The FAM Roundup: October 2018

The Split Lip FAM was all treats and no tricks in October! Catch up on some wonderful work and happy news, and don't forget to revisit our contributors' pieces in the archives (or in your print edition!):

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice has a new flash, "Second Base," up at Smokelong Quarterly.

• Todd Dillard published several pieces recently:

  • “New-Hearted,” “All My Friends Have Great Taste in Music” and “Love Letter With Facts” in Pidgeonholes

  • “Dead Bird” in Okay Donkey

  • “Cryptophasia” and “The Engineer” in Longleaf Review

• Devin Kelly's “The Map of Love is Just a Returning” appears in Territory

• Rebecca Kokitus' poems “coffin bell,” “the tattoo,” and “solitude” were published in CLASH

  • “Closet Skeleton,” “Bored” and “Rose Honey” in Expat Press

• Darren C. Demaree's poem “Emily As We Turn Off the Sound of Monday Night Football” is up at The Stay Project

• Kim Magowan's story “Hairpins” appears in Bending Genres and “Fitting” is up at Bull: Men’s Fiction

• Brandon Melendez’s poem “serpent crown lined with marrow” has won an Academy of American Poets prize and is now on poets.org. He also published:

  • “Desmadre” and “Dry/Spell” in Duende

  • “As Respite from Insomnia, the Author Writes an Elegy for What the Night Took” in The Shallow Ends

• Cathy Ulrich and Brandon Melendez have work in the latest issue of Black Warrior Review.

• Cathy Ulrich also published several other pieces recently:

  •  “The Spaces Between the Stars” in Atticus Review

  • “Together on the Moon” in Moonchild Magazine

  • “The Former Dancer’s Husband” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

  • “Being the Murdered Homecoming Queen” in Wyvern Lit:

  • And an interview with Kathy Fish for Pidgeonholes

• Mike Nagel published "Causes for Concern” in Crack the Spine  

• Tyler Barton, Mike Nagel, and Joshua Jones have work in issue 5 of Outlook Springs

• Joshua Jones also published “The Henchman’s Party” in Barrelhouse and “Life Cycle” in matchbook

• Angela Palm's essay “Hierarchy of Needs” appears in Longreads 

• Beth Gilstrap & Jim Warner published “Dischord No. 35,” “Revelation 022,” and “Revelation 075” in Duende:

• Beth Gilstrap also published “Bone Words” in Longleaf Review

• Scott Fenton's story “The Boys” appears in Joyland

• Memoir reader Kristine Langley Mahler and Tanya Grae have work in the latest issue of Fugue

• Kristine Langley Mahler also published “Secretion” in Longleaf Review and was interviewed by The Collagist

• Josh Denslow's story “Bingo” is up at Okay Donkey

• Josh Denslow also reviewed Daniel Torday’s novel Boomer1 for Washington Independent Review of Books

• Robert James Russell is the October Featured Artist at Synaesthesia Magazine

• Hussain Ahmed published “Concave” and “Wi-Fi in Orphanage” in Duende

• Contributing editor Chris Gonzalez was included in Refinery 29's "The Stories of Our Abuelas"

• C.C. Russell published “Near the Carnival” in Nixes Mate Review and “Railroading” Pithead Chapel

• Michelle Ross's story “The Point" appears in Longleaf Review and “The Sand and the Sea” is up at SmokeLong Quarterly

• Keene Short's story “The International Congress for Kids Whose Dads are Commie Draft Dodgers” is also in the latest Longleaf Review

• Georgia Bellas' flash CNF “Fast as You” is part of the latest Longleaf Review as well 

• Alina Stefanescu's story “The Woman with a Box at the Church” is up at Wigleaf

• Chloe N. Clark's poem “Dionysus Promised to Let You Have Another Glass” is up at Likely Red Press

• Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board” appears in Literary Orphans

• Anastasia Stelse has poetry in Cimarron Review

• Marlene Zadig's story “Scattershot” is also in Cimarron Review

• Christopher James's story “Where I Live vs Where I Want to Live” is up at Cosmonauts Avenue

• Stephen Langlois's poem “Debris of a Bygone Era” appears in Hobart

• Megan Giddings's piece “Four New National Holidays to Begin the Process of Bettering American Culture” is up at Barrelhouse

• Tommy Dean's story “You’ve Stopped” appears in Pithead Chapel

• Sonia Feigelson published “Jodi, After Mom Died” in Pithead Chapel with collaborator Jackson Frons

• Joshua Shaw's story “Best of All Possible Worlds” appears in Sundog Lit

• Anne Rasmussen's “The Scientific Method” is also up at Sundog Lit

• Marvin Shackelford's “Hobgoblin” appears in Landlocked (formerly Beecher's)

• Erin Calabria's story “Girls Like You Once Were” was published in Wyvern Lit

Awards, Honors, and News​

• Dorothy Chan is the new poetry editor of Hobart!

• Kathryn McMahon and K.C. Mead-Brewer have been nominated for Best Micro Fictions 2018 by CHEAP POP

• Kathryn McMahon has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by CHEAP POP

• Melissa Goode, flash editor Maureen Langloss, memoir reader Kristine Langley Mahler & Yael van der Wouden have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by CHEAP POP

• Todd Dillard nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Noble/Gas Qtrly

• Kara Vernor was a finalist for the Black Warrior Review flash contest

• Monet P. Thomas has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Jellyfish Review

• Dorothy Chan has been nominated for Best of the Net by The Boiler

• Josh Denslow, Meghan McClure, and managing editor Amy Rossi have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Pithead Chapel

• Cortney Lamar Charleston nominated for a Pushcart by Midwestern Gothic

• Christopher Gonzalez will be participating in Readings on the Pike on 11/19

• Lauren Dostal’s “Candles on a Hill” was nominated for Best of the Net by Moonchild Magazine

• Lauren Dostal was also selected as a mentee for AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program

• Melissa Goode has placed third in Synaesthesia Magazine’s 2018 Flash Fiction Contest

• Leesa Cross-Smith nominated for Best of the Net by The Offing

• Meg Pokrass has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Emrys Journal

• Kristin Garth was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hedgehog Poetry

• Caleb Michael Sarvis made the distinguished list for Best American Short Stories 2018

• Mike Nagel and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint have been nominated for Best of the Net by The Spectacle

• Ruth LeFaive and Lori Sambol Brody are reading at Book Soup on 11/8 for a Best Small Fictions celebration

• Beth Gilstrap was nominated for Best Microfictions by Longleaf Review

• Yael van der Wouden and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Longleaf Review

• Keene Short has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Longleaf Review

• Contributing editor Kendra Fortmeyer will be in discussion with LeVar Burton on 11/11 at Paramount Theater

• Chloe N. Clark was nominated for Best Small Fictions by Jellyfish Review

• Kim Magowan was nominated for Best Small Fictions by Okay Donkey

• Jessie Lynn McMains nominated for Best of the Net by L’Ephemere Review

• Liz Howard recently launched Power Over Patriarchy (POP)

Great work, everyone!