The Fam Roundup: March 2020

A global pandemic couldn’t stop the #SplitLipFAM from being awesome! Look at all this outstanding work from our contributors and staff! You should definitely check out their work in our archives, too.

Books

• Marcelle Heath was a runner-up for the Awst Press Book Prize; her collection Is That All There Is? is forthcoming in 2022

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Elisa Gabbert’s review of Alice Notley’s For the Ride was published in The New York Times

• Todd Dillard appeared in Superstition Review’s “Authors Talk” feature

  • Longleaf Review also interviewed Todd

• Assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody’s piece “All the Stars” appeared in Milk Candy Review

  • Milk Candy Review also published a mini-interview with Lori about her story

• The Night Heron Barks published Alina Stefanescu’s poem “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”

  • Alina’s “The Thickness & The Threshold” appeared in Pidgeonholes

• The Paris Review published three more of Jill Talbot’s essays: “The Envelope,” “The Return,” and “Gone”

• Monet P. Thomas interviewed Leesa Cross-Smith for The Rumpus

• Fiction reader Wei Ting’s piece “Kite Flying is Not for Little People” found a home in Barren Magazine

• Flash reader JJ Peña published two flash CNF pieces in Barren Magazine

• Erin Calabria’s story “Did the Water” appeared in Longleaf Review

• Melissa Goode’s story “Skin Hunger” was published in The Masters Review

• Hobart published Kristine Langley Mahler’s piece “People Who Seem Enviable”

• Flash reader Jules Archer’s “A Word Commonly Used in Awkward Social Situations” appeared in Tiny Molecules

• Tiny Molecules also published Michelle Ross’ piece “Impulses”

  • Michelle’s story “Hostages” found a home in Ghost Parachute

  • Along with Kim Magowan and Jennifer Wortman, Michelle had work in the latest print issue of Moon City Review

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s collection All Heathens was reviewed in The Arkansas International

• Scott Garson’s story “New Price” found a home in Ghost Parachute

• Megan Giddings’ story “The Children and the Leg Found in June” was published in Southeast Review

  • Her story “Displacement” was published in Story Magazine

  • She was interviewed in The Rumpus and The Los Angeles Times (by Ilana Masad)

  • Her novel Lakewood was reviewed by The Boston Globe

• Dave Housley appeared on the Day Jobs podcast

• Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones’ piece “Thoughts on LA Traffic” appeared in Queen Mob’s Teahouse

  • Anna also interviewed Melissa Ragsly for The Rumpus

• Amorak Huey went head-to-head with former managing editor Amy Rossi in a March Badness battle

• Sara Lippmann’s story “Tumblers” found a home in Okay Donkey

• Former reader Nick Farriella’s parody “This Side of Paradise: A Letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald Quarantined in the South of France” was published in McSweeney’s

• Kathryn McMahon’s story “The Color it Leaves Behind” appeared in CRAFT

• Brett Stuckel’s story “Demolition Demolition” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Yael van der Wouden’s latest “Dear David” advice column was published in Longleaf Review

• Zach Linge’s poem “Start with the Kiss” appeared in the latest print issue of Puerto del Sol

  • They also published two poems in The Adroit Journal

• Atlas and Alice published Beth Gilstrap’s story “Maybe You Catch Another Ray of Sun”

• C.C. Russell’s piece “The Sound, The Message” found a home in MacQueen’s Quinterly

  • He also published “Across and Back into Wyoming” in Pidgeonholes

• Former fiction editor Katie M. Flynn’s essay “The Uncertain Ones: Ambivalence and A.I.” appeared on Tor.com

  • An excerpt of her new novel The Companions also appeared on Tor.com

  • Her book release in San Francisco was covered by Datebook

• Cathy Ulrich’s story “That Fall, The Things That Died” was published in Litro

  • The Adroit Journal published her story “Being the Murdered Stripper”

  • Her poem “Remembering How to Breathe” found a home in Pretty Owl Poetry

• Poetry editor William Fargason had two poems published in The Adroit Journal

• Hobart published Zakiya Cowan’s poem “Elegy for Bubblegum”

• Hobart also shared five poems by recent poetry contest judge Chen Chen

• Assistant fiction editor Anna Cabe’s piece “Selected Episodes from Wartime Philippines on a Saturday Night” appeared in the latest print issue of StoryQuarterly

• Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee has work in the latest print issue of Juked

  • Rita’s poem “In Diaspora” also appeared in Pretty Owl Poetry

• Pidgeonholes published Steve Edwards’ piece “What Might Have Been”

  • He also published "The Neighbor Kid” on Medium

• Tommy Dean’s story “Past Lives” found a home in Atlas and Alice

• Chloe N. Clark’s piece “Wearing the Body” was published in Louisiana Literature

• Lucie Britsch’s forthcoming novel Sad Janet was reviewed in Kirkus

Awards, Honors, and News

• Dorothy Chan is the new managing editor of Barstow & Grand

• Alina Stefanescu is judging the River Heron Poetry Prize, deadline 5/31

• Cathy Ulrich is judging The Sunlight Press’ spring Flash Fiction Contest, deadline 4/17

• Alina Stefanescu, Robert James Russell, and Devin Kelly are judging flash, creative nonfiction, and poetry, respectively, for F(r)iction’s Spring 2020 Literary Contests, deadline 4/30

• Ariel Francisco’s book A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship is The Rumpus’ April Poetry Book Club pick

• Jennifer Wortman’s collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. is a finalist for a 2019 Foreward INDIE Award

• Bending Genres has upcoming workshops from Tyler Barton and managing editor Wendy Oleson