The Fam Roundup: March 2022
March came in like a lion and then just kept going like a lion for the #SplitLipFAM. Check out all the glorious publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff!
Books
Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s chapbook Look at All the Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves is forthcoming from Ethel Zine in 2023
Allegra Hyde’s novel Eleutheria is now available
Alejandro Varela’s novel The Town of Babylon is now available
Former fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson’s collection Development Times Vary will be published by Moon City Press later this year
Chloe N. Clark’s poetry collection Escaping the Body is now available from Interstellar Flight Press
Her poetry collection Every Song a Vengeance is now available for pre-order from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press
Former reader Nick Farriella’s story collection Rules for Escaping is now available for pre-order from Word West Press
Sara Lippmann’s story collection Jerks is now available from Mason Jar Press
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Sara Elkamel’s poem “Desert Prison: A Testimony” appeared in Poetry
The Rumpus published her poems “Mediterranean, 2004” and “October in Too Many Syllables”
HAD published her piece “An Essay on the Road to the End of Jordan”
Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s poem “Technically, I’m a Poet Now, and/so I Think It’s My Turn to Write Something About the Moon” was published in Hennepin Review
Her flash “Baby is the Big Man, Now” was published in Lost Balloon
Atticus Review published Hannah Grieco’s piece “First Kicking, Then Not”
Pithead Chapel published her piece “The Gold Standard”
HAD published her poem “Tell Me a Love Story”
Allegra Hyde’s novel Eleutheria and Alejandro Varela’s novel The Town of Babylon made Lambda Literary’s list of “March’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature”
Alejandro Varela made a playlist for his new novel The Town of Babylon in Largehearted Boy
Todd Dillard’s poem “Pear Snow” found a home in Guernica
Poetry editor William Fargason’s “Poem: An Apology” was published in The Threepenny Review
His poem “When Mike Pence Calls Trump My Father” was published in Iron Horse Literary Review
Brandon Taylor’s story “Urgent, Necessary, Vital” was published in Esquire
Dylan Brie Ducey’s micros “The House is Turned Upside Down,” “The Bear” and “What the Puppy Said” were published in Bullshit Lit Mag
Fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s story “From Yoyo” was published in Wigleaf
K.C. Mead-Brewer’s flash “A Prancing Light” found a home in Twin Pies Literary
HAD published her piece “His Hands Were Cold”
Poetry reader Stella Lei’s piece “Graftings” appeared in CRAFT
The New York Times published Elisa Gabbert’s piece "A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight”
Flash editor Amy Stuber’s piece “Ambulances on My Block” was published in The Forge Literary Magazine
Chloe N. Clark’s piece “The Day Lasts Longer the Further Away You Are” appeared in The Bureau Dispatch
She was interviewed in Longleaf Review
Her collection Escaping the Body was featured in Nightfire’s “This Month in New Horror Books: March 2022”
Beth Gilstrap’s story “Can You Light a Candy Cigarette on Fire?” was published in Gone Lawn
The issue of KWELI that Ivelisse Rodriguez guest-edited is now available
Flash editor Eshani Surya appeared on an episode of NPR’s Where We Live
Rachel Mans McKenny’s piece “Unresolved Questions I Have for Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast” found a home in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
The Rumpus published Sarah Lao’s poems “Sarcophagus,” “Dream Sequence” and “Style”
Fiction reader Nicole Tsuno’s flash “Orca Girl” was published in Fractured Lit
Assistant print issue editor jj peña’s piece “wormhole: magic that swallows and spits” appeared in Palette Poetry
They also have work in the latest print issue of Bat City Review, along with assistant fiction editor Analía Villagra
Amorak Huey’s poem "I Sit On the Couch Between My Father and My Son While They Watch a Professional Basketball Game Condensed into Ten Minutes of Highlights” was published in HAD
Deesha Philyaw’s flash “Blink and You Miss Her” was published in Fracture Lit
SmokeLong Quarterly published her story “Mayretta Kelly Brunson Williams Bryant Jones (1932-2012)”
Sabrina Hicks’ story “Coyote Girl” found a home in Necessary Fiction
Managing editor Wendy Oleson’s flash “How You’ll Go” was published in Hex Literary
Pedro Ponce’s pieces “Supernumerary” and “Pinholes” were published in Wigleaf
Sequoia Nagamatsu appeared on an episode of the So Many Damn Books podcast
His novel How High We Go in the Dark was featured in The Wall Street Journal
Cathy Ulrich’s story “Some Kind of Shy” appeared in New Flash Fiction Review
The Bureau Dispatch published her piece “Love Songs for Ghosts”
New Flash Fiction Review also published Kate Gehan’s piece “Malignant”
Sudha Balagopal’s story “Double Promotion” was published in Flash Fiction Online
Poetry reader Raina K. Puels’ piece “Shangri La Snow Days” was published in HAD
Kim Magowan’s story “My Stepmother’s Presents” found a home in Gone Lawn
Gone Lawn also published Victoria Buitron’s piece “On the Brink”
Meghan Phillips’ micro “The Final Girl Prepares to Watch Her Season of American Horror Story” was published in Wigleaf
Meg Pokrass’ piece “This is Our City” appeared in The Bureau Dispatch
Literary Hub published Sara Lippmann’s essay “On Embracing the Halting, Neurotic, Defiant Ways We Talk”
Her story collection Jerks was reviewed by Rachel León in Necessary Fiction
Jerks was also reviewed in Ploughshares
Memoir reader Sara Ryan’s collection I Thought There Would Be More Wolves made Orion Magazine’s list of “17 Poetry Collections to Read During Women’s History Month”
Georgia Bellas’ micro “The Dollhouse Detective” was published in Milk Candy Review
Claire Hopple’s story “Let the Groundhog Do the Talking” was published in Wigleaf
Richard Mirabella’s essay “On Writing (When I’m Not Inspired)” found a home in Catapult
Devin Kelly’s poem “Taking a Break Outside the Grailways Bus from Grandma’s” was published in HAD
Maria Poulatha’s piece “How to Take a Vacation: A Guide for Medieval Women” appeared in Okay Donkey
Leah Francesca Christianson’s piece “Accommodations” was published in Watershed Review
Wigleaf published Kara Vernor’s story “Ruins”
Former reader Jen Wei Ting’s essay “Unlearning the Colonial Gaze in Southeast Asian Art” was published in Catapult
Awards, Honors, and News
Former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow was an Editors’ Choice selection for the CRAFT 2021 Flash Fiction Contest, and Tyler Barton was a finalist
Brandon Taylor’s collection Filthy Animals was shortlisted for Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize
Timea Sipos won the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival’s Fiction Contest
Fiction editor Janelle Bassett is a semifinalist for YesYes Books’ 2021 Pamet River Prize
torrin a. greathouse’s collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound won the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s All Heathens won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry
Poetry reader Stella Lei won the 2022 YoungArts Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award
Former fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson won Moon City Press’ 2021 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition
Beth Gilstrap won the 2021-22 Reader Views Bronze Award for Short Stories
Her collection Deadheading is a Short Stories Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES
Flash editor Eshani Surya was accepted into the Asian Women Writers mentorship program
Raven Leilani won Texas State University’s 2021 Clark Fiction Prize
Aurielle Marie, Courtney Cook, SJ Sindu, and Venita Blackburn are all finalists for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards
Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia was a finalist for Quarterly West’s 2021 Prose Contest
Kathy Fish is guest-editing issue 5 of Five South