The Fam Roundup: June & July 2024

This collection of recent SLM FAM news and publications is perfect to explore during a drowsy summer afternoon. We took our annual holiday in July and stepped off social media during that time, so we missed A LOT of July accomplishments. If any member of the Split Lip FAM had news in July that you would like us to include in our next roundup, please DM us on Twitter or email us at splitlipthemag at gmail.com. And, if  you don’t post your new work on Twitter during the rest of the year, we are likely to miss it! So please keep us posted! We love to shout out our contributor’s and staff’s accomplishments.

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Assistant Fiction Editor Analía Villagra’s story “Bloodsucker” was published in The Kenyon Review 

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer’s poem “On Bewitched, They Recast Gladys Kravitz” was published in The Southern Review  

• Her poem “My Hundred-Year Flood” was a Missouri Review’s poem of the week 

• Fiction Editor Janelle Basset’s story “The Yellow Greenhouse” was published in MonkeyBicycle

• Contributor Eliza Gilbert’s poems “Self-Portrait as First Death of a War Movie," "And Still, There Is a Goblin," and "The Forethinker” were published in The Iowa Review

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen’s poems “Quintessence: in the Kitchen,” “Quintessence: Crab Fried Rice,” and “Quintessence: to Quibble” were published in The Harvard Advocate

• Contributor Jason B. Crawford was featured on Queer Poem A Day with the Deerfield Public Library podcast  

• Poetry reader Mack Rogers’s poem “On an early morning flight, I saw a shadow that reached into space” was published in Glass Poetry Press

•  Mack also published a poem in a the anthology A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging & Other Queer Possibilities 

• SLM Social Media & Marketing Director Wendy Wallace’s flash “Something Like Healing” was published in Okay Donkey Mag

• Contributors W. Todd Kaneko and Amorak Huey’s poem “Slash and Mr. Spock Sitting in the Waffle House at the End Of The Universe” was published in Poetry Daily 

• Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s poem Extinction Studies was published in the summer issue of The Kenyon Review 

• Contributor Davon Loeb’s essay “My Experiences as a Black Man Are Integral to My Work as a Teacher” was published in Electric Lit 

• Contributor Alina Stefanescu wrote an introduction for an Elif Batuman piece for Electric Lit  

• Assistant memoir editor Jeneé Skinner’s essay “Every Day My Mother Dies a Little in Front of Me” was published in Electric Lit 

• Contributor and memoir reader Tyler Raso’s poems “self-portrait as that one scene from Pokémon: The First Movie” and “[fig. 312 decoy] [fig. 313 decoy with wings]” were published in Electric Lit

• Contributor Leslie Pietrzyk’s story “Girls Like that End Up Fine” was published in The South Carolina Review

• Contributor Cathy Ulrich’s poems “A Handful of Daisies” and “Only as Far as Ever” were published in Issue One of Voices of the Summer Solstice 

• Contributor Diane Gottlieb’s poem “You Will Grow from This” was published in Issue One of Voices of the Summer Solstice 

• She interviewed Matthew Lippman for Adroit Journal 

• Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “C Bad Drivers” was published in The Los Angeles Review

• Contributor Arah Ko’s poem “The Father” was published in the new issue of The Cincinnati Review 

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert was interviewed about her collection Any Person is the Only Self for Lithub 

• She was also interviewed for Hazlitt 

• Assistant memoir editor Susan Lerner interviewed Masha Gessen for Booth 

• Memoir reader Elijah Sparkman’s story “Daffodil” was published in Bending Genres 

• Flash reader Robin Van Impe piece “Three Words and A Question Mark” was published in Bending Genres

• Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s essay “Of Scripts & Syntax” is a featured read in The New Quarterly  

• Editorial assistant Rachael Lin Wheeler’s poems “dysphoria: or, self as improvisation” and “In Which My Speaker Would Say Their Name Without Fear” were published in Foglifter Journal 

• Contributor Ina Carino published a piece in Foglifter Journal 

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee published a piece in Foglifter Journal 

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc wrote about Miss Nelson Is Missing! for a Vogue Article

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s flash “Indigestion” was published in Bluestem Magazine

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis’ story “Saint Bullfrog” was published in Bluestem Magazine

