The FAM Roundup: June 2019

The FAM is making their own fireworks this July, with so much great new work in the world! Catch up on some awesome new writing and don't forget to revisit our contributors' work in our archives!

Books!

• Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster has been sold to FSG

• Tyler Barton’s manuscript Get Empty was a finalist for Sarabande Books’ 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

• Gayle Brandeis’ Many Restless Concerns is now available for pre-order from Black Lawrence Press.

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews!

• Aditya Desai published “Raid on Madras” in the latest online issue of Barrelhouse.

• Alina Stefanescu's “Scene from a Birmingham Diner Rated Four Stars by Zagat” appears in SWWIM

• Assistant flash fiction editor Amy Stuber's story “Emergency” is up at Pidgeonholes

• Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones published “(re)Naming” in Barren Magazine and “Those Ten Times My Middle School Students Tried to Compliment Me With What Turned Out to be Total—Somewhat Fair—Burns” in Hobart

• Anne Rasmussen's story “Application for a Restraining Order” was published in Barren Magazine:

• Social media and marketing coordinator Becky Robison's flash “Apple Crisp as Symptom” appears in Milk Candy Review

• Bob Hicok published “Career Day,” “Kriah,” and “Postcard” in Waxwing

• Brandon Taylor published “The Kings of Norway” in Catapult and “They Belong Only to Themselves” in Platypus Press

• C.C. Russell's “Caught” appears in The Sonder Review

• Cathy Ulrich's story “The Zoo Lion is Like a Hurricane” is up at Bull: Men’s Fiction

• Chaya Bhuvaneswar's story “Gas Station” appears online at Barrelhouse

• Chloe N. Clark published "Bounce Pass” in Bull: Men’s Fiction and “They Are Coming for You, So You Better Run, You Better Run, So You Can Hide” in Jellyfish Review

• Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez published “A Mountain of Invertebrates” in Lunch Ticket and “Thirst” in Hobart

• Interviews and reviews editor Clancy McGilligan published “Outtakes from Treatment Twenty-Five, an Advertisement” in the latest print issue of Columbia Journal

• Cortney Lamar Charleston's poem “It’s Important I Remember That They Don’t Have the Tools to Critique Me—” was published in Poetry Magazine:

• Darren C. Demaree's poem “if there is a river #55” appears in the latest print issue of North American Review and “she is enough to break open any atom” appears in Construction

• Dave Housley's story “Roadrunner” appears in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Dorothy Chan's poems “Ode if Your Love Language is Physical Touch,” “Recipe for Lover #4,” “Recipe for Rudeness,” “Triple Sonnet for Corn Soup,” and “Triple Sonnet for Studmuffins Wrapped in Bacon” appear in Waxwing:

• Henry Rollins reviewed Jared Yates Sexton’s The Man They Wanted Me to Be for The Los Angeles Times.

• Poetry reader Jessica Q. Stark published “Ballad of the Red Wisteria” in Hobart

• Jill Talbot's essay “Running into My Dead Mother at 7-Eleven” was published by The Paris Review.

  • Jill also published “Symphony in Three Movements: Outliers” with Marcia Aldrich in The Rupture

• Josh Denslow's story “Punch” appears in Cleaver

• Josh McColough's story “The Long Haul” was published in Haunted Waters Press

• Kathryn McMahon's story “Pieces of Night” was published in Gone Lawn

• Kim Magowan published “Incompatible Ideas” in Queen Mob’s Teahouse and “Knock, Knock” in Bending Genres

• Kristin Garth's poem “Demonic Lips Do Not Embrace the Dead” is up at Mojave Heart Review

• Memoir reader Krys Malcolm Belc published “First Snow" in Waxwing and “My Body Double Begins the Whole 30 Diet” in SmokeLong Quarterly

• Assistant flash fiction editor Lori Sambol Brody's one-sentence story “She Must Not Think Bad Thoughts” is up at Monkeybicycle

• Marcos S. Gonsalez published “Speculating on Queer Pasts to Achiever a Queer Eternity for My Tío Cano” in Catapult

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach have work in the latest issue of Mississippi Review

• Matthew Stephen Sirois is a contributor in the Miscellany collection from RunAmok Books.

• Matthew Young's one-sentence story “Combat Glide” appears in Monkeybicycle

• Flash fiction editor Maureen Langloss interviews Miriam Toews for The Rumpus.

• Meghan Phillips published “Stephen Hawking Waits for the Time Travelers” in Pithead Chapel and “The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options” in Strange Horizons

• Michelle Ross published “If My Mother Was the Final Girl” in Electric Literature and “Manhandle” in Jellyfish Review:

• Nick Farriella's “Three Times I’ve Seen My Dad Cry” appears in Hobart

• Editorial assistant Stephanie Anderson published “Momma’s Doll” in Toe Good

• Tatiana Ryckman's comic “I Met Prince Once" was published by The Rumpus

• Todd Dillard's poem “Advice for a Newly Dead Mother” is up at Crab Creek Review

• Tommy Dean's story “Wave” was published in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

• Tyler Barton's story “The Skins” is up at Craft

• Contributing editor Tyrese L. Coleman was interviewed in Electric Literature and The Offing

• W. Todd Kaneko's poem “Train Wreck” appears in Sweet

Awards, Honors, and News

• Alina Stefanescu’s “Proper Fugue” won first prize in River Heron Review’s Poetry Contest.

• Tyrese Coleman’s How to Sit made the Boston Globe’s list of essential summer reading.

• Ariel Francisco is judging Gulf Stream’s summer poetry contest.

• Christopher Gonzalez will be reading at the HOT FLASH event on 7/18 at Cantina Cumbancha in Brooklyn.

• Kathy Fish is judging Mslexia’s 2019 Flash Fiction Competition.

• Genevieve Hudson’s Pretend We Live Here was a finalist for Lesbian Fiction at the 2019 Lambda Literary Lammys.

This summer is just heating up! Here's to more great reading in July!