The Fam Roundup: November 2024
This November, the Split Lip Fam gave us tons of marvelous work to be thankful for! Take a moment to check out this month’s list of accomplishments, news, and publications.
Publications, Interviews, & Reviews
Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke was one of the featured Canadian authors at the Writers’ Trust Storytellers Ball
Contributor and Former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s poems “To Jane Eyre, on the Occasion of Helen Burns’ Death at Lowood School” and “The Daughter of the TV Detective (Season 1)” were published in Black Lily Zine
Contributor Elizabeth Burton’s flash “To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House” was published in South Florida Poetry Journal
Contributor Seán Carlson’s entry “Soft Appeal” was published in the Metropolitan Diary column in the New York Times
His poem “Anger is a fishing trawler” was published in the themed trespass issue of Elsewhere
His poem “A Knock in Cill Rialaig” was published in Ragaire Literary Magazine
Contributor Mandana Chaffa published an interview with Alan Lightman for the Chicago Review of Books
Contributor and fiction reader Leah Francesca Christianson’s story “Plain Sight” was published in Short Story, Long
Contributor and memoir reader Michael Todd Cohen was published in the 2024 Connecticut Literary Anthology
Contributor Lena Crown is hosting Awakeners, a new podcast about mentorship in the literary arts with Lithub Radio
Contributor Tommy Dean’s flash “It’s So Satisfying” was published in Flash Boulevard
His micro “City. Night. Bursting.” was published in Your Impossible Voice
His story “The Body Holds” is a finalist in the Lascaux Review Flash Contest
Contributor Todd Dillard’s poems “My Daughter Asks Me to Write an Honest Poem” and “What's New” were published in Ex-Puritan
Contributor Kate Doyle published an interview with Bruna Dantas Lobato for Write or Die Magazine
Assistant Poetry Editor CD Eskilson published their translation of Edith Södergranhas’ poem “The Low Shore” in Blackbird
Contributor Brianna Johnson’s story “A Day in the Zoo” was published in Emerge Journal
Contributor Stephanie Kaylor published a story in Spectre Journal’s Abobo Zine, Volume 2
Contributor Abbie Kiefer’s review of Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms was published in Diode
Contributor and flash reader Ani King’s flash “Rabbit Rabbit, Kiai!” was published in the Folklore Review
Contributor Sara Lippmann’s story “Look Yourself” was published in Identity Theory
Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “Twenty Thousand Steps” was published in Emerge Journal
Contributor Claudia Monpere’s micros “Everything is Charged,” “My Stepmother Says a Watched Pot Never Boils” and “Ballet Class” were published in Flash Boulevard
Her micro “River” was published in Emerge Journal
Her flash “After” won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize
Contributor SarahFawn Montgomery published her poem “A Male Doctor Says Maybe the Pain is My Period” in Pinch Journal
Contributor James Keith Smith’s flash “Free Checking” was published in Pithead Chapel
Contributor Matthew Tuckner’s poems “Sprinkler” and “First Person Meditation in a Distinct Landscape” appeared in Diode
Social Media + Marketing Director Wendy Wallace was interviewed about Peatsmoke Journal in an episode of Wildroof Journal’s podcast
Contributor Casey Mulligan Walsh’s piece “Help Wanted: Pre-Emptive Griever” was published in Hippocampus Magazine
Books
Contributor Alina Stefanescu’s new collection My Heresies is forthcoming in April 2025 with Sarabande books
Contributor Christina Cooke’s novel Broughtupsy is launching in paperback with a new cover at the end of January
Awards, Honors, & News
Contributor Farah Ali joined Wasafiri Magazine as Reviews Editor
Contributor Shane McCrae is judging Waywiser’s Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize