The Fam Roundup: March 2021

The #SplitLipFAM kicked off Spring in style. Check out all this amazing new work from our contributors and staff! And be sure to check out their work in our archives, too.

Books

• Tyler Barton’s book Eternal Night at the Nature Museum is now available for pre-order from Sarabande Books

• Ariel Francisco’s collection Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press

• James Tadd Adcox’s chapbook Five Essays is forthcoming as part of Ghost City Press’ 2021 Summer Series 

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• K-Ming Chang’s story “Phantom” was published in Hobart

  • Her pieces “Insomnia” and “Melody” found a home in Sundog Lit

  • Peach Mag published her story “The Daughters Ding”

  • Pidgeonholes published two short pieces and an interview with K-Ming

• Pithead Chapel published Belinda Hermawan’s story “S to Z”

• Water Stone Review published assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s piece “air in the brain” as well as an interview

  • Along with other writers, JJ also reflected on “Building Writing Community in the Digital Age” for Cincinnati Review

• Brandon Taylor’s forthcoming collection Filthy Animals received a starred review in Publishers Weekly

  • The Cut published his piece “A Queasy Nostalgia for the Movies”

  • His story “Prophets” appeared in Joyland

  • He reviewed Michael Lowenthal’s book Sex with Strangers for The New York Times

• Flash reader and treasurer Ruth LeFaive and contributor Joshua Jones published their story “Bitter Nails” in Heavy Feather Review

• Abigail Oswald’s story “New Release” appeared in CHEAP POP

  • Vol. 1 Brooklyn published her story “The Disappearance Kit”

• Michelle Ross’ story “Duck, Duck, Owl” found a home in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

  • She interviewed Dan Crawley for Cleaver Magazine

• Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross’ story “Twenty-Three Safety Manuals” appeared in the latest print issue of Colorado Review

• Hippocampus Magazine published Francisco Martínezcuello’s piece “Salsa Night”

• Rachel Mans McKenny was interviewed about her novelThe Butterfly Effect in the Creighton University news

• Amorak Huey’s piece “At the Memorial Service for the Way Things Used to Be We Talk About Zombies” appeared in HAD

• Assistant fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s story “Community Betterment” was published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn

  • Trampset published her story “All I Need Are These Four Walls and Some Positive Feedback”

  • Her piece “The Domeless Palace” appeared in Tiny Molecules

• Melissa Goode’s story “Goodness and Mercy” found a home in The Forge

• Allegra Hyde’s piece "‘The Contagious Collective Epiphany’: On Climate Change, Social Change, and the Right to Vote” was published in Kenyon Review

• HAD published Alan Chazaro’s poem “Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge”

  • Poetry Daily published his “Untitled Memory”

• Kathy Fish appeared on The Artist’s Statement podcast

• Tyler Barton’s piece “Whorl” appeared in Subnivean

• Hannah Grieco’s piece “Tunneling” found a home in No Contact

• No Contact also published Melissa Lore’s piece “The Worst Parent Ever”

• Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “Love Song for Sourness, Stink, and My Acid Tongue” appeared in Pidgeonholes

• Vagabond City published Savannah Slone’s poem “trauma scripture”

• Dorothy Chan’s poem “Triple Sonnet for Dennis Rodman, #91, on my Television Screen” was published in The Margins

• Tommy Dean’s story “But They’d Never Believe Me” was published in Five South

• Cortney Lamar Charleston appeared on the Haymarket Books Live podcast

• Amber Sparks’ story “A Place for Hiding Precious Things” found a home in Lightspeed Magazine

• CRAFT published Erin Slaughter’s story “Nest”

• Talia Tucker’s piece “Yellowing Dresses” appeared in The Citron Review

• The Citron Review also published flash reader Star Su’s piece “Freezing Point”

  • SmokeLong Quarterly published her story “Bone Ache”

• Gaia Rajan’s poem “Heaven” appeared in Palette Poetry

• Nefertiti Asanti’s poem “menses sings of me” appeared in SFWP

• Social media/marketing director Becky Robison appeared on The Joined Up Writing Podcast

• The Banyan Review published Jonathan Andrew Pérez’s poem “Confession”

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “Strike” appeared in Leavings

  • His poem “Ode to Klonopin” appeared in The Cortland Review

• Kara Vernor’s piece “Questions I’ve Asked My Boyfriend While Writing” found a home in HAD

• Elisa Gabbert’s piece “In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort” was published in The New York Times

• Marvin Shackelford’s story “A Tragic Misstep in Evolution” was published in Atlas and Alice

• Cathy Ulrich’s story “An Emptiness Forever” found a home in Invisible City Literary Journal

  • Her story “The Ghost Always Remains” was published in Alien Magazine

• Wired published Seema Yasmin’s piece "A Boy, His Brain, and a Decades-Long Medical Controversy”

• Hobart published Jared Yates Sexton’s story “It Never Stops”

• Ilana Masad reviewed Melissa Febos’ book Girlhood for NPR

• Marcos Gonsalez’s piece “What It Means to Choose Whiteness” appeared in Literary Hub

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poem “Hold Music” was published in the latest print issue of New England Review

• Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ piece “Are Tamales Kosher for Passover?” appeared in Jewish Journal

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s forthcoming memoir The Natural Mother of the Child received a starred review from Kirkus

• Jeremy Radin has work in the latest print issue of Salt Hill

• Flash reader Jeanne Jones’ piece “And If A Man and a Woman Are Drowning in a River, First They Will Save the Man” was published in Trampset

Awards, Honors, and News

• K-Ming Chang’s novel Bestiary is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award

• Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood is a finalist for The Ray Bradbury Prize for science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction from the Los Angeles Times

• Dennison Ty Schultz is a finalist in New Delta Review’s 2021 Chapbook Contest

• Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life is a finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

  • Real Life is also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Gay Fiction Award

• Flash reader and treasurer Ruth LeFaive won CRAFT’s 2020 Flash Fiction Contest, judged by Leesa Cross-Smith; Jill Talbot was a finalist, and Beth Gilstrap received an honorable mention

• Kim Magowan and Ra’Niqua Lee are winners of Fractured Lit’s 100 Word Story Mini-Contest

• Poetry reader Megan Neville was a finalist for the Tupelo Press 2021 Sunken Garden Chapbook Award

  • Neville’s manuscript is on the YesYes Books 2020 Open Reading Period Longlist

• Raven Leilani’s novel Luster is a finalist for the 2021 Women’s Prize

  • Luster has also won the National Book Critics Circle’s 2020 John Leonard Prize

• Julian K. Jarboe’s collection Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is a finalist for the Lambda Literary LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Award

• Tommy Dean is launching Uncharted Mag, a journal for genre work, in August 2021

• Mandana Chaffa’s new magazine Nowruz Journal is now live with its inaugural issue

• MH Rowe is now represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary