The Fam Roundup: September 2019

Dare we make a fall into reading pun? Oh we dare. FALL INTO READING with our contributors’ and editors’ work from September and revisit their Split Lip pieces in our archives.

Books

• Fiction editor Katie Flynn’s novel The Companions is now available for pre-order!!!

• Assistant poetry editor William Fargason has won the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize with his manuscript LOVE SONG TO THE DEMON-POSSESSED PIGS OF GADARA, forthcoming in 2020.

• Check out the cover for interviews and reviews editor Clancy McGilligan’s novella History of an Executioner.

• And Raven Leilani revealed the cover for Luster.

• Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life is a staff pick in The Paris Review.

• Melissa Wiley’s manuscript Skull Cathedral: A Life of Vestigial Organs has won Autumn House Press’ contest and is forthcoming in 2020.

• Poetry contest judge Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein’s collaborative chapbook Gesundheit! is now available for pre-order from Glass Poetry Press.

• Flash contest judge Bryan Washington is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.

• Zach Vandezande’s book Liminal Domestic is available now from Gold Wake Press.

• Rebecca Kokitus’ microchapbook Velvet Offering is forthcoming from APEP Publications in October.

• Natanya Ann Pulley’s collection With Teeth is now available for pre-order from New Rivers Press.

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s manuscript 40 Weeks was a finalist for Yes Yes Books’ Pamet River Prize and will be published by the press.

• Tanya Grae’s poetry collection Undoll is available now from YesYes Books.

• Kristin Garth’s new book Shut Your Eyes, Succubi is forthcoming from Arkay Artists in October

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Alina Stefanescu published “My Polish Child” in Whale Road Review and “Women at Forty, Etc.” in Ink & Nebula

• Amber Sparks’s flash “Everything is Terrible but You Should Read This Story” is in the latest issue of SmokeLong Quarterly

• Managing editor Amy Rossi’s flash “Friday Night at Debra Jo’s Phone Sex Emporium” also appears in the latest SmokeLong Quarterly

• Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber’s story “Happy, Happy, Happy” is up at SmokeLong Quarterly

• Ariel Francisco and Alan Chazaro have work in No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First Generation American Poetry.

• Social media and marketing coordinator Becky Robison’s story “The Loosening Grip” appears in Longleaf Review

• Brandon Taylor’s story “Anne of Cleves” was published in Guernica.

  • Brandon also published “Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World” in Literary Hub

• C.C. Russell published “Offerings”in Empty House Press

• Cathy Ulrich was interviewed in Entropy.

  • Cathy’s book Ghosts of You was reviewed by Emily Ann Webber for SmokeLong Quarterly:

  • Cathy also published “The Quiet of Giraffes” in Tiny Molecules and “The Sun That Does Not Rise” in Cream City Review

• Christopher Allen’s story “What If All the Oceans” appears in Gone Lawn

• Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s story “Unplucked” was published in Pidgeonholes

• Reader D. Arthur published “E. is for Entertainment” Peach Mag

• Darren C. Demaree’s poems “Emily as a Charcoal Halo” and “Emily as Most of the Thunder is Just Theatre” appear in The 2River View

• Dave Housley’s story “Pig” appears in Cotton Xenomorph

• Erin Slaughter’s poems “Holding the Loose Bones Close” and “(The Billboard Claims) Caged Tigers Live Longer in Lafayette” appear in Entropy

• Felicity Fenton published “United Airlines + Rewind” in Pidgeonholes

• Gayle Brandeis’ piece “Our Anniversaries Matched Their Gifts” appears in The New York Times

• Henry Goldkamp published “Gas Guzzle” and “Precious Metal” Barrow Street Press

• Ilana Masad interviews Alex DiFrancesco for The Rumpus.

• Ingrid Jendrzejewski’s story “Vietnam #14” appears in Flash Frontier

• Janelle Bassett published “The Right Light” in Okay Donkey

• Jennifer Wortman has a story in the latest print issue of Copper Nickel

  • Jennifer was interviewed in The Offing and published “After the Wolf” in Psychopomp Magazine

• Jill Talbot’s essay “On Going (Back)” appears in Brevity

• JJ Peña published “Icarus’ Flight Away from the Sun” and “The Futures We Live With” in Third Point Press

• Joanna C. Valente talks to Apparel for Authors on Instagram.

  • Joanna published “I’m Tired of Men Telling Me They’re Afraid I’m Going to Write About Them” and “The Second Wife” Heavy Feather Review

• John Miguel Shakespear published “3x5” in Pidgeonholes

• Joshua Shaw’s stories “Later They Didn’t” and “Wicked Source of Light” are up at Cleaver Magazine

• Memoir reader Karie Fugett’s essay “I Don’t Want to Hate the Only Body I’ll Ever Have” appears in Elephant Journal

• Kat Moore’s essay “Let the Coconut Be His Head” appears in Brevity

• Kate Gehan publislhed “Five Into Forty-Nine is a Fraction” in Pidgeonholes and “Only the Fruit Bearing Trees” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer talks to Marcelle Heath’s Apparel for Authors on Instagram.

• Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross published “Kindness Woman” in Cleaver Magazine

  • Kim Magowan’s story “Stranger” appears in Bull: Men’s Fiction

• Kristin Garth’s poems “Compartmentalized” and “LaGuardia” appear in Anthropocene

• Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc interviews Carmen Maria Machado for Passages North

• Lauren Dostal’s poem “The Tensile Strength of a Guide Cable” appears in Liminality

• Flash editor Maureen Langloss’ story “Cut on the Bias” appears in PANK

• Meg Pokrass published “Rolling Out” in Storgy Magazine and “When the Fat Lady Sings” Cleaver Magazine

• Megan Giddings’ story “The Sixth Door” is in the latest Iowa Review

• Meghan Phillips and Amy Rossi discuss their work in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen anthology from Bone & Ink Press.

• Monet Patrice Thomas’ story “The Taming” appears in Berfrois

• Nicole Rivas published “Duncan” in Cleaver Magazine

• Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s story “Marine Debris” appears in Little Fiction

• Pia Ghosh-Roy’s story “Separated by the Wingspan of a Moth” appears in Berfois

• Robert James Russell’s poem “After a Long Day at Work, He Contemplates a Vasectomy (and the Western Interior Seaway)” was published in Ghost City Press.

  • Robert James Russell & David Armstrong published “Advanced Studies in Cryptozoology” in 7x7

• Flash reader s burnette was interviewed in Vagabond City, where they’re the featured artist for the latest issue

• Memoir reader Sara Ryan published “Look What I Have Done” in Anomaly and “Call Me a Courage” in Dialogist

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery published “(Dis)Ableing the Creative Writing Workshop” in Essay Daily and “Steering into Winter” in Brevity

• Savannah Slone’s piece “the etymology of surrendering” appears in The Hellebore

• Steve Edwards’ story “Strangers” is up at Pidgeonholes

• Tommy Dean published “Because Some Doors Never Open” in 100 Word Story and “If It Weren’t for the Lights” in Claw & Blossom

• Tyler Barton published “Of A Whole Body (Passing Through)” in Necessary Fiction and “Once Nothing, Twice Shatter” in Iowa Review

• Contributing editor Tyrese Coleman gives some advice in this Electric Literature article of tips from writers.

Awards, Honors, and News

• Gayle Brandeis, Leesa Cross-Smith, and Kristine Langley Mahler have notable essays listed in Best American Essays 2019.

• Tanya Grae and Justin Jannise are finalists for the Best New Poets anthology.

• torrin a. greathouse has won Poetry magazine’s J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize.

• Kristine Langley Mahler’s manuscript Teen Queen Training is a semifinalist for the Awst Press Book Prize.

• Poetry editor M’Bilia Meekers is reading at Hugo House on 10/10.

• Tasha Coryell and Josh Jones are finalists for Cease, Cows’ 2019 Scary Short Story Contest.

• Marcelle Heath is a finalist for the Awst Press Book Prize.

• Pia Ghosh-Roy’s Split Lip Magazine story “Pomegranate” has made The Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-19

• Helen McClory and Meg Pokrass have made The Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-19.

• Woody Evans has launched Orphaned Laser Wolfhound—looking for works of 100 words or less.

• Kathy Fish has been awarded a 2020 Ragdale residency.

• Meg Pokrass is teaching an Ekphrastic Flash Fiction Workshop online October 8-15.

• Erin Dorney is teaching two workshops at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design this fall:

  • Writing About: Art & You on 10/11 

  • Create & Take: Zines on 11/4:

• The following FAM members have been nominated for Best of the Net:

  • Marie Baléo - CutBank

  • Maureen Langloss - CHEAP POP

  • Amy Stuber - CHEAP POP

  • W. Todd Kaneko - Heavy Feather Review, Cotton Xenomorph

  • Sophie Paquette - Heavy Feather Review

  • Alina Stefanescu - The Citron Review and Random Sample Review

  • Willy Palomo - American Literary Review

  • Melissa Matthewson - American Literary Review

  • Anne Rasmussen - Sundog Lit

  • Joshua Shaw - Sundog Lit

  • Cathy Ulrich - Sunlight Press, Moonchild Magazine

  • C.C. Russell - Sunlight Press

  • Kathryn McMahon - Moonchild Magazine

  • Krys Malcolm Belc - Waxwing Magazine, Redivider, SmokeLong Quarterly

  • Dorothy Chan - Waxwing Magazine

  • Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach - TriQuarterly

  • Katie Flynn - Ninth Letter

  • Beth Gilstrap - Ninth Letter

  • Kristin Garth - The Poetry Question

  • Nicole Rivas - Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly

  • K.C. Mead-Brewer - Cincinnati Review

  • Raven Leilani - Forge Literary Magazine

  • Rebecca Kokitus - Sword & Kettle Press

  • Jessie Lynn McMains - Sword & Kettle Press

  • Sally J. Johnson - Cotton Xenomorph

• The following FAM members have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize

  • Amy Stuber - CHEAP POP

  • Jennifer Wortman - CHEAP POP

Congrats and best of luck to all!