FAM Roundup: August 2018

The FAM doesn't slow down in the summer! Check out what our team and contributors have been up to this past month, find some new great work, and revisit old favorites in our archives:

Books!

• Preorder Darren C. Demaree’s collection Bombing the Thinker.

• Poetry reader Charnell Peters’ chapbook Un-becoming won Thirty West Publishing House’s 2018 Chapbook Contest and will be released in October 2018.

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s manuscript The Many Names For Mother has won the Stan and Tom Wick poetry prize from the Wick Poetry Center and will be published in 2019

Publications, Interview, and Reviews​​​

• Melissa Goode published several stories recently:

  • “HERE WE ARE NOW” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine:

  • “Pretenders” in Atlas and Alice

  • “I Wanna Be Adored” in CHEAP POP

• Cathy Ulrich also has several new stories out in the world:

  • “The Octopus Princess” in Little Fiction:

  • “Being the Murdered Coed” in Pithead Chapel

  • “A Nearly Beautiful Thing” in Okay Donkey:

  • “Every Time, You Fall in Love” in Hypnopomp:

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  Flash reader sally burnette's piece “Portrait of Birds in Winter” is up at The Indianapolis Review

• K.C. Mead-Brewer's flash “The Hunted” was published The Cincinnati Review

• Tanya Grae's poem “The Space Between” is in the Sept/Oct issue of American Poetry Review

• Editorial Assistant Anna Vangala Jones's story “And There I’ll Be” is up at Boston Accent Lit

• Darren C. Demaree's poems “Emily as the Second Winter,” “Emily as the Fog Flares” and “Emily as She Took Some of Our Things to Sell” were published in dream noir

  • His poem “with an empathy so fatal #44” is also up at Okay Donkey

• And contributor Donna Vorreyer reviews Darren’s Two Towns Over for Grist:

• Poetry reader Michelle Lewis interviews poet Peter Mishler in Rain Taxi

• Amorak Huey's poems “Aubade: The Candidate Announces” and “Nocturne: The Candidate Arrives in Birmingham at Night” are up at Pidgeonholes

• Brandon Melendez's poem “Blood Pageantry” was published in The Journal

• Raven Leilani's story “The Void Witch” is up at The Florida Review Online

  • ​Her story "Persimmon" also appears in The Forge

• Tabitha Blankenbiller's essay “On Jeffrey Tennyson’s ‘Hamburger Heaven’” appears in Tin House

• Robert James Russell published several pieces recently:

  • “Blue Heron” in Atlas & Alice

  • “Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 4: Shoot, Luke, or Give Up the Gun” in The Coil

  • “Rhinestone Cowboys, Part 5: Beat the Devil Around the Stump” in The Coil 

• Chloe N. Clark's story “Just Scent Itself” appears in jmww

  • “Manifesto: Chloe N. Clark” is also up at Cotton Xenomorph 

• Social Media and Marketing Coordinator Becky Robison's flash “Separation Anxiety” appears in CHEAP POP

• Kathryn McMahon's story “Negative Space” is up at Pidgeonholes

• Todd Dillard's poem “Cryptozoology” is in Cease, Cows

• torrin a. greathouse's poem “Elegy Across Two Bodies” appears in The New York Times

• Ilana Masad's “Literature’s Troubled Legacy of Grieving Madwomen” was published in Bitch Magazine

• Kristine Langley Mahler has erasure essays in a recent issue of 45th Parallel Magazine

• Kristine Langley Mahler and Kevin Mahler published “Tone” in The Normal School 

• Fiction reader D. Arthur published “Delete My Tinder When I’m Dead” at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• Joshua Jones's story “Uncle Soot” appears in Midwestern Gothic as the Round 1 winner of the Summer 2018 Flash Fiction Series

• Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “Moxie” is up at FIVE:2:ONE:

• W. Todd Kaneko's poems “So Proudly We Hailed” and “Pilgrims” appear in Cotton Xenomorph

• Melissa Ragsly's story “Lilith” was published in Pigeon Pages

• Caleb Michael Sarvis's flash “Agonal Respiration” appears in Okay Donkey

• Flash editor Maureen Langloss's story “Monstrous, Chaotic Things” is up at CHEAP POP

• Split Lip Press publisher/former mag editor Amanda Miska's essay “True Love Waits: How ‘Saving Myself’ Made Me Lose My Faith” was published by Catapult

• Brandon Taylor's essay “All About My Mother” appears at Literary Hub

• Managing Editor Amy Rossi's prose poem “The Sting Means It’s Working” is up at Pithead Chapel

• Christopher James's story “LIVE: The Object of Derision” also appears in Pithead Chapel 

  • His story “Yala Ela” was published by Ghost Parachute

• Anne Rasmussen's piece “Apology” is up at Jellyfish Review

Awards, Honors, and News

• Cathy Ulrich is judging flash fiction for The Ginger Collect’s Halloween Contest

• Robert James Russell will be leading an online flash fiction workshop for Bending Genres in September

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  Chloe N. Clark wins 2nd place in the Bird’s Thumb Summer Fiction Contest for her story “Where God Suddenly”

   

• Melissa Goode has been nominated for Best of the Net by MoonPark Review

• Monet P. Thomas is the new Interviews Editor at The Rumpus:

• Todd Dillard and Joanna Valente have received Best of the Net nominations from Cotton Xenomorph

• Shasta Grant is a semifinalist for Yes Yes Books’ Open Reading Period for Fiction

• Beth Gilstrap and Melissa Wiley have been nominated for Best of the Net by Hot Metal Bridge

• Dorothy Chan’s poem “Sonnet II: We're Not In Chinatown Anymore” has been nominated for Best of the Net by Lunch Ticket

• Kathryn McMahon, Todd Dillard, & Chloe N. Clark have been nominated for Best of the Net by Cease, Cows

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  Raven Leilani has made Narrative Magazine’s annual 30 Below 30 list 

• sally burnette is a finalist for Nostrovia! Press’ 2018 Chapbook Contest:

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  Alina Stefanescu is guest-editing the latest issue of Cahoodaloodaling

Phew! See you in September!