The Fam Roundup: October 2021

October was another SCARY good month for the #SplitLipFAM! Check out these publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff—and be sure to read their work in our archives while you’re at it.

Books

• Claire Rudy Foster helped write Ryan Hampton’s book Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis, which is available now

• Beth Gilstrap’s collection Deadheading is available now from Red Hen Press

• Dorothy Chan’s collection Babe is now available for pre-order from Diode Editions

• Farah Ali’s book People Want to Live is available now from McSweeney’s

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s microchap all these reasons to shed your wings: a collection of golden shovels is forthcoming from Emerge Journal in 2022

• Matt Rowan’s collection How the Moon Works is available now from Cobalt Press

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Claire Rudy Foster’s essay “A Trans Janitor Walks into a Liberal Country Club” found a home in MIC

  • Ryan Hampton’s book Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis, which Foster helped write, is being adapted for TV

• Beth Gilstrap was interviewed in The Rumpus

• Deesha Philyaw’s collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is being adapted for HBO Max

  • She also discussed “How Literary Gatekeepers Can Advocate For Black Trans Women” in Electric Lit

• Assistant fiction editor Anna Cabe’s story “Lights Out, It’s Starting” was published in Decomp

• Flash Frog published Sudha Balagopal’s story “Rag Doll”

• K. Iver was interviewed in Blue Mountain Review

  • The Common published their poem “Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982”

  • They have work in the latest print issue of Salt Hill Journal, along with Donna Vorreyer and poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson

• Copper Nickel published work by poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson and contributors Tyler Barton and Martha Silano in their latest print issue

• Tyler Barton, Alan Chazaro and Todd Dillard have work in the latest print issue of Barrelhouse

• Editorial assistant Megan Neville’s poem “Sitting on the Floor in the Dark, I Try to Answer My Student’s Fair Question” appeared in the latest print issue of Pleiades

• Aurielle Marie’s poem “no name in the street” appeared in Poetry Daily

• Claire Hopple was interviewed on Write or Die Tribe

• Cathy Ulrich’s story “Homemade Daughters” was published in ShabdAaweg Review

  • Mayday published her story “Being the Murdered Nanny”

  • Dead Skunk Mag published her story “Being the Murdered Teenager,” which was illustrated by her daughter Persephone Ulrich

• Farah Ali’s book People Want to Live was featured as one of the Chicago Review of Books’ 12 Must-Read Books of October

• Darren C. Demaree’s poem “with john oswalt” found a home in Vulnerary Magazine

  • Words & Sports Quarterly published his poem “An Ode to the Line-Drives as They Curl to Drop Thirty Feet Beyond the Second Baseman Over & Over Again in My Dreams”

  • The Cortland Review published his poem “Neverwell #25”

• Raven Leilani’s novel Luster is being adapted for HBO

• HAD published Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s poem “Wish, Bone”

• Poetry reader Stella Lei’s piece “On Building a Nest” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Narrative published poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “When My Brother Tells Me I’m Obsessed with Sadness”

  • He recorded a free audiobook of his collection Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara

  • He reviewed Gaia Rajan’s Moth Funerals for Colorado Review

• Hannah Grieco’s piece “All a Wash” was published in Monologging

• W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Invocation” appeared on The Slowdown podcast

• Erin Slaughter was interviewed in FSU’s Her Campus

• Lost Balloon published Erin Calabria’s flash “Cetacea”

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “Hold Your Breath” found a home in Uncharted

  • No Contact published her story “Rooms Have Their Ways”

• Gabrielle Griffis’ story “Skywriting” was published in Litro Magazine

• Alina Stefanescu’s poem “Daily, I Cat-Call the Dead” was published in Frontier Poetry

  • Flypaper Lit published her piece “Someone Failed This Man”

• Co-flash editor Amy Stuber’s story “Your Dead Mom” appeared in Passages North

• Brandon Taylor reviewed Karle Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star for The New Yorker

• Monica Brashears’ story “What the Dolls See” found a home in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online

• Jill Talbot’s piece “A Current” was published in Ilanot Review

• Wigleaf published “Picking Up the Moose” by Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman

• Poetry reader Raina K. Puels’ poem “Space Colonization Scares Me” appeared in Rejection Letters

• Ilana Masad reviewed Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses for NPR

• Social media/marketing director Becky Robison’s story “Black Mass at Denny’s” found a home in No Contact

• Elisa Gabbert has work in the latest print issue of Gulf Coast

• Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez published “Craft Capsule: On Writing Fat Characters” in Poets & Writers

• Hobart published fiction reader Wendy Elizabeth Wallace’s piece “Thread”

• Meghan Phillips’ flash “The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Other Things I Wish My Boyfriend Would Call Me During Sex” appeared in HAD

• Jeremy Radin’s poems “Cocktail Party at the Producer’s Villa” and “Thirst” were published in Good River Review

• The Cortland Review published Ariel Francisco’s piece “Poem Written by My Dad Based on a Dream a Day Before My Second Birthday, Bronx, 1992”

• The Cortland Review also published Justin Jannise’s poem “Missing You, Expensively”

• Contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s flash “Disappointment” was published in HAD

• An excerpt of Dave Housley’s forthcoming novel The Other Ones appeared in The Rumpus

• Sabrina Hicks’ story “Little Lady” found a home in Trampset

• Treasurer/flash reader Ruth LeFaive appeared on Marcelle Heath’s “Apparel for Authors” Instagram series

• Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s piece “What Therapists are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment” appeared in Literary Hub

• Electric Lit published Aruni Kashyap’s piece “15 Modern Indian Classics in Translation”

• Ellen Rhudy’s piece “The Story You Want, The Story You Need” found a home in The Cincinnati Review

• An excerpt from Matt Rowan’s collection How the Moon Works was published in The Cobalt Weekly

Awards, Honors, and News

• Assistant fiction editor Anna Cabe is now represented by Erin Harris at Folio Literary

• Gina Chung Chung received one of the Center for Fiction’s Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

• Raven Leilani is the Spring 2022 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at The University of Mississippi

• Raven Leilani, Marcos S. Gonsalez, and Threa Almontaser were shortlisted for The Brooklyn Public Library’s 2021 Literary Prize

• Former flash contest judge Bryan Washington and contributor Nate Marshall won Heartland Booksellers Awards this year

• Cortney Lamar Charleston’s collection Doppelgangbanger is shortlisted for Chicago Review of Books’ 2021 CHIRBy Award in Poetry

• Brandon Taylor’s collection Filthy Animals was named one of the best fiction books of 2021 by Publishers Weekly

• Jill Talbot won won The Florida Review’s 2021 Leiby Chapbook Award for her collection A Distant Town, and Kara Vernor was a finalist