The Fam Roundup: September 2021
The #SplitLipFAM is having a great autumn so far! Check out these publications and accomplishments from our contributors and staff.
Books
Megan Giddings has work in the forthcoming The Lonely Stories anthology from Catapult
Jason B. Crawford’s chapbook Good Boi is now available for pre-order from Neon Hemlock
Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia, former contributing editor Tyrese Coleman, and contributors Davon Loeb and Steve Edwards have work in the A Harp in the Stars anthology from University of Nebraska Press
Deesha Philyaw and SJ Sindu have work in the forthcoming Nonwhite and Woman anthology from Woodhall Press
Alejandro Varela’s novel The Town of Babylon is now available for pre-order
Hussain Ahmed’s collection Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile is forthcoming from Black Ocean
Mike Nagel’s book Duplex is forthcoming from Autofocus
Hannah Grieco edited the forthcoming collection And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, featuring work by contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer and contributor Meg Pokrass
Gaia Rajan’s Killing It was the winner of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press and will be published in 2022
Former reader Janelle Williams’ novel Gone Like Yesterday is forthcoming from Tiny Reparations Books
Former reader Jules Archer’s novel Sing You Home is now available
Aurielle Marie’s collection Gumbo Ya Ya is now available from University of Pittsburgh Press
Former flash contest judge Juan Martinez has work in the forthcoming Small Odysseys anthology from Workman
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Beth Gilstrap’s story “A Little Arrhythmic Blip” was published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
She answered “One Question” for Hypertext Magazine
She recommended “5 Linked Story Collections Written By Women” for Big Indie Books
Assistant fiction editor Janelle Bassett’s story “Don’t Get Down On Me” found a home in Pithead Chapel
SmokeLong Quarterly published her story “The Wait for the Whoosh”
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poem “On Reproduction” won the 2021 Academy of American Poets’ University & College Poetry Prize for the University of Cincinnati
Poetry published her pieces “Painting Biddle City,” “My Therapist Talks About Biddle City,” and “Love Song for Ayumi”
Flash reader Tammy Heejae Lee’s story “Baedal” was published in Sundog Lit
Cathy Ulrich’s pieces “Your Girlfriend as a Murder-Suicide” and “Being the Murdered Stranger” appeared in hush: a journal of noise
She has work in the latest print issue of Puerto del Sol, along with K. Iver and poetry editor William Fargason
Alina Stefanescu appeared on an episode of the Beyond the Zero podcast
Platform Review published her piece “Environmental Impact Statement for [a body of] water”
Former reader Christopher Louis Romaguera’s essay “Searching for a Piece of Home in Havana” was published in Catapult
Venita Blackburn’s collection How to Wrestle a Girl was reviewed in The New York Times
Former contributing editor Tyrese Coleman interviewed her for Electric Lit
Lynn Mundell’s story “Lucky Elephant” found a home in The Masters Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross appeared on an episode of the Colorado Review podcast
Their story “Sun Spots” was published in Fictive Dream
Kim’s story “Tuesday Night Book Club” appeared in Nurture
Co-flash editor Eshani Surya’s essay “Language Acquisition” was published in jmww
Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s piece “Flash Diagnosis: Illness as Craft” appeared in Brevity
SmokeLong Quarterly published her story “Hide”
Little Engines published Mike Nagel’s piece “Teeth”
Brandon Taylor reviewed Sally Rooney’s latest novel for The New York Times
Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed him and reviewed his collection
He appeared on an episode of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute
He was profiled in Cero Magazine
The Yale Review published his story “Colonial Conditions”
Chloe N. Clark’s poem “Yesterday I realized I wouldn’t die” was published in Moist Poetry Journal
Khôra published her story “The Waves Hear Every Promise You’ve Made”
CRAFT published her flash “Buoyancy”
Francisco Martínezcuello’s piece “One More Betrayal” was published in The Line
Zach VandeZande’s piece “Appetite” was published in No Contact
