The Fam Roundup: July 2019

August 5, 2019

We may have been on hiatus for the past month, but our contributors and editors sure haven't! Catch up what they've up to and catch up on their Split Lp work in our archives:

Books!

Check out the cover for Brandon Taylor's book Real Life
Cathy Ulrich's book Ghosts of You is available for pre-order now!
Kim Magowan’s novel The Light Source is now available

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

Alina Stefanescu published “The Poem, Afraid,” “Aubade with Def Leppard” and “The Mother Test No One Talks About” in Burning House Press.
Assistant flash editor Amy Stuber has published several pieces recently:
- “Corvids and Their Allies” in TriQuarterly
- “Margaret Atwood in Paradise” in Fiction Southeast
- “The Clean” in Hobart
Beth Gilstrap-Barnes was interviewed in New Flash Fiction Review. Beth also published “Still Soft, Still Whole” in Menacing Hedge.
Cathy Ulrich published several stories recently:
- “A Girl Detective Decides” in Pigeon Pages NYC
- “Being the Murdered Chanteuse” in Orange Blossom Review
- “The Hollow Where His Heart Would Be” in Forge Literary Magazine
- “Other Women: Three Flash Fictions” in Last Exit:
Charnell Peters published “Someone Should Tell You Where You Are Going” in Foundry
Chelsea Biondolillo’s book The Skinned Bird was reviewed in Diagram:
Chloe N. Clark published “Like Acheron But Not” in Vegetarian Alcoholic Press and “Litany” in Last Exit
- And Chloe's book Your Strange Fortune was reviewed in Cleaver by K.C. Mead-Brewer
Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez's story “Ordering Fries at Happy Hour” appears in Okay Donkey
Christopher James' story “Ink” is up at Queen Mob’s Teahouse
D.B. Miller published “When Fast Didn’t Matter: The Lausanne Typewriter Museum” in Litro
Darren C. Demaree's poem “[her body]” appears in Honey & Lime
Elisabeth Horan published “Out Here in the Void” in Rhythm & Bones
Ellie Black's poems “Taxonomy of the Ex-Lover,” “Addressing the Conspiracy in which Disney Has Killed Lindsay Lohan’s Twin Sister from The Parent Trap, Or, Oh Lindsay Lohan We Love You Give Up” and “Ultraviolet (Interview with Tonya Harding)” were published in Diagram
Erin Slaughter published “from Gulf Epistolary” in Black Warrior Review
Reader Eshani Surya's story “Protective Instinct” appears in Paper Darts
Harrison Geosits published “Three Filipinas” in Cincinnati Review
Helen McClory's story “Il Uomo Morto” is up at Jellyfish Review
Henry Goldkamp's poems “Quintuple Bullshit Sonnet for Mawmaws Dialysis of Her Kidney” and “The Lurch of Saturday Aints” appear in Diagram
Ivelisse Rodriguez is featured in Apparel for Authors
JJ Peña's story “the summer heat feels just like love” appears in Into the Void:
Josh Denslow's story “The End” is up at Hobart
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach published “Keloid Scar” in the Mississippi Review
K.C. Mead-Brewer's story “The Sweethearts” is up at Pidgeonholes
Reader Karie Fugett's essay “My Secret Life as the World’s Worst Professional Matchmaker” appears in Narratively
Kathryn McMahon's story “Hurled at the Night” was the winner of Press 53's quarterly flash contest
- Kathryn's piece “Take My Hand for the Wild Hunt” also appears in Black Warrior Review:
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross published “Abuse and Other Words My Mother and I Disagree About” in New World Writing and “Spores” in Barren Magazine
Kristin Garth published “Captives” in Picaroon Poetry and “The Legend of Were Mer” was reviewed in Coffin Bell
Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “Two Truths and a Lie” appears in Ninth Letter
Lynn Mundell published “Octavio” in Atlas and Alice
Marcos Gonsalez published “Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare” in Literary Hub
Marvin Shackelford published “Banshee/Doppelganger” in Last Exit and "Pneuma” in The Sunlight Press
Matthew Stephen Sirois' story “The Tire Swing Incident” appears in Hobart
Meg Pokrass published several pieces recently:
- “Here We Are on Planet Earth” in Brilliant Flash Fiction
- “Little Duckies” in Atticus Review
- “Puppy Breath” in Vox Populi
Megan Giddings was interviewed at Indiana Review - their flash contest, which Megan is judging, ends 8/15
Melissa Ragsly published several pieces recently:
- “All You’ve Heard is True” in Jellyfish Review
- “My First Car: ‘86 Powder Blue Hyundai Named Carolyn” in Hobart
- “Seed” in Pidgeonholes
- “Two” in Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Michael Meyerhofer published “Another Anniversary” in Diagram
Assistant editor Michele Finn Johnson published “In Twenty-Three Days, He’ll Be Gone” Booth
Michelle Ross published “Deposition” in Milk Candy Review and “Dwellings” in New Flash Fiction Review
Reader Nick Farriella's story “Remain to Open It, Without Naming It” in Joyland
Rachel Mans McKenny's piece “Memorials to Those We Have Lost to Parenting” is up at McSweeney’s
Raven Leilani's story “Hard Water” appears in Cosmonauts Avenue
Sara Lippman's story “Rabbi Tales” was published in Berfrois
Sean Lovelace published “A Brief Consideration of Exaqua (N Zong!,) by Jan-Henry Gray” in Diagram
Shasta Grant and Anne Rasmussen's story “Grapevine” appears in Little Fiction
Timea Balogh appears on episode 59 of Ryan Lane’s Sunday Folk / Vasárnapi Nép podcast
- Timea also translated five of Kornélia Deres’ poems for Asymptote and Márton Simon’s “The Theory of Sinking” for Palette Poetry
Todd Dillard published “Newly Wed in the Dominican Republic” in Barren Magazine
Tommy Dean interviewed Joel Mowdy for The Rumpus and Kate Finegan for The Town Crier
Tyler Barton published “Spit if You Call It Fear” in Cream City Review
Zach VandeZande's story “Dad” is up at Milk Candy Review

Awards, Honors, and News

Leesa Cross-Smith is judging Pithead Chapel’s Larry Brown Short Story Award, deadline 10/31.
Sherrie Flick is a new co-editor for the FLASH FICTION AMERICA anthology
Cathy Ulrich was nominated for BEST OF THE NET by Parentheses Journal
Reader Mercedes Lucero was nominated for BEST OF THE NET by Jellyfish Review
Rebecca Kokitus was nominated for BEST OF THE NET by Pink Plastic House