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(Belated) FAM Roundup: July 2018

August 8, 2018

We're a little behind this month, but don't worry -- we didn't forget all the amazing thing the FAM did in July! If you missed a poem, story, or essay, or a piece of good news, here's your chance to check it out. And don't forget to revisit our writers' work in the archives!

 

Books!

  • Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood will be published by Amistad in 2020.

 

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​​

  • Josh Denslow has two reviews out: Rachel Heng’s novel Suicide Club for Washington Independent Review of Books and Bud Smith’s Double Bird for Fanzine.

  • Poetry Editor Marianne Chan's poem “A Country of Beautiful Women” is in the latest issue of Slice Magazine.

  • torrin a. greathouse has poetry in the most recent issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

  • Kathy Fish's story “The Host” appears in 100 Word Story.

  • Alicia Cole's story “Earth Camp” was published by Nomadic Delirium Press. Her two poems, “The Goat” and “Marriage," appear in isacoustic*.

    • ​Her piece "How the Hospital Unlocked m(M)e" appears at Brain Mill Press.

  • Ilana Masad reviews Lexi Freiman’s novel Inappropriation for The New York Times.

  • Meg Pokrass published two stories recently: “Stranded Sea Mammals” in Jellyfish Review and "The Big Sleep” in Electric Literature.

  • Joshua Jones's story “The Color of Water” appears in Craft.

  • Genevieve Hudson’s debut Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense Books) was reviewed by The Portland Mercury.

  • Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was interviewed in The Rumpus.

  • Amorak Huey's poem “A Primer” appears in Guesthouse.

  • Tyler Barton's story “Resident Angel of the Assisted Living Writers’ Workshop” appears in Guesthouse. He was also interviewed in the Chicago Review of Books.

  • Sara Lippmann's story “Don’t You Swim?” is up at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

  • Robert James Russell published several pieces recently:

    • ​“Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 2: Crooked as a Virginia Fence” in The Coil

    •  “Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 3: Acknowledging the Corn” in The Coil

    • “High Low” in Atticus Review

  • Fiction Editor Katie Flynn also published several stories recently:

    • “Back Out Baby” in Witness

    • “The King of South Phoenix” in Ninth Letter

    • "If Things Go On Like This” in Juked

  • Donna Vorreyer's poems “Crossing State Lines” and “What is Left to Write About the Dying” appear in isacoustic*

  • Devin Kelly's poem “You Stand in the Land of the Always-Missing” is up at Instant Journal. His essay “The Gentrification of Death: in New York Eternal Rest will Soon Be a Luxury” was also published in The Guardian.

  • Monet Thomas interviewed debut novelist R.O. Kwon at The Rumpus.

  • Tommy Dean's story “Covenants” is up at The Citron Review

  • Tanya Grae's micro “Third Wave” was published by The Offing.

  • Dave Housley published “Quiz: Are You a Modern Conservative?” at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and “Baby Steps All the Way: Making the Time to Write a Book” at The Millions.

  • Buffy Shutt's poem “Good” appears in Rise Up Review

  • Cathy Ulrich's story “The Sky is Nothing at All” is up at formercactus

  • Alina Stefanescu's story “Facebook Post #917” also appears in formercactus

  • Brandon Taylor interviews Jamel Brinkley for Lithub.

  • Mike Nagel's story “Michigan: A Family Wedding” appears in Juked.

  • Leesa Cross-Smith’s novel Whiskey & Ribbons is on Chicago Review of Books’ list of Best Books of 2018 so far.

    • Her essay “What Are You?” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review.

  • Dorothy Chan published several pieces recently:

    • “All the Good Drag Names Are Taken,” “Ode to Aphrodite,” “Ode to Sexiness” and “Triple Sonnet for Autoerotica” in Nightblock

    • “Triple Sonnet for My Mother’s Full-On Soap Opera Fantasy” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

    •  An interview in Queen Mob’s Teahouse

  • K.C. Mead-Brewer's story "Why the Moon Wanes” was published in Necessary Fiction

  • Melissa Goode's story "None of Us Should Be Here” is up at Pidgeonholes

  • Kristy Bowen published "Five Poems from The Science of Impossible Objects" in Occulum

  • Anna Cabe's "Diptych with Two Girls” is in the latest Glass: A Journal of Poetry

 

Awards, Honors, and News​​

  • Todd Dillard and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best of the Net by Noble Gas Quarterly

  • Platypus Press nominated Chris Ames for Best of the Net

  • Pidgeonholes has nominated Meghan Phillips and Devin Kelly for 2018 Best of the Net

  • Longleaf Review has nominated contributors Yael van der Wouden and Alina Stefanescu for 2018 Best of the Net

  • Poetry reader Bob Sykora has joined the Nostrovia! Press team

 

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