown Jewels” found a home in Jet Fuel Review

• Jet Fuel Review also published Martha Silano’s poem “Oh, Thumbelina”

• Kristina Ten’s story “Beginnings” was published in Fantasy Magazine

• Former assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “Made in Her Image” appeared in Milk Candy Review

• SG Huerta’s piece “Crash & Burn” was published in (mac)ro(mic)

• Poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson’s poem “in the dream things are as they should be” found a home in Southeast Review

• Peatsmoke published managing editor Wendy Oleson’s story “Dog Teeth”

Awards, Honors, and News

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia was selected for Lambda Literary’s 2022 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

• Megan Giddings has joined the MFA faculty at University of Minnesota

• Editorial assistant Jerilynn Aquino is a CNF winner of AWP’s 2022 Intro Journals Project

• Kathy Fish judged flash fiction for The Bridport Prize

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery received an outstanding faculty award from Bridgewater State University

• Brandon Taylor is a recipient of the New York Public Library’s 2022-23 Cullman Center Fellowship

  • Brandon’s collection Filthy Animals won this year’s Story Prize

• Dantiel W. Moniz is a finalist for the 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library

• Assistant fiction editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s manuscript Infinity Bound won Voyage’s Best Chapters Contest

• Abbie Kiefer was a semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest

• torrin a. greathouse is joining the Rainier Writing Workshop faculty

• Poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson is a 2022-23 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow