The Fam Roundup: August 2021

August was once again a brilliant month for the #SplitLipFAM! Check out all these publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff.

Books

• Tommy Dean’s collection Hollows is now available for pre-order from Alternating Current

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Donna Vorreyer’s piece “Striations” appeared in Pithead Chapel

• Hannah Grieco’s story “Maybe” was published in Fictive Dream

  • Her piece “How you can help your child learn to get organized, without yelling” was published in The Washington Post

• The Washington Post Magazine published former contributing editor Tyrese L. Coleman’s article “The Community of Brown Grove vs. Wegmans”

  • She also appeared on an episode of the Colors podcast to discuss that article

• Cathy Ulrich’s story “His Hands as Alphabet” found a home in LEON Literary Review

  • Oyster River Pages published her story “Nothing But Silence”

• Meghan Phillips’ piece “I Think About Vin Diesel When I Touch Myself” appeared in HAD

• Harpers published Venita Blackburn’s story “Black Communion”

  • The New Yorker published her flash “Halloween”

• Brandon Taylor reviewed Thora Hjörleifsdóttir’s Magma for Vulture

  • He was interviewed in The Adroit Journal

• Flash reader Jules Archer’s piece “This is a Story About Ada” found a home in Cotton Xenomorph

• Meg Pokrass’ story “Sandtrap” appeared in New World Writing

• Ellen Rhudy’s story “The Mystery of the Mislaid Girls” was published in Uncharted

• Bending Genres pbulished Beth Gilstrap’s essay “Don’t Let the Sound of Your Own Wheels Drive You Crazy”

• Poetry reader Raina K. Puels’ poem “So Crazy When Someone Gives U the Prompt ‘Tell Me Something You’ve Never Told Anyone’ Like Are You Out of Your Fucking Mind” found a home in HAD

• Marvin Shackelford’s piece “Am I Going to Die?” was published in Thin Air Magazine

• CRAFT published Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s piece “Dash”

• Ivelisse Rodriguez and Rhina Valentin co-wrote the play Sancocho, which recently premiered at Lincoln Center

• Crazyhorse published Allegra Hyde’s story “Mercy”

• Tyler Barton’s flash “To Attend” appeared in HAD

• Former editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones’ collection Turmeric & Sugar was reviewed in Bending Genres

  • She was interviewed in TriQuarterly

• Naomi Elias reviewed José Vadi’s Inter State for KQED

  • She spoke to Sandra Oh about The Chair for Netflix Queue

• Kathy Fish will have work featured in Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide & Anthology from Bloomsbury

• Oxford American published a story by Deesha Philyaw in their Fall Southern Literature issue

  • Deesha also appeared on Literary Hub’s Thresholds podcast

• Mandana Chaffa interviewed Kaveh Akbar for Chicago Review of Books

  • She reviewed Major Jackson’s The Absurd Man for The Rumpus

• Todd Dillard’s poem “Edna” found a home in HAD

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez interviewed Jaime Cortez for Electric Lit

• Former assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “How to Create a Golem” was published in Cotton Xenomorph

• Cotton Xenomorph published Kate Gehan’s story “Ice Melt”

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “The Night He Said I Love You” appeared in CRAFT

• Jennifer Wortman’s story “The Snore Code” was published in Pigeon Pages NYC

  • Lost Balloon published her story “True Love”

• Steve Edwards’ essay “Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life” was published in Literary Hub

  • The Sun Magazine published his essay “A Thousand Cups of Coffee”

• Elena Ramirez-Gorski’s poem “Abecedarian in which la Chillona uses her words” won the 2021 James Wright Prize in Poetry from the Academy of American Poets

  • Their poems “In memory of Paige and being 12” and “Visitation Hours” appeared in the lickety~split

• SJ Sindu’s Blue-Skinned Gods received a starred review from Publishers Weekly

• Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered

  • She was also interviewed in Electric Lit

• Monica Brashears’ story “Psalms of a Charred Summer” was published in The Masters Review

• Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “Magnolia Striptease” appeared in Kissing Dynamite

• Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s piece “good is all that is left of us” appeared in the latest print issue of Sonora Review

• Raven Leilani was interviewed in Lux Magazine

Awards, Honors, and News

• Jason B. Crawford won OutWrite DC’s Chapbook Contest for poetry

• Gaia Rajan’s manuscript Elsewhere won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and poetry reader CD Eskilson was a finalist

• Abigail Oswald is now a fiction editor at Longleaf Review

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc is judging fiction for So to Speak’s 2022 Contest Issue

• Several contributors were longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize: Marcos Gonsalez for nonfiction, Threa Almontaser for poetry, and Raven Leilani for fiction