The Fam Roundup: May 2024

This May was an abundant month for the SLM Fam; let the dazzling work of our staff and contributors brighten your day.

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Contributor Claudia Monpere’s story “Gifts” was published in Pithead Chapel

• Contributor Amorak Huey’s story “The Eleven Main Reasons the Band Broke Up” was published in Monkeybicycle

• Contributor Lucy Zhang’s story “Trust Exercise” was published in Adi Magazine 

• Contributor Diane Gottlieb published an interview with Eileen Vorbach Collins for MER Literary 

• Contributor Scott Garson’s micro “Lottery” was published in Centaur Lit 

• Contributor Chloe N. Clark’s story “Were the Sky to Fall Where Would You Be” was published in Subnivean Magazine 

• Contributor Adrienne Novy’s poem “I talk to Julien Baker about death while washing dishes & my arms are deep in sanitizer” (content warning for suicidal ideation) was published in The Hooligan Magazine

• Contributor Kristine Langley Mahler’s essay “Old Construction Villanelle” was published in issue 16 of Grist Journal 

• Contributor Cavar’s essay “Loving Renee Back” was published in The Rumpus

• Contributor Sara Lippmann’s story “The Houseguest” was published in Lilith Magazine 

• Contributor Martha Silano read a selection of her poetry for The Alaska Quarterly Review's Pièces de Résistance series 

• Contributor and former Contributing Editor Tyrese L. Coleman was featured on the Book Fight podcast  

• Contributor Kristina Ten’s story “Kamchatka” was published in the Washington Square Review 

• Contributor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s flash essay “Neurod(i)verse Sounds Like Universe” was published in Brevity Mag 

• Contributor and poetry reader T. De Los Reyes’s poem “Gargantuan” was published in Narrative Magazine 

• Contributor Ina Carino’s poem “I can’t afford a whole universe” was published in The Margins, the Asian American Writers' Workshop’s magazine 

• Memoir reader Elijah Sparkman’s piece “400,000 Lawns” was published in HAD

• Contributor Todd Dillard’s poem “Google Alerts” was published in HAD

• Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc wrote an introduction for Tim Bascom's essay in Narratively  

• Contributor Sabrina Hicks’ piece “Nineteen” was published in Tiny Molecules

• Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett published a story in CutBank Issue 100 

• Contributor and fiction reader Carly Alaimo’s piece “Boys” was published in Flash Frog

• Her piece “A Good Mother” was published in The Harvard Advocate 

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s story “Fourteen to Twenty-Nine” was published in Phoebe Journal 

• Poetry reader Bleah Patterson’s poem “I’m glad my grandma died before she could see me get fat,” which was a runner up in Phoebe Journal’s Spring 2024 contest, was published online 

• Flash reader Jordan Blanchard’s poem “Delta Sounds” was commissioned to accompany Autograph’s exhibition Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos 

• Fiction reader Rebecca Ackerman published an essay recommending Miranda July’s All Fours in Romper  

• Contributor K.C. Mead Brewer will be featured in No Place Is An Island (@NPIAI_festival) on Bornholm July 12-13

• Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s book Perfect Little Angels was reviewed in Maisonneuve Magazine

• Contributor Chloe Chun Seim’s story “National Anthem” was published in Milk Candy Review  

• Contributor John Jodzio’s story “Snowbirds” was published in XRay Lit 

• Contributor Eliza Gilbert’s poem “From the Fort Behind the Conifers” was published in The Kenyon Review

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis’ story “Myrmecomorphy” was published in the Maine Review

• Poetry reader Raina K. Puels’s pieces “September 21st” and “Moss Crushes in my Closed Fist” were published in Alocasia 

• Memoir reader Ashley Anderson published an essay in the latest issue of Appalachian Review

• Flash reader Christina D’Antoni’s flash “Nightjar” was published in Fractured Lit 

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen was interviewed and published in Only Poems Magazine

Books

• Contributor Leila Renee’s debut novel Soft Spots is forthcoming in 2026 from Amistad Books

• Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s book Sad Grownups is forthcoming on October 8 from Stillhouse Press and is available for preorder now 

• Contributor Casey Mulligan Walsh's memoir The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared is forthcoming in February 2025 from Motina Books 

• Contributor Kristine Langley Mahler’s book of erasure essays, Teen Queen Training, is forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Autofocus Lit

• Contributor KB Brookins’ memoir Pretty was published by Penguin Random House; order here! 

• Former poetry editor William Fargason’s second book Velvet was published with Northwestern University Press; order here! 

• Contributor Diannely Antigua’s book Good Monster was published with Copper Canyon Press; order here! 

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Contributor KB Brookins joined the Board of Directors at Sundress Publications

• Contributor Jason B. Crawford is guest editing Poet Lore’s Summer/Fall 2024 issue

• Contributor Aurielle Marie was named the 2024 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place 

• Flash Editor Janelle Bassett’s story “The Yellow Greenhouse” is on SmokeLong Quarterly's flash fiction award longlist

• Flash reader F.E. Choe was named South Carolina’s fellow for the 2024 Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts