FAM Roundup: May 2018
April showers brought May stories and essays and poems and more! Check out what's our staff and contributors have been up to and revisit their work in our archives:
Books!
Brett Stuckel’s micro-chapbook Outerbridge Shelter will appear in Ghost City Press’ 2018 Summer Series.
Ruth Williams' first collection Flatlands was recently published by Black Lawrence Press
Sally Burnette’s micro-chapbook Special Ultimate: Baby’s Story: A Documentary will appear in Ghost City Press’ 2018 Summer Series.
Dave Housley’s debut novel This Darkness Got to Give is now available on Amazon:
His research notes for This Darkness Got to Give are available at Necessary Fiction
Publications, Interview, and Reviews
Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Andrews Rice's story “Day of Rest” appears in the latest issue of Indiana Review
Reviews/Interviews editor Kelly Flynn has a story, "Determinants," up at Maudlin House
Melissa Goode reviews Leesa Cross-Smith’s Whiskey and Ribbons in Meanjin Quarterly
Melissa Goode's story “The Eternal City” appears in Synaesthesia Magazine
Chloe N. Clark published several pieces recently:
“Lichenometry” in The Coil
“These Arms of Yours” in Lost Balloon
“Pod Person Time” and “Apocalypse Scenario 1” in Moonchild Magazine
Monet P. Thomas' story “Three Arms” was recently published in Joyland
Dorothy Chan has also published several pieces recently:
“Videogames and Loneliness: My Forged Wedding” in Queen Mob’s Tea House
“Ode to Lasagna” in Berfois
“Chinese Girl Videotape Leaked II” in Bear Review
“Where Are All the Hot Pilots: Thank You, Mrs. Guan” and “Ode to the Most Beautiful Neck Alive” in Oxidant|Engine
Social Media and Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison published several short stories recently:
“Baby Dolls" in PANK
“Open Wide” in Occulum
"Spilled Sriracha Blues" in Five:2:One
Kathy Fish has five micros up at Pidgeonholes
Robert James Russell published a graphic memoir, “Youth at a Glance (Triptych),” at Sweet and a cross-genre watercolor called “Blue Heron” at Atlas and Alice
Cathy Ulrich published several stories recently:
“Wobble of Ostriches” in Blue Fifth Review
“The Surviving Conjoined Twin Learns the Art of Kirigami” with art by Robert James Russell, in Hoot
“All the Office Ladies” in The Disappointed Housewife
and the craft essay the “ABCs of Flash Writing: Q is for Quiet” in Spry Literary Journal
Marvin Shackelford's poem “Arcane” appears in Blue Fifth Review
Devin Kelly interviews Bud Smith in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Olatunde Osinaike's poem “Magazine” appears in Columbia Poetry Review:
His poems “Customs” and “Cat’s Cradle” in Indianapolis Review
May contributor Brandon Melendez's poems “Taphephobia the Morning After I Learn Chester Bennington Committed Suicide,” “I Watch the Family Move Into the House at the End of the Block” and “Reino or I See My Grandfather By the Side of the Road, About Where He’s Buried, But He’s Wandering Around with a Flag of Vertebrae” appear in Adroit Journal
Ingrid Jendrzejewski is one of many authors of the exquisite corpse story “Restless Waves of Time” in Moonchild Magazine
Kaj Tanaka's story “He Was Trying to Say Something and He Couldn’t Get It Out” is up at Tin House
Yael van der Wouden's piece “Notes from an Osteologist (A Private Collection)” appears in Moonchild Magazine
Her story “A Family of Girls” is also up at Déraciné
Josh Denslow's story “Where the Magic Is” was published in Catapult
His story “Therapy” also appears in Pithead Chapel
Fiction editor Katie Flynn's story “A History That Brings Me to You” appears in The Masters Review
Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “Satellite Mind” is up at Atticus Review
And her essay “Good Guess” appears in Cahoodaloodaling
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's poem “Other women don’t tell you” appears in Poetry Daily
Beth Gilstrap’s book No Man’s Wild Laura was reviewed by Melissa Grunow in The Coil
Beth Gilstrap and Jim Warner's collaborations “Dischord No. 33” and “Dischord No. 61” appear in Jet Fuel Review.
Flash fiction editor Maureen Langloss' piece “Long Arms” was published by Cease, Cows
Matt Young appears on episode #362 of the Live Wire podcast (@LiveWireRadio)
Reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “The Origin of Silk” is up at Gulf Stream
James Yates' story “Everything Sounds Better on Vinyl” is also up Gulf Stream
Chance Dibben's poems “March 9, 2017 10:30PM,” “Tricked Half Hours,” and “Passerby” were published by Pidgeonholes
And Devin Kelly's poem “Good Morning, I Too Am Learning Something New Today” is up at Pidgeonholes
Christopher Gonzalez was featured in episode 1 of FEAR NO LIT’s new video series “WRITER ZONES”
Jill Talbot's essay “The Bend of Memory” is in the latest issue of AGNI
Darren C. Demaree's poems “Bone Requires Bone #13-15” appear in Pacifica Review
Sara Lippmann's story “Parachutes” is up at DIAGRAM
Poetry editor Marianne Chan's poem “December 1998” is in the latest issue of West Branch:
Her poems “My Mother Tells Me About Lolo” and “Lansing Sinulog Rehearsal, 2010” appear in The Margins at the Asian American Writers' Workshop
Marie Baleo's essay “Shine” appears in Passages North
Chris Ames's story “Word Problems” is up at Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading
Tyler Barton’s story “Late Teens on Trash Night” gets reviewed by Melissa Mesku in The Wilds by Platypus Press
Tabitha Blankenbiller appears on episode 180 of This Podcast Will Change Your Life
Split Lip Press publisher Amanda Miska's story “Confession Game” is up at Wigleaf
torrin a. greathouse's poems “Litany for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” and “On Examination/Dereliction” were published by Duende
Diannely Antigua's poems “Aubade with Solar Eclipse” and “Ars Poetica” are up at Nat. Brut
Brandon Taylor's story “When the Rain Comes” also appears Nat. Brut:
Meghan McClure's essay “The Grieving House” is in the latest Pithead Chapel
Reader Sally Burnette's story “What You Want What Wants You” is up at Occulum
Liz Howard's poem “If You Want Me to Apologize for the Damage He’s Caused, I Will” also appears in Occulum
Her essay “How to Respond After Your Dentist Pulls the Wrong Tooth from Your Mouth” is up at Cosmonauts Avenue:
Jessica Bonder's story “Tiny Bullies” is up at Occulum
Pete Stevens' story “Smoked Fish” was published by Superstition Review
Todd Dillard's poem “Rewind” also appears in Superstition Review
Alina Stefanescu's “Seven Strains—and a Tritone” is up at DIAGRAM
Awards, Honors, and News
The Split Lip FAM had a strong showing among the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Congrats to finalists K.C. Mead-Brewer, Devin Kelly, and Kathryn McMahon. And congrats to those on the longlist: Chloe N. Clark, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Ruth LeFaive, and Pete Stevens
Darren C. Demaree has been awarded the Individual Excellence Award in Poetry by the Ohio Arts Council
Aba Collins-Sibley and Hussain Ahmed longlisted for the Peach Mag Gold Prize in Poetry
Lynn Mundell helped edit the Nothing Short of 100 flash fiction collection
Reader Charnell Peters was a finalist for Big Luck’s 2017 Open Chapbook Reading Period
Kara Vernor’s Split Lip Press book Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song made The Millions’ list of Recommended Flash Fiction
Kathy Fish’s story “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” originally published in Jellyfish Review, has been selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading
Fiction editor Katie Flynn is reading 6/2 at Babylon Salon in California
Beth Gilstrap’s “For a Blaze of Sight” received honorable mention in the NC Writers’ Network’s 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize
Matthew Stephen Sirois won an Independent Publisher Book Award for Near Haven
Tyler Barton’s story “Spiritual Introduction to the Neighborhood” was runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s Short Fiction Contest
Phew! Can't wait to see what y'all do in June!