The Fam Roundup: Fall 2024

Here at SLM, we hope that this list of some of the beautiful and important work from our team and contributors in recent months can help us connect to our community and move forward.

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Fiction reader Rebecca Ackermann’s essay “The Parents Who Refuse To Track Their Kids” was published in Romper

• Contributor Rocio Anica’s poem “Here, a Brindis for All Who Weep Alone” was published in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts

• Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett

• Her debut short story collection Thanks for this Riot was reviewed in Masters Review 

• Was interviewed by (and interviewed!)  Flash Editor Amy Stuber for Write or Die Mag 

• Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s essay “On Sara Moulton” was published in Beestung Mag 

• Contributor Michael Bird has a short story in the Modern Gothic Anthology from Fly on the Wall Press 

• Contributor and former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s pieces “The Daughter of the TV Detective (Season 1)” and “To Jane Eyre, on the Occasion of Helen Burns’ Death at Lowood School” were published in Black Lily Zine

• Former Assistant Fiction Editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s story “The Thrill of Movement and Thought: How a Black Body Becomes Owned and Mastered by Its Heired-Keeper” was published in Booth

• Contributor Seán Carlson 

• Published his essay “Ghosts of Scene Sites Past” in Gulf Coast Mag 

• Published his poem “California Redwood in Killarney” in Green Verse, an anthology of nature poetry from Saraband Books (out now in Ireland and the U.K., in the U.S. in April 2025)

• Contributor Mandana Chaffa

• Published her essay “Revisiting Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Twenty Years Later” in Brooklyn Rail

• Published an interview with Danez Smith in Electric Literature

• Contributor Dorothy Chan curated a reading list “7 Poetry Collections by Asian American Writers that Define Heart and the Infinite Volta” for Electric Lit with the publication of her fifth poetry collection Return of the Chinese Femme

• Contributor K-Ming Chang’s story “Abolish the Father” was published in R&R Lit Mag 

• Contributor Michael Chang

• Published poems “75 Kenmare, “I Think We're Alone Now,” “Tree of Life,” “Shibuya, Unaccompanied,” and “The After-After” in the new issue of American Poetry Review

• Published poems “Playing Possum,” “Slip It In Family Man,” and “Gag Order” in the Rumpus 

• Contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poems “It’s Important I Remember That the Root of the Problem Is the Root—,” “It’s Important I Remember That Jesus Wept—,” and “It’s Important I Remember That Ella Baker Was Married to the Movement—” (from his upcoming collection It’s Important I Remember, forthcoming from Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press in February 2026) were published in Action, Spectacle 

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen published his poems Quintessence: Questions of a Just-Opened Pomegranate, Quintessence: a Cosmology, Quintessence: Ache, Quintessence: Cloud Correspondence, and I Would Also Like to Mention This Quintessential Earthly Activity  in Issue 15 of Paperbag Journal

• Contributor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s poem “How many poems can I write about my son’s insatiable longing?” (from her fourth poetry collection Parallax, forthcoming in March 2025 from University of Arkansas Press) was published in The Missouri Review

• Contributor Tommy Dean’s flash “It’s So Satisfying” was published in Flash Boulevard

• Contributor Steve Edwards’ essay “As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings” was published in Lit Hub

• Contributor Sara Elkamel’s poems “On Every Night” and “The Nights Are Coming in Abundance” were published in Waxwing

• Former Poetry Editor William Fargason 

• Published poems “When the Editor Asks if the Suicidal Ideation is a Persona” and “Elegy for a Lodestar” in Sonora Review 

• Published his poem “Aubade with Ideation” in the South Dakota Review 

• Former flash reader Nick Farriella’s story “That Time” was published in Scaffold Lit 

• Contributor Séamus Isaac Fey’s poem “Flirting in the New Age” was published in The Offing 

• Contributor Kathy Fish’s flash “The Things You Think Are Precious” was published in Ghost Parachute 

• Assistant Flash Editor Erica Frederick’s piece “Banana Trees / Sunflower Seeds” was published with Torch Literary Arts  

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert

• Published her essay “Wander Lonely, Never Die and Other Things a Cloud Might Do” in The New York Times Book Review

• Published her poem “A Hermitage” in The Common Mag 

• Contributor Mark Galarrita’s flash “There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodega” was reviewed for Apex Magazine

• Contributor Eliza Gilbert

• Published her story “Linoleum People” in The Masters Review, where it received third place in the Winter Short Story Review

• Published her poem “Help Me Remem­ber, Hafiz, When All I Can See Is Nir Oz” with Jewish Book Council’s Wit­ness­ing series 

• Contributor Diane Gottlieb’s piece “Where the Dust Goes” was published in Brevity

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis’ story “Goodwill Adventure” was published in Monkey Bicycle 

• Contributor Hannah Grieco’s flash “Cold At First” was published in Fractured Lit

• Contributor Vanessa Hua published her essay “The Great American Family Car Ride” in the New York Times

