(Belated) FAM Roundup: July 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

We can't wait to see what you do this month!