The Fam Roundup: January 2022
The #SplitLipFAM is already off to a spectacular start in 2022! Check out all these January publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff.
Books
Elisa Gabbert’s collection Normal Distance is now available for pre-order from Soft Skull Press
Her book Any Person is the Only Self is forthcoming from Farrar, Strauss
Amy Silverberg’s debut novel First Time, Long Time is forthcoming from Grand Central in 2024
Lynn Mundell’s chapbook Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us is now available for pre-order
Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ novel The Bullet Swallower is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster
Flash editor Eshani Surya’s piece “Between the Colitis Flares” is featured in The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, an anthology from Sable Books
Juliana Lamy’s collection You Were Watching from the Sand is forthcoming from Red Hen Press
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Claire Hopple’s story “Leave Well Enough Together” found a home in Ghost Parachute
Ghost Parachute also published Michelle Ross’ piece “The Real Marcia”
Catapult published Steven Duong’s craft essay “Tell More Lies”
Tyler Barton’s piece “Skollerating Music” appeared in DIAGRAM
Tyler’s micro “To Squeeze” is in the latest print issue of The Harvard Advocate
DIAGRAM also published three poems by Kathleen Rooney
Her piece “With the Face to the Read, in the Direction Behind” appeared in TriQuarterly
She reviewed contributor Sequoia Nagamatsu’s novel How High We Go in the Dark for the Star Tribune
Sequoia Nagamatsu was interviewed in The Rumpus
He was featured in The Millions
An excerpt of his novel How High We Go in the Dark was published in The Bureau Dispatch
How High We Go in the Dark was featured in The A.V. Club’s “Disaster strikes in four new futuristic sci-fi novels” and Book Riot’s “New Releases Tuesday”
He curated a playlist for his novel on Largehearted Boy
His novel is a Libro.fm Booksellers Pick
How High We Go in the Dark was reviewed in Datebook
How High We Go in the Dark, along with Megan Giddings’ The Women Could Fly and Alejandro Varela’s The Town of Babylon, made Literary Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2022” list
How High We Go in the Dark, as well as former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat, made Buzzfeed’s list of “The Best Books to Read in January”
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez interviewed contributor Dave Housley for The Rumpus
The Bureau Dispatch published an excerpt from his Cheat
His collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat made Literary Hub’s list of “5 Books You May Have Missed in December” and their list of “Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This January”
The Coil published an excerpt of Dave Housley’s novel The Other Ones
Former assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody has work in the latest print issue of The Conium Review
Flash editor Amy Stuber’s piece “A Tree Can Kill A Whole Family” was published in HAD
Megan Giddings’ novel The Women Could Fly made Electric Lit’s list of “62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2022”
Devin Kelly’s essay “Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race” found a home in Longreads
Abigail Oswald’s story “City Wolf” was published in Catapult
Elisa Gabbert’s piece “The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next” was published in The New York Times
Her essay “The Leap” appeared in Grand
Deesha Philyaw reviewed Weike Wang’s Joan is Okay for The New York Times
An excerpt of Kathy Fish’s Taoism was published in The Bureau Dispatch
Tommy Dean’s story “An Accessory to the Orchestra” was published in Hobart
Farah Ali’s essay “Coming of Age Amidst Chaos: Reflections on My Native Pakistan” found a home in Shondaland
Brandon Taylor was featured on Longreads’ “Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2022” list
Poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “I Have Lost Faith” appeared in Image
Ninth Letter published his poem “While Playing World of Warcraft, I Can’t Stop Thinking of Death” in their latest print issue
The Maine Review published his poem “Elegy with Steam”
Ploughshares published his poem “House Made of Guns” in their latest print issue
Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s poem “Fantasy” was also published in the latest print issue of Ploughshares
Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc interviewed Jennifer A. Howard for Press Pause Press
Krys also appeared on an episode of the Gender Reveal podcast
Elizabeth Gonzalez James interviewed Gwen E. Kirby for The Rumpus
Sara Lippmann’s book Jerks received a starred review from Publishers Weekly
Cathy Ulrich was featured in Spry Literary Journal’s “Behind the Words” series
Cathy’s story “The Sound of an Unspoken Name” was published in Sepia
Her story “Being the Murdered Newlywed” was published in Vast Chasm
Gabrielle Griffis’ story “The Mudlark” found a home in Variant Lit
