FAM Roundup: September 2018

The FAM was busier than ever in September! Catch up with all the wonderful publications and amazing news from this past month, and revisit our contributors' work in the archives:

Books!

• Our very own fiction editor Katie M. Flynn sold her novel The Living Coast to Scout Press!!!!!!

• And Leesa Cross-Smith just got a two-book deal at Grand Central Publishing!!!!

• Plus Dorothy Chan’s manuscript Revenge of the Asian Woman will be published in 2019 by Diode Editions!!!!

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​​​​

• Elisabeth Horan has published several pieces recently:

  • “40 licks” and “The Bed” in formercactus:

  • “Midlifery” in formercactus

  • “The Wind Plays Tricks on Me in September” in Barren Magazine

  • “Citrus as Mantra,” “Grey Water” and “Ova-Pieta” in Mojave Heart Review

• Timston Johnston's story “One String, Sweet” appears in formercactus

• Kristin Garth has several new pieces in the world:

  • “Even Mermaids Forget They Are Divine Online,” “Nipple,” “Wake Up Girl” and “You’re Just Having Emotions” in Mojave Heart Review

  • “Life is Priorities” in Pangolin Review

  • “Drive” in Barren Magazine

  • “It’s Not Hard to Put a Stripper in Cuffs ” in formercactus

  • “Resistance” in Constellate Literary Journal

• Cathy Ulrich has brought several new stories to your eyes:

  • “Being the Murdered Babysitter” in Passages North

  • “The Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles” in New Flash Fiction Review

  • “The Delicate Art of Ikebana” in Barren Magazine

  • And Cathy Ulrich interviewed Kaj Tanaka in Pidgeonholes

• Kathryn McMahon also published several stories in September:

  • “Scavenger Hunt” in The Arcanist

  • "On the Backs of Cats” in Flapperhouse

  • “Mushrooms Are Like Secrets” in Atticus Review

  • “Evolution” in Third Point Press

  • “She Paints it Pyrotechnic Yellow These Days” in Cheap Pop

• Kim Magowan’s collection Undoing was reviewed by The New York Times!!! She also published:

  • “Worksheet: Conditional Verbs” in MoonPark Review

  • “Madlib” in Okay Donkey (CW: sexual abuse):

  • “Now You Know Your ABCs” in formercactus

• Melissa Wiley's essay “Land of Milk and Honey” is up at The Boiler

• Robert James Russell has published several pieces recently:

  • “Blue Raspberry” in The Boiler

  • “Goose Memoir” in Genre2

  • ​“Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 6: Rode Hard & Put Up Wet” in The Coil

  • “Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 7: Flannelmouthed Liars” in The Coil

• Brandon Melendez's poem “Ode to My Unibrow” appears in the The Boiler

• Jennifer Jackson Berry's poems “A Co-Worker Says He Doesn’t Bother Hitting the Cat When It’s Bad Because She’s Too Fat to Feel It,” “Holy Tits, 08/12/1997,” and “During the Night, After the Day I Finally Saw Red Flags” are also in the latest issue of The Boiler

• Todd Dillard's “Interview with an Addict’s Son” is up at The Boiler

• April artist Lybra Ray shares, “I partnered up with Milwaukee County Transit System putting local artists artwork on bus shelters throughout the county. It’s been a really wild and exciting ride! So far we have 8 shelters up in 4 different neighborhoods. We’ve received over $15,000 in donations from people and the community at large has been hugely supportive of the project.” Also in July her art was on the cover of Kolaj Magazine, and Nov. 3 some of her art will appear in the CASA LA auction.

• July 2017 artist Sarah Walko tells us, “My work will be included in the invitational exhibition, 'Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Artists on Found Objects' at One Black Whisker Gallery in Erie, PA, Sept. 27-Oct. 19 2018, Opening Reception Sept. 27, 7pm-10pm.”

• Leah Sophia Dworkin published “Rules for Ultimate Bootcamp” in Berfois

• Darren C. Demaree has several poems from with an empathy so fatal in petrichor

• Flash reader sally burnette has an erasure of a C. Dale Young poem in petrichor

• Woody Evans' “Them Skulls” appears in *82 Review

• Marcelle Heath's story “James Monti” is up at matchbook

• Tanya Grae’s poem “Lethe” was selected for an Academy of American Poets prize and appears on Poets.org.

  • And “As Faithful as His Options” was published in Missouri Review

• Yael van der Wouden reviews Dana Mele’s People Like Us in for wildness

• Amorak Huey's poem (which you may have heard him read at our event at AWP in Tampa!) “Driving Home After Thanksgiving, We Learn that Ariana Grande Has Been Named Artist of the Year” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review

• Raven Leilani's piece “Dead Weight” appears in New England Review

• Chloe N. Clark's story “The Intimacy of Objects” is up at Jellyfish Review.

