The Fam Roundup: December 2024
As we’re saying goodbye to 2024, we’re delighted to close out the year with our December compilation of our SLM FAM’s wonderful accomplishments.
Publications, Interviews, & Reviews
Contributor Amogha’s poem “Poem upon the Phonetic Map of the Mouth” was published in Poetry Northwest’s Winter & Spring Issue
Contributing Editor Jerilynn Aquino published her essay “Welcome Home” in the Fall 2024 Issue of Puerto del Sol
Contributor Sudha Balagopal’s flash “It’s Not About the Things” was published in The Citron Review
Flash reader Jordan Blanchard’s poems “Love of the Angler,” “mangeon - envie,” “Waterlogged,” “tallow 277 (whiskey and vodka),” and “When We Were Fish” were published in Kelp Journal
Contributor Seán Carlson’s haiku “blackberry trellis” was published in Haiku Crush's annual anthology
His piece “False Cognates” was published in the New England Review
Contributor K-Ming Chang’s flash “Life Cycles” was published in Apogee
Fiction reader Leah Francesca Christianson’s story “Plain Sight” was published in Short Story, Long and was interviewed about her process
Her story “it keeps going like that” was published in The Los Angeles Review
Contributor Todd Dillard’s chapbook Ragnarok at the Father Daughter Dance was reviewed in Tupelo Quarterly
Contributor Steven Duong’s poem “Companion” was published as The Yale Review’s poem of the week
Assistant Poetry Editor CD Eskilson’s poems “Murmuration” and “Out in the Country” were published in the Kenyon Review
Contributor Scott Garson’s piece “Roadside” was published in Ghost Parachute
Contributor Hannah Grieco kicked off her new column with Washington City Paper
Contributor Amorak Huey’s poem “For So Long I was Foolishly Proud” was published in Verse Daily
EIC Maureen Langloss’ poems “Every Cut has a Kerf” and “Daiquiri Up” were published in The Harvard Review
Contributor Sara Lippmann interviewed forthcoming contributor Brooke Randel about her memoir Also Here for the Chicago Review of Books
Contributor Nick Mandernach’s story “Tiniest Champagne” was published in Aquifer
Contributor Ilana Masad published a review of Karina Sainz Borgo’s No Place to Bury the Dead in the Los Angeles Times
Social Media + Marketing Director Carolina Mata’s story “Christened Red” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Black Fox Lit
Contributor Claudia Monpere’s piece “The Master of Sugar” was published in Trampset
She won Uncharted Magazine’s flash contest with her piece “We Undark Night with our Tongues”
Contributor Dustin Pearson’s poem “Graceless and Gaslit” was published in Zocalo Public Square
Contributor and Assistant Print Editor JJ Peña’s story “the sky didn’t slip inside” won SmokeLong's Grand Micro Contest and was published along with an author interview
Contributor Meg Pokrass’s flash “Animal Planet” was published in Ghost Parachute
Contributor Alina Stefanescu published an interview with Molly Spencer for Adroit Journal
Contributor JP Vallières’s micros “T Ball” and “Flood II” were published in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Fiction reader Tina Zhu’s story “Everything That Could Go Wrong” was published in Cotton Xenomorph
Contributor Sam Herschel Wein’s poem “Boy to Bed” was published in The Los Angeles Review
Books
Former assistant memoir editor Camille Adams had a cover reveal for her forthcoming book How to Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian Memoir with Restless Books
Contributor Taylor Byas’s forthcoming book Resting Bitch Face was picked by Roxane Gay for the Audacious Book Club
Contributor Asa Drake’s debut full-length poetry collection Maybe the Body is forthcoming from Tin House in 2026
Contributor Marcos Gonsalez’s book Revolting Indolence is out now with the University of Texas Press
Contributor Shelby Hinte had a cover reveal for her book Howling Women, which is available for preorder now
Contributor Julia Kolchinsky’s poetry collection Parallax, which was selected by Patricia Smith as a finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry prize, is forthcoming with the University of Arkansas Press in March 2025
Awards, Honors, & News
Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s book Perfect Little Angels made it on Quill and Quire’s Best Books of the Year list
Contributor Taylor Byas became a Poetry Editor for Texas Review Press
Contributor Christina Cooke’s book Broughtupsy was named one of Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2024
Contributor and flash reader Ani King was chosen as a 2025 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow
Fiction reader Reema Rao-Patel’s story “Unidentifiable Cells” won Pithead Chapel’s Larry Brown Short Story Award
Print Issue Editor & Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s collection Sad Grownups was named one of Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2024