• Contributor Kristina Ten’s story “How to Make a Snow Maiden”, which was a Porter House Review Editors Prize finalist, was published online

• Her story “The Dizzy Room” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction 

• Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “Claw” was published in Vestal Review 

• Contributor Meg Pokrass’ story “Invisible Arrows” was published in Vestal Review  

• Contributor and memoir reader Sabrina Bustamante’s piece “The Sisters” was published in Michigan Quarterly Review

• Contributor Todd Dillard’s poem “Mustard” was published in Berlin Lit 

• Contributor K-Ming Chang’s story “Fox” was published in Vestal Review  

• Contributor Tommy Dean’s story “He Loved Her Like an open Wound” was published in Vestal Review 

• Fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s new collection Thanks for This Riot was reviewed in Kirkus Reviews 

• Contributor Hannah Grieco’s essay “Thin Dreams” was published in Shenandoah Literary 

• InteR/e/views Editor Daniel Garcia’s essay “The Other Side” was published in Shenandoah Literary 

• Contributor SarahFawn Montgomery’s essay “Stain” was published in Shenandoah Literary 

• Her poems “When the Pain Meds Wear Off” and “Prognosis” were published in Dialogist 

• Her poems “Recovery” and “A Doctor Says I’m Too Young for my Body to be this Old” were published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal

• Her flash piece “Second Skin” was published in Lost Balloon

• Contributor Mandana Chaffa interviewed Porochista Khakpour for the Chicago Review of Books 

• Print Issue Editor & Flash Editor Amy Stuber was interviewed in an upcoming episode of the Short Story Today podcast about her new collection Sad Grownups

• Fiction reader Elliot Alpern was wrote the No Contact Closing Time Letter 

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s piece “Flavors of Wealth” was published in the final issue of No Contact 

• Contributor Michael Chang’s piece “Crocodile Tears” was published in the final issue of No Contact 

• Contributor KB Brookins was published in @nocontactmag 

• Former Assistant Fiction Editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s piece “The Full-Figured/Fat Woman and the Full-Mouthed Frog/Prince” was published in the final issue of No Contact 

• Contributor Deesha Philyaw and Reckon True Stories podcast co-host Kiese Laymon were interviewed in Vanity Fair 

• Flash reader Robin Van Impe’s flash piece “Box Ticking” was published in Ghost Parachute

• Contributor and flash reader Sunwoo Jeong’s story “The Midnight Spa” was published in Uncanny Magazine

Books

• Poetry reader Bleah Patterson published her novella Em's River 

• Contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston’s collection It’s Important I Remember is forthcoming in early 2026 with Curbstone 

• Contributor K-Ming Chang sold the rights to two upcoming books (Rage and Shame Will be Your Savior) to Simon & Schuster, with the first installment forthcoming in 2026 

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert released her book of essays “Any Person Is the Only Self” 

• Contributor Steven Espada Dawson’s upcoming collection Late to the Search Party will be published by Scribner Books in 2025

• Contributor Kate Segriff published her debut short story collection Animals in Captivity with Riddle Fence Publishing

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Queer Festival Heidelberg’s 15th anniversary book features a chapter dedicated to Art Curator Michael Young’s work 

• Contributor Kathy Fish has been chosen as a  writer in residence at Kerouac House in Orlando, FL for January and February of next year

• Contributor Moisés Delgado was featured in Alternating Current Press Top 10 Spotlighted Stories for Best Small Fictions 2024 for his story in Split Lip Mag!

• Contributor Steven Duong’s short story “Dorchester” and contributor Allegra Hyde’s story “Democracy in America” were selected for the Best American Short Stories 2024 

• Editorial Assistant Jon Doyle is now represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Literary Agency

• Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a Sunhouse Literary BIPOC Microgrant winner

• “Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness”, edited by contributor Diane Gottlieb, won the 2024 IndieReader Discovery Award

• Former Assistant Memoir Editor Jane Link was appointed junior commissioning editor at Brazen

• Fiction reader Tina Zhu is a Co-Editor in Chief for Wyrmhole Magazine, a brand new space for speculative short fiction

• 2018 Mixtape Flash Fiction Contest First Runner-Up Yael van der Wouden’s book The Safekeep is on the Booker Prize 2024 longlist!