The Fam Roundup: October 2023

Check out the INCREDIBLE lineup of accomplishments from our Split Lip FAM this October! We’re so lucky to be a part of this stellar writing community! 

Books

• Former managing editor Amy Rossi’s debut novel THE MAKING OF BIRDIE RHODES was acquired by Mira

• Former Poetry Editor Marianne Chan’s forthcoming poetry collection, LEAVING BIDDLE CITY, is available for pre-order

• Dorothy Chan’s fifth book, RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME, is available for pre-order

• Contributor SJ Sindu launched a new story collection THE GOTH HOUSE EXPERIMENT at Books are Magic Montague

• Diane Gottlieb published AWAKENINGS: STORIES OF BODY & CONSCIOUSNESS, a CNF anthology

• SarahFawn Montgomery and Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee are working with Sundress on an accessible text about unlearning the ableist workshop and developing a disabled writing practice

• Joshua Garcia’s book PENTIMENTO is now available for pre-order

• Shane McCrae’s poetry collection with FSG, THE MANY HUNDREDS OF SCENT, is out now

• K-Ming Chang’s new book ORGAN MEATS is out

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Martha Silano published a poem, “Unambiguously,” in the new issue of Sixth Finch

• Kim Magowan has a new piece in trampset

• Poetry Reader Jessica Nirvana Ram has two poems in the summer issue of Mag 2020

• Elizabeth Burton has new CNF in JMWW

• Diannely Antigua and Tyler Barton have work in the new Adroit Journal

• Farah Ali spoke with Lydia Kiesling about family and the climate crisis for Orion Magazine

• Farah Ali read from her new novel THE RIVER, THE TOWN at Books Are Magic Montague

• Flash reader Dallon Robinson has a micro about ghosts and queer history in the new Stone of Madness

• Gina Chung talks with Neil Denny on the Little Atoms podcast about her debut novel SEA CHANGE 

• Flash reader Christina D’Antoni has a new piece at X-R-A-Y Mag about grief, oil spills, and aquatic animals

• Matthew Tuckner and jason b. crawford have poems in Issue 98 of AGNI

• Contributing editor Becky Robison talked about being the executor of her parents’ estate at Nerd Nite in Louisville at Gravely Brewing Co

  • Becky also wrote “My parents are dead. Here are the 5 most important things I've learned as executor” for Insider

• Deesha Philyaw spoke about black women, sex and the black church on PBS NewsHour

• Lots  of SLM fam in former SLM Assistant Fiction Editor Exodus Brownlow's special BIPOC Anthology in Fractured Lit, including Deesha Philyaw,  Vincent Anioke, and Lucy Zhang

• Flash reader Carolina Mata did a poetry reading for Arthop in Fresno

• Poetry reader Vincente Perez did readings for chapbook OTHER STORIES TO TELL OURSELVES

• Gabrielle Griffis has a short story in Peatsmoke Journal 

• Dallon Robinson has a micro about ghosts and queer history in the new Stone of Madness

• Elisa Gabbert wrote about the prose work of poets for The New York Times Books

• Flash reader aureleo sans has a piece in KHÔRA

• Fiction reader Tina Zhu has a new story in Lightspeed about a scummy self-help fox spirit

• Former poetry editor William Fargason’s poem “When I Forget a Dose,” is in the new issue of Bellevue Literary Review

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram published a new poem in Ghost City Press

• Staffer Cristina Burke’s piece “Legacy of Leche” about food, family, and reconnecting with her Chilean heritage is in Edible Magazine

• For Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading, Ilana Masad recommended “Patriots’ Day” by SJ Sindu

• A.C. Koch has a new story, “Frankenthaler’s Blue,” in Five South

• Gaia Rajan has two poems in Swamp Pink

• Flash reader Dawn Miller has a flash in Brink Literary

• Ashley Lopez has an essay in the latest issue of Prairie Schooner

• Chloe N. Clark has a new story with Fractured Lit

• Reader Reema Rao-Patel has a story “Devi Maa” in Witness

• Abigail Oswald has a new story in The Rumpus about two strangers and a fax machine that may or may not communicate with the dead

Awards, Honors, & News

• Social media director SG Huerta got engaged!

• SG Huerta was also featured at a bookstore poetry reading

• Leila Renee is teaching a generative workshop with Writing Workshops 

• Jennifer Wortman taught a class on transcending cliche in flash with Smokelong 

• Matthew Tuckner is the new Assistant Editor of Quarterly West

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s essay “Zombie Tag” won Michigan Quarterly Review's 2023 James A. Winn Prize

• Tommy Dean won Exposition Review’s Micro Contest for his piece “When the Light Is Just Right”

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram is a 2022 Prairie Schooner Prize winner

• Tendon, the medical humanities lit mag that Staffer Sarah Roth helps run published a new issue on injury

• Memoir reader Camille U. Adams has a notable essay in 2022 Best American Essays: “Go Down in De Pantry, Said the Mother to Her Child” from Kweli Journal

• Josh McColough has an essay published in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

• Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s essay originally published in Quarterly West, “August 30th, 2017,” is a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023

• Taylor Byas’s I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES was the second ever poetry winner for the Maya Angelou Book Award

• EXTENDED STAY by past flash fiction contest judge Juan Martinez and I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES by contributor Taylor Byas are on the 2023 Chicago Review of Books CHIRBy Awards Shortlist

• Lucie Britsch sold television rights for her novel THOUGHTLESS to Toluca Pictures

• Managing editor Wendy Oleson’s piece “Like Wormwood on the Lips” was a 2023 Peatsmoke Journal Flash Contest winner

• Contributor and former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez is judging Atticus Review’s 2023 fiction contest for collaborative stories