The Fam Roundup: April 2023

April came and went, but the Split Lip FAM will shine forever! Check out what our contributors and staff were up to last month:

Books

• Alejandro Varela’s short story collection The People Who Report More Stress was released April 4th by Astra House

• A story from his collection “All the Bullets Were Made in My Country” appeared in LitHub

• Former contributing editor Chris Gonzalez interviewed him for Electric Lit

• Read a review in Chicago Review of Books

• Read another review in Boston Globe

• Monica Brashears’ novel House of Cotton was published April 4th by Flatiron Books

• Read a review in The New York Times

• Read another review in NPR

• Ashia Ajani’s chapbook Heirloom was published April 18th with Write Bloody Publishing

• Simon Shieh’s debut poetry collection Master is available for pre-order with Sarabande Books

• Fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s debut collection Perfect Little Angels is forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press

• His story “Mama’s Lullabies” was a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Bronwen Wallace Short Fiction Prize

• Maggie Su’s debut novel Terrestrial is forthcoming with Harper

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s collection Leaving Biddle City is forthcoming with Sarabande Books

• Cathy Ulrich’s Small, Burning Things is forthcoming and available for pre-order by Okay Donkey Press

  • Her flash “Those Little Rising Lights” appeared in Reckon Review

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Deesha Philyaw’s flash essay “Whiting” appeared in Short Reads

•  She is also leading a seminar with the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College

• Fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s flash “The Frame” is in The Los Angeles Review

• Memoir reader Camille U. Adams’ essay “I Wrestle, I Rant But Writing Has Agency And Completes What I Can’t” was published in Reckon Review

• Allegra Hyde’s The Last Catastrophe and Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress were featured by NY Times Books

• Poetry reader Erin Little’s poem “Interrogation” was published in Verse of April

• Poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson’s poems can be found in Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance

• Darren C. Demaree’s poem “Domestic Mannerism” appeared in Moon City Review

• Abigail Oswald’s fiction piece “Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew” was published in Baltimore Review

• Mandana Chaffa interviewed Evie Shockley for Electric Lit

• Matthew Tuckner has 2 poems in Sixth Finch

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay “Unlearning the Ableist Writing Workshop” was published in ANMLY and featured in Memoir Monday

• Tyler Raso has three poems in Foglifter

• K. Iver’s poem “Dog Mountain” appeared in Bat City Review

• Contributors Sara Lippmann and Cortney Lamar Charleston are in the New Voices Project anthology

• Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans has a review by Claire Messud for Harper’s

• Aurielle Marie’s essay “Poems as World Building and Necessary” is in The Offing

• Devin Kelly has two poems in Good River Review

• Gina Chung was interviewed by Mira Jacob for LitHub

• Beth Gilstrap’s micros from “There Is News along the Ohio River” appeared in Cincinnati Review

• jason b crawford’s poem “asters” was published RHINO 

• Josh McColough’s essay “Dislodged” is in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

• Fiction reader Molly Andrea-Ryan’s “A Problem of Other Minds” appears in Overheard Lit

• Tommy Dean has two micros in Peatsmoke

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s “The Chipmunk” appears in ROOM Magazine

• Fiction reader Reema Rao-Patel’s flash “We Americans” was published in Flash Frog

• Former assistant flash editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s “Nothin’ But a Couple of T-Shirt Eaters” is in The Lumiere Review

• “Let Me Hold What Once Held You. Let Me Make What Once Held You Hold Me. Let Me Hold, Let Me Make the Memory of Us Together” appeared in Paranoid Tree

• Pedro Ponce’s “Matinee” was published in Roi Fainéant Press

• Flash reader J.B. Stone’s “Ceiling Fan Blues” was published in Citron Review

• Memoir reader SG Huerta curated folio #36 :: it’s a good day to be trans for ANMLY

• They were also selected for VONA Voices’ experimental forms workshop

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “On Having a Loud Ass-Mouth” is the winner of the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry

• Her poem “Men” was published in ANMLY

• Her Bayou Magazine poem “I Cancel Your Plane Tickets” nominated for Best New Poets 2023

• Her Jet Fuel Review poem “Kyrielle with the Crown Jewels” was also nominated for Best New Poets 2023

• Fiction reader Rebecca Ackermann has an article about AI in The LA Times

Awards, Honors, and News

• Taylor Byas received her Ph.D. in English at University of Cincinnati

• Memoir reader Elijah Sparkman was named a Distinguished Finalist in Fiction for the 2023 Lighthouse Lit Fest Fellowships

• Camille U. Adams has joined the prose team at Abode Press

• She also joined The Account as Assistant Nonfiction Editor

• Michelle Ross is now on the editorial team at 100 Word Story

• Kathy Fish judged the Micro Madness 2023 flash contest for Flash Frontier

• Contributor KB Brookins is lead a two-part class on building an author platform

• Print issue assistant editor jj peña and poetry reader Saba Keramati are the winners of the 92NY Poetry Center Discovery Contest

• Assistant poetry editor CD Eskilson was nominated for Best New Poets 2023 by Beloit Poetry Journal

• Former flash editor Eshani Surya is leading an 8-week workshop on finding voice in fiction

• Lena Crown is the Olive B. O’Connor Writing Fellow in nonfiction this fall at Colgate University

• Casey Mulligan Walsh was featured in an article for HuffPost

• Ivelisse Rodriguez is now a board member for Abode Press

• Cortney Lamar Charleston is now hosting a monthly book giveaway

• Memoir reader Christina Berke made the longlist for Disquiet Literary’s nonfiction contest