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:
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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