The Fam Roundup: May 2023

June is well underway, but May bloomed all the flowers for the Split Lip Fam! Here’s a look at what our brilliant contributors and staff were up to last month:

Books

• Brandon Taylor’s novel The Late Americans is now available from Penguin Random House

• Hazlitt published this interview with Brandon Taylor

• Tyler Raso’s chapbook In my dreams/I love like an idea is winner of the 2022 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest and is now available

• Boats Against the Current published “calibrating the dream machine”

• Sudha Balagopal’s flash collection Tiny Untruths will be published by Alternating Currents

• South Florida Poetry Journal published “How to Measure a Man”

• Hannah Grieco’s anthology Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away is forthcoming from Alan Squire Publishing

• Her flash essay “Killing It” found a home in Atticus Review

• Rob Roensch’s novel In the Morning, the City is the Prairie is forthcoming from Belle Point Press

• Variant Lit will be publishing Todd Dillard’s chapbook Ragnarok at the Father Daughter Dance and poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram’s collection Earthly Gods

• Moss Puppy Mag published Jessica Nirvana Ram’s poem “A Rebuttal to My Last Poem”

• Texas A&M University Press will be publishing Chloe Chun Seim’s illustrated novel-in-stories Churn

• Monica Brashears’ YA horror anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One is forthcoming from Flatiron Books

• An interview with Monica Brashears can be found in LIGEIA

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Teddy Engs’ flash “Did I Mention the Fires?” appeared in Flash Frog

• Southern Indiana Review published two poems by Cortney Lamar Charleston

• BOMB Magazine published Mandana Chaffa’s interview with Maya C. Popa

• Chicago Review of Books published Mandana Chaffa’s interview with Jen St. Jude

• Atlas and Alice published Tommy Dean’s flash “Fastened to the Curve of the Earth”

• Northwest Review published “Terms & Conditions”

• Sara Elkamel’s translation of “Nights” by Mona Kareem appeared in Poetry Foundation

• Sara Elkamel’s poem "In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat" won the 2022 Goldstein Prize in Poetry

• Cathy Ulrich’s “Being the Murdered Woman” found a home in Reed Magazine

  • Cathy Ulrich’s “The Hitman in the Roar of the World” appeared in Cobra Milk

• Assistant fiction editor Ra'Niqua Lee’s story "Exchange Rates for City Babies and Border Girls” found a home in Roi Fainéant Press

• Baltimore Rreview published Abigail Oswald’s story “Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew”

• Joshua Garcia’s poem “Turandot Fragments” appeared in Southeast Review

• Sebastián H Páramo’s poem “Everyone Said Nature Was Healing” found a home in Poetry Northwest

• Poetry reader Mack Rogers has a poem in Olney Magazine

• C O M P : an interdisciplinary journal published 4 poems by Shane McCrae

• Shane McCrae also has new work in Harvard Review

• LitHub published assistant print issue editor jj peña’s piece “Fragments” and poetry reader Saba Keramati’s piece Chimera

• Richard Mirabella’s story “The Devil and His Man” found a home in Bluestem Magazine

• Josh Denslow’s story “Tunneling” was published in Electric Lit

• Leila Renee’s exhibition essay on Madelynn Green’s “Mirror Mirror” can be found in Galerie Mighela Shama

• KB Brookins’ poem “What’s on your mind, KB?” can be found in Cincinnati Review

• KB Brookins also lead a workshop for NC Writers Network

• Allegra Hyde’s story “Dear Employee” found a home in Conjunctions

• Editorial assistant Megan Neville’s poem “Our Lady of the Fallow” was published in Grist

• Alien Magazine published former assistant fiction editor Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s “We Deserve Black Existences Where Our Givingness is Ours to Give to Ourselves, and Your Givingness is Yours to Keep to Yourselves”

• She is also creating a BIPOC Love Story Portfolio for Fractured Lit

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s triptych “July 2015: A Compendium” was published in The Masters Review

• Martha Silano’s piece “So I Have a Question” found a home in Pithead Chapel

• Gulf Coast published Davon Loeb’s piece “The House Fire by the Lake”

• Gabrielle Griffis published “Fix It Yourself” with American Libraries

• The Bureau Dispatch published Joshua Jones Lofflin’s prose piece “We Have to Go Higher” and Scott Garson’s prose piece “Peregrinations”

• Flash Frog published Melissa Ragsly’s flash piece “Honeybud”

• Memoir reader SG Huerta’s poem “Named” can be found in The Offing

• Flash reader Jonathan Cardew’s hybrid piece “Elizabet” appeared in Centaur Lit

Awards, Honors, and News

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee is judging the New Orleans Review poetry contest

• Maureen Langloss, K-Ming Chang, Christopher Allen, Venita Blackburn, Michelle Ross, Kim Magowan can all be found in SmokeLong Quarterly’s SmokeLong Summer

• Assistant poetry editor CD Eskilson’s “Hereditary” is a Best New Poets nominee for Beloit Poetry Journal

• Kimaya Diggs has a new music video for “I thought you'd choose me”

• Lynn Mundell is the editor for Centaur Lit

• Allegra Hyde’s Eleutheria is a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Fiction

• Matthew Tuckner’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was a finalist in the Third Coast Magazine Poetry Contest

• Erin Slaughter is now the managing editor for Autofocus Lit

  • Erin has also joined Coastal Carolina University in the fall as Visiting Assistant Professor of Fiction Writing

• Diannely Antigua’s podcast Bread & Poetry has a new episode

• Managning editor Wendy Oleson’s Everywhere, Tony Danza was shortlisted for The Masters Review 2022 Chapbook Open

• Sara Lippmann is judging the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize