The Fam Roundup: December 2019

No holiday break for the #SplitLipFAM! Our contributors and staff published tons of work in December—make some room on your reading list for these masterpieces.

Books

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s book The Natural Mother of the Child is forthcoming from Counterpoint

• Melissa Ragsly’s manuscript We Know This Will All Disappear has won [PANK]’s Book Contest

• Julian K. Jarboe’s book Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is now available for pre-order

• Alicia Cole’s poetry chapbook The Way We Swarm is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press later this year

• SLM Reader Jules Archer’s collection Little Feasts is now available for pre-order

• Joanna C. Valente’s poetry collection Killer Bob: A Love Story will be published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in 2021

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Assistant poetry editor William Fargason has two new poems in Diode

• C.C. Russell published “Another Convenience Store Love Story” in Pithead Chapel

  • Russell’s “On a Maddening Loop” was also published in Memoir Mixtapes

  • His story “Viscosity” was published in Gone Lawn

• Find Matt Rowan’s story “Resurrection Mary and the Transmigration of Souls” in Grimoire

• X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine published Sara Lippmann’s story “The Fall”

  • Her story “You and Your Depression” was also published in Maudlin House

  • On top of that, her story “Neighbors” appears in the latest issue of Gone Lawn

• Jellyfish Review published Kara Vernor’s flash “The Gingko”

• Read Melissa Goode’s micro “Husband or Electric Light” in New South Journal

  • Her story “The Winged Lion” appeared in Jellyfish Review

  • Paper Darts published her story “Demolition”

• Tommy Dean’s story “Hey, Sad Man” found a home in After the Pause

  • His story “When They Come” was published in Maryland Literary Review

  • Cleaver published his story “Lines So Sharp”

• Find Marvin Shackelford’s story “Big Bright Nothing” in the latest print issue of Cimarron Review

• Dylan Brie Ducey’s story “Bride of Hunger Artist” was published in Superstition Review

• Cathy Ulrich has been all over the place this month!

  • As Drunk Monkeys’ December Writer of the Month, she had five stories featured: “There Are Unseen Things Everywhere,” “Like the Depth of Parsley in Butter,” “We Used to Play with Baby Dolls,” “The Astronaut’s Wife Considers Perspective,” and “Being the Murdered Doll Collector”

  • Her story “Being the Murdered Mama” was published in Puerto Del Sol

  • Her story “She Doesn’t Anymore” was published in Trampset

  • She was interviewed on Neon Pajamas

• Read Rachel Mans McKenny’s list “Literal Evergreen Humor for Literal Evergreens” in Points in Case

• Melissa Ragsly’s story “Present Tense” was published in Lost Balloon

• Devin Kelly’s essay “Running Dysmorphic” was published in Longreads

• Find Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s poem “Bone Appendix” in the latest issue of Poetry Magazine

• Two of Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poems can be found in the most recent print issue of AGNI

• Social Media/Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison’s flash “A Woman Possessed” was published in Passages North

• Read Meg Pokrass’ story “Specialist” in Bending Genres

  • Her micros “Level Two” and “Extra Terrestrial” were also published in Gone Lawn

• Two of Dorothy Chan’s “Triple Sonnets” are in the latest issue of Crab Orchard Review

• Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber’s micro “A Tree That May in Summer Wear” was published in The Cincinnati Review

  • Find her story “More Fun in the New World” in the latest print issue of Ninth Letter

• Erin Calabria’s flash “Seedling” found a home in Milk Candy Review

• Read Marcos Gonsalez’s essay “Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen” in Literary Hub

• Tiny Molecules published Howie Good’s micro “The Great Chain of Unbeing”

• Tiny Molecules also published Christopher James’ flash “Water”

• Read Kat Moore’s story “Photo of a Nine-Year-Old Girl Smoking” in CRAFT

  • Her piece “The Big One” was also published in DIAGRAM

• Ashley Burnett’s story “Emotional Labor Hotline” was published by Queen Mob’s Teahouse

  • Her story “We Went to the Microzoo” was also published in Lammergeier

• Read nine micros by Scott Garson in Electric Literature

• SLM Reader Janelle Bassett’s story “Janine” was published by Maudlin House

  • Her story “The Swaddle” was also published by X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s “My Son’s Body Double Does Not Understand Why She Is Even Here” found a home in Paper Darts

• Elisa Gabbert’s poem “That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die” was published in the latest print issue of A Public Space

• Anti-Heroin Chic published Helen McClory’s flash “Helpless, Helpless, Helpless”

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poem “In My Twenties, I Walked Slow” found a home in the latest print issue of Ninth Letter

• Read Jessie Lynn McMains’ piece “in the summer/it’s a pity” in Memoir Mixtapes

• Wigleaf published Amber Sparks’ flash “What It’s Like to Be a Writer”

• torrin a. greathouse’s poem “My Mouth is the Mouth of a River” won Redivider’s Beacon Street Prize

• SLM Reader Sara Ryan’s piece “Violet Bloom” was published by Redivider

• Contributing editor Tyrese L. Coleman interviewed author Claire Rudy Foster for Electric Literature

• Lost Balloon published Shasta Grant’s flash “Far From Home”

• SLM Reader Jules Archer’s story “The Ice Cream Cone” was published by Trampset

• Donna Vorreyer reviews Molly Spencer’s If the House for Tinderbox Poetry Journal

• Pia Ghosh-Roy’s story “There Are Always Two Deaths” was published in the latest print issue of Prairie Schooner

• Read Kristine Langley Mahler’s “What Happened on 12/21/19” in Essay Daily

  • Her piece “MÄDCHENFÄNGER” was also published in DIAGRAM

• Kim Magowan’s story “Redux” was published in Cleaver

• Cleaver also published two flash pieces by Savannah Slone

Awards, Honors, and News

• We’re co-sponsoring Love Lit: A Valentine’s Day Salon in D.C. on 2/14, hosted by our own contributing editor Tyrese L. Coleman

• Former Reviews/Interviews editor Kelly Flynn is going to be a Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow next summer

• Kristine Langley Mahler’s erasure essay collection Teen Queen Training was a semifinalist for Seneca Review’s Lyric Essay Book Prize

• Several #SplitLipFAM members ended up on 2019 “best of” lists:

  • Cathy Ulrich’s Ghosts of You made Book Riot’s Indie Press Round-Up: 5 Great Books from 2019

  • Kenneth Lee’s SLM memoir “Track Changes in English” and Elisa Gabbert’s “Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time” made Entropy’s Best Online Articles & Essays 2019

  • Elisa Gabbert’s Paris Review essay “The Uncanny Child” made Longreads’ Best Essays of 2019

  • Jennifer Wortman’s book This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. and Melissa Matthewson’s book Tracing the Desire Line made Independent Book Review’s 30 Impressive Indie Books from 2019

  • Brandon Taylor’s story “The Kings of Norway” and Julian K. Jarboe’s story “Self Care” made Entropy’s Favorite Online Fiction & Short Stories 2019