The FAM Newsletter: January 2018

New year, new publications! The FAM and our editors have kicked this year off in style:

Books Books Books!

• Riverhead Books picked up a novel and a collection of short stories by contributor Brandon Taylor.

• Erin Dorney’s collection I Am Not Famous Anymore is now available for pre-order—and 20% off!—from Mason Jar Press.

• Meghan McClure’s chapbook Portrait of a Body in Wreckages is now available for pre-order from Newfound.

• Split Lip Press author Kristen Arnett’s forthcoming novel Mostly Dead Things has been picked up by Tin House

• Tabitha Blankenbiller's foodoir is available for pre-order from Alternating Current press. 

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​

• Our Summer Mixtape flash fiction contest judge Juan Martinez has a new story, “Character Limit,” in the Mississippi Review.

• Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody has a story, “In Which We Drive the Transpeninsular, Mexico 1,” up at jmww.

• Meghan Phillips has two new flashes in the world: “On the Line” at matchbook and “Chastity Belt” at formercactus.

• Devin Kelly's “The Way You Talk to God Won’t Keep You Warm” appears in drDOCTOR. He was also interviewed by Tell Tell Poetry.

• Fiction editor Katie Flynn’s short story “Island Rule” is featured in the Colorado Review podcast.

• Brandon Taylor's essay “Sad Queer Books: Why My Melancholy Heart Loves Joan Didion” appears in them.

• Matthew Sirois's piece “A Perfect Heart of Paper” was published by Sundog Lit.

• Yael van der Wouden reviews contributor Chloe N. Clark’s book The Science of Unvanishing Objects in Wildness.

  • Chloe's poems “Ends and Ends” and “Questions for Men Falling Through Space” were published by Rabid Oak.

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan's poem “In Defense of Karaoke” appears in the latest issue of Poetry Northwest.

• Poetry reader Bob Sykora's poem “Utopians in Love” is up at Cotton Xenomorph.

• Diannely Antigua's poem “Diary Entry #14: Navigating” appears in The Adroit Journal.

• Monet Thomas's poem “Substitution” was published by The Shallow Ends.

• New flash fiction reader (hooray!!) Sally Burnette's poem “Hunger” appears in Yes Poetry.

• Michele Finn Johnson's story “Plan B” was published by Fiction Southeast.

• Kristen Arnett's story “Suggestible Hauntings” was published by TriQuarterly. 

• K.C. Mead-Brewer's story “The Joke” is up at matchbook.

• Kara Vernor's story “It’s Always Closing Time” appears in Maudlin House.

• Laura Citino appears on episode 10 of FEAR NO LIT’s Show Your Work podcast, where she discusses her Split Lip Magazine story “What She Does When She Gets Lonely."

• Ruth LeFaive's story “Where Everything is Pristine” is up at Cheap Pop.

• Liz Howard's story “My First Morning Without You” appears in Five:2:One Magazine and her piece “Power (And Sex)” is up at bedfellows.

• Donna Vorreyer guest edited issue 5 of Ovenbird Poetry.

• Tabitha Blankenbiller's essay “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” was published by Luna Luna Magazine.

• Cathy Ulrich's story “How the Hamster Died” appears in Train and “Through the Veil of Her Hair” is up at Longleaf Review.

• Joanna C. Valente's poem “The Afterlife Is a Room Full of Windows You Are Trying to Avoid” appears in Cotton Xenomorph.

• Kathryn Ross's story “Bubble Wand” was published by Bull & Cross. Other recent publications include:

  • “The Healthiest Place on Earth!” in OCCULUM

  • “See Rule Number One” in Marauder Literary Journal

  • “Sola, Sola, Sola” in Storyland Literary Review

  • “Seeds” in The Gravity of the Thing

  • “On the Other Side of Waking” in Aether and Ichor:

• ​Amorak Huey, along with W. Todd Kaneko, has edited a new textbook, Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology, out 1/11 from Bloomsbury.

• Marlene Zadig has fiction in the new issue of Michigan Quarterly.

Awards, Honors, and News​

• Todd Dillard has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Atticus Review.

• Melissa Goode’s story “Halfway Through Malachi” has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by New Flash Fiction Review and her story “Brighton Blue” has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Nottingham Review.

• K.C. Mead-Brewer’s story “Zombie Hunter” has been shortlisted for The Masters Review’s Fall Fiction Contest.

• Kaj Tanaka has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Flapperhouse.

• Chance Dibben has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Atlas and Alice.

• Cathy Ulrich and Shasta Grant have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Hypertrophic Literary.

• Kaj Tanaka and our Social Media and Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Pithead Chapel.

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