The FAM Roundup: February 2019
What's the Split Lip FAM been up to in February? Glad you asked, because the answer is SO MUCH GOOD STUFF. Enjoy recent publications, check out exciting news, and don't forget to revisit their work in our archives:
Books!
Memoir editor Matt Young’s Eat the Apple is now available in paperback
Jared Yates Sexton just sold his forthcoming book American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Lost its People to Dutton/Penguin--due in 2020
And his book The Man They Wanted Me to Be is now available for pre-order from Counterpoint Press
Chloe N. Clark’s Your Strange Fortune now available for pre-order from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press
Kim Magowan’s novel The Light Source is now available for pre-order
Rebecca Kokitus’ book Seasonal Affected is available for pre-order from Apep Publications
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s book The Many Names for Mother is forthcoming from Wick Poetry Center/Kent State University Press
Julian K. Jarboe’s book Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel will be published by Lethe Press in 2020
Kristin Garth’s book Puritan U is now available for pre-order
Darren C. Demaree’s book Emily As Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire will be published by Harpoon Books in June
Josh Denslow’s Not Everyone is Special is now available for pre-order
Amorak Huey’s Boom Box now available for pre-order from Sundress Publications
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice's story “Boys with Secrets” was published in Forge Literary Magazine
Poetry editor Marianne Chan's poem “Jet Lag” appears in Hobart
Kara Vernor published “Vows” 100 Word Story and “Mood,” “Stooges” and “Food” in Ninth Letter
Lori Sambol Brody's story “Hide and Seek” is up at Wigleaf
Jeremiah Moriarty's story “Every Day We Are Getting More Electric” also appears inWigleaf
Tyler Barton was interviewed in Subtropics and in jmww. He also published several stories recently:
“Breakthrough Mailboxes of Southern Pennsylvania” in Subtropics:
“Quiet Street (Neighborhood Watch Meeting #131)” in On the Seawall:
“Ms. Badislav’s Vomit” in Outlook Springs
Al Kratz also reviewed Tyler Barton’s The Quiet Part Loud.
Dorothy Chan was interviewed in American Literary Review. She also published several poems recently:
Josh Denslow reads a story from his forthcoming collection (and originally published in Split Lip!) “Dorian Vandercleef” on The Other Stories.
He was interviewed by Storgy Magazine and interviewed Kathy Fish for SmokeLong Quarterly.
Cortney Lamar Charleston published “Cotton Variation” in Granta and “The Unauthorized Biography of Jung Thug” in Poetry Magazine
Chloe N. Clark published “Other Forms of Conjuring the Moon” in Uncanny Magazine
Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez's story “Minor Grievances” appears in the January issue of X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Melissa Goode's story “Here We Are Now” also appears in the January issue of X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Ariel Francisco published “Brief Love Poem in the Darkness of West Virginia,” “Haiku for Julia,” “Brief Love Poem in Minneapolis” and “Found Haiku While Reading Alejandra Pizarnik” in Bedfellows
Amanda Miska's piece “Altschmerz” appears in Bedfellows
Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross's story “Rotten Tooth” appears in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Meg Pokrass also published “Drink Like a Bird” in Okay Donkey and “Mother’s Mating Call” Atticus Review
And Kim Magowan's story “Useful Information” was published in SmokeLong Quarterly
Flash reader Amy Stuber published several stories recently:
“Ten” in Wigleaf
“Edward Abbey Walks into a Bar” in Joyland
“American Prospects” in Pithead Chapel
“Anarchism is Not Enough” in CHEAP POP
Devin Kelly's poem “As Light” appears in Redivider
Joanna C. Valente's essay “When a Marriage Ends and You’re Nonbinary” is also in the latest issue of Redivider
And Krys Malcolm Belc's Beacon Street Prize-winning piece “The Machine” is in the latest Redivider
Tyrese L. Coleman has a new story in Bayou Magazine. She also appears on the Day Jobs podcast.
