The Fam Roundup: February 2024

Check out the awe-inspiring accomplishments of our Split Lip FAM in February! Congratulations to everyone on your many publications, prizes, and book announcements. We are so proud of you and can’t wait to dig into your words! 

This month we are also thinking of all the FAM members who are working away on pieces that will bloom in the future or who are taking time away from the pen to replenish creative fires or who are so busy working day jobs or caretaking or dealing with illness that writing has been on the back-burner. We see you too! We know that these roundups focus on tangible links and achievements and can cause some anxiety to those who aren’t on it. But reminder: you are still an amazing writer even if you are not publishing every month!

Books

• Contributor and Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s short story collection Sad Grownups comes out in October and is available for pre-order with Stillhouse Press

• Contributor and reader T. De Los Reyes’s chapbook And Yet Held is now out with Bull City Press 

• Contributor Claire Rudy Foster published their novel The Rain Artist with Moonstruck Books

• Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s chapbook Extinction Studies is available for pre-order with SixthFinch

• Contributor Lena Ziegler’s book A Revisionist History of Loving Men is forthcoming with Autofocus Lit

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s essay “The Radical Freedom Of IVF” was published in Romper

• Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett’s story “God, Grant Me a Mercy Machine” was published in Wigleaf

• Fiction Editor Anna Cabe will be published in Bucknell University’s Winter 2024 Issue of West Branch

• Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “Self-Portrait as Saint Rita of Cascia Covered in Bees, 1381” was published in Salamander Magazine 

• Her poem “The Trouble Is” was published in Passages North

• Flash reader Aureleo Sans’s story  “Capistrano” was published in Joyland Magazine

• Flash reader Jordan Blanchard’s poems “Date of Birth,” “Polyopia,” and “Orbit” were published  in Bruiser Magazine

• Fiction reader Reema Rao-Patel’s flash piece “Infanticide” was published in the Los Angeles Review

• A story of hers was also published in So To Speak Journal 

• Poetry reader Carson Sandell published  “Queer Awakenings Sextina” and “Ghazal as Chris MacNeil” in Honey Literary Journal

• Memoir reader Christina Berke interviewed Elizabeth Gonzalez James for The Rumpus 

• Fiction reader Carly Alaimo’s piece “I Don't Want Me Either” was published in Phoebe Journal

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram’s story “Undoing” was published in Passages North

• Contributor and reader T. De Los Reyes' poem “Alone with Billie Holiday at the End of the World” was published in Hunger Mountain  

• Fiction reader Rebecca Ackerman published an interview with graphic memoirist Amy Kurzweil in The Rumpus

• Former Poetry Editor William Fargason’s poem “Ode to the Triodanis Biflora” was published in Cherry Tree Literary Journal

• Contributor and former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “In the Canyon” was published in MudRoom Magazine

• Contributor Alina Stefanescu’s poem “Apostrophe in Storm” was published in the American Poetry Review 

• Contributor Todd Dillard was featured as Only Poems Magazine’s poet of the week

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis’s story “We Are the Titanic” was published in The Rumpus

• Contributor Deesha Philyaw’s story “Heaven's Whisky” was published in Orion Magazine

• Contributor Kate Doyle’s story “We’ll Be Alone” was published in A Public Space

• Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “Wigging” was published in Fictive Dream

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s story “Mutant Gourd” was published in Cotton Xenomorph 

• Her flash “Tengu” was published in Wigleaf

• Contributor K-Ming Chang was interviewed on an episode of the Write-minded podcast 

• Contributor Darren C. Demaree has a new poem in the Oakland Review

• Contributor Michael Meyerhofer’s poem “Deer in Headlights” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review  

• Contributor Meg Pokrass’ piece “Bill” was published in Passages North  

• Contributor Joshua Garcia’s poem “Self Portrait with Pelvic Wand” was published in Passages North

• Contributor Moisés Delgado’s short “Is The Neighbor Listening to That Screeching Devil Music Again?” was published in Passages North

• Contributor Tyler Raso's poem “dollmaker dollmaker” was published in Poetry Online 

• Contributor Hannah Grieco’s essay “The Novel, The Map” was published in Craft Literary Magazine

• Contributor Chloe N. Clark’s poems “Biblically Accurate Angels” and “The Girl in the Image of the Cat-Woman” were published in House of Gamut

• Her piece  “Apparent Magnitudes” was published in Passages North

• Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s poem “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was published in Ninth Letter 

• Contributor Steve Edwards’ short “The Wanting” was published in Wigleaf

• Contributor Renny Gong’s story “Runaway” is available online now in Quarto Magazine

• Contributor Brandon Taylor’s story “Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre” was published in Granta Magazine

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer’s poems “On House Hunters, the Buyers Insist They’ll Need Space for Entertaining” and “On The Great British Bake Off, Lemon Ice Cream Melts from the Springform” were published in Salamander Magazine 

• Contributor Lena Crown’s fiction debut “Initial Conditions” was published in Joyland Magazine 

• Contributor Cavar’s story “: Master Doc” was published in Fusion Fragment

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s story “Culloden” won a place in Best Microfiction 2024

• Contributor Kate Doyle’s book I Meant It Once was longlisted for The Story Prize

• Contributors K. Iver and Simon Shieh are both poetry finalists in the LA Times Festival of Books 

• Contributor SJ Sindu won The Story Prize’s 12th annual Spotlight Award for The Goth House Experiment