The Fam Roundup: May 2021

May was another productive month for the #SplitLipFAM! Check out all these accomplishments from our contributors and staff.

Books

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen’s collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency will be published by BOA Editions in 2022

• Shane McCrae’s chapbook Hex and Other Poems is forthcoming from Bad Betty Press in 2022

• Kim Magowan’s collection How Far I’ve Come is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2022

• Erin Slaughter’s collection A Manual for How to Love Us is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2022

• Sara Lippmann’s novel Lech is forthcoming from Tortoise Books in 2022

• Farah Ali’s book People Want to Live is now available for pre-order from McSweeney’s

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Meghan Phillips’ story “Meteor/Meatier” found a home in HAD

  • No Contact published Two Final Girl Micros

• Brandon Taylor discussed his story “Otto” in Southeast Review

  • His collection Filthy Animals was featured in The New York Times, Vulture, and The Millions

• Brandon Taylor’s collection Filthy Animals and memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s book The Natural Mother of the Child were featured in Buzzfeed, Book Riot, and Bustle

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s book The Natural Mother of the Child was featured in Electric Literature and received a starred review from BookPage

• Ellie Black had poetry in the latest print issue of Booth

• Booth also published work by assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow in their latest print issue

• Gina Chung’s story “Human Hearts” appeared in Kenyon Review, along with an interview

• Kenyon Review also published flash/online issues editor Maureen Langloss’ story “Sexy Motherfucker’s Mom,” which they featured in their “Why We Chose It” blog series as well

  • Maureen’s story “I Am In It” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s work also found a home in the latest issue of Kenyon Review

  • Marianne’s poem “When the Man at the Party Said He Wanted to Own a Filipino” is currently displayed with other works by Filipino artists at the Las Vegas City Hall

• Hussain Ahmed’s “Blue Water” was also published in the latest issue of Kenyon Review

• MH Rowe had work in the latest print issue of The Florida Review

• Ghost Parachute published Meg Pokrass’ story “Inflatable”

• Jeremy Radin had work in the latest print issue of Crazyhorse

  • The Southern Review published his poem “House of Pies”

• Alina Stefanescu published several poems in Sublunary Review

• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency published Rachel Mans McKenny’s piece “Updated Privacy Policy from Your Children”

• Shane McCrae’s “The Hell Poem” was featured in The Rumpus

• Tyler Barton’s story “Welcome to Ecumenica” found a home in The Los Angeles Review

• Former assistant flash editor Lori Sambol Brody appeared on an episode of the Micro podcast

• Former editorial assistant D. Arthur’s story “Dykes in a Tub” was published in Foglifter Journal

  • Her story “Auto Body” was published in Washington Square Review

• Kim Magowan’s story “The Best Defense is a Good Offense (So They Say)” appeared in Atlas and Alice

  • The Forge published her story “Subplot”

  • New Flash Fiction Review published her story “Come, Come”

• Poetry reader Megan Neville’s “Self-Portrait With Origin Myth & Orbit” was published in Wildness

• Wildness also published flash reader Star Su’s “Beauty & the Beast”

  • The Offing published her micro “Sweet Teeth”

  • Lost Balloon published her flash “Fairest”

• Flash reader Jules Archer’s story “At the Wawa” found a home in (mac)ro(mic)

• Vi Khi Nao’s story “Campari Soda Isn’t an Amphibian” was published in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• JP Vallières had work in the latest print issue of Crab Creek Review

• Sabrina Hicks’ piece “Twenty Minutes” appeared in Brevity

  • Her story “Eight Seconds” appeared in Reckon Review

• Wigleaf published K-Ming Chang’s flash “Finger”

  • Midnight Breakfast published her story “Skins”

• Assistant fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s story “More Restrictive than Supportive” was published in New Delta Review

• Erin Slaughter’s piece “Try Telling Yourself You Are Not Accountable to that Great Moth Time” was published in West Branch

• Erin Calabria’s story “View from the Junior High School Bus in the Midst of Mass Extinction” found a home in matchbook

• Robert James Russell’s piece “Origin Story: Pigeon” was published in Gulf Coast

  • Essay Daily published his piece “Holarctica”

• Tommy Dean’s story “A Weight of Risks” was published in New World Writing

  • His story “A Splash of Sun” was published in Emerge Literary Journal

• Former poetry reader Jessica Q. Stark’s collection Savage Pageant was reviewed in The Los Angeles Review

• Mary South’s story “The Age of Love” has been optioned for a film

• Ilana Masad reviewed Claire Fuller’s novel Unsettled Ground for NPR

• Jason B. Crawford’s poem “This Has Never Been My America” appeared in Beestung

• Gaia Rajan was interviewed in Farside Review

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s piece “Anatomy of a House on Fire” was published in Okay Donkey

  • trampset published her piece “Games”

• trampset published Hannah Grieco’s poem “While talking to your doctor about the lithium’s side effects, I hear you emptying the dishwasher without me asking.”

  • Her essay “I’ve Kept My Binge Eating Secret For My Entire Life. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now” was published in The Huffington Post

• trampset also published social media/marketing director Becky Robison’s story “The Princess Diana Experience”

• Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s piece “As a Doctor, I’ve Worked Tirelessly Through the Pandemic. That Hasn’t Stopped the Hate” appeared in The New York Times

• Katie Welch’s story “Hukka and the Cougar” found a home in ​The /tƐmz/ Review

• Danielle Shorr’s poem “Elegy for the Resilient” was published in Bear Review

• Assistant fiction editor Anna Cabe’s story “Maria Makiling Off the Mountain” was published in The Masters Review

• Midnight Breakfast published Davon Loeb’s story “No Hands”

• Mike Nagel’s piece “Swarm” appeared in Schuylkill Valley Journal Online

• Chloe N. Clark’s “Swingman” was published in Monkeybicycle

• The Lincoln Review published Cathy Ulrich’s flash “Rumors from the Castle”

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez appeared on an episode of the Micro podcast

• Grub Street published Sudha Balagopal’s story “Broken Skin”

Awards, Honors, and News

• Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, Raven Leilani’s Luster, K-Ming Chang’s Bestiary and former flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s Memorial have been shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

• Raven Leilani won the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize for Luster

• Todd Dillard is judging Puerto del Sol’s Poetry Contest, deadline September 2nd

• Julian K. Jarboe’s Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel is a finalist for a 2021 Locus Award

• Assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow and contributor Jill Talbot made the longlist for CRAFT’s 2020 Creative Nonfiction Award

• Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s collection All Heathens is a finalist for the Ohioana Book Awards

• Alina Stefanescu and K. Iver were finalists for the 2021 Iron Horse Review IHRL Chapbook Contest

• K. Iver is a 2021-22 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry

• Nefertiti Asanti was named a 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow

• K.C. Mead-Brewer made the shortlist for Fractured Lit’s Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tale Prize

• Editorial assistant Daniel Garcia received an Honorable Mention in Passages North’s 2021 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize

• Michelle Ross won Zizzle Literary’s Flash Fiction Contest, and Sudha Balagopal was a finalist

• Lynn Mundell’s Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us won Yemassee Journal’s 2021 Fiction Chapbook Contest