The Fam Roundup: November 2023

SO thankful this month and all months for our incredible SLM FAM and their constantly inspiring accomplishments!

Books

• Contributor Simon Shieh’s new poetry collection with Sarabande Books, Master, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s first full-length collection, False Offering, with JackLeg Press is out now

• Contributor Shane McCrae published The Many Hundreds of the Scent with FSG

• Contributor Josh Denslow's new book, Super Normal, is out now with Stillhouse Press 

• Contributor Monica Brashears’s book House of Cotton was featured on Bookriot’s list of 10 of the Best Appalachian Books of 2023 and NPR’s Books We Love 2023

• Contributor and Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s flash collection For What Ails You is out from Emerge Journal

• Contributor Steven Duong’s book At the End of the World There Will Be a Pond will be  out next year with W.W. Norton

• Contributor Rob Roensch’s new book In the Morning, the City is the Prairie is out now from Belle Point Press 

• Contributor Łukasz Drobnik’s flash fiction collection Riverine is now available for pre-order

• Poetry reader Erin Little’s chapbook Personal Injury from Chestnut Review is out now

 Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Contributor and Fiction reader Eli Kourtis has a poem in Twitter journal the lickety split

• Contributor Tommy Dean published in Gone Lawn

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert was interviewed on the Close Readings podcast

• Flash reader aureleo sans published a new piece at KHORA

• Flash reader Jordan Blanchard published three poems in Bruiser Mag

• Contributor Rob Roensch interviewed Ahmed Naji about his new book, Rotten Evidence, for World LiteratureToday

• Contributor Renny Gong published a poem, "Andy and Mago," in MudRoom Mag, and a nonfiction piece in sine theta magazine

• Contributing Editor Jerilynn Aquino published a piece in Salt Hill Journal

• Contributor Deesha Philyaw published new flash fiction in Fractured Lit

• Fiction Editor Anna Cabe published a flash essay in The Common

• Memoir reader Christina Berke interviewed Jami Nakamura Lin for Gulf Coast about Lin’s new speculative memoir

• Contributor K-Ming Chang was interviewed for LitHub

• Contributor Jean-Luc Bouchard has a new humor piece in The Offing

• Contributor Lena Crown published an essay in The Rumpus

• Contributor Gabrielle Griffis published "Prickly Pear Cactus," a flash piece, in trampset

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen published a new poem in Narrative Mag

• Contributor and flash reader Andy Lopez has a tiny story in missed connections, an anthology of microfiction from Asia

• Andy Lopez also has a poem up at Twitter journal the lickety split

• Flash Editor Amy Stuber published a story about hallucinogens, parenthood, and bears in Colorado Review

• Contributor Michelle Ross was published in Milk Candy Review and Wigleaf

• Contributor Cathy Ulrich published a new piece, “Lost Things,” in Bluestem Mag

• Contributor Richard Mirabella published a flash piece in Swamp Pink

• Social Media & Marketing Director Wendy Wallace has a flash piece in this month's Pithead Chapel

• Contributor Mandana Chaffa interviewed Lydia Davis about Our Strangers for The Brooklyn Rail

• Contributor Shane McCrae published “The Craft of Writing” in LitHub

• Contributor Farah Ali was interviewed in Tiny Molecules about her new book The River, the Town 

• Reader and Contributor Vincent Anioke published a new story in Fractured Lit

• Contributor Ilana Masad reviewed EJ Koh's debut novel, The Liberators, for the LA Times 

• Contributor Casey Mulligan Walsh reviewed Love in the Archives by Eileen Vorbach Collins for Atticus Review

• Contributor jason b. crawford published three new poems in the latest Foglifter Journal

• Contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin has a piece in the new Baltimore Review

• Contributor Sarah Fawn Montgomery published an essay on American Girl dolls and domestic duty in the Cincinnatti Review

• Reader Dominique Weldon wrote about new video games for Erato Magazine

• Contributor Kathy Fish has a new story, “Alligator,” at Northwest Review

• Reader Mack Rogers has a feature interview with Papers 

Awards, Honors, & News

• Assistant Fiction Editor Molly Dumbleton won the 2023 Granum Prize!

• Editorial Assistant Jon Doyle is on the shortlist for the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers' Prize 2023 for a WIP novel

• Art curator and contributor Michael Young exhibited photos in CURRENTS in PHOTONOLA

• Flash reader J.L. Moultrie read poems at Swords into Ploughshares Peace Center in Detroit 

• Managing Editor Wendy Oleson’s Everywhere, Tony Danza won the Cutbank Chapbook Contest

• Split Lip is #66 on the Top 1000 Lit Mags 2024 list put together by Brecht De Poortere

• Fractured Lit’s Open Contest was judged by contributor Sara Lippmann, and contributors Carly Alaimo and Moisés Delgado, and flash reader Dawn Miller were finalists

• Dawn Miller was also runner up for the Women on Writing Summer 2023 Flash Fiction Contest 

• Reader and contributor Vincent Anioke and contributor Kristina Ten made the Masters Review Reprint Prize Shortlist