The FAM Roundup: November 2018

Books, publications, a whole slew of nominations -- November has been a huge month for the FAM. Catch up on your reading and revisit our contributors' work in the archives:

Books!

• You can now preorder Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction from Aforementioned Productions, edited by contributor Megan Giddings, first print run funded by former fiction editor Jon Chaiim McConnell, and featuring contributors Christopher Gonzalez, Anna Cabe, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint (with her story from Split Lip!), flash reader Eshani Surya, and W. Todd Kaneko.

• Melissa Matthewson’s book Tracing the Desire Line coming from Split Lip Press in 2019!

• Darren C. Demaree’s new collection So Clearly Beautiful is coming from Adelaide Books in 2019

• Tyler Barton’s chapbook The Quiet Part Loud now available for preorder from Split Lip Press.

Publications, Interviews, and Review

• Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice was interviewed by Apparel for Authors on Instagram

• Darren C. Demaree’s Two Towns Over was reviewed in Whale Road Review.

  • He also published “with an empathy so fatal #58,” “with an empathy so fatal #59,” and “with an empathy so fatal #60” in Pidgeonholes

• Kathryn McMahon's story “Black Feathers” appears in Synaesthesia Magazine

• Melissa Goode's story “One More Time” is up at Jellyfish Review and “Lambs” is up at Synaesthesia Magazine

• Beth Gilstrap and Jim Warner published “Dischord No. 1,” “Dischord No. 78” and “Revelation 083” in Pidgeonholes

• Kara Vernor's story “Animal House” appears in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Robert James Russell's story “Red Rope” is up at Pidgeonholes

• Kathy Fish's story “A Foreign Place” was published in Wigleaf

  • She was also interviewed by Cathy Ulrich for Pidgeonholes

• Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez reviews Nichole Perkins’ Lilith, But Dark for Barrelhouse

  • Christopher Gonzalez also published “The Secret to Your Best Self” in Cosmonauts Avenue

• Cathy Ulrich wins The Sunlight Press’ flash fiction contest with her story “A Bouquet of Stars."

  • She also published “Being the Murdered Clerk” in gravel and "A Sound Like Falling Snow" in Ink in Thirds

• Marvin Shackelford published several pieces recently:

  • “Just Hi” in Synaesthesia Magazine

  • “They Say It’s Drier Now than the Dust Bowl Years,” “The Gentle Fall of Empire Viewed with Time and Distance,” “This Other Life,” “<4 Would Be Too Much, But <3 LOL Okay,” and “Amytis, Tiring” in Juked

  • “Methodology” in gravel

• Memoir reader Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “I Don’t Know If I Am Real Without You: Stabbing Westward & Goth Confusion” appears in March Vladness

• Erin Calabria published “Unvoiced” in drDOCTOR

• Elisabeth Horan's poems “Pain is Just Another Word” and “The Walking Wounded” appear in DWARTS

• Kim Magowan published “Contronyms” in MonkeyBicycle and “When Your Step 3 Dumps You 4 Days Before Junior Prom” in Jellyfish Review

• Kim and collaborator Michelle Ross published “Tab is Sad” in gravel

  • Michelle Ross's story “Tea Kettles” also appears in Okay Donkey

• James Yates's story “Secret Astronauts” is up at Necessary Fiction

• Lauren Dostal published “An Undisclosed Distance” in Hotel

• Rebecca Kokitus's poem “For the Girls” appears in Collective Unrest

• Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “The Superhero’s Girlfriend Always Gets Kidnapped” is up at Pidgeonholes

• Devin Kelly's “Days of Judgment” appears in Popula

• Dan Sanders published “The Sledgehammer Game” in Bridge Eight

• Hussain Ahmed's poems “The Blue Side of a Broken Mirror” and “Nature and Chemistry of Love” appear in The Journal

• The FAM was well represented in Little Fiction's Flash Issue!

