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FAM Roundup: June 2018

July 2, 2018

June is over, but we're not done celebrating the amazing work the FAM has put out! If you missed a poem, story, or essay, here's your chance to check it out. And don't forget to revisit our writers' work in the archives!

 

​Books!

  • Our own poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poetry collection ALL HEATHENS will be published by Sarabande Books in 2020!

  • Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for her manuscript Zat Lun 

  • Julie C. Day’s collection Uncommon Miracles is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​​

  • Tyler Barton's story “Stay and Go” is in the latest issue of Gulf Coast:

    • He also has fiction in the 25th Anniversary issue of Yemassee Journal:

  • Robert James Russell's piece “Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 1: All Down But Nine” is up at The Coil

    • “In a Chapel Built of Trees” was also published in Hypertrophic Literary:

  • Liz Howard's “The Faces of Strangers” is up atLost Balloon

    • Her essay "Flesh of My Flesh: On Motherhood and Survival” was published in Yes Poetry: 

  • Meg Pokrass' story “Sundresses” appears inFanzine: http://thefanzine.com/sundresses/

  • Meghan Phillips' micro “Greased Lightnin’” appears in Pidgeonholesh

    • And her flash “Abstinence Only” is in Passages North

  • Several of our contributors appeared in the latest issue of Noble Gas Quarterly:

    • Kristine Langley Mahler, “New Dawn Coming” 

    • Chloe N. Clark, “The Width of Your Body Apart” and “This is the Color of Your Eyes in the Dark” 

    • Todd Dillard, “Love Poem to My Brother as He Gives My Father a Shave” 

  • Todd Dillard has published several other pieces recently, including:

    • Two poems in the newest issue of Nimrod

    • “Father-Daughter Hands” in Cease, Cows

    • “Confession with Night Vision and Soap Bubbles” in Cotton Xenomorph

    • “Myth with Horse Named After a Girl’s Sadness” in Flash Fiction Magazine:

  • Brett Stuckel's story “Escapees” is up at Necessary Fiction

  • Sara Lippmann's “Good Times” appears in The Manifest Station

  • Brandon Taylor's essay “I Reject Your Asterisks, And Your Dinkus, Too” is up at Literary Hub

  • Ashley Hutson's story “Challenger Deep” was published in Granta

  • Dan Sanders' flash “Escalator” is up at Okey Donkey

  • Reader Lori Sambol-Brody's story “Bloom” appears in matchbook

  • Devin Kelly's story “All the Other Dogs Screaming” is in the latest SmokeLong Quarterly. It won 2nd place in their Award for Flash Fiction! 

    • “The Groundskeeper” also appears in SmokeLong Quarterly 

    • And his poems “Here I Am Again Trying to be Distance” and “If It’s Not Tenderness I Want” are up at Pidgeonholes

  • Kathryn McMahon's flash “The Color of the Sea at Noon” is also published in the latest SmokeLong Quarterly

    • Her story “Ribs and Other Things We Cling To” was published by Passages North:

    • “Inviting in the Universe” appears in Longleaf Review

  • K.C. Mead-Brewer's flash “The Cover-Up” appears in SmokeLong Quarterly

    • “Quietly Gigantic” is up at Strange Horizons

  • Christopher Gonzalez's flash “‘Pernil” appeared in FlashFlood

  • Josh Denslow's flash “Bio” also appeared in FlashFlood

  • Chloe N. Clark was interviewed in the latest formercactus

  • Alina Stefanescu was also interviewed in the latest formercactus

  • Alina Stefanescu also published a couple pieces recently:

    • “I Have Given Myself to Multiple Lobbies” in formercactus: 

    • “Mother I Make Up” in Longleaf Review

  • Brandon Melendez published “S/c/h/i/z/o/p/h/r/e/n/i/a/” and “American Boy Shares Death Metal with His Abuelo” in Lunch Ticket

  • Olatunde Osinaike's poem “black boy calls shotgun” appears in Lunch Ticket

  • Darren C. Demaree published several pieces recently:

    • “Emily as a Map for the Invisible Things,” “Emily as What the Water Will Become” and “Emily as Everything’s Gone” in FIVE:2:ONE 

    • “Quick Root,” “Ode to the Corner of the Drug House Down the Gravel Road Off the Two-lane Highway #60” and “Sweet Wolf #1” in Blue Heron Review

    • “bone requires bone #46,” “bone requires bone #47,” “bone requires bone #48” in Adirondack Review

  • Fiction editor's Katie Flynn flash “For all of Human History” is up at Tin House

  • Lynn Mundell's “Chance” is up at Gone Lawn

    • Her story “Captain Lee” appears in Bird’s Thumb

  • Cathy Ulrich published several stories recently:

    • “The Arborist Falls in Love” in Gone Lawn

    • “Being the Murdered Actress” in Cleaver

    • “The Snow That Does Not Fall” in Third Point Press

  • Kaj Tanaka's story “The Hair Child” is up at Bending Genres

    • His story “Mistaken” appears in Pidgeonholes

  • Tommy Dean's flash “Evidence Retrieved from a High School Hallway: American 2018” was published by Bending Genres

    • And his story "A Thrumming Silence” appears in Hypertrophic Literary

  • Gayle Brandeis' “Portrait of the Writer as a Young Girl” is part of Wildness from Platypus Press

  • Thirii Kyo Myaw Myint's piece “Cape Cod” is also part of Wildness from Platypus Press

    • She also has three untitled poems in Dreginald

  • Kara Vernor's micro “How Much Drama Does a Drowning Need?” appears in Pidgeonholes

  • Megan Giddings' story “Balance” appears in Columbia Journal

  • Meghan McClure's poem “Too Much” is in The American Poetry Journal

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller's essay “Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel ‘quick and curious and playful and strong’” was published by Salon

  • Michele Finn Johnson's story “Brittle Arms” appears in Necessary Fiction

  • Hussain Ahmed's poem “Execution” was published in Cleaver:

  • Poetry reader Michelle Lewis reviews Tarfia Faizullah’s collection Registers of Illuminated Villages

  • William James's poems “Landscape, Curvature, Horizon, Renaissance” and “I can tell you of how my father has never gone to war" appear in Rabble Lit

  • Georgia Bellas' story “Kollyva” is up at Jellyfish Review

  • Yael van der Wouden's flash “Dear David” appears in Longleaf Review

 

Awards, Honors, and News​​

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller is the new book reviews editor at Barrelhouse

  • The 2018 Best Small Fictions is now available for pre-order, featuring our own Ruth LeFaive

  • Kaj Tanaka is now fiction editor at Gulf Coast

 

And that's a wrap! Looking forward to the amazing work coming in July!

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