The Fam Roundup: July 2022

The fam made quite a splash in July. Dive into their amazing accomplishments.

Books

• Robert James Russell’s graphic memoir Hard Body: A Personal History of My Form on Display is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster

• Richard Mirabella’s novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest (Catapult, 2023) is available for pre-order

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Sebastián H. Páramo’s piece, “The Field Trip,” was published in D Magazine

• Joshua Jones Lofflin’s piece, “Manny’s Gone Missing (Again),” was published in Baltimore Review

• Zach Linge’s poem, “Bring the OJ,” was published in The Atlantic

• Social Media + Marketing Director Wendy Wallace’s story, “Draw Something Nice,” was published in Monkeybicycle’s One-Sentence Stories

• Rachel León reviewed “Brown Neon” by Raquel Gutiérrez for LA Review of Books

• Alejandro Varela was interviewed by Miguel Gutierrez for BOMB Magazine

• Poetry Reader Steven Espada Dawson’s poem, “Search Party,” was published in Guernica

• Robert James Russell’s piece, “Up North, July 1994,” was published in HAD (Hobart After Dark)

• Brandon Taylor’s piece, “Happy Fortunate People,” was published in Guernica

• Tyler Barton’s piece, “Lake Number,” was published in Five South

• Deesha Philyaw was interviewed by Sara Botton for Catapult’s column “How’s the Writing Going?”

• Kate McIntyre’s piece, “Red Zone,” was published in Words & Sports Quarterly

• Flash Editor Eshani Surya’s piece, “A Hundred Orbits,” was published in The Rumpus

• Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “Being the Murdered High Schooler,” was published in Flypaper

• Danielle Shorr has 3 poems in mutiny!

• Poetry Reader Dio Kollias interviewed Lauren Hilger for BOMB Magazine

• Sara Elkamel’s poem, “Friday Market,” was published in The Iowa Review

• Lori Sambol Brody’s piece, “Truth or Death,” was published in Janus Literary

• Mike Nagel’s piece, “Notes from the Blue Zone,” was published in Little Engines

• Elisa Gabbert’s forthcoming collection “Normal Distance” was reviewed by Publishers Weekly

• Assistant Fiction Editor Analía Villagra’s piece, “Salamander Season,” was published in Ploughshares

• Meghan Phillips’s poem, “NASA Thought Sally Ride Would Need 100 Tampons For a Week in Space,” was published in HAD (Hobart After Dark)

• Bryan Washington’s piece, “Arrivals,” was published in The New Yorker

• Kathleen Rooney reviewed “Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation” by Nuar Alsadir for LIBER

• Jon Chaiim McConnell’s novella, thrum, was reviewed in Broad Street Review

• Tommy Dean was interviewed by Jill Witty for CRAFT

• Former Memoir Reader Christopher Louis Romaguera’s piece, “Writing Death,” was published in Ploughshares

• Abigail Oswald interviewed Isabel Kaplan for Electric Lit

• Lynn Mundell’s piece, “Stella in the Desert,” was published in 7x7

• Poetry Editor William Fargason’s poem, “When My Alabama,” was published in Narrative

• Abigail Oswald’s piece, “Book of the Wolf,” was published in DIAGRAM

• Todd Dillard’s piece, “The Widower’s Wife Takes Him to This Year’s Death Gala,” was published in The Bureau Dispatch

• Alina Stefanescu’s piece, “Letter to Bucharest Concerning the Use of Blue in Paintings and Music,” was published in The Bureau Dispatch

• Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s piece, “This Light of Mine,” was published in Pithead Chapel

Awards, Honors, and News

• Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is on the longlist for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize

• Flash Editor Eshani Surya is now represented by Stephanie Delman with Trellis Lit

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark is on the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

• Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers was included in Barack Obama’s 2022 Summer Reading List

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark has made the shortlist for the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize

• Poetry Editor William Fargason’s “Elegy with Steam” was selected for the poetry column in American Life in Poetry (originally published in The Maine Review)

• Chloe N. Clark has a new column, “I Want M(Oreo)” at ANMLY

• Timea Sipos’s piece “A Stomach Full of Clenched Fists” is a Joyland Magazine and Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Lit. Fest Fiction Contest Winner

• Raven Leilani was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship

• Ilana Masad will be in the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Readings of the Jewish Bible, edited by Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff, forthcoming in Fall 2024

• Sara Lippmann’s novel, LECH, was included on The Rumpus’s “What to Read When You’ve Made it Halfway Through 2022”

• Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s short story, “Chicken-Girls and Chicken-Ladies and All the Possibilities of Pillowcases” (Barren Magazine)” was selected for The Best Microfiction 2022 anthology

• Brandon Taylor is joining Unnamed Press as Acquiring Editor

• Sam Herschel Wein won a Pushcart Prize for “Bock Rottom” in Shenandoah

• Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies and Jessamine Chan’s The School For Good Mother were listed in The New Yorker’s What We’re Reading This Summer feature

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark was included in a list of most popular reads according to NPR staff and critics

• SG Huerta is a chapbook winner at Defunkt Magazine for Last Stop: Grief Poems 2020-20xx

• InteR/e/views Editor Daniel Garcia’s essay, “August 30th, 2017,” was a finalist in the 2021 prose contest at Quarterly West