The Fam Roundup: October 2019
The Split Lip FAM was *spooky* prolific during the month of October! Check out our contributors’ and editors’ many recent accomplishments, and be sure to revisit their work in the SLM archives.
Books
Elisabeth Horan’s Self-Portrait is now available from Cephalopress
Former poetry contest judge Paige Lewis’ new book Space Struck has been named must-read poetry by The Millions
Marcos Gonsalez’s debut memoir Pedro’s Theory is forthcoming from Melville House
The following FAM books are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2020:
Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory
W. Todd Kaneko’s This is How the Bone Sings
Gayle Brandeis’ Many Restless Concerns
An essay by Monet Patrice Thomas appears in the Burn it Down: Women Writing about Anger anthology
Savannah Slone’s full-length debut An Exhalation of Dead Things is forthcoming from CLASH Books in 2021
Pre-orders are now available for Reviews/Interviews Editor Clancy McGilligan’s novella History of an Executioner
Chloe N. Clark’s book Under My Tongue is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
SLM memoir reader Sara Ryan published “Growing Bone” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry and “I Have Found the Golden Whales” in American Literary Review
Jacqueline Boucher’s poem “In Praise” is also in the latest issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Find Timea Balogh’s story “False Sun” in the most recent print issue of Prairie Schooner, and her translations of Márton Simon’s poetry in Michigan Quarterly Review
Sara Lippmann shows her sartorial tastes in Apparel for Authors on Instagram
Cathy Ulrich’s flash “The Ghost of a Very Small Thing” appears in Lunate
Cathy also published “Being the Murdered Girlfriend” in Okay Donkey
Reviews of and interviews about her new book Ghosts of You can be found in: Bending Genres, The Bookends Review, The Rumpus, Monkeybicycle, and Cease, Cows
Memoir reader Karie Fugett’s piece “Love and War: I owe my new life to my Marine husband’s hideous death. I pay the price every day” appears in The Washington Post
Amorak Huey has two poems up at Stirring: A Literary Collection
Todd Dillard has two poems in Empty Mirror
You can also find his poem “Ways Things Vanish” in Cotton Xenomorph
Belinda Hermawan’s story “Smoke Signals” found a home in Cosmonauts Avenue
Kristin Garth’s book The Meadow was reviewed in Empty Mirror
Marvin Shackelford published “Some Through the Waters'“ in Milk Candy Review
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan has a new poem, “Love Song for Antonio Pigafetta, Ferdinand Magellan’s Chronicler,” in Michigan Quarterly Review
Dave Housley published “Rooster” in Necessary Fiction
Editorial Assistant Anna Vangala Jones published “Echo” in Jellyfish Review
She also published “You Don’t Have a Place Here” in Okay Donkey
C.C. Russell’s piece “Faint, Faint” is in (mac)ro(mic)
Beth Gilstrap’s “I’m OK, I swear I just want to eat” is in the latest issue of Barren Magazine
That same issue of Barren Magazine also has an interview with Kathy Fish
Assistant Flash Editor Amy Stuber published “Never in a Million Years” in Atticus Review
She also published “Hills Like Tan Lions” in Passages North
Amber Sparks published “The Men in Paris Always Wanted” in Jellyfish Review
Her essay “Magical Thinking for Girls” appears in Gay Magazine
Read Jessie Lynn McMains’ flash “Final Girl’s Love Song” in Okay Donkey
Elisa Gabbert’s hair metal essay “Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time” appears in The Paris Review
Cortney Lamar Charleston published “Dear Donald,” in Waxwing
JJ Peña published “the stories we hold inside” in Atticus Review
Contributing Editor Tyrese Coleman published “On the Last Day, the Ancestors Came” in The Rumpus
She also interviewed Rion Amilcar Scott for Electric Literature
Michelle Ross published “Palate Cleanser” in Bending Genres
She also reviewed Jennifer Wortman’s book This.This.This.Is.Love.Love.Love. for The Rupture
Read Tanya Grae’s “Facebook Sonnet” in New Ohio Review
Alina Stefanescu’s poem “No Such Person” appears in Lost Balloon
torrin a. greathouse’s poem “Medusa with the Head of Perseus” appears in Poetry Magazine
Joshua Jones’ story “This is the Key” placed third in Cease, Cows’ Scary Short Story Contest
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach published “Practice Children Don’t Survive the Holidays'“ in Cultural Weekly
She also published “Potatoes Don’t Have Much to Do with Light” in The Adroit Journal
Kathryn McMahon published “The Things We Do for a Little Self-Preservation” in Monkeybicycle
Olatunde Osinaike’s poem “Probable Cause” has won Backbone Press’ Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize
Chloe N. Clark published “At the Chapel in the DFW Airport” in Vagabond City
She also published “Things People Have Written in Letters to Ghosts” in Okay Donkey
On top of that, she recommended some books in The Poetry Question
Kim Magowan published “My Husband the Movie Star” in Jellyfish Review
Georgia Bellas published “While Walking in Forest Park” in Okay Donkey
Anne Rasmussen’s essay “Visitors” appears in the latest print issue of The Southeast Review
That same issue of The Southeast Review features a review by Daniel LoPilato
Melissa Wiley published “The End of Longing” in American Literary Review
Bronte Lim has work in the 25th anniversary print issue of Chicago Quarterly Review
Robert James Russell published “Ode to the Moon Trees” in Hobart
K.C. Mead-Brewer published “It’s Only a House” in Wigleaf
Alan Chazaro was interviewed in The Rumpus
Several FAM members were featured in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine’s special BONEYARD issue:
Memoir Editor Krys Malcolm Belc published “Women’s Rugby” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Jennifer Wortman’s “The Dead Musician” appears in Copper Nickel
Tommy Dean published “Here” in New World Writing
He also published “Famous is Always Better than Dead” in Lost Balloon
Helen McClory published “The Difficulty of Writing a Horror Story Set in Maine” in Hobart
Awards, Honors, and News
Melissa Matthewson received an honorable mention in Pidgeonholes’ THE BODY contest.
JJ Peña and Jennifer Wortman were finalists for Forge Literary Magazine’s Flash Competition
Jennifer Wortman is teaching an online Memoir & Personal Essay class for Lighthouse Writers Workshop until 12/23
Christopher Allen is leading a flash fiction workshop at Nashville’s The Porch on 11/23
Contributing Editor Tyrese Coleman and W. Todd Kaneko will be working with Sherrie Flick as associate editors for the forthcoming Flash Fiction America anthology
Contributing Editor Tyrese Coleman is also guest-editing a special issue of Barrelhouse featuring all black women contributors
Flash Editor Maureen Langloss will appear at PANK’s Versions & (RE)Versions Workshop in NYC on 12/12
The following FAM members have been nominated for Best of the Net:
Dorothy Chan - Jet Fuel Review
Francisco Martínezcuello & Matt Young - CONSTRUCTION
W. Todd Kaneko - CONSTRUCTION
Donna Vorreyer - Longleaf Review
Krys Malcolm Belc - Pidgeonholes
sally burnette - Pidgeonholes
Melissa Matthewson - Blood Orange Review
Stephanie Trott - Blood Orange Review
Anne Rasmussen - Blood Orange Review
Rebecca Kokitus - Pussy Magic
The following FAM members have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize:
Rebecca Kokitus - Blanket Sea
Amber Sparks - Fairy Tale Review
Meghan Phillips - Drunk Monkeys
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach - Half Mystic
C.C. Russell - (mac)ro(mic)
D. Arthur - Peach Mag
The following FAM members have been nominated for Best Microfiction:
Meghan Phillips - Jellyfish Review
JJ Peña - Into the Void
Congrats and best of luck to all!