The Fam Roundup: April and May 2025
Summer is here at last! And that makes this the perfect time to appreciate all the incredible publications and news from our SLM FAM from the Spring! Here’s to another writing-filled season!
Publications, Interviews & Reviews
Former Social Media Director Rebecca Ackermann’s review of Vauhini Vara’s Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age was published in MIT Technology Review
Contributor and fiction reader Carly Alaimo’s flash “Mom Race” was published in Pithead Chapel
Memoir Reader Christina Berke memoir piece “Zuma” was published in The Sun Magazine
Contributor and former Assistant Flash Editor Lori Sambol Brody’s story “The Promposal” was published in Allegory EZine
Contributor Sasha Brown’s story “Hijinks Ensue” was published in Barrelhouse
His flash “Dungeon or Tower” was published in Wigleaf
Contributor Seán Carlson’s poem “Anger is a fishing trawler” was featured in Verse Daily
He recorded an excerpt of his essay “False Cognates” for the New England Review
He interviewed Stephen Brodsky for Motif Magazine
He interviewed Liz Pelly for Motif Magazine
His review of Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both was published in The Rumpus
Former Poetry Editor Marianne Chan’s poems “When I Was Your Age,” “Anniversary,” and “My Male Friends Tell Me” were published in Five Points Volume 23, No. 2
Contributor Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poem “Magnitude and Bond” was published in Poets.org
Contributor Chloe N. Clark’s flash “The Distance Measured in Astronomical Units” was published in Wigleaf
Contributor Tommy Dean’s flash “In The Dark, Only We Could Imagine” was published in Lost Balloon
Poetry editor CD Eskilson was interviewed about their debut collection Scream / Queen in Write or Die Magazine
Contributor Amorak Huey’s flash “My Other Girlfriend is a Corvette” was published in Trampset
Contributor Elisa Gabbert’s poem “The System” was published in The Common
Her poems “Life Poem 2” and “Caravaggesque” were published in Post Road
Contributor and former Contributing Editor Chris Gonzalez’s article “The LGBTQ+ Literary Resistance” was published in Poets & Writers Magazine
Assistant Flash Editor Sunwoo Jeong’s story “The Lexicon of Lethe” was published in Lightspeed
Her flash “The Perfect Fuss” was published in The Lit Nerds
Contributor Devin Kelly’s poem “There. I Did It. I Remembered Well.” was published in HAD
Contributor Abbie Kiefer was interviewed about her debut full-length collection Certain Shelter in The Maine Review
Contributor and flash reader Ani King's flash “Family Night” made it into Best Small Fictions 2025
Their flash “I'll Be Waiting” was published in Peatsmoke
Their flash “Peonies” was published in Wigleaf
Contributor A.C. Koch’s story “Contigo” was published in storySouth
Contributor Jill Kitchen’s poems “unearth” and “for my son” were published in Four Way Review
Her poem “Transfiguration” was published in the Spring 2025 issue of West Trade Review
Editor-in-chief Maureen Langloss’s flash “The Pink Lady, the Honeycrisp” was published in Wigleaf
Contributor Rachel León interviewed Sarah Schulman about “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity” for Chicago Review of Books
Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “The Rules of the Arrangement” was published in Tahoma Literary Review
Her flash “Real People” was published in Ghost Parachute
Former Fiction Editor Jon Chaiim McConnell’s story “Deep Fish” was published in Wallstrait
Contributor Richard Mirabella was interviewed on an episode of The Gaily Show
Poetry Editor Rita Mookerjee’s poem “Voicemail For Emily Dickinson” was chosen for The Offing Anthology
She has a piece in Surreal Confessional Anthology from Defunkt Magazine, which was edited by poetry reader Bleah Patterson
Her poem “Nocturne with Helium Balloons Lost on the Denver Airport Ceiling” is forthcoming in Rubbertop Review
Her poem “Nagini Confessional” was published in Redivider
Contributor Leslie Pietrzyk’s story “Who Here Likes These Cookies?” was published in the final issue of Arts & Letters
Her story “Nothing to See Here” was published in Issue 117 of The Greensboro Review
Contributor Brooke Randel was interviewed about her debut Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust for The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire
Contributor T. De Los Reyes’ stories “We Teach Each Other How to Stay,” Thief,” and “Curious about the abyss, we tried to give it our heart” were published in Waxwing
Our recently passed contributor Martha Silano’s poem “Self-Elegies” was published in Poetry
Contributor Amber Sparks was interviewed about her debut novel Happy People Don’t Live Here in People
Contributor Brett Stuckel’s poem “Play Time” was published in Magnets and Ladders
Poetry reader Teri Vela has a piece in Surreal Confessional Anthology from Defunkt Magazine
Assistant Fiction Editor Analía Villagra’s story “The Lady of the Garden” was published in the Spring 2025 Issue of Ploughshares
Contributor Casey Mulligan Walsh was interviewed about her memoir The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared in Literary Mama
Poetry reader Allya Yourishl’s flash “She is Crying” was published in Hippocampus Magazine
Awards, Honors & News
Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s piece “Love is the Enemy” was longlisted for the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize
Contributor Ina Carino’s poem “What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?” won the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award with the Poetry Society of America
Contributor K-Ming Chang will be the fiction judge for Ninth Letter’s 2025 Literary Awards
Contributor Michael Chang’s chapbook PONY EXPRESS was shortlisted for the 2025 New Delta Review Chapbook Competition
Memoir Reader Michael Todd Cohen was awarded the Lilac Fellowship for Environmental and Social Justice
Flash reader Robin Van Impe’s flash “Whale-Boy” was named an honorable mention for the CRAFT Flash Prose Prize judged by contributor Meg Pokrass
Contributor Raven Leilani was named one of the 2025–2026 Fellows of the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Contributor Andy Lopez was named one of Adroit Journal’s 2025 Djanikian Scholars
Former Flash Contest Judge Bryan Washington judged the 2025 Harvard Advocate Louis Begley Prize
Contributor Max Pasakorn’s chapbook disappearing acts was shortlisted for the 2025 New Delta Review Chapbook Competition
Contributor Tyler Raso was named one of The Adroit Journal’s 2025 Djanikian Scholars
Their poem “Search Engine” was published in The Adroit Journal
Their poem “gay. mean dad. hard for me.” was published in Ninth Letter Volume 21, Issue 02
Contributor and Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s Sad Grownups won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Her story “Swans” was published in Short Story, Long
Books & Anthologies
Contributor Jason B. Crawford’s book YEET! is forthcoming in October from Omnidawn
Contributor Scott Garson has a creative nonfiction flash in The Past Ten: An Anthology
Contributor Sara Lippmann edited the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, which was published by Excelsior Editions
Her story “The Last Survivor Dance” was published in Eckleburg no. 22
Memoir reader Karina Manta has an essay in the anthology Athlete Is Agender: True Stories of LGBTQ+ People in Sports published by Christy Ottaviano Books
Contributor Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay collection Abbreviate was published by Small Harbor Publishing
She was interviewed in Sweet Lit
Her poems “In the Natural History Museum” and “Mollusk” were published in Split Rock Review
Her essay “It Takes Nerve: Unlearning the Ableist Writing Workshop” was published The Writer’s Chronicle
Contributor Erin Slaughter’s memoir The Dead Dad Diaries is forthcoming from Autofocus
Contributor Alina Stefanescu’s new collection My Heresies was published by Sarabande Books
Her poems “Bear at Bǎneasa” and “The First Carcass Is a Marital Milestone” were published in BOMB