The FAM Roundup: May 2019

We may have been beset by technical difficulties, but nothing can keep us from sharing all the great things the FAM did in May. Catch up on some awesome new writing and don't forget to revisit our contributors' work in our archives!

Books!

• Alan Chazaro’s book This is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album is now available for pre-order from Black Lawrence Press

• Darren C. Demaree’s book Emily as Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire is now available for pre-order from Harpoon Review Books

• Diannely Antigua’s collection Ugly Music is now available from YesYes Books

• Donna Vorreyer’s collection Somewhere Between Sweet and Grief is forthcoming in 2020 from Sundress Publications

• Helen McClory’s The Goldblum Variations has been picked up by Penguin

• Jared Yates Sexton’s The Man They Wanted Me to Be is now available

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Alina Stefanescu has a poem in the latest print issue of Exit 7 and published "A Story that Foregrounds Dusk” and “Charlie Moved to Montana” in Random Sample

• Amorak Huey's poem “Amorak Autocorrects to Amoral” appears in Rogue Agent

• Amorak's book Boom Box was also reviewed by Lammergeier

• Managing editor Amy Rossi's story “Like Nothing Happened" was published by Five:2:One #TheSideshow

• Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber was interviewed by American Short Fiction and The Chattahoochee Review

  • Amy's story “Soft at the Edges, Going Bad” is also up at Monkeybicycle

• Anastasia Stelse's poems “Contents” and “Motive” appear in The McNeese Review

• Fiction reader Anna Cabe appears on the Areté Ateneo podcast

• Ariel Francisco translates Francisco Henriquez Rosa’s “Canción y Palabra” and “Song and Word” for Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Brandon Taylor's essay “When to Protect Your Characters and When to Punish Them” appears on Literary Hub

• Cathy Ulrich published several stories recently:

  • “Being the Murdered Extra” in Craft

  • “Being the Murdered Mermaid” in Gordon Square Review

  • “The Hole in the Center of Everything” in ThreadCount

• Chloe N. Clark published several pieces recently:

  • “A Consolation of Stars” in Kissing Dynamite

  • “Balancing Beams” in Little Fiction

  • “Jumpers” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

  • “This Ringing in the Ears Won’t Wake You Up at Night” in Soft Cartel

• Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez and Dina L. Relles have launched The Problematic 90s Movie Club column at Barrelhouse.

  • Christopher Gonzalez also has fiction in Queer Worlds/Global Queer issue of Wasafiri.

• Darren C. Demaree's poems “Emily as We Get Trashy,” “Emily as She Brought Home Butter,” and “Emily as the Violence Has Decayed Wonderfully” appear in Virga

• Elisa Gabbert appears on Episode 582 of the Otherppl podcast

  • Elisa's list “50 Moves You Can Use in Your Fiction” is also up at Electric Literature

• Ellie Black's poem “Ariel Redux” appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Fiction reader Eric Rasmussen published “The Last of the Water” in Crack the Spine and “Chaperone” in Stoneboat

• Erin Slaughter published “Seekers of Flame & Dirt” in ThreadCount

• Flash reader Eshani Surya's story “Lessons in Drowning” was published by Catapult

• Francisco Martinezcuello published “Cartography of War: Places and Names by Elliot Ackerman” in Consequence Magazine and “Splinters” in Bull: Men’s Fiction

• Gayle Brandeis's piece “What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Grieving a Suicide” appears in The New York Times

• Harrison Geosits's essay “Collected Love Stories" was published by The New Southern Fugitives

• Jeremy Packert Burke published “Consensus” Fanzine and “Leavetaking” in Indiana Review

• Jessie Lynn McMains' poem “Lilac Palace, 1987” appears in Kissing Dynamite

• Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich published “The Stories Mothers Never Tell” at Literary Hub

• Joanna C. Valente's piece “Truth or Dare: Who Are You When You Aren’t Talking? Who Are You When the Train Comes to a Halt?” appears at Berfrois

• Josh Denslow was interviewed in Cease, Cows and The Millions

  • Josh's story “Gravy Boat” is also up at Atlas and Alice

• Our own editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice's story “Boys with Feelings” was published by Wigleaf

• Kat Moore published “Enough: When Water Can’t Put it Out” at The Rumpus:

• Kathryn McMahon published several stories recently:

  • “All the Holes We Mean to Fill” in Wigleaf

  • “If You Look Long Enough You’ll See it All” in Hobart

  • “Weather Patterns” in Portland Review

• Kathy Fish's story “Praise Rain” is up at The Masters Review

• Kim Magowan published “Regarding” in ThreadCount

• Kristin Garth's poem “Woman, Carbs Redacted” appears in Ghost City Review

• Memoir reader Krys Malcolm Belc will appear in the The Best of BREVITY anthology

