The Fam Roundup: February 2022

We’re always impressed by how much the #SplitLipFAM gets up to during the shortest month of the year. Look at all these February publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff!

Books

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s collection Halfway from Home is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in November 2022

• Josh Denslow’s novel Super Normal is forthcoming from Stillhouse Press in 2023

• Kim Magowan’s collection How Far I’ve Come is now available from Gold Wake Press

• Sam Herschel Wein’s chapbook Butt Stuff Flower Bush is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press

• Jill Talbot has a book about essay forms forthcoming from Columbia University Press

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Tommy Dean’s story “Adrift” was published in Middle House Review

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s piece “Preventative Measures in Chinatown Hair Salon” was published in Up the Staircase Quarterly

  • Orotone published her poem “Wolf Princess, to the Ironworks”

  • Peach Mag published her story “Changeling”

• Alina Stefanescu’s collection DOR was reviewed in The Los Angeles Review

• Gabrielle Griffis’ story “This Map Will Change” found a home in Psychopomp

  • Passages North published her story “Fulfilling My Sea Hag Destiny”

• Psychopomp also published contributor Beth Gilstrap’s story “Sanctuary”

  • Her collection Deadheading & Other Stories was reviewed in Necessary Fiction by contributor Rachel Léon

• Gaia Rajan’s poem “After Escape” was published in GASHER

• K. Iver’s poem “Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco” appeared in Columbia Journal

• The cover for editorial assistant Megan Neville’s forthcoming collection The Fallow has been revealed

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s piece “Constellate” was published in Pidgeonholes

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “Nocturne with Fireworks” appeared in Booth

• Flash reader Star Su’s work was featured on a recent episode of Mr. Bear’s The Violet Hour Saloon

• An excerpt from Sara Lippmann’s Lech was published in Guernica

  • She was featured in Poets & Writers

• Fiction reader Ra’Niqua Lee’s piece “Cherry Pit Dreams” found a home in South Florida Poetry Journal

• Fiction reader Nicole Tsuno’s micro “Proboscis” was published in The Offing

  • Her pieces “You were the girl who got her first period during gym class” and “Lollipop Burial” were published in Wigleaf

• Bending Genres published Kim Magowan’s story “Face Mask”

  • Kim was interviewed on Constance Malloy’s The Burning Hearth blog

• K-Ming Chang’s story “Virgins” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat was reviewed in f(r)iction

• Dorothy Chan’s poem “Ode to Heavy Appetizers and Many Big Loves” found a home in the latest print edition of Denver Quarterly

• Editorial assistant Jerilynn Aquino’s piece “The Wet Side” was published in Gulf Coast

• Gulf Coast also published Kristina Ten’s piece “Mail-Order Brother”

• Social media/marketing coordinator Becky Robison’s story “Sanctuary” appeared in Juked

• Sam Herschel Wein’s poems “I’m tired of the gays bring me a Grade A Faggot,” “Sonnet” and “The Great Runway of Life” were published in Waxwing

• Waxwing also published flash reader Paula Mirando’s story “Angelica & Nina”

• SJ Sindu was interviewed in TriQuarterly

• Marcelle Heath’s story “The Endless Idiot” was published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn

• Melissa Wiley’s piece “The Kitchen” was published in The Rupture

• The Rupture also published James Tadd Adcox’s piece “Cyrano in the Shade of the Monastery Grove”

• Poetry reader Raina K. Puels published a series of micros in Pidgeonholes

• Maria Poulatha’s story “The Endless Man” found a home in trampset

• Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s flash “Cauliflower Is Just What Happens to Broccoli When It Dies” was published in Jellyfish Review

• Online issues/flash editor Maureen Langloss appeared on an episode of Darren C. Demaree’s A Child Walks in the Dark podcast

• David Byron Queen’s story “The Stuntman” was published in Bull

• Claire Hopple’s story “Keel” found a home in Peach Mag

  • No Contact published Claire’s story “Let’s See That Again”

• Joshua Jones Lofflin’s story “Inside the Long House” appeared on an episode of The Storyteller Series podcast

• sheena d.’s piece “The Numbers in My Phone” was published in Autostraddle

• Hannah Grieco’s story “Sedona” was published in Reckon Review

• Hussain Ahmed’s poem “Mine” was published in the latest print issue of AGNI

• AGNI also published former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poems “The Shape of Biddle City” and “Summers in Biddle City, 1999”

• Poetry reader Trinity Dearborn’s comic “Vacuful” appeared in Honey Literary

• Ellen Rhudy’s flash “We Are Not a Ghost Story” found a home in Milk Candy Review

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark is a New York Times Editors’ Choice

• Past Ten published a piece from Kathy Fish

• Leah Francesca Christianson’s piece “Constellations // Open Drawers” was published in No Contact

• Assistant print issue editor jj peña’s piece “our bodies are meant to be loud” won Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s 2021 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Prize

• Allegra Hyde’s essay “The Face in the Whirlpool” appeared in Poets & Writers

Awards, Honors, and News

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia is the new CNF editor for GASHER

• Alina Stefanescu’s poem in Pleiades, “Little Time,” has been selected for the Best American Poetry anthology

• Former reader Jessica Q. Stark’s poem in HAD, “Hungry Poem with Laughter Coming from an Unknown Source” has been selected for the 2022 Best American Poetry anthology

• K. Iver was a finalist for The Adroit Journal’s 2022 Djanikian Scholars, and poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson and contributor Elena Ramirez-Gorski were semifinalists

• Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals and Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat were longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

• Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals and Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat are finalists for The Story Prize

• Flash reader Star Su’s “How it Tastes” was runner-up for Black Warrior Review’s 2021 Fiction Contest

• Sara Lippmann, Steve Edwards, memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc, and Amber Sparks are teaching intensives for SmokeLong Quarterly’s “A SmokeLong Summer”

• Deesha Philyaw and Kathy Fish are reading for SmokeLong Quarterly’s “A SmokeLong Summer”

• Josh Denslow’s collection Magic Can’t Save Us was a finalist for the Moon City Press Award

• Timea Balogh is now represented by Heather Carr at the Friedrich Agency

• Threa Almontaser and torrin a. greathouse are finalists for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University

• Rachel Mans McKenny is now represented by Michelle Richter at Fuse Literary