Words & Sports Quarterly published Meghan Phillips’ pieces “My Ex Was a Division II Linebacker & After All This Time, I Still Don’t Know What That Means” and “The Final Girl Joins the Cheerleading Squad”
Vincent Anioke’s story “Mother’s Keeper” was published in trampset
Flash editor Eshani Surya’s story “Brackish” was published in Okay Donkey
Martha Silano’s poem “That Summer” appeared in Thrush
Thrush also published Adam Clay’s poem “Blessedness is Ours”
Adam’s poem “Where Paradise Lay” was published in the latest print edition of Ninth Letter
K. Iver’s poem “Family of Origin Content Warning” was published in TriQuarterly
Joshua Jones Lofflin’s story “Pomegranate” appeared in the latest print issue of Orca
Meg Pokrass chatted with Grant Faulkner in SmokeLong Quarterly
Todd Dillard’s poem “The Emperor of Weeping” found a home in Rejection Letters
Todd appeared on an episode of Darren C. Demaree’s A Child Walks in the Dark podcast
Darren C. Demaree’s poem “Emily as It Looks Like It’s Going to Rain Today” was published in Vagabond City
Words & Sports Quarterly published Darren’s poem “As I Grew Up Surrounded by James Wright’s Suicidally-Beautiful Football Players”
Hannah Grieco’s piece “A Small Consolation” appeared in Brevity
The Bureau Dispatch published Hannah’s piece “The Dog Walker”
Kim Magowan’s collection How Far I’ve Come was reviewed in Bending Genres
C.C. Russell’s piece “Translations of Nostalgia” appeared in Bending Genres
Gina Chung interviewed Weike Wang for Electric Lit
Beth Gilstrap & Jim Warner’s piece “Revelation 093” was published in LandLocked
Former fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson’s story “Thirty-One Light Years Away” was published in No Contact
Story Magazine published Richard Mirabella’s story “The Green Coat”
Story Magazine also published Ellen Rhudy’s story “Best of Times”
Ellen’s piece “Underdogs” was published in Words & Sports Quarterly
Gale Acuff’s poems “Fishy” and “Scope” found a home in Juked
Kate Gehan’s micro “Turn on Your Machines” was published in (mac)ro(mic)
Allegra Hyde’s novel Eleutheria was reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Christopher Allen’s piece “Turtle” was published in The Bureau Dispatch
Chloe N. Clark’s piece “Run the Line” appeared in Words & Sports Quarterly
The cover for poetry reader Stella Lei’s forthcoming collection Inheritances of Hunger has been revealed
Former flash contest judge Juan Martinez’s story “A Subscribers-Only Sneak Peek into the Preliminary Report on the Conditions of the Camps” found a home in The Sunday Morning Transport
The Bureau Dispatch published Amber Sparks’ piece “Arrivals”
The Bureau Dispatch also published fiction reader Wei Ting Jen’s piece “You always ask me how I write”
Several of torrin a. greathouse’s poems were published in the latest print issue of Ninth Letter
The cover for Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s collection Math for the Self-Crippling has been revealed
Former flash contest judge Bryan Washington was interviewed in The Atlantic
Fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s piece “Bulk Trash is for Lovers” was published in HAD
Ilana Masad reviewed Rachel Krantz’s Open for NPR Books
Fractured Lit published Mandana Chaffa’s story “Mary the Obscure”
Awards, Honors, and News
Editorial assistant Megan Neville’s poem “The Night My Father Died, I Almost Believed in God” won Sundog Lit’s 2021 Editor’s Prize for Poetry
Flash editor Amy Stuber’s story “The Last Summer” was a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2021 Editors’ Prize
Deesha Philyaw is judging Fractured Lit’s Anthology Prize
Kathy Fish is serving as the Guest Selecting Editor for Wigleaf’s 2022 Top 50
Alysia Sawchyn is now EIC of The Rumpus
Chris Drangle and Natanya Ann Pulley are 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellows in Creative Writing
SJ Sindu’s Blue-Skinned Gods was one of Roxane Gay’s top 10 books of 2021, and Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals was named “Book with the Best Title”
Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s book The Natural Mother of the Child was named an Over The Rainbow Book List Top 10 by the American Library Association
Sudha Balagopal, former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, K-Ming Chang, Scott Garson, Gabrielle Griffis, Meghan Phillips, Marvin Shackelford, flash reader Star Su, Cathy Ulrich & Yunya Yang made the 2022 Best Microfiction anthology
Rachel Mans McKenny won 4th place in the Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Awards for “Thousands of Tiny Islands”
Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s piece “mi corazón quiere cantar así” won Fractured Lit’s 2021 Micro Contest
Christopher Allen, Jennifer Wortman & Shasta Grant are teaching at SmokeLong Quarterly’s April Intensive
Juliana Lamy won Red Hen Press’ 2020 Ann Petry Award
Dantiel W. Moniz and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint are finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards