The Fam Roundup: August 2020
August was once again an amazing month for the #SplitLipFAM! If you need something to read, never fear—there’s all this work from our contributors and staff.
Books
Alina Stefanescu’s chapbook Ribald is forthcoming from Bull City Press
Kathy Fish and Jill Talbot have work forthcoming in Bloomsbury’s Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology
Threa Almontaser’s book The Wild Fox of Yemen is now available for pre-order
Marcos Gonsalez’s book Pedro’s Theory is now available for pre-order
Elisa Gabbert’s book The Unreality of Memory is available now
Ariel Francisco’s collection Insomniami will be published in the 2020-21 Glass Chapbook Series
Leesa Cross-Smith’s novel Half-Blown Rose is forthcoming from Grand Central in 2022
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Diannely Antigua’s poems “Methods” and “Here’s the Thing” appeared in Hoxie Gorge Review
Ghost Parachute published Meg Pokrass’ story “The Spell”
Her story “Trophy Wife” was published in Vox Populi
Print issue editor Amy Stuber’s story “Tits” was published in Pithead Chapel
Kim Magowan’s piece “Irreconcilable Differences” found a home in Barren Magazine
Her story “I Hope You Know I Love You, Even Though” was published in Bull: Men’s Fiction
Davon Loeb’s piece “O.J. and the Wax Museum” was published in Barren Magazine
He was also interviewed in Superstition Review
Trampset published his piece “After-School Basketball Game”
His piece “Frontier Mother” was published by jmww
His piece “Pizza Friday” appeared in Maudlin House
Alina Stefanescu’s poem “My Mom & Her Monks” found a home in Barren Magazine
Her piece “Detailing” appeared in Hobart
Barren Magazine published Amorak Huey’s poem “Nocturne Wearing a Bird Suit”
His poem “Poems Autocorrects to Porns” appeared in Sporklet
Josh Denslow’s story “Classified” was published by Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Cathy Ulrich’s story “Smile Like You Mean It” was published by Rabid Oak
Her piece “The Ghost in This Story” appeared in Trampset
Burnt Breakfast published her piece “There is No Word for a Mother Who Has Lost a Child”
Her story “The Big Tricks” was published in Sweet Tree Review
Schuylkill Valley Journal published her piece “Shaped Like Swans”
Rejection Letters published her piece “Your Girlfriend as an Eternal Fire”
K-Ming Chang’s story “Swallower” found a home in The Boiler
Her story “Family: Orchid” appeared in Joyland
Her piece “Bittermelon face / 苦瓜臉” appeared in Wildness
Birdfeast published her story “My Cousin Vivian”
Her forthcoming novel Bestiary made Autostraddle’s list of “65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020”
The Boiler published Kat Moore’s piece “Trees, Monsters, Witches: Fragments of Being a Girl”
Poetry reader Megan Neville’s piece “Rotational Fall” was also published in The Boiler
Her piece “Read If I Die” appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Dorothy Chan has three poems in The Boiler
Erin Slaughter’s essay “Evidence of Burning” also appeared in The Boiler
Raven Leilani’s essay “Turning My Back on the Faith That Saved Me” was published in Vogue
An excerpt of her novel Luster appeared in Electric Literature
An excerpt of Luster also appeared in The Cut
Luster was reviewed in The A.V. Club
She was interviewed in Bomb
She was also interviewed in Datebook
Artnet published another interview with her
Luster was reviewed on NPR
Interview, predictably, interviewed her
Another interview was published by Write or Die Tribe
She was interviewed in The Rumpus by SLM contributor Monet P. Thomas
She appeared on The Maris Review podcast
Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life was reviewed in Financial Times
It was also reviewed in The Guardian
Brandon was interviewed in i-D
AnOther published an interview with him as well
He was also profiled in iNews
Fractured Lit published Kara Vernor’s story “Ants”
Lynn Mundell’s story “The Buried Keys to Nancy Drew” found a home in Monkeybicycle
Sabrina Hicks’ story “Writing Prompts and Changing Views” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Cheap Pop published her piece “Rock Collection”
Third Point Press published Joshua Shaw’s story “Parks and Wildlife”
Ellen Rhudy’s story “Residence” found a home in Bending Genres
Her story “The Body Forgets Herself” appeared in Story
Erin Calabria’s “The Porch” was published in Bending Genres
Bending Genres also published Tommy Dean’s story “Evidence from the Door Recorder”
His piece “Echolalia” appeared in Spartan Lit
Milk Candy Review published his story “Conjuring Distant Planets”
His micro “In This Drought” found a home in 100-Word Story
