The Fam Roundup: April 2024

This April, the Split Lip community’s news and publications were more heartening and appreciated than ever. 

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Contributor ​​Steve Edwards’ essay “Yellow Band: A diagnosis alters a writer’s relationship to his work” was published in The Yale Review 

• Poetry reader Bleah Patterson’s poem “Some Key Episodes From My Earthly Life” was published in Barely South Review 

• Contributor Ilana Masad’s article “What the Author of Frankenstein Knew About Human Nature” was published in The Atlantic 

• Contributor Joshua Garcia was interviewed for the new issue of Adroit Journal

• Contributor K-Ming Chang published an excerpt from her novella Cecilia in Adroit Journal 

• Contributor Asa Drake’s poem “Poyo” was published in Adroit Journal  

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert published her poem “I Know a Man” along with four other poems in the American Poetry Review

• Contributor Shane McCrae’s poem “Race in Language” was published in Poetry Daily 

• Contributor Cathy Ulrich’s story “Some Have the Moon” was published in Emerge Journal

• Contributor Todd Dillard’s poem “Last Mow” was published in The Adroit Journal

• Contributor SarahFawn Montgomerys poem “Chronic Pain as Tidepool” was published in Lumina Journal

• Contributor and reader T. De Los Reyes’s poem “Someday I Want To Have The Courage Of Old People Who Ask Strangers Countless Questions” was published in ANMLY

• Fiction reader Michael Simonds’ story “Kneepads” was published in LatineLit Magazine

• Flash Reader Dawn Miller’s flash “The Wonder” was published in Atticus Review

• Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “On the Impossible Sadness of Ballet Plots” was published in The Account Magazine

• Assistant Poetry Editor CD Eskilson’s poems “Recipe for Roasted Broccoli" and “At the Midnight Show of Sleepaway Camp” were published in The Account Magazine

• Poetry reader Mack Rogers was published in the Spring 2024 issue of Pinch Journal

• His poem “after afterimages” was published in Redivider Magazine

• Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s poem “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was published in Redivider Magazine

• Contributor Steven Espada Dawson’s poem “When My Brother Visits We Play Hide and Seek”  was published in The Rumpus

• Former Assistant Memoir Editor Dr. Camille U. Adams’ forthcoming memoir How To Be Unmothered was featured in the The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian 

• Contributor Sudha Balagopal’s piece “Muddy Embarrassments”  was published in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

• Contributor Eliza Gilbert’s piece “From the Fort Behind the Conifers”  was published in The Kenyon Review 

• Contributor Ursula Villarreal-Moura was interviewed about her new book Like Happiness in an episode of the Debutiful podcast 

• Assistant Memoir Editor Jenee Skinner’s piece “Mother Goose” was published in Pleiades Magazine with an accompanying interview

• Flash Editor Janelle Bassett published a story in the 100th issue of Cutbank Literary Magazine

• Contributor and flash reader Razi Shadmehry’s poem “My Work” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine

• Contributor A.C. Koch’s story “Tibidabo” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine 

• Contributor Ina Carino’s poem “The Stomach is the Origin of All Ghosts” was published in The Rumpus 

• Contributor Mandana Chaffa published an interview with Katie Farris for BOMB Magazine 

• Contributor and flash reader Parth Shah’s piece “Defpotec” was published in Wigleaf 

• Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s piece “Of Scripts & Syntax” was published in latest issue of The New Quarterly

• Contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin’s poem “The Swan” was published in Abyss & Apex Magazine  

• His flash “Girl Woman | Woodsman Wolf” was published in Fractured Lit 

• Contributor Alina Stefanescu’s piece “Email with Subject Line Suffering” was published in the first issue of Hog River Press

• Contributor Michelle Ross’s piece “The Maternal Instinct of Snakes” was published in the Cincinnati Review

• Contributor Ilana Masad’s article “Six Cult Classics You Have to Read” was published in The Atlantic

• Contributor Emily Costa’s piece “Never Meant” was published in Major 7th Magazine

• Contributor Renny Gong’s story “Mother's Birthday” was published in The Blue and White

• Contributor Amorak Huey’s piece “My Father Loves Bill Murray, and I Think Maybe This Explains a Lot” was published in PitHead Chapel

• His poem “Poetry Is Not About the Price of Gasoline” was published in Okay Donkey Mag

• Contributor John Jodzio’s story “Free Ninja Stuff” was published in Pithead Chapel 

• Contributor Gaia Rajan’s poems “Blind Turn," “Chisel," and “Blur Atlas” were published in Diode Poetry Journal

• Contributor Mark Galarrita’s flash “There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodega" was published in Nightmare Magazine with an accompanying interview 

• Contributor Cathy Ulrich’s piece “Something About a Balloon” was published in Does It Have Pockets Magazine 

• Memoir reader Ashley Anderson was published in Quarter After Eight Volume 30  

• Contributor and Former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “The Houses We Share” was published in Third Street Review

• Poetry reader Saba Keramati’s poetry book Self-Mythology was recommended by Electric Lit 

• Contributor Joshua Garcia’s poetry book Pentimento was recommended by Electric Lit  

• Contributor K. Iver’s poem “Passing” was published by The Rumpus for the first day of National Poetry Writing Month 

Books

• Contributor Josh Denslow’s book Magic Can’t Save Us is forthcoming in spring 2025 with the University of New Orleans Press

• Contributor Shane McCrae’s book New and Collected Hell! is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February 2025

• Contributor Darren C. Demaree revealed the cover for his new book So Much More forthcoming with Harbor Review in November 2024 

• Contributor Monica Brashears’ book Lonesome Holler is forthcoming with Flatiron Books

• Contributor and reader Vincent Anioke’s debut short story collection Perfect Little Angels is out now with Arsenal Pulp Press

• Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett’s book Thanks For This Riot had a cover reveal– preorder here

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer’s chapbook Brief Histories is available with Whittle Micro Press 

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Flash Editor Amy Stuber is on the The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest shortlist  

• Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s book Leave A Funny Message At The Beep is on the longlist for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize  

• Contributor Monica Brashears is a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions prize

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s short story “The Good Mother” won the 46th Toronto Star Short Story Contest

• Contributor K. Iver’s Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco was featured as the New York Public Library’s book of the day

• Managing Editor Wendy Olsen’s chapbook Everywhere, Tony Danza was featured as Shorter is Better Book Club’s May pick

• Contributor Gina Chung will be  guest judging the Best Emerging Writers Anthology for The Masters Review