The Fam Roundup: March 2023

The Split Lip Fam is kicking spring off in style! Check out all these amazing accomplishments from our contributors and staff:

Books

• Gina Chung’s novel Sea Change was published March 28th by Vintage Anchor

• Her essay “Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers” was published in LitHub 

• She was also interviewed by Vanessa Chan for Electric Lit

• Allegra Hyde’s story collection The Last Catastrophe was published March 28th by Vintage Anchor

• Erin Slaughter’s debut story collection A Manual For How to Love Us was published March 14th with Harper Perennial

• Richard Mirabella’s novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest was published March 14th with Catapult

• Memoir reader SG Huerta’s chapbook Last Stop was published on March 1 with Defunkt

• Cathy Ulrich’s second short story collection Small, Burning Things is forthcoming with Okay Donkey and is available for pre-order

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Kim Magowan’s story “Litter Box” was published in Juked

• Meg Pokrass’ piece “Shapes” appears in Cleaver Magazine

• Her flash “Champion Pigeon” is also in JMWW

• Sara Elkamel’s translation of Mona Kareem’s “I Will Not Fold These Maps” is forthcoming with Poetry Translation Centre

• Łukasz Drobnik appears in the GET BENT Anthology by Bending Genres

• Former poetry editor William Fargason published three poems in Appalachian Review

• His poem “When I Imagine the Face of My Lord, I See” was published in The Journal

• “Ankylosing Spondylitis as Conductor and Brakeman” is in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound by Unbound Edition Press

• Chloe N. Clark’s story “Accidental Girls” can be found in Electric Lit

• Melissa Ragsly’s story “Too Late Sept. 16, 1990” is now in Monkeybicycle

• Cathy Ulrich has two new stories: “Where They Found You” and “Other Worlds Than This” in Briefly Zine

• K. Iver’s poem “East Manhattan” appears in Kenyon Review

• Camille U. Adams’ essay “Up Covigne Road” was published in The Forge

• Tyler Barton’s craft essay “On the Autoportrait: A New and Necessary Form” appears in Autofocus

• Maria Poulatha published new flash:

• “The Happiest Thought” appears in Gone Lawn

• “In Praise of Anesthesia” appears in The Offing

• Cree Nichelle Pettaway’s essay “Race Work: A Reflection on the Emotional Labor Black Women Experience In and Outside of the Literary World” is in Black Feminist Collective

• Fiction reader Molly Andrea-Ryan’s story “Blue Something” appears in Roi Fainéant Press

• Assistant fiction editor Molia Dumbleton’s story “Before All This” was published in Ecotone

• Abigail Oswald’s flash “The Boy in the TV” can be found in Invisible City

• Teddy Engs’ flash “My Son, in a Box” was published in swamp pink

• Michelle Ross, Cathy Ulrich, and Rachel León are featured in Volume 12, Issue 3 of Pithead Chapel

• Alejandro Varela was featured in “How the Salvadoran diaspora became a literary juggernaut” by The LA Times

• Sara Lippmann interviewed Courtney Sender about her debut collection In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me for Lilith

• Her book Lech was reviewed in Jewish American Archive

• Mark Galarrita’s story “Kuya” was published in Many Worlds

• Former assistant flash editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s story "The After-Brother, the Before-Brother, and the Now-Brother: The Very Small Telling of the Time-Triplets of Honey, MS” was published in Wigleaf

• Megan Giddings’ book The Women Could Fly was reviewed by Rebecca Moon Ruark in Belt Magazine

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s flash “Patagium” found a home in Flash Frog

• Richard Mirabella’s novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest was reviewed in the New York Times: 

• Assistant flash editor Erica Frederick wrote a review for Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells for Salt Hill

• Sam Herschel Wein’s poem “Community Check-In” found a home in American Poetry Review

• Poetry reader Lucie Pereira’s poem “THIS SHIT IS HARD!” appears in Lickety-Split

• Diane Gottlieb’s piece “Something About Shoes” was published in River Teeth

• Beth Gilstrap’s essay “A Lament for April 25th” was published in New South

• Social media director Jerilynn Aquino’s poem “Self-Portrait as the Undiscovered Remains of Norma Bates” was published in The Journal

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery has a poem called “Suture” in The Journal

• Alejandro Varela is in the Spring 2023 edition of BOMB Magazine

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee and contributor Matthew Tuckner are in the recent issue of Copper Nickel

• Charles Brown’s essay “Notes on the Biracial Advantage” found a home in Passages North

• Kathy Fish’s “Wild Things” found a home in Ghost Parachute
  

Awards, Honors, and News

• Deesha Philyaw has a podcast called Ursa Short Fiction

• jason b. crawford is facilitating a workshop at the Trans/Nonbinary Writers Retreat with Sundress Academy for the Arts

• Assistant flash editor Erica Frederick has been accepted into the Tin House summer workshop

• Vincent Anioke’s “Utopia” made the CBC Short Story Prize longlist

• Memoir reader Sara Ryan accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Virginia Wesleyan University

• Venita Blackburn’s debut novel Dead in Long Beach, California is forthcoming with MCD⨯FSG

• Assistant fiction editor Ra’Niqua Lee was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival 2023 Very Short Fiction contest

• Managing editor Wendy Oleson is a finalist for the 2022 Moon City Short Fiction Award

• Jared Yates Sexton is adapting his book The Midnight Kingdom into a lecture series for YouTube

• Memoir reader Camille U. Adams is now a Nonfiction Editor for Variant Literature

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc gave a lecture called “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family Life” at Hannah Arendt Center

• Memoir reader SG Huerta’s chapbook Last Stop was featured in Texas State's newspaper University Star

• Sara Lippmann is offering a class on finished drafts with Writing Co-Lab