The Fam Roundup: November 2021

You think the #SplitLipFAM winds down as the year winds down? Think again. Check out these November publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff—and be sure to read their work in our archives while you’re at it.

Books

• SJ Sindu’s novel Blue-Skinned Gods is now available

• Tommy Dean’s story collection Covenants is available now from ELJ Editions

• Tyler Barton’s story collection Eternal Night at the Nature Museum is available now from Sarabande Books

• Michelle Ross’ story collection Shapeshifting is now available from Stillhouse Press

• Shane McCrae’s poetry collection Cain Named the Animal is now available for pre-order

• Leesa Cross-Smith’s novel Half-Blown Rose is now available for pre-order

• Megan Giddings’ novel The Women Could Fly is now available for pre-order

• Chloe N. Clark’s poetry collection Escaping the Body is forthcoming from Interstallar Flight Press in 2022

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s chapbook Inheritances of Hunger will be published by River Glass Books in 2022

• Claire Rudy Foster’s story collection Shine of the Ever is now available as an audiobook

• Ryan Clark’s collection Arizona SB 1070: An Act is now available from Downstate Legacies

• Former flash contest judge Juan Martinez’s novel, tentatively titled Extended Stay, has been accepted for publication by University of Arizona Press

• Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s collection False Offering is forthcoming from Jackleg Press in 2023

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Teddy Engs’ piece “This Isn’t Gray” appeared in Pithead Chapel

• SJ Sindu’s novel Blue-Skinned Gods was reviewed in The New York Times

• Threadcount published Claire Hopple’s story “Still”

• Threadcount also published Marvin Shackelford’s story “Fish, of All Things”

• Dorothy Chan’s poems “Triple Sonnet Because She’s a Little Pornish” and “Ode to Role Play” found a home in Hobart

  • Dorothy also has work in the latest print issue of Colorado Review, along with poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson

• Tommy Dean’s flash “Smoldering” was published in South Florida Poetry Journal

  • Tommy was interviewed in Lit Mag News Roundup

• Tyler Barton was featured in CRAFT’s “Art of the Opening” series

  • Tyler was interviewed in The Rumpus

  • His essay “Why I Had to Leave Home to Write About It” appeared in Literary Hub

• Todd Dillard’s poems “Todd Dillard Parody Poem” and “Love Poem with Pop Culture References Because Love is Ephemeral and Linked Inextricably to its Time” were published in The Indianapolis Review

• Richard Mirabella’s story “The Spring Pageant” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Shane McCrae’s poem “In the Weeping Willow Tree” was published in Pangyrus

• Co-flash editor Amy Stuber’s piece “American Football” found a home in Wigleaf

• Assistant print issue editor JJ Peña’s piece “he got lost humming & then went over his body” was published in Southern Humanities Review

  • Their story “Shadowman” was published in The Rumpus

• Kara Vernor’s story “Walt & Walt” appeared in ➰➰➰

  • No Contact published her story “Balloons”

• Mandana Chaffa reviewed Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows for Chicago Review of Books

• Gabrielle Griffis’ story “The Eelgrass is Dead” was published in New Flash Fiction Review

• Beth Gilstrap’s story collection Deadheading was reviewed on the A Little Book Problem blog

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s piece “Ever Hoping Yes” found a home in The Arkansas International

• Poetry editor William Fargason’s poems “Gasoline,” “Admission with a Thousand Dead Birds,” “Rain Machine,” and “When My Grandfather Couldn’t” were published in Great River Review

  • Poet Lore published his poems “Open House” and “The Glass Blower”

• Claire Rudy Foster’s story “Adaptation” appeared in the latest print issue of Black Static

• The Los Angeles Review published Martha Silano’s poem “You’re Surrounded”

• Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ novel Mona at Sea was included on The Rumpus’ list of “What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job”

  • Her essay “I Had Life Boredom and I Didn’t Know It” was published in Women Writers, Women Books

• Several #SplitLipFAM members appeared in The Rumpus’ Holiday Book-Gifting Guide, including Aurielle Marie, memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Cortney Lamar Charleston

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat is one of Apple Books’ Most Anticipated Books of Winter

• Laura van den Berg interviewed Farah Ali for Bomb Magazine

• No Contact published fiction reader Nicole Tsuno’s story “Dead Eli”

  • Her piece “Divorce Party” was published in HAD

• No Contact also published managing editor Wendy Oleson’s pieces “In Transit” and “Visiting Cassie”

• Kristine Langley Mahler’s piece “This Century, the Last” was published in CRAFT

• Poetry reader CD Eskilson’s poem “I Still Haven’t Seen The Fly” found a home in Cotton Xenomorph

• Kathy Fish has work forthcoming in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America anthology

• NPR’s 2021 “Books We Love” list featured memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc and contributors Brandon Taylor and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s poems “Careless” and “Taking Plan B in a Pandemic” appeared in Diode Editions

• Marcos Gonsalez’s piece “The Obelisk of Loisaida” was published in The White Review

• Allegra Hyde’s forthcoming novel Eleutheria was featured in Superstition Review

• Okay Donkey published Jeremy Radin’s poem “When there was nothing but darkness we ate darkness”

• Deesha Philyaw’s essay about Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner was published in The Paris Review

Awards, Honors, and News

• Rachel Mans McKenny’s novel The Butterfly Effect has been selected as the Iowa Center for the Book’s All-Iowa Adult Read for 2022

• Venita Blackburn, Kathleen Rooney, Brandon Taylor, and former flash contest judge Bryan Washington have all been longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

• Marie Baleo joined The Adroit Journal as a web editor

• Fiction reader Ra’Niqua Lee has been awarded the inaugural John Lewis Writing Grant for Fiction by the Georgia Writers Association

• Jean-Luc Bouchard was a finalist for NC State’s 2021 James Hurst Prize for Fiction

• Raven Leilani and Deesha Philyaw were shortlisted for Texas State MFA’s LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize

• Kathleen Rooney won the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award from Chicago Review of Books

• Steven Duong won the 2021 Richard Yates Short Story Contest