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FAM Roundup: April 2018

May 2, 2018

April flew by, but the Split Lip FAM still had time to put out a ton of amazing work. Check out what's our staff and contributors have been up to and revisit their work in our archives:

 

Books!

  • Meghan Phillips’ chapbook Abstinence Only will be published by Barrelhouse in 2019 

  • Amorak Huey’s poetry collection Seducing the Asparagus Queen has won the Vern Rutsala prize and will be published by Cloudbank Books.

  • Dorothy Chan's book Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold is available now from Spork Press

 

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​​

  • Sara Biggs Chaney and Michael Chaney published “Almanac Poems 1-4” in Typo.

  • Darren C. Demaree published several poems recently:

    • “Emily as Her Syntax Ensnares Me,” “Emily as She Declares Herself a Bounty,” and “Emily as I Preferred the Mercy Stop” in Mount Hope Magazine:

    • “Emily as She Spent the Day Not Looking at Me” in Vagabond City

    • “Emily as She Spent the Day Not Looking at Me” in Vagabond City

  • Leesa Cross Smith's story “The Great Barrier Reef is Dying but So Are We” appears in Platypus Press

  • Melissa Goode's stories “More Than Food,” “Red,” and “I Will Not Show My Love in Turquoise” appear in FRiGG Magazine

  • Cathy Ulrich published several stories recently:

    • “Generic Magical Girl #12,” “Asleep,” and “A Small World” in FRiGG Magazine:

    • “This Would Be the Perfect Day” in Burning House Press

    • “Ghost Among Ghosts” in Jellyfish Review

  • James Yates' story “Thy Will Be Done” is up at Monkeybicycle

  • Yael van der Wouden's story “The New Canon Starts Like This” appears in Grimoire

  • Devin Kelly's poems “For the Journeyman Third-Baseman Playing for the Clinton Lumberkings” and “Ode to Mike Cervenak, Who Gave Me His Broken Bat When I Was 11” appear in Hobart's baseball issue

  • Mike Nagel's essay “Blue Laws” is up at Jellyfish Review

  • Donna Vorreyer's poem “Painting Which Is In Fact Not A Sky” was published in Juxtaprose Literary Magazine

  • Meghan Phillips' essay “#133: Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle’ (1973)” is up at The RS 500

  • K.C. Mead-Brewer's piece “Manifestos: Playground Logic” is up at Cotton Xenomorph

  • Anastasia Stelse's poem “The Radium Girls” was published in Poet Lore

  • The Academy of American Poets just re-published Dorothy Chan’s “Triple Sonnet for My Father’s Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues," originally published in our FIRST EVER PRINT ISSUE.

    • Her poem “Triple Sonnet for My Aggressive Forehead," originally appearing in Quarterly West, was also re-published by Academy of American Poets.

  • Tyler Barton interviews Dorothy Chan on the KMSU Weekly Reader podcast.

  • Lucie Britsch's story “Kids Today” was published by The Sun Magazine

  • An excerpt from Tabitha Blankenbiller’s Eats of Eden appears in The Seattle Review of Books

  • Reader Shea Stripling's poem “Palimpsest” was published by Synaesthesia Magazine 

  • Reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “The Girl Who Flies with the Superhero” is up at The Vignette Review

  • Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “Lanes” was published by The Collagist:

  • Todd Dillard was interviewed on the Asimov’s Science Fiction blog. 

  • Elizabeth Knapp's poem “My Brain is Mad for Baudrillard," originally appearing in Quarterly West, was re-published by Academy of American Poets:

  • Flash Editor Maureen Langloss's story “La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954” was published by Sonora Review

  • Laura Citino was interviewed in Verse of April

  • Chloe N. Clark published several pieces recently:

    •  “Cephalofoil” and “Take Your Pick” in Cease, Cows:

    • “Dropping Dimes” in Bull

    • a guest post in Tepid Autumn

    • and she was interviewed for FEAR NO LIT’s “Fail Better” series:

  • Amorak Huey published  “Captain Picard Teaches My Son to Throw a Football” in Beech Street Review and “Self-Portrait as an Aging Clown Going for an Evening Run on the Summer Solstice” in Passages North

  • Kathryn McMahon's story “No One Worships What They Find Under Their Fingernails” appears in Booth

  • Robert James Russell's essay “Anthropocene Moves” was published by decomP magazine

  • Christopher Gonzalez's story “Here’s the Situation” is up at jmww:

  • Managing Editor Amy Rossi's “What’s Done is Mine” is up at  Wigleaf

  • Ingrid Jendrzejewski's story “Red Shift” appears in Cosmonauts Avenue

  • Brandon Taylor published “Sad Queer Books: When You’re a Queer Person of Color, Writing is Painful Yet Vital” in them.

  • Reader Bob Sykora reviews Kirsten Kaschock’s Confessional Sci-Fi: A Memoir for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. 

    • His poems “Revision,” “101 Years of Celibacy,” and “E-U-Chronia (Good Time)” are up at Longleaf Review

  • Sally J. Johnson's poem “Management, Not Cure” appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:

  • Hussein Ahmed's poem “Self-Portrait as a Beach” also appaers in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

  • Tyler Barton's story “Lake Erie” was published in Wohe

  • Amy Silverberg's story “I Spy" was published in Pithead Chapel

  • Tommy Dean's story “Filaments of Air” appears in r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal

  • Jim Zola's poem “Then and There” is up at Longleaf Review:

  • Michele Finn Johnson's essay “The Life-Long List of Lies that I’ve Told You” appears in Longleaf Review

  • And Katie Welch's story “Heartleaf Philodendron” also appears in Longleaf Review

 

Awards, Honors, and News​​

  • Ruth LeFaive will be appearing in the New Short Fiction Series’ 15th Annual Emerging Voices Group Show in Los Angeles on 5/20.

  • Fiction editor Katie Flynn’s story “A History That Brings Me to You” has won second place in The Masters Review Winter Short Story Awards.

    • And our own Katie Flynn has been named a Steinbeck Fellow by San Jose State University!

  • Tommy Dean will be starting a new series called MICRO INTERVIEWS at New Flash Fiction Review

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller will be teaching a Timeless Pop Culture Essay writing course for Catapult

  • Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American is on the shortlist for the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award.

  • Raven Leilani is Ruminate Magazine’s new fiction editor

  • Amorak Huey and Sally Burnette are finalists for the Glass Chapbook Series

  • Kim Noriega is part of the Visible Poetry Project. 

  • Lee Conell has won an Independent Publisher Book Award for Subcortical

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