The Fam Roundup: November & December 2022

Sure, it’s been chilly, but our Split Lip Fam has been hot, hot, hot! We’re bringing you a smoking double-dose of accomplishments!

Books

• Courtney Lund O’Neil’s book, Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders, is forthcoming with Waxman Literary

• Alejandro Varela has two books forthcoming with Astra, The Spirit Level and The First 200 Years of Alex

• Farah Ali’s novel, The River, The Town, is forthcoming in autumn 2023 with Dzanc Book

• Adrienne Novy’s collection, Erev Gildene, is out with Game Over Books

• Jared Yates Sexton’s book, The Midnight Kingdom, Dutton Books, is available for preorder

• John Jodzio’s story collection, This Was The Decade I Kept Getting Stabbed, had a pub day on November 11 with The Cupboard Pamphlet

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s piece, “Remedies in Riding,” was published in The Lumiere Review

• Kim Magowan’s piece, “Mirror Face,” was published in The Citron Review

• Kim Magowan’s piece, “Like My Grandmother’s China,” was published in Bending Genres

• Flash Fiction Editor Megin Jimenez reviewed THE EASY LIFE by Marguerite Duras in Chicago Review of Books

• Jason B. Crawford’s piece, “The Possum,” was published in The Kink Issue of Moist Poetry Journal

• Sam Herschel Wein published two poems in diode

• Dorothy Chan’s piece, “The One,” was published in diode

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery published two poems in diode

• InteR/e/views Editor Daniel Garcia’s piece, “SELF-PORTRAIT, FOURTEEN MILES AND TWENTY-THREE MINUTES FROM THE INTERSTATE,” was published in The Normal School

• James Tadd Adcox’s piece, “A v ~A,” was published at  X-R-A-Y

• Pedro Ponce’s piece, “Impossible Beer,” was published at hex

• Elisa Gabbert was interviewed by Lincoln Michel for the Counter Craft substack

• Editor in Chief Maureen Langloss’s poem, “I Want to Ask Forgiveness—,” was published in Ploughshares

• Joshua Garcia’s piece, “Homecoming,” was published in Joyland

• Assistant Memoir Editor Jeneé Skinner’s story, “Feet Only I Can Hear,” was published in The Missouri Review

• Former Poetry Editor William Fargason’s poem, “Against Tradition,” was published in Terrain

• Kathy Fish’s piece, “A Solid Contribution,” was published in Milk Candy Review

• Joshua Jones Lofflin’s piece, “Before The Green Flash,” was published at Cotton Xenomorph. 

• Elisa Gabbert’s piece, “What We Can Find in Robert Frost’s ‘Woods,’” was published in The New York Times

• Mandana Chaffa’s piece, “‘The Forbidden Door’: A Living Ars Poetica,” was published in Words Without Borders

• Amorak Huey published five poems in UCity Review

• Elisa Gabbert published “The Best Poetry of 2022” in The New York Times

• Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “The Girl From the Movie Doesn’t Cry,” was published in Black Fork Review

• Print issue contributor Sara Lippmann was interviewed by Christopher Linforth for Atticus

• Maria Poulatha’s piece, “Holding Back the Waters,” was published in Pithead Chapel

• Rob Roensch’s novel was reviewed in DIAGRAM

• Elisa Gabbert’s piece, “A Year in Reading,” was published in The Millions

• Deesha Philyaw’s piece, “A Year in Reading,” was published in The Millions and includes contributor and former flash reader Janelle Williams

• Gabrielle Griffis’s piece, “Heathens,” was published in Fictive Dream

• Diane Gottlieb’s piece, “Modeh – Ani*,” was published in Barren

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s piece, “Everything So Different and the Same,” was published in Fractured Lit

• Assistant fiction editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s piece, “A Snow Queen Gets the Last Word,” was published in Frigg

• Leila Renee’s piece, “Scraps,” was published in McSweeney’s. 

• Jean-Luc Bouchard’s piece, “A Person Like You,”was published at Wigleaf

• Ashia Ajani published two poems in Isele Magazine

• Davon Loeb’s piece, “How I Learned to Embrace my Black & Jewish Heritage,” appeared in the LA Times

• Venita Blackburn’s piece, “Memoirs of a Poltergeist,” was published in Gagosian Quarterly

• Print Issue Assistant Editor JJ Peña published CNF in The Cincinnati Review.

• Jason B. Crawford published two poems in The Cincinnati Review 

• Sara Elkamel’s translation of “Room of Darkness” by Mona Kareem was published in The Common

• Sudha Balagopal’s piece, “Prom Date,” was published in Five South

• Brandon Taylor’s piece, “Other Years,” was published in Action, Spectacle

• Scott Garson’s piece, “Ybeltrab,” was published in The Journal

• Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee’s piece, “Ode Wherein I Am Samus Aran,” was published in The Journal

• Steven Espada Dawson’s piece, “Self-Portrait as Moon Corpse,” was published in The Journal.

• Gabrielle Griffis’s piece, “Pawpaw Cultivation,” was published in JMWW

• Taylor Byas published two poems in Poetry Birmingham 

Awards, Honors, and News

• Venita Blackburn is the Wigleaf Top 50 2023 Guest Selecting Editor

• Social Media and Marketing Director Wendy Wallace is now a reader for Split/Lip Press

• Hannah Grieco interviewed Sarah Fawn Montgomery on Atticus

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s HALFWAY FROM HOME was reviewed for Cleaver Magazine

• Sequoia Nagamatsu’s HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK is on Bethanne Patrick’s best books of the year for the LA Times

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s HALFWAY FROM HOME was in the Rumpus Prose Gift Guide

• Camille U. Adams was a reader for Kweli Journal’s Digital Launch Reading

• Four Way Review (for which Sara Elkamel is Poetry Editor) turned 10

• Davon Loeb will be teaching “The Braided Narrative: Weaving Creative Nonfiction” at the Winter Writers Conference & Retreat 

• Marianne Chan’s poem, “Autobiography via Forgetting,” originally published in Kenyon Review, won a Pushcart Prize.

• Jessamine Chan’s  “A Year in Reading” was published in The Millions, including Meg Giddings’s “The Women Could Fly”

• Social Media and Marketing Director Jerilynn Aquino was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Reed Magazine for “El Velorio: An Elegy”

• Davon Loeb’s memoir, “The In-Betweens,” is the February selection for the Rumpus book club

• Rob Roensch’s work is forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol

• Amy Barnes is on the long list for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

• Maria Poulatha is on the long list for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 

• Former Flash Fiction Editor Eshani Surya and contributor Rob Roensch were nominated by Okay Donkey for Best Small Fictions

• Vincent Anioke was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for “Nomad” in Flash Frog

• Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc is leading “Intermediate Nonfiction: Memoir Intensive,” an 8 week writing class with Blue Stoop this spring

• Former Flash Fiction Editor Eshani Surya is leading Thursdays on the Stoop: Revising the Bright Spots

• Darren C. Demaree’s collection, “clawing at the grounded moon,” is in the Top Local Reads of 2022 for Columbus Monthly

• Contributing Editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s short story has been chosen for NPR’s Selected Shorts

• Assistant Fiction Editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s “Frenzied, Desperate Birds” is the Third Place winner of Craft Literary’s First Chapters contest

• InteR/e/views Editor, Daniel Garcia’s essay, “Scorched” (Guernica), appears as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2022

• Vagina Museum’s November read will be The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.

• Editor in Chief Maureen Langloss’s piece, “I Am In It” (Alaska Quarterly), was listed as a distinguished short story in Best American

• Shane McCrae won the 2022 Michael Marks Poetry Award

• Jennifer Wortman is teaching a 4-week class on voice in narrative through Lighthouse Writers Workshop

• Managing Editor Wendy Oleson is a finalist for the Quarterly West chapbook contest