The Fam Roundup: September 2023

The Split Lip fam had a busy September! We are so proud of everyone’s accomplishments. It’s a joy to share them with the world! 

Books

• Fiction editor Janelle Bassett won the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize for her short story collection, Thanks for the Riot, which the University of Nebraska Press will publish in 2024 

• Memoir contributor Deesha Philyaw sold her novel, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, AND her short story collection, Girl, Look, to Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, in a seven figure deal!

• Poetry reader T. De Los Reyes’ chapbook, And Yet Held, is forthcoming in February 2024 from Bull City Press

• Poetry reader Vincente Perez’s debut poetry chapbook, Other Stories to Tell Ourselves, is available for pre-order from Newfound

• Poetry editor Rita Mookerjee’s forthcoming poetry collection, False Offering, is available for pre-order 

• Assistant poetry editor CD Eskilson’s debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, will be published by Acre Books in 2025

• Claire Rudy Foster’s debut novel, The Rain Artist, is available for pre-order from Moonstruck Books

• Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. poetry collection, Resting Bitch Face, is coming from Soft Skull in 2025

• A new story collection co-written by Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, has found a home with EastOver Press

• Assistant fiction editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s book, For What Ails You, is now available for pre order from Emerge Journal

• Poetry reader Saba Keramati’s collection Self-Mythology will be published by the University of Arkansas Press

• Chloe N. Clark’s collection, Every Galaxy Is a Circle, will be published by Jackleg Press

• jason b. crawford’s second collection will be published by Omnidawn

• Poetry reader Emily Perkovich’s visual/poetry hybrid chapbook, Manipulate Me, Babe—I Trust You, is out now

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Matthew Tuckner’s poem appears in the latest issue of North American Review

• Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poem “It’s Important I Remember That Abraham Lincoln Always Measured Before He Cut—” appeared in the New England Review

• Issue 81 SmokeLong Quarterly included work by Flash editor Amy Stuber and Assistant print issue editor j.j. pena

• Flash reader Jonathan Cardew has a cli-fi flash, “the last synod of st. hilda,” in the latest issue of trampset

• Flash reader J.L. Moultrie’s flash “Frailty” was published in RIC Journal

• Gaia Rajan’s poem “Essay on Class” appeared in Frontier Poetry

• Social media co-director SG Huerta has a flash essay in Bodega Magazine

• Flash reader Dawn Miller’s piece, “Counting Stones,” was published by Fictive Dream

• Fiction reader Tina Zhu’s flash, “Stingy, Three Ways” was published by Sundog Lit

• The Fall issue of the Kenyon Review included pieces by Social media co-director Rebecca Ackermann, Memoir editor Krys Malcolm Belc, and contributors KB Brookins and Jean-Luc Bouchard

• SLM former Contributing editor and contributor Chris Gonzalez spoke with Countries of Origin author Javier Fuentes for Electric Literature

• Dorothy Chan has new poems in Sweet Literary

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s story “Leap” appeared in Necessary Fiction

• Monkeybicycle published “If I Knew You Better, I'd Apologize,” new fiction by Tommy Dean

• Justin Janniese has a poem in the new issue of the Yale Review

• Cathy Ulrich has a new story in Roi Fainéant Press

• The latest issue of swamp pink features flash by Kathy Fish and poems by Joshua Garcia 

• Kathy Fish also has new work in the first issue of Ette Review

• Gabrielle Griffis has a new story, Mold Culture, in Flash Frog

• Anna Vangala Jones, former member of the fiction team, has a story in Short Story, Long

• Kim Macgowan has a new story in HAD

• Poetry reader Quinn Rennerfeldt has two poems in the new issue of New American Writing

• Scott Garson’s story “Body” appeared in Moon Park Review

• Social media co-director Rebecca Ackermann published two essays in Literary Hub 

• Sabrina Hicks has a new piece, “Twenty Minutes,” in Sugar Sugar Salt 

• Brandon Taylor has a new story at Joyland

• The new issue of Gone Lawn includes work by Cathy Ulrich and Scott Garson

• Memoir reader Ashley Anderson has an article on grief and memoir in the fall issue of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

Awards, Honors, & News

• Managing editor Wendy Oleson was a finalist for Peatsmoke Journal’s Summer Contest in Fiction 

• Diane Gottleib’s essay “Suspended in Flight” was a finalist for The Florida Review’s 2023 Editors Prize

• Poetry reader Jessica Nirvana Ram is now the Director of Sticky Fingers at Honey Literary

• She was also awarded the the Jane Geske Award by the Prairie Schooner

• Memoir reader Camille U. Adams’s memoir How to Be UnMothered: A Trini Memoir was a finalist in Restless Books’ Prize for New Immigrant Writing

• Farah Ali is the founder and fiction editor of LAKEER, a new literary magazine of Pakistani writing, which published their first issue

• Sarah Elkamel is the winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry from Michigan Quarterly Review

• Fiction reader and contributor Vincent Anioke licensed one of the stories from his upcoming collection for a film to be produced by Kosa Akaraiwe next spring

• Casey Mulligan Walsh’s memoir, The Full Catastrophe, was selected as a finalist for the Aurora Polaris Prize by Trio House Press

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery has an essay listed as notable in Best American Essays 2022

• antmen pimentel mendoza’s poem in SLM, “Self-Portrait in a Canadian Tuxedo on the Road to St. George, Utah,” is going to be included in Best New Poets 2023. 

• Dennison Ty Schultz and Matthew Tuckner were also finalists for Best New Poets