• Social Media + Marketing Co-Director SG Huerta’s poem “13 ways of taking testosterone” was published in New Words (Press)

• Contributor Amorak Huey’s poem “Catalogue with Unfinished Lunch” was published in Action, Spectacle

• Contributor Allegra Hyde’s story “Mobilization” was published in the O. Henry Prize Anthology 

• Reader Robin Van Impe 

• published her flash “Box Ticking” in Ghost Parachute  

• published her stories “You Can Come Out Now” and “Tiny Baby Teeth” in BULL 

• Contributor Marlin M. Jenkins’s poems “‘I love it when you hate the world,’” “on the sparrow,” and “legs” were published in The Rumpus

• Contributor and flash reader Sunwoo Jeong’s story “The Midnight Spa” was published in Uncanny Magazine

• Poetry reader Saba Keramati was interviewed about her debut collection Self-Mythology for The Rumpus 

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer

• Published a list of poetry collection recommendations for Electric Lit, including SLM Former Poetry Editor Marianne Chan’s Leaving Biddle City

• Published her poem “My Massage Therapist Asks if the Pressure’s Too Much” in Gulf Coast Mag 

• Published her essay The Generous Act of Publishing Drafts in Cleaver Magazine

• Published a piece in Issue 39 of Copper Nickel Journal 

• Contributor and flash reader Ani King

• Published their piece “Certain Expectations of Water” in Milk Candy Review 

• Their story “Family Night” won fiction competition of A SmokeLong Summer 24 and they were interviewed about their craft 

• Published their piece “Parole Day, Acrylic on Canvas” in new literary magazine Literary Namjooning 

• Editor-in-Chief Maureen Langloss published “Resurrection,” an essay about her mother, on her blog

• Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee

• Her story “Mary by Another Name” was published in Uncharted Mag  

• Her flash “Freedom Edged in Alligator Teeth” was published in Milk Candy Review

• Contributor Raven Leilani

• Published her poem “Outage” in The New Yorker  

• Published her essay “Death of the Party” in N+1

• Contributor Sara Lippmann’s piece “Renters” was published in Ghost Parachute 

• Contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin 

• Published his piece “Ghost Walk” in Cotton Xenomorph 

• Published his piece “Milk Carton Kids” in Forge Lit Mag and was interviewed about his craft 

• Contributor Davon Loeb’s article “I’m a Teacher and a Father—Here’s Why Cell Phones Should Be Ditched in the Classroom” was published on Parents.com 

• Contributor Ashley Lopez published her short “For You Page”in Passages North

• Contributor Kim Magowan

• Published her story “The Last Faculty Meeting” in Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine 

• Published her story “Courtesy,” co-authored with contributor Michelle Ross, in New Flash Fiction Review 

• Social Media + Marketing Director and flash reader Carolina Mata 

• Published her story “Christened Red” in issue 27 of Black Fox Lit 

• Published two poems in Querencia Press’ Summer Anthology 

• Published her flash “The Desert” in Luna Station Quarterly 

• Contributor Kelly McCorkendale’s flash “A List of Bodies” was published in Peatsmoke Journal

• Contributor Shane McCrae

• Published his poem “Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail”  in the New York Review of Books 

• Published his poems “Blank Verse Sonnet on Here We Go Again,” “Lines Written for a Fortieth Birthday,” and “Maxim Kuzminov Dying” in the October issue of Poetry Magazine

• Published nine poems and was interviewed about his craft for Only Poems Magazine 

• Contributor Michael Meyerhofer’s piece “Lamentation for Junior” was published in Brevity 

• Contributor Richard Mirabella

• Interviewed Nate Lippens for The Chicago Review of Books 

• Interviewed Kyle Winkler for The Rumpus

• Contributor Claudia Monpere

• Published her flash“No Contact” in Ghost Parachute 

• Published her piece “The Master of Sugar” in Trampset 

• Published her piece“Shawl with Bees and Sage” in Your Impossible Voice  

• Contributor SarahFawn Montgomery published her poem “Exoskeleton” in Issue 16 of The New Territory Magazine 

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee published an abecedarian in the Issue 15 of Gigantic Sequins 

• Contributor Abigail Oswald published an interview with Sofia Samatar for Write or Die Magazine

• Poetry reader Cal Paule published a poem translation in The Paris Review

• Contributor Dustin Pearson published a poem in the Fall 2024 North American Review 

• Contributing Editor Becky Robison’s story “I Saw Goody Proctor Shilling for the Devil” was published in Issue 21 of Tiny Molecules  

• Contributor Leslie Pietrzyk’s piece “In the End” was published in the Los Angeles Review 

• Contributor Meg Pokrass

• Published her micro “Cure” in Wigleaf 

• Published her piece “Remission” in Ghost Parachute 

• Contributor and Assistant Editor jj peña’s flash “in the belly of a whale” was included in CLMP’s reading list for Hispanic Heritage Month 

