The Fam Roundup: February 2020

There was one extra day in February this year, and the #SplitLipFAM certainly took advantage of it. Check out all this amazing work from our contributors and staff! And don’t forget to revisit their work in our archives, too.

Books

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s book Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara is now available

• Natanya Ann Pulley’s book With Teeth is now available

• Pre-order Jared Yates Sexton’s book American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People

• Tatiana Ryckman’s novel The Ancestry of Objects is forthcoming from Deep Vellum

• Marvin Shackelford’s collection Field Guide to Lonely Birds is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks

• Leesa Cross-Smith’s collection So We Can Glow is available now

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Zach Linge had two new poems in Poetry: “Fingers on a Gay Man” and “For Baron B.”

• The New York City Ballet commissioned Ariel Francisco to write the poem “On Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet”

  • Ariel’s poems “Eating a Dollar Slice in the Rain” and “For My Uncle Lulu, Who Was Deported for Jumping a Subway Turnstile in 2003” appeared in the latest print issue of American Poetry Review

  • He also appeared on the New York Out Loud podcast

• Fiction reader Exodus Brownlow published “For Horror Writers, Who Have Tried to Birth the Happy Things” in Variant Literature Journal

• Hunger Mountain published three poems by W. Todd Kaneko:  “Looking Outside Airplane Windows,” “All the Things That Make Heaven and Earth,” and “Horses’ Mouths”

• Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s flash “Driver’s Ed” appeared in Pithead Chapel

  • Her story “Mandragora” was published in Passages North

• Kathy Fish’s collection Wild Life was reviewed in Up the Staircase

• O: The Oprah Magazine published Brandon Taylor’s story “Sussex, Essex, Wessex, Northumbria”

  • His essay “Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist” appeared in Literary Hub

  • Buzzfeed published his essay “Working in Science Was a Brutal Education. That’s Why I Left”

  • Brandon was also profiled or interviewed by The New York Times, The Rumpus (by contributor Monet P. Thomas), and Pen/America

  • His debut novel Real Life was reviewed in Time, The New Yorker, and Vox

• Samantha Kimmey’s story “Counterbot” appeared in the latest print issue of Indiana Review

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s “Blood Poetry” found a home in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

  • His poems “Elegy with a Wavelength of Sound,” “On the Way to the Reading,” and “The Day My Father Sold His Plane” appeared in The Rupture

• Poetry reader Nicole Markert’s “The Quiz in the Grief Packet My Counselor Gave Me” was published in the same issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Glass: A Journal of Poetry also published Darren C. Demaree’s “Before the War Begins the War Begins”

• The Paris Review published Jill Talbot’s essay “The Phone Call”

• Cathy Ulrich’s flash “Being the Murdered Spelling Bee Champion” was published in Timber

  • Her flash “Being the Murdered Pageant Girl” appeared in Wigleaf

• Beth Gilstrap’s story “What I’d Say to My Therapist Today If She Hadn’t Called in Sick” was published in Bending Genres

  • Cotton Xenomorph published her story “For a Blaze of Sight”

• Alina Stefanescu has three poems in the 40th issue of Qwerty

• The Florida Review published “Ghosts-Turned-Blue,” another collaboration by Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross

• Jennifer Wortman was interviewed in The Normal School

• Poetry reader CD Eskilson’s “After failing to come out again, the apparition comes” appeared in Vagabond City

• Pidgeonholes published three poems by Dorothy Chan: “Year of the Pig,” “Triple Sonnet for Yumminess,” and “Triple Sonnet for Categories of Porn”

  • The McNeese Review published three more of Dorothy’s poems: “Dear Lady, Stop Gifting Me Lip Balms and Hand Cream,” “Triple Sonnet for Naughtiness,” and “Recipe for Teen Dramas”

• Interviews/Reviews editor Clancy McGilligan’s story “Pattern Assessment” was published by Cimarron Review

  • Clancy was also interviewed by The Adroit Journal and The Southern Review of Books

• Ingrid Jendrzejewski was interviewed on the National Flash Fiction Day blog

• Ilana Masad reviewed Amber Sparks’ book And I Do Not Forgive You for NPR

  • Ilana’s book All My Mother’s Lovers received a starred review from Publishers Weekly

• Fiction reader and contributor Janelle Bassett’s story “Middling” appeared in Southern Humanities Review

• The Arsonista published two of Leia Penina Wilson’s poems: “volta OR she says children are born by being shoveled out of wolves’ bodies, but who does the shoveling? are all wolves, therefore, females; are all females, therefore, as vicious as wolves? tell me, my heart, what reality is” and “volta or we make guilty”

• Contributing editor Chris Gonzalez wrote about his hatred of the novel A Little Life for K-State English

• Contributing editor Tyrese Coleman edited Barrelhouse’s latest special issue I'VE GOT LOVE ON MY MIND: BLACK WOMXN ON LOVE

• Poetry reader Troy Varvel and contributor Laura Citino have work in the latest print issue of Yemassee Journal

• Kara Vernor’s book Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song was reviewed in the latest print issue of Flash

• Flash editor Maureen Langloss had three pieces in the latest print issue of Copper Nickel

• Assistant fiction editor Molly Dumbleton’s essay “What I Saw in My Daughter’s Face” appeared in The Girlfriend

• Passages North published Timea Balogh’s story “The Stone Men”

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s collection All Heathens was reviewed in Publishers Weekly

  • All Heathens was also listed in Poets & Writers’ Page One feature for new and noteworthy books

• The Rumpus published Chris Ames’ “Father Time is Undefeated”

• C.C. Russell’s brief poem “My Daughter’s Reflex” appeared in South Broadway Ghost Society

• Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber’s “After the End Times” was published by Jellyfish Review

• Meg Pokrass’ story “Manlessness” found a home in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Parentheses published Jessie Lynn McMains’ piece “[Dear One— It’s the First of May]”

• Kristin Garth’s poem “Addiction” appeared in Taco Bell Quarterly

• Flash reader and contributor JJ Peña’s “the truth behind killing monsters” was published in the latest print issue of Nimrod Journal

Awards, Honors, and News

• Former managing editor Amy Rossi is now represented by Penelope Burns at Gelfman Schneider/ICM

• Zach Linge and Alina Stefanescu were finalists for the 2020 Mississippi Review prize

• Fiction reader Exodus Brownlow is now an assistant editor at Pussy Magic

• Flash reader Eshani Surya was featured in a campaign video for Elizabeth Warren

• Elisa Gabbert is now a regular poetry columnist for The New York Times