The Fam Roundup: August 2019
We wrapped up summer in style. See what our staff and contributors have been up to and check out their new work — and their past pieces in our archives:
Books!
Cortney Lamar Charleston’s second collection Doppelgangbanger is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
Beth Gilstrap’s manuscript Deadheading & Other Stories has won Red Hen Press’ 2019 Women’s Prose Prize.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s manuscript Don’t Touch the Bones has won Lost Horse Press’ 2019 Idaho Prize for Poetry.
Leesa Cross-Smith’s Whiskey & Ribbons is now out in paperback.
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Alina Stefanescu published “If Death is a Dancer” in Dovecote.
Managing editor Amy Rossi’s story “If You Need Me, I Will Be Over Here Remembering When We Took a Zipcar to Connecticut” appears in Paper Darts.
Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber’s published “Dead? Yes, Dead” in Okay Donkey and “Only a Little Bit Less Than I Hate Myself” Longleaf Review
Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones’ story “Summer Love” is up at Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Ariel Francisco was interviewed in The Rumpus.
Ariel also published “Thinking I See a UFO Over the Everglades” and “Thinking I See a UFO Over East New York” in Cotton Xenomorph and read James Wright on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast.
Beth Gilstrap published “We Are All Michael Stipe in His Rolled-Up Shirtsleeves” in Pithead Chapel.
Brandon Taylor’s story “As Though That Were Love” appears in American Short Fiction.
Cathy Ulrich published “Anything But the Sky” and “To Float and Not Fall” in Sundog Lit and “The Ghosts at the Carwash Are Always Looking for Company” in Heavy Feather Review.
Cathy’s forthcoming book Ghosts of You was also reviewed in After the Pause.
Chaya Bhuvaneswar was interviewed in Kenyon Review.
Chloe N. Clark was interviewed by The Future Fire.
Harrison Geosits published “On Divine Manifestation” in Sundog Lit and “Peach Pit Mother” in Jellyfish Review.
Howie Good’s piece “Self Portrait, Shrugging” appears in Bending Genres.
Jacqueline Boucher’s poem “Toponym” is up at The Rupture.
Jennifer Wortman’s essay “On Prognostication” appears in Hobart.
Joanna C. Valente published “God of Loneliness” in So & So Poetry and “There Is No Gender” Berfrois.
Josh Denslow appears on episode 208 of This Podcast Will Change Your Life.
Kaj Tanaka published “The Vegetables of the Harvest” in Bending Genres.
Kathryn McMahon’s story “Pearls” is up at The Forge.
Contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s story “No Matter” was published in Lightspeed Magazine.
And “No Matter” in Lightspeed Magazine is Longform Fiction’s pick of the week!
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross published “The Present Moment” in Okay Donkey.
Kim Magowan’s story “Timed Test” also appears in Hobart.
Kristin Garth’s poem “Mad Honey” appears in PUSSY MAGIC.
Kristine Langley Mahler’s essay “In the Burnpile Behind the Old Nobles House” appears in Little Fiction.
Luis Lopez-Maldonado published “On Having 5 Jobs” in Dovecote.
Lynn Mundell’s story “Our Bright Lights On” is up at Milk Candy Review.
Marcos S. Gonsalez published “My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz” in Literary Hub.
Meg Pokrass published “I Married This” in CRAFT and “Wrongdoings” in Bending Genres.
Meghan Phillips was interviewed in New Flash Fiction Review.
Melissa Goode’s story “Night in Saint-Cloud” appears in matchbook.
Melissa Ragsly’s story “That Motherfucker” was published in Honey & Lime.
Melissa Wiley published “The Wolves of Yellowstone” in Bodega.
Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson published “Breaking the Chains” in Pithead Chapel and “Esperance” in Bending Genres.
Michelle Ross published “Dendrochronology” in Scoundrel Time and “Fertilizer” in Pithead Chapel.
Mike Nagel’s essay “Safe and Fun for the Whole Family” appears in Hobart.
Robert James Russell talks to APPAREL FOR AUTHORS on Instagram.
And Robert James Russell published “Woodson” in Little Fiction.
Sara Lippmann’s piece “Take What Comes” appears in Memoir Mixtapes.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay “Like Ice” is up at Pithead Chapel.
Sophie Paquette published “The Scariest Thing” in The Rupture.
Steve Edwards’ essay “Remembering Woodstock ‘94” is up at Longreads.
And Steve’s story “What Were You Even Looking At, Robert?” appears in Wigleaf.
Timea Balogh translated Márton Simon’s “Fox Wedding” for Hungarian Literature Online.
And Timea’s poems “The Shapes Our Tongues Make,” “Into Your Kidney” and “Versions” appear in Homonym.
Tommy Dean’s story “The Unsubtle Beating of Wings” appears in Bending Genres.
Tyler Barton’s story “Where the Rubies Live” appears Philadelphia Stories.
Valorie K. Ruiz published “Touch” in Jellyfish Review.
Awards, Honors, and News
Melissa Ragsly is a finalist and Sally J. Johnson, Kristine Langley Mahler, Michael Martone and Pete Stevens are semifinalists for Black Lawrence Press’ Spring 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition.
Ariel Francisco is the new translations editor for Vagabond City and will be visiting faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing and Publishing this December.
Brandon Melendez’s poem “Field Notes on Desire” has won an Academy of American Poets Prize.
Cathy Ulrich is the new fiction editor of Parentheses Journal.
Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez will be reading at Tattooed Mom in Philadelphia on 9/12.
Megan Giddings is judging Best of the Net.
torrin a. greathouse has won Redivider’s Beacon Street Prize Contest with her piece “My Mouth is the Mouth of a River.”
Savannah Slone has been nominated for Best of the Net by Okay Donkey
Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc will be reading at the Memoir Monday reading series on 9/16 in NYC.
Assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody’s work will be performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles on 9/8.
Tommy Dean has won Vestal Review’s VERA Award for his story “You’ve Stopped” in Pithead Chapel.
See you in October!