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint reads her Split Lip story “Ghost Story” in the Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction anthology newsletter
Donna Vorreyer's piece “After Leaving My Father at the Hospital on Christmas Day” is up at Longleaf Review
Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones published several stories recently:
“In Twenty Years” in Necessary Fiction
“The 69th Street Pier” in Blue Fifth Review
“Long Distance Loyalty” in Riggwelter
Kristine Langley Mahler & Dina L. Relles's essay “Body of Longing” is in the most recent issue of Waxwing
Marvin Shackelford's story “The Coyote Eventually Has His Day” is in Waxwing and “To the Boy Who Escaped to College and Left Me With a Ring” is up at Hobart
Martha Silano's poems “Instead of a father,” “Guest Poet: Lucy Umbarger Elementary” and “Surpassing danger” are in the latest Waxwing
Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach's poems “The Moon is Showing” and “Mother’s 20-Year-Old Mattress” also appear in Waxwing
Ariel Francisco translates Jacques Viau Renaud in Waxwing
Poetry reader William Fargason's piece “Ash on the Tongue” was published in Prairie Schooner, and “Upon Receiving My Inheritance” appears in Bustle
Ruth LeFaive interviewed Devi S. Laskar for Longreads
Rebecca Kokitus's poem “My Bones” appears in Yes Poetry, and “cocytus” appaers in Corvid Queen
Tommy Dean's story “When the Waters Came” is up at Cotton Xenomorph and “How the Music Died” was published in The Offing
Memoir reader Karie Fugett's piece “Unusual Objects” appears in Eckleburg
Amy Silverberg's story “Dark Arts” was published in Wigleaf
Elizabeth Knapp reviews Beth Bachmann’s Cease for The Collagist
Joshua Jones published “Things You Could Do With Your Books” in The Collagist:
Brandon Melendez's poem “Shouts to Scene Kids” appears in Passages North
Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko published “Axl Accompanies Slash to a Lakers Game” in CHEAP POP
Mike Nagel's “Larry, Who Got Hit by a Bus” appears in Outlook Springs
Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson's story “If a Heart Beats in the Nursing Home and No One’s There to See It, Did It Ever Really Beat at All?” appears in Vestal Review
Cathy Ulrich interviews Georgia Bellas for Pidgeonholes. Cathy also published several stories recently:
“A House with Mughal-Style Doors” in matchbook
“Every Girl Who Got in a Car” in Bending Genres
“Between the Liking and the Pretending” in Ghost Parachute
“Being the Murdered Moll” in CHEAP POP
“Daisies Like Galaxies” and “Death is Colder than Space” in Parentheses Journal
Todd Dillard's story “Dad Bod with Lyrics from Silverchair’s 1995 Hit ‘Tomorrow’” appears in Wigleaf
He also published “March Snowstorm” and “Live Burn” in Pidgeonholes
Kathryn McMahon's story “Thunder in a Two-Eyed Storm” appears in The Temz Review
Ariel Francisco, Valorie K. Ruiz and Pedro Ponce all have work in the latest issue of The Florida Review.
Harrison Geosits's essay “Punctuation” is in the latest issue of Wildness
Raven Leilani's story “And There Was Light” is in the latest Wildness, and “Airplane Mode” appears in SmokeLong Quarterly
Naya Clark's interview “Slippery and Dark and Brilliant: A Conversation with Morgan Parker” appears in The Rumpus
Beth Gilstrap's story “How to Tattoo a Disordered Woman” appears in Ninth Letter
Tabitha Blankenbiller's essay “Fangs” was published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Elisa Gabbert published “Ethical Advice for Writing About Friends and Family” in Electric Literature
torrin a. greathouse published “The Constituent Parts” at The Rumpus:
Kat Moore's essay “Hysteric: In Defense of Creative Nonfiction” was published in Essay Daily
AWP19
Tyrese L. Coleman is reading at SmokeLong’s Flash Reading 1 offsite event at AWP.
Josh Denslow, Sherrie Flick, and Kathy Fish are reading at SmokeLong’s Flash Reading 2 offsite event at AWP.
Diannely Antigua reading at the “Words at the Mic” offsite event at AWP.
Chris Gonzalez and Megan Giddings will be on the “A Flash of Difference” panel at AWP19.
News
Mike Nagel is the new assistant editor for Atlas and Alice
Meghan Phillips is the new Editor-in-Chief for Third Point Press
Raven Leilani is on the longlist for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2019 Fiction Prize
Ariel Francisco and Kristen Arnett are on the Miami New Times’ list of five Florida writers to watch
Kathryn McMahon nominated for Best Small Fictions by Booth
Elizabeth Knapp won the Washington Writers Publishing House’s 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize for her collection Requiem with an Amulet in its Beak
James Charlesworth will be reading at McNally Jackson in NYC on 3/4.
Tyrese L. Coleman judging the Ray Ventre Nonfiction Prize for Passages North.
Sara Lippmann will be teaching a workshop in April for Bending Genres.
Raven Leilani is a finalist for New England Review’s Award for Emerging Writers
All right, FAM! See you next month!