  • And her story “On the Point Between You and Infinity” appears in Okay Donkey:

• Ilana Masad reflects on Jill Lepore’s These Truths in her essay “America Doesn’t Have to Be Like This” at the Paris Review

• Katelyn Delvaux's poem “I Will Not Waste You” appears in Barren Magazine

• Lucie Britsch's story “Night Sharks” is up at Vol. 1 Brooklyn

• Lynn Mundell's story “Sister Wives at the County Fair” is up at SmokeLong Quarterly and “Smile, Lisa” appears in Monkeybicycle

• Alina Stefanescu's piece “Six Things You Can’t Give Up” was published in Gone Lawn

• Melissa Goode published “Empire of Light” in Gone Lawn

  • And her story “We Were Burning the Whole Time” appears in Hypertrophic Literary

• Meg Pokrass interviews Lynn Mundell at New Flash Fiction Review. Meg also published two stories recently:

  • “Bike Mechanic” in Spelk

  • “Buck Up, Duck” in Tupelo Quarterly

• Our very own EIC Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice's story “Unmentionables” was published in Paper Darts

• Jill Talbot's piece “Are Birds Birds?” is up at Rascal

• Devin Kelly published “Tell Me Today is the Day to Believe in Something” in Rascal

• Our editoral assistant Anna Vangala Jones published 3 stories:

  • “Mae and Me” in Catapult

  • “Blood Orange” in Gravel

  • “The Suitor” in New Flash Fiction Review

• Tatiana Ryckman interviews Deb Olin Unferth in Conflict of Interest

• Kara Vernor's story “Sacs” appears in Vol. 1 Brooklyn

  • And “How Not to Become an Expat” is up at New Flash Fiction Review

• Jim Warner published “Blind Melon Plays Decatur Celebration,” “Cars Keep Crashing into Couches” and “These are the Days of Licorice and Quicksand” in Hypertrophic Literary:

• Mike Nagel's essay “There’s Nothing to See Here” is up at Drunk Monkeys

• Our contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez published “What You Missed While I Was Watching Your Cat” in Third Point Press and “Minor Grievances” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Poetry contest judge Paige Lewis has a new poem, “On the Train a Man Snatches My Book, Reads,” in Gulf Coast and a review of Heather Derr-Smith’s Thrust in The Southeast Review

• Josh Denslow's story “One-Time Offer” is up at Bull

• Liz Howard published “A Man Once Held a Gun to My Mother’s Head” in Noble/Gas Quarterly

• Jessie Lynn McMains's poem “Sister, Mother, Cellar Woman” appears in Occulum

• Howie Good's poem “Where To?” also was published in Occulum

• Mark Galarrita published “How Can We Make Our Funded Program More Diverse Without Hiring More Faculty and Students of Color?” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• Sara Lippmann's story “There’s a Joke Here Somewhere and It’s On Me” is up at New Flash Fiction Review

• Jim Zola published “Two Photos” in formercactus

• Colin Winnette was interviewed in The Adroit Journal

• Megan Giddings' story “Desert Island Diet” appears in The Adroit Journal

• Hannah Craig published “Sure, Felicity” in The Journal:

• torrin a. greathouse's poem “Still Life of Central Valley with X-Files Rerun” appears in Palette Poetry

• Tommy Dean's story “Watch Them Glitter” is up at Ellipsis Zine

  • And “Throttling” appears in formercactus

Awards, Honors, and News

• Yael van der Wouden’s “On (Not) Reading Anne Frank” made the Notables list in Best American Essays 2018

• A number of FAM members have been nominated for Best of the Net, including:

  • torrin a. greathouse and Todd Dillard, Sundog Lit

  • Kristin Garth, Work to a calm

  • Kristine Langley Mahler, Shea Stripling, and Cathy Ulrich, Synaesthesia Magazine

  • Robert James Russell, The Coil

  • Devin Kelly, EcoTheo Review

  • Dorothy Chan, Bear Review

  • Anna Vangala Jones, The Brown Orient

  • Kristine Langley Mahler, Atlas and Alice

  • Mike Nagel, Spry Literary Journal

  • Meg Pokrass, Ilanot Review

  • Kathryn McMahon, Passages North and Lost Balloon

  • Robert James Russell, Little Fiction/Big Truths

  • Marie Baleo and Amorak Huey, Passages North

  • Martha Silano, Cincinnati Review

  • Jill Talbot and Marie Baleo, Pithead Chapel

• Kristin Garth has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Vessel Press

• Jon Chaiim McConnell’s silent short film The Hazards of Iris has been accepted in the experimental category of the Womens Independent Film Festival

• Meghan Phillips has been nominated for Best Microfiction 2018 by Passages North

• Megan Giddings made the Distinguished Stories list in this years’ Best American Short Stories collection

• James White appears in Best New British & Irish Poets 2018

• Olatunde Osinaike, James White and Willy Palomo are finalists for Best New Poets 2018

• Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint has won New Delta Review’s Matt Clark Editors’ Choice Prize for her piece “The Incubation of Liam Jin Tao”

• Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is also nonfiction judge for 2018 Best of the Net

• Alan Chazaro’s manuscript This is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album is a finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Black River Chapbook Competition.

• Hussain Ahmed’s manuscript Child Witch is a semifinalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Black River Chapbook Competition

• Pete Stevens’ manuscript We Did This To Ourselves is also a semifinalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Black River Chapbook Competition

• On 9/29 Alicia Cole’s book The Foragers: Electric Sheep Junior Novel launched at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center

  • Alicia also worked on Super Science Showcase - the trailer is out now

See you next month!