Fiction reader Janelle Bassett’s piece “Splash Patterns” was published in perhappened mag
The Paris Review published an excerpt of Elisa Gabbert’s new book The Unreality of Memory
Nate Marshall was profiled in The Chicago Tribune
His poem “when i say Chicago” appeared in Literary Hub
He curated a playlist for his collection Finna on Largehearted Boy
He was interviewed in Southeast Review
Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s “hot cheeto tongue” was published in Tahoma Literary Review
Pigeon Pages interviewed Melissa Ragsly
Lucie Britsch’s novel Sad Janet was featured in The New York Times
She was interviewed in Electric Lit
Her story “TV Idiots” appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Ariel Francisco’s translation of Jacques Viau Renaud’s poem “My homeland arose” appeared in The Acentos Review
Venita Blackburn’s story “Ground Fighting” was published in Story
Brian Leung’s piece “The Fish is Gone. But the Cake is Here” was also published in Story
Contributing editor Tyrese Coleman interviewed Curtis Sittenfeld about her new novel Rodham in Electric Lit
Sudha Balagopal had a piece published in the Zizzle Selects anthology for teens
Her piece “Fields of Study” appeared in Wildness
Chloe N. Clark’s book Collective Gravities was reviewed in Entropy
W. Todd Kaneko had two new poems published in Sporklet
DIAGRAM published four of his poems
His piece “Say it for Sour Patch Kids” found a home in Hobart After Dark
Jonathan Andrew Pérez’s micro “BASKETBALL: footnote¹” was published in Fractured Lit
His poem “Immigration” appeared in the latest print issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review
The Paris Review published the final essays in Jill Talbot’s “The Last Year” series:
Assistant poetry editor RIta Mookerjee was quoted in this article about trigger warnings from Iowa State Daily
Olatunde Osinaike’s piece “Etymology of Simp” appeared in Wildness
Devin Kelly’s piece “From a Window” was also published in Wildness
Jessie Lynn McMains was interviewed in Cotton Xenomorph
Jason B. Crawford had two new poems published in Pidgeonholes
Megan Giddings was interviewed in Story
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s collection All Heathens was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Her poem “December 1998” was featured in Poetry Daily
Zakiya Cowan had two new poems published in You Flower/You Feast
Former fiction editor Katie M. Flynn’s story “Proximate People” appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle
Jellyfish Review published Gina Chung’s story “Beach Day”
Kevin Sampsell had a piece published in the Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 anthology
Fiction reader Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s piece “It’s 5am-Ish, And My Father Tells Me A Story From His Time In Singapore” appeared in No Contact
No Contact also published Gale Acuff’s piece “Wheels/Light”
Kathy Fish’s story “The Show” was published in Spartan Lit
Hobart published Tyler Barton’s poem “Sixteen Hike”
Meghan Phillips’ series “It Came From the Bottom of the Lake (1954)” appeared in Fractured Lit
Poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “Sonnet of Little Faith” was published in Lit Magazine
Assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody was interviewed in Flash Monsters, where they also reran her story “River of Running Lava”
Henry Goldkamp reviewed Tracy Fuad’s PITH for DIAGRAM
Awards, Honors, and News
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross’ manuscript Inadequate Methods of Self-Preservation is a fiction finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ 2020 Hudson Prize
Jason B. Crawford’s manuscript The Year of the Unicorn Kidz is a poetry finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ 2020 Hudson Prize
Dorothy Chan and recent poetry contest judge Chen Chen are finalists for The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship
Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez signed with agent Ashley Lopez at Waxman Literary Agency
Brandon Taylor is judging this year’s Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Pedro E. Ponce has won Indiana Review’s Don Belton Fiction Prize with his manuscript The Devil and the Dairy Princess
Justin Jannise’s poem “Flamingosexual” won the 2020 Pinch Literary Award
Beth Gilstrap is teaching a short fiction class for Loft Literary in October
Michelle Ross’ collection Shapeshifting won Still House Press’ 2020 Short Story Contest
Kaj Tanaka is teaching a flash fiction class for Grackle & Grackle starting this month
Dorothy Chan, Rita Mookerjee, Jessica Q. Stark & Zakiya Cowan are all on the masthead for the new journal Honey Literary