The Fam Roundup: December 2021
Unsurprisingly, the #SplitLipFAM ended the year in style. Bask in the glory of all these December publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff!
Books
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat is available now from SFWP
Marcos Gonsalez’s book Hanging Out With You is forthcoming from Beacon Press
Gina Chung’s novel Sea Change and collection Green Frog are forthcoming from Vintage/Anchor
Dave Housley’s novel The Other Ones is now available for pre-order from Alan Squire Publishing
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez was interviewed in Electric Lit
He was featured in Creators Hub’s “The Best Writing Advice of 2021”
His collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat was featured in The New York Times
His collection also made Independent Book Review’s “35 Impressive Indie Press Books of 2021” list
Former reader Christopher Louis Romaguera wrote about I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat in Ploughshares
He was also interviewed in The Rumpus (by contributor Hannah Grieco) and in PEN America’s “The PEN Ten” series
Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat madeTime’s list of “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021”
Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat, Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals, former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat, and Tyler Barton’s Eternal Night at the Nature Museum made Electric Lit’s “Favorite Short Story Collections of 2021” list
Tyler Barton’s story “County Map (Detail)” found a home in the latest print issue of Southern Indiana Review
K-Ming Chang, Dantiel W. Moniz, Vi Khi Nao, Raven Leilani, Leesa Cross-Smith, Tatiana Ryckman, Brandon Taylor, former reader Jules Archer, Emma Ramadan, Deesha Philyaw, and Megan Giddings made Entropy’s list of “Best of 2020-2021: Best Fiction Books”
K-Ming Chang’s story “Filet-O-Fish” was published in Electric Lit
Deesha Philyaw’s collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies was featured in a recent Craft Talk newsletter by Jami Attenberg
Marcos Gonsalez’s book Pedro’s Theory made Electric Lit’s “Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021” list
HAD published Hannah Grieco’s piece “Make Like a Tree and Leave”
She and Kelly Belter’s story “erase it, erase it, erase it” appeared in 7x7
She interviewed Jennifer Fliss for Barrelhouse
Gina Chung’s story “The Sound of Water” was published in Indiana Review
Vincent Anioke’s story “Perfect Little Angels” won The Puritan’s 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize
Alejandro Varela was interviewed in Shelf Awareness
Gabrielle Griffis’ chapter “How Repair Events at Libraries Can Build Social Infrastructure and Create Sustainable Culture” appeared in ALA Editions’ Libraries & Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact
Robert James Russell’s story “Recreation” was featured on the Story Works Reading Series podcast
Former flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s piece “A Year in Gay Bars” was published in The New Yorker
Tommy Dean’s stories “Paper Saints,” “The Origami Museum” and “Nebraska” found a home in FRiGG
The Rumpus published Alina Stefanescu’s piece “The Statue”
Poetry Daily published her poem “Byline, Be Sky”
Treasurer/flash reader Ruth LeFaive has work in the Best Women’s Short Fiction 2021 anthology from Mslexia
Elisa Gabbert’s piece “A Field Guide to Productivity Apps” was published in The Believer
She curated The New York Times’ list of “The Best Poetry of 2021”
Jennifer Wortman’s story “A Man Like That” was published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Ilana Masad reviewed Faith Jones’ Sex Cult Nun for NPR
Ilana curated them’s list of “Queer Books We Loved in 2021,” which featured contributor SJ Sindu
Fiction reader Nicole Tsuno’s piece “Candy Coated” appeared in HAD
Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s piece “The Telling and Showing Ends in this Space, in this Place Where Bare-feet Pushed Back Against the Pebbles, and the Blueberries Always Remained Unbroken in the Pancake Batter” was published in Parentheses
The Citron Review published her flash “The Proper Way to Peel an Orange”
sheena d. was featured in Marcelle Heath’s “Apparel for Authors” series on Instagram
The December issue of Poetry Magazine featured four #SplitLipFAM members:
Aurielle Marie and memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc appeared on Chicago Review of Books’ list of “34 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Authors”
Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s “A Year in Reading” was published in The Millions
HOOT published Beth Gilstrap’s piece “Self-Portrait After I Move to Kentucky”
Martha Silano’s poem “Why I’d Make a Great Chemist” appeared in Whale Road Review
Whale Road Review also published fiction reader Ra’Niqua Lee’s story “A Lesson in Ceramics”
Lumiere Review published her story “Saviors, Spells, and American Tragedies”
Abigail Oswald’s story “The Comedian’s Wife” was published in Monkeybicycle
Fractured Lit published her story “Deaths of the Actor”
Venita Blackburn was interviewed by KQED
Assistant fiction editor Molia Dumbleton’s flash “Directions Out of Here” was published in Wigleaf
The Rupture published Claire Hopple’s story “Look at Her Now”
Her story “The Dockmaster Must Never See This” found a home in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Flash editor Amy Stuber and contributors Adam Clay and Cortney Lamar Charleston have work in the latest print issue of The Cincinnati Review
HAD published Meghan Phillips’ flash “Send Some Good Women”
C.R. Foster’s essay “Trans Voices Belong in the Recording Booth Too” found a home in Catapult
Former assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “Pas de Deux” was published in Cleaver Magazine
Chloe N. Clark’s piece “We Are Still” was published in Empty House Press
Kim Magowan’s flash “Dope” appeared in MoonPark Review
Inter/e/views editor Ella Fox-Martens will appear in the forthcoming Australian Poetry Anthology
Assistant flash editor Tyler Orion’s piece “Wild Embodiment” found a home in the latest print issue of Orion Magazine
Poetry reader CD Eskilson’s poem “When Arkansas Bans Healthcare for Trans Youth” was published in New Delta Review
New Delta Review also published Charles Brown’s story “Seeing: Double”
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s novel How High We Go in the Dark is one of Waterstones’ “The Fiction You Need to Read in 2022”
His novel also received a starred review in Library Journal
Awards, Honors, and News
Several #SplitLipFAM members made the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists:
Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint’s Names for Light: A Family History for the PEN Open Book Award
Threa Almontaser’s The Wild Fox of Yemen for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Deesha Philyaw is judging the SFWP Literary Awards Program, deadline 7/15
Vincent Anioke is a reader in residence for SmokeLong Quarterly issue 75
Readers Star Su and Nicole Tsuno were runners-up for Salt Hill Journal’s 2021 Arthur Flower Flash Fiction Prize
Jason B. Crawford was a finalist for Indiana Review’s 2021 1/2K Prize
Flash editor Amy Stuber’s “LittleHouseWomen” won Northwest Review’s Fiction Prize
Maggie Su is joining Georgia Review as an associate prose editor
In 2022, Mandana Chaffa will be serving on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle