The Fam Roundup: October 2020
October was a spooky good month for our contributors and staff. Check out all this incredible work from the #SplitLipFAM!
Books
Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko’s chapbook Slash/Slash was a winner in Diode Editions’ 2020 contest and will be published
Leia Penina Wilson’s collection This Red Metropolis What Remains is now available from Omnidawn
Darren C. Demaree’s collection Unfinished Murder Ballads is now available for pre-order from Backlash Press
Allegra Hyde signed a two-book deal with Vintage
Ariel Francisco translated Carolina Sánchez’s book Viaje/Voyage, now available from Ultramarina Editorial in Spain
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s piece “Something from Nothing” found a home in Pithead Chapel
Flash reader Cree N. Pettaway’s story “How the Living Watch the Dead” was published in the We Are Antifa: Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond anthology
Past Ten published an essay by Scott Garson
An excerpt from Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life was published in The London Magazine
Brandon has a story forthcoming in The White Review, now available for pre-order
Sudha Balagopal’s story “The Missing ‘I’” appeared in Fictive Dream
Her stories “This is Love,” “Parts Unknown,” “Philtrum” and “Bach, Beethoven, Ravel” appeared in The Dribble Drabble Review
Dorothy Chan was profiled on University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire’s news site
Dorothy’s poem “Ode to Chinese Superstitions, Haircuts, and Being a Girl” was published in Poetry Magazine
Three of Kathy Fish’s micros were reprinted in Everyone Quarterly
Amorak Huey’s poem “Broken Sonnet with Climate Change and Office Hours” found a home in Hobart After Dark
Amorak reviewed Laura Eve Engel’s collection Things That Go in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
His piece “Deus Ex Machina” was published in Fractured Lit
Todd Dillard’s collection Ways We Vanish was reviewed in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Assistant memoir editor Susan Lerner interviewed Eula Biss for Booth
Wigleaf published three micros by Tyler Barton
Hobart After Dark published his poems “Wren in Grandpa Fritz’s Kitchen,” “Sorento,” and “Kindness”
Joshua Jones’ story “Beyond the Villa of Ørmen” appeared in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Hobart After Dark published his piece “The Widow’s Interchangeable Heads”
Roppotucha Greenberg’s story “Teens and Their Mothers (A Fairy Tale)” was published in the recent issue of Riggwelter
Print issue editor Amy Stuber, fiction reader Janelle Bassett, and contributor Jennifer Wortman have work forthcoming in What I Thought Of Ain’t Funny anthology from Malarkey Books
Abigail Oswald’s story “Lessons in Object Permanence” was published in matchbook
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s piece “In the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria” found a home in Hobart After Dark
His Halloween essay appeared in Past Ten
Vol. 1 Brooklyn revealed the cover for Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ forthcoming novel Mona at Sea
Nate Marshall and Martha Silano were both featured in Kenyon Review’s Poetry Today series
K-Ming Chang discussed her novel Bestiary with poet Franny Choi for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
She also appeared on the Kirkus podcast
K-Ming’s story “Deal” appeared in Wigleaf
An excerpt of Bestiary was published in Fully Booked
Her story “Saint” was published in Invisible City
K-Ming Chang, Venita Blackburn, and recent flash contest judge Bryan Washington all have work forthcoming in the McSweeney's Queer Fiction issue
Former fiction editor Katie M. Flynn’s novel The Companions—now out in paperback—was reviewed in Datebook
Melissa Goode’s story “In Violet” was published in Fractured Lit
Fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson’s story “Hunger, Thirst, Listen” appeared in Milk Candy Review
Assistant poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s poems “Shrine” and “Common Era” found a home in Hobart
Flypaper Lit published Jason B. Crawford’s poem “PReP”
Great Lakes Review published three “neverwell” poems by Darren C. Demaree
Leesa Cross-Smith was interviewed in CRAFT
Kristine Langley Mahler interviewed Melissa Wiley for The Rumpus
Howie Good’s pieces “Famous on Facebook,” “Protest Song,” “Dust and Bones” and “The Secret Goldfish” appeared in The Dribble Drabble Review
Steve Edwards’ piece “The Smell of Rain Makes Me Lonely” found a home in Pidgeonholes
Elisa Gabbert was interviewed in The New England Review
Elisa’s essay “The Intolerable, I Guess” was published by The Poetry Foundation
Waxwing published Meg Pokrass’ piece “What We Have to Offer”
Gina Chung’s story “Rabbit Heart” also found a home in Waxwing
Reviews/Interviews editor Clancy McGilligan wrote about Cincinnati’s Downbound Books for Kenyon Review’s On Books and Their Harbors series
Cathy Ulrich’s story “The Empty Above” appeared in Chestnut Review
Cathy’s story “Your Girlfriend as Classroom Drills” was published in Club Plum
West Branch published Marvin Shackelford’s story “All the Right Places” in their recent print issue
Trash Magazine published his story “One Day This Pasture Will Be a Metropolis”
Four poems by Brett Stuckel were published in One Art
Ellen Rhudy’s story “[First Name][Last Name], We Picked These Products Just For You” appeared in Hobart After Dark
Her story “And Then She is a Witch” appeared in Okay Donkey
Recent flash contest judge Bryan Washington was featured in The New York Times
Bryan chatted with author Rumaan Alam for The Wall Street Journal
Zakiya Cowan’s poem “Exodus” found a home in The Chicago Reader
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poems “Ars Poetica” and “Valley of Fire, Nevada” were published in Flypaper Lit
Flash reader Megin Jiménez has two pieces in the latest issue of Sink
Erin Dorney’s piece “Adriene” was published in Hobart After Dark
Assistant flash editor Eshani Surya’s essay “How Saunf (or Mukhwas, or Fennel Candy) Built Me a Home” appeared in Catapult
Eshani was also featured in an interview in The Brooklyn Rail about her work in the recent Tiny Nightmares anthology
K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “The Angel Finger” was published in CRAFT
Her story “Knife House” found a home in Hobart After Dark
K.C. Mead-Brewer, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Tommy Dean and Chloe N. Clark all have work in the recent print issue of Cape Cod Poetry Review
Tommy Dean had an essay published in Past Ten
CRAFT published a hybrid interview with Chloe N. Clark
Ilana Masad was profiled in Haaretz
Flash reader Jules Archer was interviewed in Maudlin House
Jules’ story “Parakeets” appeared in Wigleaf
Print issue editor Amy Stuber’s story “Rocktober” was published in Hobart After Dark
Fiction reader Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s story “When It Gets Cold in the South, The Youngest Baby Dies” found a home in Fractured Lit
Davon Loeb’s The In-Betweens was reviewed at The Literary Review
Amber Sparks’ essay “Aspirational Ghosts: The Films of Tim Burton and the Internet Death Wish” was published in Bright Wall/Dark Room
Amber’s collection And I Do Not Forgive You was reviewed in SmokeLong Quarterly
Alan Chazaro was interviewed in The Boiler
Fiction reader Wei Ting Jen has work forthcoming in Room Magazine
Jared Yates Sexton appeared on an episode of the Otherppl podcast
Awards, Honors, and News
Sarah Fawn Montgomery and former EIC Amanda Miska were both listed in the Notables section of the 2020 Best American Essays anthology
Brandon Taylor and Jennifer Wortman were both listed in the Distinguished section of the 2020 Best American Short Stories anthology
Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life is a finalist for the 2020 Recent Work prize from QUEER | ART
Raven Leilani’s novel Luster has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize
Raven Leilani’s novel Luster and recent flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s novel Memorial have been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction
Darren C. Demaree was a finalist in Diode Editions’ 2020 Book Contest
Memoir reader Sara Ryan was nominated for the Orison Anthology by Split Rock Review
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez co-edited Barrelhouse’s recent Funky Flash issue
Nate Marshall won the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award
K-Ming Chang is the new Micro Editor for The Offing
Melissa Goode was a runner-up in The Forge’s flash competition
Jason B. Crawford’s Twerkable Moments won the 2020 Vella Chapbook Contest
Recent flash contest judge Bryan Washington’s novel Memorial got picked up for TV by A24
Amber Sparks, Leesa Cross-Smith, and Julian K. Jarboe all appeared on Bustle’s list of “Best Short Story Collections of 2020”
Mandana Chaffa has launched the new Nowruz Journal, now open for submissions
Julian K. Jarboe’s book Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Publishers Weekly
Fiction reader Exodus Oktavia Brownlow has joined the Best Microfiction team as a contributing editor
Jonathan Andrew Pérez received an honorable mention in the Connecticut River Review Annual Poetry Prize