  • Krys also published “Making It” in The Rumpus

• Leah Dworkin's piece “Deerfield Academy Personal Statement” appears in Juked

• Liz Declan's story “The House That Is Currently My Mother’s House (but Was Previously My Parents’ House and Will Soon Be a Stranger’s House) Is the Perfect Setting for Nightmares” is up at SmokeLong Quarterly

• Marcos Gonsalez’s essay “A Brief and Uneventful History of Burlap” appears in the latest print issue of Ploughshares

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poem “For America, Chicken Sandwiches, and My Brother” is in the latest print issue of The Cincinnati Review

• Matt Young was interviewed for Talk On’s “The Other Reasons” series and his memoir Eat the Apple is one of American Booksellers’ Summer/Fall 2019 Indies Introduce debut picks

• Megan Giddings' story “Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me” was published by Catapult

• Melissa Goode published several stories recently:

  • “Doorkijkje” in Fiction Southeast

  • “Give Me a Love Song” in The Penn Review

  • “Nocturne” in Splonk

• Michelle Ross published “How We Got Here” in Bull: Men’s Fiction

• NPR reviews Jared Yates Sexton’s book The Man They Wanted Me to Be

• Robert James Russell's piece “Henry, Henry” appears in New South Journal

• Ruth LeFaive interviews Chia-Chia Lin for The Rumpus

• Sara Lippmann interviews Joanne Ramos for The Rumpus.

  • Sara also published “Sacred Trash: How to Dismantle a Library” in The Millions

• Sreshtha Sen's poem “The Sonneter is Too Brown for This Town” appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Stephanie C. Trott interviews Diannely Antigua for The Adroit Journal

• Tommy Dean published “We’re Trying to Tell You” in Bull: Men’s Fiction and “When Mono Was Part of the Equation” in Longleaf Review

• torrin a. greathouse has two new poems in the latest print issue of Foglifter

• Tyler Barton published several stories recently:

  • “Divebombing…” in The Forge Literary Magazine

  • “Red Herrings” in Meridian

  • "The Idler,” which was the winner of the Spring fiction contest at Phoebe

• Contributing editor Tyrese Coleman was interviewed in The Millions.

• Valorie Ruiz published “A Puta Poesia” in Permafrost Magazine and reviewed Laura Villareal’s The Cartography of Sleep for Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• W. Todd Kaneko published “The Birds Know What They Mean” in Lantern

Awards, Honors, and News

• We are thrilled that Megan Giddings' and Christopher Gonzalez's stories from Split Lip appear on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50!

• Huge congrats to Split Lip FAM members whose work was chosen for the Wigleaf Top 50: Krys Malcolm Belc, Leesa Cross-Smith, Kathy Fish, Melissa Goode, Christopher James, Kim Magowan, Kathryn McMahon, Lynn Mundell, Michelle Ross, Marvin Shackelford, Amber Sparks, Kaj Tanaka, Monet P. Thomas, Cathy Ulrich, Yael Van Der Wouden, and Zach Vandezande

• And huge congrats to the Split Lip FAM members whose work appears on the longlist for the Wigleaf Top 50: Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist: Christopher Allen, Krys Malcolm Belc, Chloe N. Clark, Kathy Fish, Melissa Goode, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Devin Kelly, Raven Leilani, Kim Magowan, Kristine Langley Mahler, Rachel Mans McKenny, Kathryn McMahon, K.C. Mead-Brewer, Anne Rasmussen, Michelle Ross, Amy Stuber, and Cathy Ulrich

• Books by Tyrese Coleman, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, and Katya Apekina are included on Buzzfeed’s “19 Amazing Books that Prove Indie Presses Deserve Your Attention” list

• Pia Ghosh-Roy’s essay “Separated by the Wingspan of a Moth” has won Cagibi’s 2019 Macaron Prize in nonfiction

• Raven Leilani’s story in The Cut got a shoutout in The New York Times

• Megan Giddings is judging Construction Magazine’s Fiction Contest

• Anna Cabe’s story “Selected Episodes from Wartime Philippines on a Saturday Night” is second-runner up for StoryQuarterly’s sixth annual Fiction Prize

• Cathy Ulrich and Erik Fuhrer are leading a Micro Madness workshop this July

• Ivelisse Rodriguez with Jennifer Maritza McCauley co-edited the folio of Afro-Caribbean/Diaspora fiction in this summer’s issue of Pleiades

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Erin Slaughter are semifinalists for YesYes Books’ 2019 Pamet River Prize

  • Julia also is a finalist for Button Poetry’s 2018 Chapbook Contest

• Matt Weinkam is the new associate director of Literary Cleveland

• Pete Stevens is a finalist for Split Lip Press’ 2019 Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest

• Samantha Kimmey was a finalist for Indiana Review’s 2019 Fiction Prize

• Assistant poetry editor William Fargason and Pete Stevens were finalists, and Julian K. Jarboe was a semifinalist, for YesYes Books’ 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest

See you next month!