• Contributor Melissa Ragsly’s CNF flash “‘Pretend We’re Dead’” was published in Craft Literary 

• Contributor Michelle Ross

• Published her story “Kira Kira” in Fictive Dream 

• Published her story “Courtesy,” co-authored with contributor Kim Magowan, in New Flash Fiction Review 

• Flash Editor Amy Stuber 

• Published her essay “I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel?”in Electric Lit 

• Published a recommendation in Poets & Writers 

• Was interviewed by contributor Jennifer Wortman for the Rumpus 

• Was interviewed for Craft Literary 

• Was interviewed on Short Story Today 

• Contributor Alina Stefanescu’s piece “Dream for Christina” was published in The Ocean State Review  

• Contributor Chloe Chun Seim published a piece in Issue 67 of Tampa Review 

• Contributor Martha Silano’s poem “When I learn Catastrophically” was the Missouri Review’s poem of the week 

• Contributor Brandon Taylor

• Published his review “A Roon with a View” in Book Forum 

• Published his essay “False Light: Moral Worldbuilding and the Virtues of Evil” in The Sewanee Review

• Contributor Matthew Tuckner

• Published his poem “First Person Meditation in a Distinct Landscape” in Annulet Poetics  

• Published a piece in Issue 39 of Copper Nickel Journal 

• Published the first issue of Quarterly West as Editor

• Published his poem “Phantom shiner” in Poetry Daily 

• Art contributor Jocelyn Ulevicus has artwork featured at the GGLB GALLER in Long Beach, CA 

• Contributor Cathy Ulrich

• Published her story “Story for a Two-Star Review” in Bending Genres 

• Published her story “Being the Murdered Jane Doe” in Ette Review  

• Contributor Alejandro Varela’s article “In the 1990s, these books cracked the world open” was published in the Washington Post

• Assistant Fiction Editor Analía Villagra’s story “The Land, Unending” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review

• Social Media Director Wendy Wallace’s piece “Return Journey” was published  in Brevity

• Former Flash Fiction Contest Judge Bryan Washington’s story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis” was published in the New Yorker 

• Fiction reader Dominique Weldon reviewed Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett’s short story collection for Erato Magazine 

• Contributor Nathan Willis’s story “Assembly Instructions for the KidTown Cul-De-Sac Deluxe Kitchen Set” was published in Lost Balloon

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s story “Proximity to Life” was published in Astrolabe

Books

• Contributor Cavar’s first full-length poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis, is under contract with Curbstone Books 

• Contributor Michael Chang’s poetry collection Toy Soldiers is out with Action, Spectacle!

• Contributor and flash reader Emily Costa’s book Girl On Girl: Stories is available for preorder now from Rejection Letters

• Contributor Darren C. Demaree’s poetry collection Now Flourish Northern Cardinal is forthcoming from Small Harbor Publishing in 2025

• Contributor Todd Dillard’s chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is now available from Variant Lit

• Contributor Steven Duong’s first poetry collection At the End of the World There Is a Pond is available for preorder now from W. W. Norton & Company

• Assistant Poetry Editor CD Eskilson’s debut collection Scream / Queen is forthcoming March 2025 from Acre Books

• Contributor Vanessa Hua sold her new book El Nido to FlatIron Books

• Contributors Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross have a book Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, forthcoming on March 11, 2025 with Eastover Press

• Contributor Jen Michalski’s book All This Can Be True is available for preorder now from Keylight Books

• Poetry reader Bleah Patterson’s chapbook The Influencers are Gaslighting Us is out now with Bottlecap Press 

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram’s debut collection Earthly Gods is out now with Variant Literature

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Contributing editor Jerilynn Aquino’s poem “Let Me Thank Taíno Ancestors and Say They Were Right” was selected for the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize

• Contributor Venita Blackburn will be judging the Southeast Review’s 2024 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest 

• Contributor and Fiction Reader Vincent Anioke’s debut short story collection Perfect Little Angels is a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize from Writers Trust

• Flash reader aureleo sans is a 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar 

• InteR/e/views Editor Daniel Garcia 

• is the new Micro Editor with The Offing Mag 

• is part of the 2024/2025 cohort with the Carolyn Moore Writers House

• Contributor Claudia Monpere’s flash, “We Undark Night With Our Tongues,” won first place in Uncharted Mag’s Flash Fiction contest 

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee was named Vice President of Sundress Publication’s Board of Directors

• Fiction Reader Reema Rao is a fellow of the 2024 Jennifer Weiner Emerging Writer Fellowship 

• Contributor John Shakespear is part of a new band called Crisis Public Relations @cprworldwide on instagram 

• 2018 Mixtape Flash Fiction Contest First Runner-Up Yael van der Wouden’s book The Safekeep made it onto the The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist 

• Fiction reader Tina Zhu is a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Wyrmhole Magazine: a new space for speculative short fiction