The Fam Roundup: January 2020

The #SplitLipFAM kicked off 2020 with heaps of wonderful news! Read on for the many accomplishments and publications of our incredible contributors and staff—and revisit their work in SLM while you’re at it.

Books

• Olatunde Osinaike’s chapbook Speech Therapy is now available for pre-order from The Atlas Review

• Helen McClory’s second novel Bitterhall is forthcoming from Polygon Books in 2021

• Raven Leilani’s novel Luster is now available for pre-order from FSG

• Melissa Ragsly’s story collection We Know This Will All Disappear is now available for pre-order from [PANK]

• Brett Stuckel published the novel Bloodmud under the pen name Vinnie Hoose

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• SLM fiction reader Wei Ting’s flash “Omakase” appeared in Jellyfish Review

• Speaking of Jellyfish Review, its editor Christopher James’ story “the worm the wyrm the snake the worm” appeared in Barren Magazine

• Howie Good’s poem “Elegy” also found a home in Barren Magazine

• You can find Kristine Langley Mahler’s piece “Boys, Boss” in the latest print issue of The Florida Review

  • Hobart also published her essay “Possum”

• Gay Magazine published Brandon Taylor’s story “Local Economies”

• SLM memoir reader Sara Ryan’s story “The Lizard That Lived Forever” won CutBank’s Big Sky, Small Prose flash contest

  • She also has work in the next print issue of Cherry Tree

• Troy Varvel’s poem “Licking the Splinter” is in the latest print issue of Yemassee Journal

• Jennifer Wortman’s book This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. was reviewed on the Story366 blog

• The Literary Ashland blog interviewed Melissa Matthewson about her book Tracing the Desire Line

• Laton Carter’s story “Jim Morrison of Cayucos” appeared in new journal The Hoosier Review

• Passages North published Felicity Fenton’s essay “Without the Sun We Wouldn’t Know Love”

• Former fiction editor Katie M. Flynn’s forthcoming novel The Companions was reviewed in Kirkus

• Reviews/Interviews editor Clancy McGilligan’s novella History of an Executioner was reviewed in Heavy Feather Review

• The Paris Review published Jill Talbot’s essay “Turtle, Turtle”

• Savannah Slone’s “June 2002” found a home in Jellyfish Review

• Recent SLM flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s story “Visitor” appeared in The New Yorker

• Find Kim Magowan’s “This Is How It Ends” in Cease, Cows

• An excerpt of Dave Housley’s new novel Howard and Charles at the Factory was published in The Rumpus

• SLM fiction reader Janelle Bassett’s piece “I am the Joy Your Mother Felt Before You Made That Face in Response to Her Kitchen Singing” appeared in The Offing

  • Jellyfish Review also published her flash “Could Be”

• Read Chloe N. Clark’s “This Will All Be Dead” in Yes, Poetry

  • Atlas and Alice also published her story “There Is the World Within This Window”

• Bull: Men’s Fiction interviewed the prolific Cathy Ulrich

  • Her story “Autumn Everywhere” also appeared in CutBank

• Assistant Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s story “Take Me To Your Leader” was published in CRAFT

• Kara Vernor’s story “B is for Balls” appeared in Okay Donkey

• SLM memoir reader' Karie Fugett’s op-ed “War Has Ripple Effects” was published by The New York Times

• Melissa Goode’s story “Clef” appeared in Gulf Stream

• Meg Pokrass’ story “Shell” found a home in Storgy Magazine

  • Electric Literature also published her story “Skin”

  • Her story “Copenhagen” appeared in Funicular Magazine

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach interviewed Kelly Grace Thomas for [PANK]

• The Yale Review published Raven Leilani’s story “Breathing Exercise”

• Dorothy Chan’s new poem “Recipe for Boys Named Stanford, Duke, and Berkeley” appeared in the latest print issue of Pleiades

• Tyler Barton’s piece “Midtown” was published by Best Buds! Collective

• SLM flash reader JJ Peña’s story “yo te sigo queriendo” found a home in Hayden’s Ferry Review

• Tommy Dean interviewed Editorial Assistant Anna Vangala Jones

• SLM poetry reader Megan Neville’s poem “Legacy” appeared on Poets.org

• Gay Magazine published Gayle Brandeis’ essay “#WeToo”

• Ilana Masad’s story “The Mother We Share” was published in The Rumpus

• Editorial Assistant D. Arthur’s essay “Baby Dolls Grow Up” appeared in Slate

• Read Beth Gilstrap’s story “Filling the Goya Room” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Social Media and Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison’s flash “A Whole Breakfast” found a home in Jellyfish Review

• Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s flash “Something That’s Nothing” appeared in The Adroit Journal

Awards, Honors, and News

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc is judging Passages North’s Neutrino Short-Short Prize contest—deadline 4/15.

• torrin a. greathouse will be co-leading the Open Mouth Poetry Retreat in Fayetteville from June 5-8

  • They were also a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Poetry

• Jennifer Wortman and Meghan Phillips have won 2020 NEA Literature Fellowships

• Scott Garson’s SLM story “Sick Day” was selected to appear in the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology

  • Other #SplitLipFAM members appearing in the anthology include: Jules Archer, Tyler Barton, Tommy Dean, Josh Jones, JJ Peña, Meghan Phillips, Michelle Ross, C.C. Russell, and Cathy Ulrich

• SLM flash reader JJ Peña’s “what we hold in our belly” won CutBank’s Big Sky, Small Prose flash contest

• Recent SLM flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s collection Lot is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s book The Many Names for Mother was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award

• SLM fiction reader Heidi Nibbelink received an honorable mention in the Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2020 anthology

• Editorial Assistant Anna Vangala Jones has joined the team at Pidgeonholes as Social Media Coordinator