The Fam Roundup: January 2025
We have to admit that January was a thorny start to the year… but the wonderful news and publications from the SLM FAM brought us solace and inspiration.
Publications, Interviews, & Reviews
Former Assistant Memoir Editor Camille U Adams’ book How To Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir was on a Ms Magazine list of most anticipated feminist books for 2025
Contributor K.C. Mead Brewer’s story “My Pretties” was published in Barrelhouse Magazine’s Baby, One More Time issue, which was edited by contributor Hannah Grieco
Contributor and former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s short story “Secrets of Mulholland Manor” was published in Doric Literary
Contributor Seán Carlson’s essay False Cognates was published Vol. 45, no. 4 of in New England Review
Contributor Mandana Chaffa published an interview with Anton Hur for Words Without Borders
Former Poetry Editor Marianne Chan’s poem “Love Poem” was published in Sixth Finch
Contributor Michael Chang’s poems “Salon Sonnet” and “Matchmaker” were published in The Margins
Contributor Chloe N. Clark’s story “Those Who Run” was published in Uncharted Magazine
Contributor and flash reader Emily Costa was interviewed about her debut story collection Girl on Girl in XRAY
Contributor Elisa Gabbert’s essay “Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference” was published in the The New York Times
Contributor Hannah Grieco published “Down: An Excerpt” in Doric Literary
Contributor Amorak Huey’s flash piece “The Possibility of Ghosts” was published in JMWW
Contributor and flash reader Ani King’s story “Making Étouffée” was published in Hotch Potch
Contributor Abbie Kiefer read from her new collection Certain Shelter on the Of Poetry Podcast
Her poems “Playing Super Mario 2 with My Kid on My Old Nintendo” and “Better Home, Better Gardens” were published in Electric Literature
Contributor Arah Ko’s essay “Violence or Voice? Why Erasure Poetry” was published in Cincinnati Review
Contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin’s flash “Creeps” was published in Wigleaf
Contributor Ilana Masad published a review of Erika Krouse’s collection Save Me, Stranger for The Los Angeles Times
She published a list of “Five Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise” in The Atlantic
Contributor Rachel Mans McKenny’s story “Trouble Child” was published in Barrelhouse Magazine
Contributor Claudia Monpere’s poems “Dorothea Dix Speaks to the Massachusetts Legislature About Reforming Mental Health Treatment, 1843,” “Advice from the Little Mother’s League and the New England Medical Society, 1908,” and “Elizabeth Packard’s Petition to the Trustees of Illinois Insane Asylum, September 1861” were published in Cutleaf Journal
Her flash pieces “If I Write I’m Not Thinking of You, Old Man, Does that Mean I Am?" and "Marigold” were published in Does It Have Pockets
Poetry reader Carson Sandell’s poem “Letter to a Future Archivist: a Burning Haibun” was published in Eunoia Review
Their poems “Transfem Sonnet No.9,” “On Dysphoria,” and “Grief” were published in Across the Margin
Contributor and Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s collection Sad Grownups was included on a list of small press book recommendations for Electric Literature
Contributor David Byron Queen released “Cameo Glass,” the first single for his new album
Contributor Brandon Taylor’s short story “American Realism” was published in The Atlantic
Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s poems “Study for Homage to the Square” and “Chicago, Board of Trade” were published in issue 32 of Tupelo Quarterly
Contributor Nathan Willis’ flash pieces “Christmas, 2022,” “Almost Fun,” and “The Swallow Necklace Your Grandmother Gave You” were published in BULL
Books
Contributor Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi’s book Disintegration Made Plain and Easy is forthcoming from Piżama Press
Contributor Beth Gilstrap’s hybrid/flash CNF collection There Is News Along the Ohio River is forthcoming in 2026 from River River Books
Former Director of Social Media SG Huerta released their chapbook Good Grief
Contributor Sara Lippmann’s novel Hidden River and rerelease of her short story collection Jerks are forthcoming from Tortoise Books
Contributor Ilana Masad’s novel Beings is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing
Contributor Shane McCrae edited Only Sing, a collection of John Berryman poems that is forthcoming in December