Poetry reader Stella Lei’s piece “Dissections” was published in Whale Road Review
The Winnow published Stella’s piece “Hauntology as Weekly Chores”
The Rumpus published memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc’s essay “On Baby Fever”
Hannah Grieco’s piece “Puffy Little Pink Heart” found a home in Okay Donkey
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine published her story “Just a Shot Away”
Rejection Letters published her story “It Comes Down to Fate”
Christopher Allen’s story “Otters at the Zoo” appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Elizabeth Gonzalez James appeared on an episode of the DIYMFA podcast
Gaia Rajan’s poem “Ghost Town, Ohio” was published in Kenyon Review
Poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson’s poem “There’s a Donut Shop in Ojai, California” was published in The Boiler
Flash reader Star Su’s story “Kun” found a home in Porter House Review
K.C. Mead-Brewer’s flash “Naked at Last” appeared in HAD
Expat Press published Claire Hopple’s piece “You Can Renew Your Vows at Chuck E. Cheese Anytime You Like”
Fiction reader Ra’Niqua Lee’s micro “Roadside Assistance” was published in Fractured Lit
Lost Balloon published John Carr Walker’s flash “Sally About Town”
Kathy Fish’s Wild Life appeared in Electric Lit’s “7 Flash Fiction Collections You Should Be Reading”
Aruni Kashyap’s essay “What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State” appeared in Literary Hub
Twelve Winters published Dylan Brie Ducey’s story “The Bride in the Rowboat”
Former contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez’s collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat received a starred review from Publishers Weekly
Poetry editor William Fargason’s poems “When the Cop Tell Us” and “Elegy for Another Late-Night Phone Call” appeared in The Boiler
The Los Angeles Review published his poem “Elegy with Arrows”
The Boiler published former reader Jessica Q. Stark’s poems “New World Ghost Story,” “The One in Which the Wolf Wins,” and “Little Red Riding Hood”
Social media/marketing director Becky Robison had a poem published in the lickety~split
Meg Pokrass and Rosie Garland’s story “Black Dashboard Horse” was published in The Citron Review
The Citron Review published Sudha Balagopal’s story “Frozen Biryani”
Jeremy Radin’s piece “Intensive Outpatient” appeared in the recent print issue of The Sun Magazine
MoonPark Review published Scott Garson’s piece “Canvas”
Vincent Anioke’s story “Ogbuefi” found a home in adda
Inter/e/views editor Daniel Garcia’s piece “Cartography” was published in Kenyon Review
Contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer’s flash “I Lost a Bet and Now This Story is Called Love is Feudal” was published in HAD
Verse Daily published Amorak Huey’s poem “Fairy Tale”
Amorak’s poem “Watching Wandavision and Feeling Sorry for Myself” was published in HAD
Elle published Rachel Mans McKenny’s piece “For The Love of God: Let Fictional Characters Go to Church And Have Sex”
Abigail Oswald’s story “The Following” found a home in Midnight Breakfast
HAD published Dorothy Chan’s poem “Triple Sonnet for Veronica Lodge’s Tigers”
Marvin Shackelford’s pieces “Drawback,” “The Deep Threatened” and “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail” were published in Posit
Awards, Honors, and News
Former poetry editor Marianne Chan is now assistant poetry editor at Acre Books
Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood was named a 2021 Michigan Notable Book
Hussain Ahmed was a semifinalist for the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Dantiel W. Moniz and Mary South received 2021 MacDowell fellowships
Gina Chung is now represented by Danielle Bukowski of Sterling Lord Lit
Elizabeth Gonzalez James is now interviews editor at The Rumpus
Poetry reader Steven Espada Dawson and Simon Shieh are 2021 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows at the Poetry Foundation
Leesa Cross-Smith’s novel This Close to Okay is nominated for Book of the Year at Book of the Month
Threa Almontaser and Jakob Guanzon have been nominated for the National Book Award in poetry and fiction, respectively
Dantiel W. Moniz is a 2021 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree
Poetry reader Nicole Markert is now poetry editor for Rathalla Review
Ivelisse Rodriguez is guest-editing a special issue of Kweli Journal about African ancestry in the Latinx community