  • Ruth LeFaive, “The Sun Champ”

  • Pete Stevens, “Broken”

  • Flash editor Maureen Langloss, “The Vibration Before the Sound”

  • Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody, “Crime Shows”

  • Kate Gehan, “New Ink”

  • Jim Warner, “Ativan Crucifix”

  • Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones, “Turmeric & Sugar”

• Anna Vangala Jones also has a story, “How Then,” in Pidgeonholes

• Cortney Lamar Charleston's piece “Self-Portrait as a Shadow” appears in The Nation. He also has work in the latest issue of Granta.

• Helen McClory's story “White Rain” is up at Wigleaf

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan receives an Honorable Mention for Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Poetry

• Flash reader Nick Farriella published “The Boy with a Void” in Soft Cartel

• Split Lip Press publisher Amanda Miska's essay “God or the Devil or Me” appears in Midnight Breakfast

• Tommy Dean's story “Open to an Ocean” is up at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Amorak Huey's poem “Childhood Goes Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Gun” was published in The American Poetry Review:

• Brianna McNish's piece “The Garden of Fathers” is up at formercactus:

• Flash reader Amy Stuber has recent work in Copper Nickel, West Branch, South Carolina Review, Nailed and Hobart

• Janelle Bassett's essay “Bright Bright Bright Bright” was published in The Rumpus:

• Kristin Garth's poems “Tentacles” and “The Prophet” appear in Moonchild Magazine

• Liz Howard's essay “The First Time It Happens” was published in Pithead Chapel

• Chloe N. Clark's story “Over and Somewhere” appears in Pithead Chapel

• torrin a. greathouse reviews Kristin Chang’s Past Lives, Future Bodies for The Rumpus

  • torrin a. greathouse's poem “On Confinement” was also published in Poetry

• Anne Rasmussen's essay “Instructions for Losing Your Mind” is up at Cosmonauts Avenue

Awards, Honors, and News

• Christopher Gonzalez reading at The Red Room in NYC on 12/19!

• Mark Galarrita will be the 2019 editor of Black Warrior Review

• Joshua Jones nominated for Best Microfictions by Cincinnati Review

• Tommy Dean has been nominated for Best Microfictions by Pithead Chapel

• Tommy Dean, Amy Silverberg, and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Pithead Chapel

• Kara Vernor and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by New Flash Fiction Review

• Devin Kelly was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by SmokeLong Quarterly

• Marvin Shackelford was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Posit Journal and for Best Small Fictions by Atlas & Alice

• Kim Magowan and Lori Sambol Brody were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by jmww

• Christina Dalcher has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Crack the Spine

• Brandon Melendez has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Black Warrior Review and by the Journal

• Todd Dillard and Elisabeth Horan have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Cease, Cows

• Jill Talbot and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Little Fiction/Big Truths

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Puerto del Sol

• K.C. Mead-Brewer and Marcelle Heath have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by matchbook

• Amorak Huey has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Gulf Coast

• Bob Hicok and Dorothy Chan have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Diode Editions

• Tanya Grae was nominated for a Pushcart by Moria

• torrin a. greathouse was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tinderbox Poetry Journal

• Cathy Ulrich has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Ink in Thirds:

• Cortney Lamar Charleston was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Passages North

• Amanda Miska was nominated for Best Small Fictions by Wigleaf

• Dan Sanders was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Okay Donkey

• Dave Housley was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Genre2

• Robert James Russell was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by decomP Magazine

• Dorothy Chan was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Redivider

• Meg Pokrass was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Ilanot Review

• Marvin Shackelford and Cathy Ulrich were nominated for Best Microfictions by MoonPark Review

• Meghan Phillips has been nominated for Pushcart and Best Small Fictions by Wigleaf

• Kathy Fish, Kaj Tanaka, and Melissa Goode have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Pidgeonholes

• Kathy Fish, Kaj Tanaka, Meghan McClure and Amorak Huey have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Pidgeonholes

• Kara Vernor and Meghan Phillips have been nominated for Best Microfictions by Pidgeonholes

• Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson was nominated for Best Microfiction by Vestal Review

• Kim Magowan was nominated for Best Microfictions 2018 by Okay Donkey

• Cathy Ulrich and Kim Magowan have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Okay Donkey

• Kathryn McMahon has been nominated for Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018 by CHEAP POP

• Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The MacGuffin

Great job, FAM! Can't wait to see how you all close out 2018!