THE FAM ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2025

The Split Lip FAM’s work over the past two months has been sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always important. Take a moment to enjoy this batch of good news and great publications from our community. Congratulations to the FAM on all these incredible accomplishments!

Publications, Interviews, & Reviews

• Contributor James ‪Tadd Adcox’s flash “A Haunting” was published in Ergot 

• Contributor and fiction reader Vincent Anioke’s essay “Call of the Void” was published in the latest issue of Event Magazine 

• He also published a review of It All Felt Impossible by Tom McAllister in Smokelong Quarterly

• Contributor Sudha Balagopal’s story “He'll Take Good Care of Her” was published in Doric Literary

• Contributor Seán Carlson’s flash “Bus to Ballybunion” was published in the winter/spring 2025 issue of Trasna

• Contributor Cavar was interviewed about their debut novel Failure to Comply in Honey Literary

• Former poetry contest judge Chen Chen’s poem “Summer,” first published in Poetry Magazine, was Poetry Foundation’s February 13th Poem of the Day 

• Contributor Samantha Xiao Cody’s story “Blood Makes a Bad Dye” was published in Electric Lit 

• Contributor and Assistant Flash Editor Emily Costa’s story “Cryptid Summer” was published in Pool Party 

• Flash reader Christina D’Antoni was published in Rose Books Reader Volume 1 - Primal Scream 

• Contributor Darren C. Demaree’s poem “Emily as We Look in the Mirror and See Ourselves” was published in the Fall/Winter 2024 Print Issue of Schuylkill Valley Journal

• Contributor Josh Denslow’s story “Court of Common Pleas” was published in Terrazzo Magazine 

• Contributor ‪Tommy Dean’s flash “Already Echoing” was published in South Florida Poetry Journal

• Contributor Kate Doyle’s story “Try Hard” was published in Terrazzo Magazine  

• Poetry Editor CD Eskilson was interviewed about their recently published debut Scream / Queen in Electric Lit 

• They were also interviewed in Poetry Northwest

• Contributor Kathy Fish‬ was a guest on an episode of The Drunken Odyssey podcast 

• Flash Editor Erica Frederick was published in midnight & indigo: Twenty-One Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 12) 

• Contributor Scott Garson’s flash “Tell Me What It Is”was published in New World Writing  

• Contributor Kate Gehan’s flash “Everything According to Plan in the Peaceable Kingdom” was published in Stanchion

• Contributor ‪Hannah Grieco’s essay “Every six months or so” was published in The Offing  

• Contributor Dave Housley’s story “Nothing Can Stop What is Coming” was published in Identity Theory

• Contributor Vanessa Hua’s article “Birthright citizenship, past and present” was published in The San Francisco Chronicle

• Contributor Amorak Huey’s flash “Backstory” was published in Bright Flash Literary Review 

• His flash “Premonition” was published in JAKE 

• Flash reader Robin Van Impe was named an honorable mention for the CRAFT Flash Prose Prize   judged by contributor Meg Pokrass

• Former Editorial Assistant Anna Vangala Jones’s flash “The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid”  was published in HAD

• Contributor Jill Kitchen’s poem “Shedding” was published in Rogue Agent Journal

• Contributor Abbie Kiefer was a guest on Keep the Channel Open Episode 159: Abbie Kiefer 

• Contributor and flash reader Ani King’s flash pieces “Delinquent,” “Instead, You Raised a Fire,” and “Flick” were published in Flash Boulevard 

• Their flash “This Used To Be A Story About A Raccoon But Now It’s An Obituary” was published in Gooseberry Pie  

• Their flash “Nervous Thing” was published in Pithead Chapel  

• Contributor Parker Logan’s poem “Kissing in America” was published in Variant Literature

• Contributor Kim Magowan’s story “Ontkommer” was published in Aquifer 

• Her poem “Dried Up” was published in Cutleaf Journal 

• Her poem “The Rules of the Arrangement” was published Tahoma Literary Review

• Contributor Ilana Masad published a review of Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance for The Washington Post

• Contributor Claudia Monpere’s flash “Quantum Sight” was published in Flash Frog

• Her flash “The Touch Forecast” was named a Fractured Lit 2024 Flash Fiction Open Contest Finalist 

• Contributor Rachel Mans McKenny‬’s flash “Presidential Fitness” was published in Electric Lit 

• Contributor Ucheoma Onwutuebe’s story “Where Are You and Where Is My Money?” was published in A Public Space  

• Contributor nat raum’s nonfiction flash “gender indifferent” was published in JAKE 

• Poetry reader Mack Rogers was interviewed about his debut chapbook Hindsight in Diode Editions 

• Contributor Martha Silano’s poems are now available on Poets.org 

• Contributor Brett Stuckel’s poem “The Freezer is the Microwave” was published in Libre

• Contributor Kristina Ten’s story “What We Don’t Know About Angels” was published in Lightspeed 

• Contributor Casey Mulligan Walsh was interviewed in WNYT about her recent memoir The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared 

• Poetry reader Allya Yourish’s poem “Desert Hedonism” was published in Ecotone 

Books 

• Contributor Hannah Grieco’s debut collection First Kicking, Then Not is forthcoming Aug 12, 2025, from Stanchion

• Contributor Amorak Huey’s fifth full-length poetry collection ‪Mouth is forthcoming in January 2026 from Cornerstone Press

• Contributor Sara Lippmann is coming out with a new novel Hidden River and a re-releasing of her collection Jerks with Tortoise Books

• Contributors Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross’ story collection Don't Take this the Wrong Way was released on March 11 from EastOver Press

• Contributor Ilana Masad wrote a new introduction for a new edition of Dawn Powell’s She Walks in Beauty, forthcoming from Belt Publishing on June 17, 2025 

• Contributor Adrienne Novy’s book good luck in the real world is forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Button Poetry 

• Contributor Amber Sparks’ new book Happy People Don’t Live Here is forthcoming on October 14, 2025 from Liveright

• Contributor Brandon Taylor’s new novel Minor Black Figures is forthcoming on Oct 07, 2025 from Riverhead Books

• Contributor Kristina Ten’s debut collection Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is forthcoming October 25th, 2025 from StillHouse Press

• Contributor Alejandro Varela’s novel Middle Spoon is forthcoming on September 9, 2025 from Viking Books

Awards, Honors, & News 

• Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett’s book Thanks for this Riot was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection 

• Contributor Jean-Luc Bouchard will be joining the English Department at Washington and Lee University as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in July 2025

• Contributor KB Brookins won the Dorothy Allison / Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award 

• Contributor Venita Blackburn’s debut novel Dead in Long Beach, California is a finalist, short-listed for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 

• Contributor Tommy Dean is now an associate agent with Rose Cliff Literary 

• Contributor Christina Cooke was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Poets & Writers Fellowship  

• Contributor Elisa Gabbert is the nonfiction judge for Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest 

• InteR/e/views Editor Daniel Garcia was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center VSC Fellowship 

• Flash Editor Amy Stuber’s book Sad Grownups is a finalist, short-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection