The Fam Roundup: August 2022

We need shades for how bright our Split Lip Fam shone this August! Check out all the fantastic publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff!

Books

• Alejandro Varela’s story collection, “The People Who Report More Stress” from Astra Publishing House, is available for pre-order

• Kaj Tanaka’s novella THE CARETAKERS is forthcoming through PANK in 2025

• John Jodzio’s chapbook, “This Was the Decade I Kept Getting Stabbed,” is forthcoming through Cupboard

• SJ Sindu’s short story collection “The Goth House Experiment” is forthcoming from Soho Press and was PM’s Deal of the Day

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “The Light Without,” was published in Beaver Magazine

• Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “Your Girlfriend as an Overturned Shopping Cart,” was published in Unstamatic

• Poetry Reader Raina K. Puels’s piece, “pink balloon,” was published in Porter House Review

• Gina Chung’s piece, “Rearrangements,” was published in Phillips Auction

• Flash Editor Eshani Surya’s piece, “To Come of Age,” was published in DIAGRAM

• Former Poetry Editor William Faragason’s piece, “My Father’s Ampersand,” was published in Narrative Magazine

• K. Iver’s piece, “Central Park,” was published in Poetry Northwest

• Mandana Chaffa interviewed Marisa Siegel for BOMB Magazine

• Sebastián H. Páramo’s piece, “Forgive Me, Brother,” was published in Bennington Review

• CD Eskilson and Managing Editor Wendy Oleson are both in the summer issue of Ninth Letter

• Maria Poulatha’s piece, “The Passions of Saint Markella,” was published in Bending Genres

• Jean-Luc Bouchard’s piece, “Pinned,” was published in Catapult

• Megan Giddings’s piece, “Melodrama,” was published in Triangle House

• Ursula Villarreal-Moura was interviewed by Shannon McLeod for TriQuarterly

• Former Poetry Editor William Fargason’s piece, “Passes to His Reward,” was published in Bruiser Mag

• Alejandro Varela was interviewed by Nicole Chung for The Atlantic

• Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s piece, “David Knows,” was published in Necessary Fiction

• Ariel Francisco’s four poems were published in Prelude Mag

• Davon Loeb’s op-ed was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer

• Assistant Fiction Editor Molia Dumbleton’s piece, “Pages from Before,” was published in Catapult

• Megan Giddings was interviewed by Stephanie Jimenez for The Rumpus

• Memoir Editor Krys Malcolmn Belc’s piece, “Uterus,” was published in Guernica

• Mandana Chaffa reviewed K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want for The Chicago Review of Books

• Megan Giddings’s piece, “A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger,” was published in Literary Hub

• Megan Giddings’s piece, “The Women Could Fly” was reviewed by The New York Times

• Brandon Taylor reviewed the new translation of Alejandro Zambra’s BONSAI for The New York Times

• Lynn Mundell’s piece, “Like a Stone,” was published in Five Minutes

• Kim Magowan’s piece, “Compensation,” was published in Ellipsis Zine

Awards, Honors, and News

• Mike Nagel has a column called “The Unintentionalist” with Little Engines

• Kristine Langley Mahler has a launch event on October 4, 2022 for “Curing Season”

• Social Media Director Wendy Wallace will be featured in the anthology “In Between Spaces” with Stillhouse Press

• Renny Gong is a finalist for the 2022 Adroit Prize for his short story, “Kissing My Father”

• Mark Galarrita has been promoted to publishing and marketing associate manager at Scribner

• Sabrina Hicks is the winner of Five South’s Spring 2022 Flash Fiction Contest for “All Water Holds a Memory”

• Poetry Reader Stella Lei was listed in Narrative Magazine’s “30 Below 30” list

• Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s flash, “Of Pork and Pedagogy,” is a Best of Net nominee

• Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee is a 2022 Voodoonauts Summer Fellow

• Simon Shieh’s forthcoming collection MASTER is the winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

• Megan Giddings’s piece, “The Women Could Fly,” was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer’s best new August reads

• Troy Osaki is a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalist

• Print Issue Editor and Flash Editor Amy Stuber is a 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize winner for “Ghosts”

• Kristina Ten’s piece, “Fisherman’s Soup,” is a WSFA Small Press Award finalist

• Leia Penina Wilson’s piece, “Call the Necromancer,” was selected by Action Books for publication in 2025