The Fam Roundup: January 2023
New year, new fantastic accomplishments! Take a look at how the Split Lip Fam is kicking off 2023!
Books
Taylor Byas’s poetry collection I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times has a cover, and is forthcoming with Soft Skull Press
Brandon Taylor’s novel, The Late Americans (Riverhead Books), is available for pre-order
Former Flash Editor Eshani Surya’s book RAVISHING is forthcoming with Roxane Gay Books
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s poetry collection 40 WEEKS is forthcoming with YesYes Books and preorders are open
Gina Chung’s Sea Change was included in Lithub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Texas Review Press will publish Chloe Seim’s illustrated novel-in-stories, CHURN, in the fall
Amber Sparks’s novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE and story collection DID PARENTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES LOVE THEIR CHILDREN? are forthcoming with Neon Literary
Dorothy Chan’s fifth collection of poetry RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME will be published by published by Deep Vellum in Fall 2023/Spring 2024
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Mandana Chaffa’s review, “The Price of Survival in “Judas Goat,” was published in Chicago Review of Books
Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s piece, “Bong Water,” was published in Pidgeonholes
Aurielle Marie’s piece, “The Other Side of Imagination,” was published in The Offing
Todd Dillard’s two poems were published in HAD
CD Eskilson’s poems, “Trans Panic Contrapuntal” and “Reversed House Cleansing,” were published in Pidgeonholes
Camille U. Adams’s piece, “Sound the Bones,” was published in Variant Lit
Marvin Shackelford’s piece, “Al Fresco,” was published in Trampset
Abigail Oswald’s piece, “Selected Google Searches Regarding Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Pulse’”, was published in Trampset
Davon Loeb was interviewed by Rachel León for The Rumpus
Publishers Weekly reviewed Alejandro Varela’s “The People Who Report More Stress”
Pedro Ponce’s piece, “Superman Flying Over a Nude Beach,” was published in Matter Press
Tyler Raso’s piece, “godinthewall 1,” was published in Black Warrior Review
Ariel Francisco’s piece, “Baton Bleu,” was published in The New Yorker
Abigail Oswald’s piece, “Girl-Shaped,” was published in Vast Chasm Magazine
Memoir Reader Miyako Pleines’s piece, “My Pregnancy Didn’t Include a Prenatal Glow,” was published in Electric Lit
Tyler Barton’s piece, “Mom, Chronicled (January),” was published in CRAFT
Sudha Balagopal’s piece, “Pebbles,” was published in One Wild Ride
Zach Linge’s piece, “Sophomores,” was published in Ploughshares
Sara Elkamel’s piece, “Pentimento,” was published in Ploughshares
Diane Gottlieb’s piece, “I Didn't Have Sex For Almost A Decade. I Was Surprised By What I Discovered When I Finally Did” was published in Huffpost
Maria Poulatha’s piece, “Whiteout,” was published in Lost Balloon
Farah Ali’s piece, “A Sequence of Small and Big Events,” was published in Virginia Quarterly Review
Dina L. Relles and Sarah J. Sloat collaborated on mixed media for Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine
Cathy Ulrich has 3 micros in The Woodward Review: “Your Girlfriend as a Murder Mystery,” “Your Girlfriend as Good Little Soldiers,” and “Your Girlfriend as The Hollywood Sign”
jj peña has 2 micros in Washington Square Review, “flamingos on my neck” and “jellyfish”
Ellen Rhudy’s piece, “Dawn of the New Age,” was published in The Florida Review
Print Issue Editor & Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s piece, “The Garden of Eden,” was published in New World Writing Quarterly
Jared Yates Sexton’s op-ed, “Why misogynists like Andrew Tate are going mainstream,” was published in the LA Times
Renny Gong’s piece, “Fluke,” was published in Potomac Review
Gaia Rajan’s piece, “Intuition,” was published in Ran Off With the Star Bassoon
Rob Roensch is in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Puerto Del Sol
CD Eskilson’s piece, “Accidental Selfie in the Photo of a Window Quote,” was published in The Florida Review
Davon Loeb’s piece, “Fighting the Tree,” was published in The Sun Magazine
Dina L. Relles’s piece, “texts i never sent,” was published in Flypaper Lit
Awards, Honors, and News
Diane Gottlieb and Gabrielle Griffis were nominated by Variant Lit for Best Small Fictions
Former Assistant Fiction Editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is AGENTED!
Chris Gonzalez’s flash essay, “As a Person of Single Experience,” was included in JMWW’s anthology, alongside Krys Malcolm Belc, Tyler Barton, Davon Loeb, and more!
Editor-in-Chief Maureen Langloss was featured in Lue’s Poetry Hour newsletter
Jennifer Wortman and Exodus Oktavia Brownlow are judges for F(r)iction’s short story and flash fiction contests
Adele Elise Williams’s poem “Idolatry For Dummies” was featured in Sam Sifton’s cooking column for The New York Times
Five Split Lip contributors were in the PEN Literary Awards Longlists
Shane McCrae, “Cain Named The Animal”
Jessamine Chan, “The School for Good Mothers”
Alejandro Varela, “The Town of Babylon”
Sequoia Nagamatsu, “How High We Go in the Dark”
Lydia Conklin, “Rainbow-Rainbow”
Diannely Antigua’s podcast Bread & Poetry has a new episode with Teddy Klemarczyk
Melissa Ragsly’s TV pilot FORMER IT GIRL was double recommended and selected for the Stage 32 lookbook
Simon Shieh is a 2023 poetry fellow for NE Arts
Former Assistant Fiction Editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is Editor-in-Chief of The Loveliest Review
J.P Vallières’s MFA IN THE SPACE AGE is a finalist for Mason Jar Press’ 1729 book prize
Longreads selected Davon Loeb’s essay “Fighting the Tree,” published in The Sun, as an editor’s pick
Vincent Anioke has a new website, and he has a page offering to pay sub fees for Black authors