The FAM Newsletter: November 2017

It's been a busy November for the Split Lip FAM! Catch up on what all our contributors have been up to, and don't forget to revisit their work in the Split Lip archive:

Contests

• Split Lip Press’ Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest launched November 1st. Deadline January 15th, 2018.

Books

• Erin Dorney’s book of poetry will be published by Mason Jar Press in 2018.

• Devin Kelly’s book In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen is out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms.

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​

• Michael Schmeltzer's poem “In the City of No Children” appears in  Moira.

• Amorak Huey poem “The Petals on the Ornamental Pear Tree in the Neighbor’s Yard Smell Like Death” is up at Moira.

• Tyler Barton’s story “The Orbit of Us” won the Arcturus Award for Fiction.

• Cathy Ulrich published several stories this month:

  •  “All the Love Songs are Really About Broken Hearts” in Synaesthesia Magazine 

  • “Girl in Pieces” in formercactus

  • “This Place Will Never Keep You” in WhiskeyPaper

• Leesa Cross-Smith published two essays:

  • “Ain’t Half Bad” in Oxford American

  • "To Look for America: A Road Trip, A Soundtrack” in The Rumpus

• Mike Nagel's essay “Stranger” was published in Spry.

• Lucie Britsch's story “How to Fit In” is up at Jellyfish Review.

• Chloe N. Clark has published several pieces recently:

  •  “Other Names” in Cosmonauts Avenue, which made the Nebula Reading List

  • “The Dissertation is a Quest that has No Idea” in (b)OINK zine:

  • “Shapeless” in Bad Pony

• Dylan Brie Ducey's story “Jaconita” appears in Four Way Review.

• Kathryn McMahon published several flashes recently:

  • “Boom” in The Cincinnati Review

  • "Flare” in Ellipsis Zine

  • “Dirty Red Questions” in Jellyfish Review:

• K.C. Mead-Brewer's story “Late at Night, After He’s Fallen Asleep” was published by Paper Darts.

• Devin Kelly reviews Zachary Schomburg’s Mammother in Full Stop.

• Marcelle Heath's story “The Country is Bereft of Deer” appears in Nat. Brut.

• Ilana Masad reviewed Devin Murphy’s The Boat Runner in The New York Times and her essay “Giving Eliza Hamilton the Chill Legacy the Musical Denied Her” is up at Broadly.

• Chance Dibben's poem “Democracy” is up at Maudlin House.

• Julian K. Jarboe's flash “The Heavy Things” was published at SmokeLong Quarterly.

• Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “16 on College Weekends” is up at Gordon Square Review.

• Stephen Langlois discusses his work on episode 23 of the On Poetry podcast. His story “Man Crawls Across Parking Lot” appears in The Collapsar.

• Poetry reader Bob Sykora published several poems recently:

  • “The Nature of New Hampshire and Everything” in Vagabond City

  • “U-topia (No Place)” in Maudlin House

  • “The Sky Doesn’t Have Any Answers” in Public Pool

• Lynn Mundell published “Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us” in Booth:

• Social Media and Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison's story “Repairs” was the winner of (b)OINK’s November 2017 35mm Fiction Contest.

• Managing Editor Amy Rossi's flash fiction  “The Lights in the Sky Will Shine for Me” is up at Synaesthesia Magazine.

• Monet Patrice Thomas's story “How to Write a Letter” was published by The Rational Online.

• Melissa Goode's story “It falls” appears in Jellyfish Review and “Newark (EWR)—Düsseldorf (DUS)” is up at Matchbook.

• Sally Burnette has published 3 poems recently:

  • “Sonnet” in Nat. Brut

  • “reverie” in Dream Pop Journal

  • “The Song of Milky Cornsilk” in Boaat

• Robert James Russell's story “Holograms” appears in Little Fiction.

• Todd Dillard's flash fiction “Myth in Which My Father Does Not Recreate the Moon Landing” was published by Atticus Review.

Awards, Honors, and News

• Reader Jen Palmares Meadows’ essay “Filipino Fruit Salad” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Redivider.

• Amy Rossi and Chance Dibben have been nominated for both Pushcart and Best Small Fictions by Matchbook.

• Lucie Britsch has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Jellyfish Review

• Monet P. Thomas and Michele Finn Johnson have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by WhiskeyPaper

• Cathy Ulrich has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Ellipsis Zine.

• Christina Dalcher and Kathryn McMahon have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Ellipsis Zine.

• Michele Finn Johnson has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Lost Balloon.

• Flash fiction reader Lori Sambol Brody and Michele Finn Johnson have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Lost Balloon.

• Meghan Phillips has been nominated for a Pushcart by Barrelhouse for her poem “Yellowshirt Elegy.” 

• Fiction editor Katie Flynn has been named a 2018 fellow at The Grotto in San Francisco.

• Mike Nagel’s “Beached Whales,” originally published in Apt,  has been named a notable essay in this year’s Best American Essays.