The Fam Roundup: September 2022
It's time for changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and celebrating all of the exciting things our Split Lip Fam has been up to!
Books
Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay collection, Halfway From Home, is currently available for preorder
Talia Tucker’s debut book, “Rules For Rule Breaking,” will be published by Kokila in 2024
Publications, Interviews, and Reviews
Maria Poulatha’s piece, “I’m Glad We Didn’t Go for Italian,” was published in Rejection Letters
T. De Los Reyes’s piece, “The Shape of Rapture,” was published in HAD
Beth Gilstrap’s piece, “Russia is Threatening Nuclear War Again and All I Can Think About is Frank O’Hara,” was published by Mason Street Review
Ra’Niqua Lee’s piece, “Your Next Girlfriend has PCOS,” was published in Indiana Review
Kim Magowan’s piece, “Favor,” was published in Cleaver Magazine
Sabrina Hicks’s piece, “Farrago,” was published in Flash Frog
Print issue contributor Raven Leilani’s piece, “Eulogy for Racehorses,” was published in Astra Mag
Maria Poulatha’s piece, “The Uncrossing,” was published in Necessary Fiction
Excerpts from her forthcoming Split Lip Press essay collection HALFWAY FROM HOME appeared in New England Review and The Normal School
Her essay, “Stomp,” was published in DIAGRAM
Her short story “The Pleasure of My Company” appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review
Her poem “Shadowbox” appeared in DIALOGIST
Her craft essay “Finding Time: Writing Your Book in a Busy World” appeared in Women Writers, Women’s Books
An interview about writing lyric essays and her forthcoming book appeared in New England Review
Anna Cabe’s piece, “But I Had Always Been a Bad Comrade,” was published in Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Against Forgetting collection
Print issue contributor Ariel Francisco’s translation of Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes is out with Spuyten Duyvil
Kim Magowan’s piece, “Noelle Strodemeyer Sucks,” was published in Literary Mama
Jason B. Crawford’s piece, “translations of an ancient text,” was published in The Maine Review
Deesha Philyaw’s piece, “Concerning the Sea Stars,” was published in Aster(ix) Journal
Diane Gottlieb’s piece, “21 Allen Drive,” was published in SmokeLong Quarterly
C. R. Foster’s piece, “The Benefactor,” was published in Catapult
Sudha Balagopal’s piece, “Summer of ’76,” was published in The Maine Review
Assistant Poetry Reader Carson Sandell’s piece, “Yearbook Pantoum,” was published in Defunkt
Rachel Mans McKenny’s piece, “We Are a Picturesque Small Town and We Refuse To Be the Setting For Your Romantic Comedy,” was published in McSweeney’s
SG Huerta’s piece, “When your grieving anthem becomes your transitioning anthem,” was published in en*gendered
Mandana Chaffa interviewed Elisa Gabbert for Chicago Review
Elisa Gabbert’s poem, “Moon News.”, was published in LitHub
A.C. Koch’s piece, “My Fire Still Burns,” was published in Atlas and Alice
Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “You Are a Plummeting,” was published in Splonk
Cathy Ulrich’s piece, “The Light Without,” was published in Beaver Magazine
Lynn Mundell’s piece, “The Loved Ones Who Haunt You in Technicolor Still,” was published in Citron Review
Todd Dillard’s piece, “Autumn,” was published in The Offing
Amber Sparks’s piece, “The Final Girl as a Middle-Aged Woman,” was published in CRAFT
Kristina Ten’s piece, “The Queen of the Earless Seals of Lake Baikal,” was published in Lightspeed Magazine
Maria Poulatha’s piece, “Flex,” was published in CHEAP POP
Ra’Niqua Lee’s piece, “Hyphemata, or Seeing Underwater Above,” was published in Uncharted Magazine
Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett’s piece, “He Ain’t Heavy,” was published in SmokeLong Quarterly
Poetry Reader and Contributor Steven Espada Dawson was interviewed by Sophia Liu for Surging Tide
Chen Chen has 2 poems in Platypus Press’ Wildness
Former Poetry Editor William Fargason and Sara Elkamel have poems in Sundog Lit
Steve Edwards’s piece, “Luminescence,” was published in The Sun
Vi Khi Nao’s piece, “Patriarchy,” was published in Honey Literary
Chris Gonzalez and Kate Pincus-Whitney’s piece, “Loose Strands,” was published in 7x7
Meg Pokrass’s piece, “Hairdressing for the stars,” was published in Emerge Literary Journal
Lori Sambol Brody’s piece, “Your Fortunes,” was published in CUTBOW Quarterly
Sara Elkamel’s piece, “Lake Qarun,” was published in Sundog Lit
Awards, Honors, and News
Poetry Reader Raina K. Puels was nominated for 2022 Best of the Net by FIVES: A Companion to Denver Quarterly for “Stain”
Flash Fiction Editor Megin Jimenez is a finalist in the Noemi Press Book Awards
T. De Los Reyes was selected by Bull City Press for “Small Gestures”
Happy Pub Day to print issue contributor Gaia Rajan’s chapbook “Killing It” with Black Lawrence Press
Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” is on the shortlist for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
K. Iver’s “Short Film” with Milkweed is available for pre-order
Steven Espada Dawson, Sara Elkamel, and Gaia Rajan are all 2022 Best New Poets finalists and will be featured in the anthology
Assistant Fiction Editor Molia Dumbleton was a finalist for the 2022 Hudson Prize
Taylor Byas is an editor for “Poemhood: Our Black Revival,” a YA anthology that celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture
Print issue contributor Troy Osaki is a 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow
Ellen Rhudy’s collection ESCAPE VELOCITY was a runner-up for the Boa Editions Short Fiction Prize
Print issue contributor Alejandro Varela made the National Book Awards Longlist for “The Town of Babylon”
Megan Giddings was on Late Night with Seth Meyers on September 13th
Happy Pub Day to Marcelle Heath for “Is That All There Is?” with AWST Press
Happy Pub Day to Chen Chen for “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency” with BOA Editions
David Byron Queen started a new mag, word west review
JJ Peña was nominated by Fractured Lit for “mi corazón quiere cantar así” for Best of the Net
Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett is a 2021 Pamet River Prize finalist with YesYes Books
Deesha Philyaw is a co-creator of #LIT16, a quarterly reading series
Print contributor Hussain Ahmed is the winner of the 2022 Orison Poetry Prize