The Fam Roundup: November 2019

November was another incredible month for the #SplitLipFAM! Celebrate our contributors’ and staff’s accomplishments from the past month—and visit their work in the SLM archives while you’re at it.

Books

• Todd Dillard’s poetry collection Ways We Vanish is forthcoming from Okay Donkey in 2020—pre-order now!

• Look out for Chloe N. Clark’s new story collection Collective Gravities, forthcoming from Word West in 2020

• Our flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s new novel Memorial drops in 2020

• Dave Housley’s novella Howard & Charles at the Factory is available for pre-order from Outpost 19

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Kim Magowan’s story “Home Economics” found a home in Booth

• Booth also published Todd Dillard’s poem “Abstract”

• Read Erin Calabria’s prose poem “Ames Hill” in Pithead Chapel

• Tommy Dean published “Stitches Unraveling” in New Flash Fiction Review

  • His flash “Ruthlessly, Denying” was also published in jmww

• Print issue contributor Dorothy Chan has a new poem, “Triple Sonnet for Black Hair,” in Poetry Magazine

• Our contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s story “Supergiant” is in Paper Darts

  • Kendra’s essay “Waking Up to the Perfect Body” is in Gay Magazine

  • You’ll find another of her stories, “There Are Things, One Supposes, One Must Do for Oneself,” in Cotton Xenomorph

• Read Michelle Ross’ story “Snow White with Goats” in Wigleaf

• Felicity Fenton’s flash “The Remains” is in The Masters Review

• Tyler Barton’s flash “The Grand Am” found a home in jmww

• Melissa Matthewson discusses her book Tracing the Desire Line in Ravishly

• Find “Nine Fictions” by Scott Garson in Okay Donkey

• Monet Patrice Thomas’ latest story “Confetti and Tassels” is in Cotton Xenomorph

• Check out K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “Horse Girl” in Joyland

  • Another of her stories, “The Ghost Light,” is in Bad Pony

• Melissa Goode’s story “Sacred and Profane” is in Craft

• Like translations? Timea Balogh has translated three poems by Márton Simon in Duende

  • She’s also translated a poem by Tibor Babiczky in the latest print issue of Washington Square Review

• Read four poems by Chloe N. Clark in The /tƐmz/ Review

• Kristine Langley Mahler and Jennifer Wortman’s story “Every Porch a Threshold” has won Sundog Lit’s collaboration contest

• Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez reviews Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House for The Nation

  • His story “Juan, Actually” appears in Berfrois

• Read four poems by print issue contributor Leia Penina Wilson in Heavy Feather Review

• Assistant poetry editor William Fargason has a new essay, “Velvet,” in The Offing

• Kristin Garth’s poem “You Were Once Girl” is in The Arsonist

• Read three “Emily” poems by Darren C. Demaree in Trampset

• Jennifer Wortman’s flash “Our Good Christian Home” is in matchbook

  • Read a review of her book This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. in Necessary Fiction

• Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s essay “Behind the White Coat” found a home in Zora

• Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber’s story “I’d Hug You If I Had Arms” is in Juked

• Check out a hybrid interview with Cathy Ulrich in Craft

• John Shakespear, Dorothy Chan, and Tyler Barton all have work in the latest print issue of Cincinnati Review

• JJ Peña’s flash “the theory of living” is in Jellyfish Review

• Print issue contributor Kathy Fish’s story “See How They Run” is in the latest print issue of Inverted Syntax

• Read Pia Ghosh-Roy’s story “The Resurrection of Rakesh Sharma” in Beloit Fiction Journal

• Print issue contributor Ariel Francisco has translated three poems by Francisco Henriquez Rosa in Hinchas de Poesia

Awards, Honors, and News

• Flash contest judge Bryan Washington has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his collection Lot

• Melissa Ragsly is a finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ St. Lawrence Book Award

• Melissa Ragsly, Melissa Wiley, and Michael Martone are all longlisted for [PANK]’s book contest

• Watch a stand-up set by Amy Silverberg on Comedy Central