The Fam Roundup: March 2024

March was another stunning month for our Split Lip FAM! A huge round of applause for this batch of announcements, publications, and awards. We are excited to appreciate all your current and upcoming accomplishments!

Books

• Former Fiction Editor Katie Flynn’s book Island Rule is out now

• Contributor SarahFawn Montgomery’s book of essays Abbreviate is forthcoming with Small Harbor Publishing

• Contributor Gina Chung’s debut short story collection Green Frog was released in stores on March 12 

• Contributor Adrienne Novy is releasing her zine “The Art in This Exhibit is Fragile & We Ask That You Do Not Touch It” on March 28th

• Contributor Marvin Shackelford’s short story collection “Tall Tales From The Ladies’ Auxiliary” is forthcoming from Alternating Current

• Contributor Michael Chang’s poetry collection Toy Soldiers is available for pre-order now with Action, Spectacle

• Contributor Jen Michalski’s book All This Can Be True is forthcoming June 2025 with Keylight Books

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s chapbook How the Story Goes is out now with Sword and Kettle Press

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer’s chapbook Brief Histories is out now with Whittle Micro-Press 

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s story “The Day I Became an Eagle” was published in Fictive Dream

• Her story “The Wives” was published in Milk Candy Review

• Fiction reader Tina Zhu’s flash “Roasting S’mores, First Take” was published in Milk Candy Review

• Her flash “Heads” was published in Cease, Cows

• Her flash “Fried Rice” was published in the Cincinnati Review

• Contributing Editor Becky Robison’s article “We’re Going to Be Using ‘We’  a Little Less” was published in The Slate 

• Contributor John Shakespear’s song “Another Life” was featured in a new short film by Patrick Lac called NATURE + ELLES

• Contributor and poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson was featured on Poetry Daily with his poem “My Brother Stole Every Spoon in the House”

• Contributor Allison Wyss interviewed fellow contributor Farah Ali on her debut novel The River, the Town for Heavy Feather Review

• Contributor Devin Kelly’s piece “Stumbling Can Be Lovely” was published in Longreads

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis’ story “Gala” was published in Sinking City  

• Contributor Ariel Francisco has two poems in the new issue of Pinch

• Contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin’s flash “Getting Saved at New Holy Rollers Fellowship off Rt. 11 (formerly Skateland)” was published a in Trampset 

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s flash “Layered House” was published in -Ette Review

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert’s poems “Poem with a line from Antigone,” “Morning, Distracted,” “Personality,” and “Vertical Time” were published in Berlin Lit 

• Elisa’s “Life Poem 1” was published in the Paris Review

• Contributor Chloe N. Clark’s story “I Love You to Mars” was featured in The Cincinnati Review

• Contributor Abigail Oswald’s essay “A Song is a Room Off the Hallway of Your Life” was published in March Danceness’ 00s Edition 

• Contributor Ilana Masad published a review of Lauren Olyer’s No Judgement for the Los Angeles Times 

• Contributor Mandana Chaffa published a review of Dianne Seuss’s Modern Poetry for the Chicago Review of Books

• Contributor John Jodzio’s story “I Went To A Lunch N’ Learn At My Neighborhood Funeral Home” was published at The Offing Magazine 

• Contributor Dave Housley’s story “The Lights” was published at The Journal Magazine

• Contributor Dorothy Chan’s poem “Somehow” was featured in Poet.org’s Poem-A-Day 

• Contributor Brandon Taylor was a guest on the first episode of the Granta Podcast 

• Brandon’s  essay “Is it even good? - Brandon Taylor reads Zola” was published in the London Review of Books 

• Contributor Martha Silano’s poem “Possible Diagnosis” was published in The Shore Poetry 

• Social Media Co-Director SG Huerta’s poems “Aging Queerly” and “I Know” were published in Dear Poetry Journal

• SG’s essay “Poetry for the End of the World” was published in The Chicago Review of Books

• Poetry reader Allya Yourish’s poem “Queer Belongings” was published in Terrain

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen’s poems “Crybaby Cowboy” and “going down singing” were published in The Journal Magazine 

• Chen’s poem “To Whom it May Delight” was published in The Oxonian Review

• Contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston published four poems in the latest issue of the Mississippi Review Magazine

• Contributor Maggie Su hosted a Georgia Review Podcast discussion with Gerald Maa

• Contributor Moisés Delgado received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram’s poems “lost language” and “Love Letter to the Chicken Marsala I Made For Dinner Tonight” were published in The Rejoinder Magazine

• Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “Boomerang” was published in Monkey Bicycle 

• Contributor Tyler Barton’s piece “Donald Darko” was published in Hex Literary

• Contributor Rachel León interviewed Marisa Siegel with the Chicago Review of Books 

• Contributor SarahFawn Montgomery’s poems “Chronic pain as porthole” and “Fathom” were published in Diode Editions 

• Contributor Sara Lippmann interviewed Ben Tanzer for the Lives of Writers Podcast 

• Contributor and new memoir reader Tyler Raso’s poem “gay table commercial in no particular order” was  published a poem in Passages North 

• Fiction reader Rebecca Ackermann’s essay “On again, off again: Can Feeld keep up with non-monogamy’s big moment?” was published in Fast Company

• Fiction Editor Anna Cabe’s story “If You Want to Read Something That Will Shock You!” will be published in issue 26.1 of Iron Horse Literary Review 

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Contributor Shane McCrae is now a Contributing Editor at Conjunctions 

• Contributor Richard Mirabella’s book Brother & Sister Enter the Forest: A Novel is shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction

• Contributor Chloe Chun Seim’s book Churn is a finalist for the Edmund White Prize for Debut Fiction

• Contributor KB Brookins’s book Freedom House won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Book of Poetry; contributor Sebastián H Páramo was a finalist for the same award with his book Portrait of Us Burning

• Contributor Deesha Philyaw will be judging the CRAFT Literary Short Fiction Prize 2024

• Contributor Gina Chung’s book Green Frog is a Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick