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The FAM Roundup: November 2018
December 4, 2018
Books, publications, a whole slew of nominations -- November has been a huge month for the FAM. Catch up on your reading and revisit our contributors' work in the archives:
Books!
You can now preorder Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction from Aforementioned Productions, edited by contributor Megan Giddings, first print run funded by former fiction editor Jon Chaiim McConnell, and featuring contributors Christopher Gonzalez, Anna Cabe, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint (with her story from Split Lip!), flash reader Eshani Surya, and W. Todd Kaneko.
Melissa Matthewson’s book Tracing the Desire Line coming from Split Lip Press in 2019!
Darren C. Demaree’s new collection So Clearly Beautiful is coming from Adelaide Books in 2019
Tyler Barton’s chapbook The Quiet Part Loud now available for preorder from Split Lip Press.
Publications, Interviews, and Review
Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice was interviewed by Apparel for Authors on Instagram
Darren C. Demaree’s Two Towns Over was reviewed in Whale Road Review.
He also published “with an empathy so fatal #58,” “with an empathy so fatal #59,” and “with an empathy so fatal #60” in Pidgeonholes
Kathryn McMahon's story “Black Feathers” appears in Synaesthesia Magazine
Melissa Goode's story “One More Time” is up at Jellyfish Review and “Lambs” is up at Synaesthesia Magazine
Beth Gilstrap and Jim Warner published “Dischord No. 1,” “Dischord No. 78” and “Revelation 083” in Pidgeonholes
Kara Vernor's story “Animal House” appears in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Robert James Russell's story “Red Rope” is up at Pidgeonholes
Kathy Fish's story “A Foreign Place” was published in Wigleaf
She was also interviewed by Cathy Ulrich for Pidgeonholes
Contributing editor Christopher Gonzalez reviews Nichole Perkins’ Lilith, But Dark for Barrelhouse
Christopher Gonzalez also published “The Secret to Your Best Self” in Cosmonauts Avenue
Cathy Ulrich wins The Sunlight Press’ flash fiction contest with her story “A Bouquet of Stars."
She also published “Being the Murdered Clerk” in gravel and "A Sound Like Falling Snow" in Ink in Thirds
Marvin Shackelford published several pieces recently:
Memoir reader Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “I Don’t Know If I Am Real Without You: Stabbing Westward & Goth Confusion” appears in March Vladness
Erin Calabria published “Unvoiced” in drDOCTOR
Elisabeth Horan's poems “Pain is Just Another Word” and “The Walking Wounded” appear in DWARTS
Kim Magowan published “Contronyms” in MonkeyBicycle and “When Your Step 3 Dumps You 4 Days Before Junior Prom” in Jellyfish Review
Kim and collaborator Michelle Ross published “Tab is Sad” in gravel
Michelle Ross's story “Tea Kettles” also appears in Okay Donkey
James Yates's story “Secret Astronauts” is up at Necessary Fiction
Lauren Dostal published “An Undisclosed Distance” in Hotel
Rebecca Kokitus's poem “For the Girls” appears in Collective Unrest
Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody's story “The Superhero’s Girlfriend Always Gets Kidnapped” is up at Pidgeonholes
Devin Kelly's “Days of Judgment” appears in Popula
Dan Sanders published “The Sledgehammer Game” in Bridge Eight
Hussain Ahmed's poems “The Blue Side of a Broken Mirror” and “Nature and Chemistry of Love” appear in The Journal
The FAM was well represented in Little Fiction's Flash Issue!
Pete Stevens, “Broken”
Flash editor Maureen Langloss, “The Vibration Before the Sound”
Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody, “Crime Shows”
Jim Warner, “Ativan Crucifix”
Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones, “Turmeric & Sugar”
Anna Vangala Jones also has a story, “How Then,” in Pidgeonholes
Cortney Lamar Charleston's piece “Self-Portrait as a Shadow” appears in The Nation. He also has work in the latest issue of Granta.
Helen McClory's story “White Rain” is up at Wigleaf
Poetry editor Marianne Chan receives an Honorable Mention for Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Poetry
Flash reader Nick Farriella published “The Boy with a Void” in Soft Cartel
Split Lip Press publisher Amanda Miska's essay “God or the Devil or Me” appears in Midnight Breakfast
Tommy Dean's story “Open to an Ocean” is up at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Amorak Huey's poem “Childhood Goes Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Gun” was published in The American Poetry Review:
Brianna McNish's piece “The Garden of Fathers” is up at formercactus:
Flash reader Amy Stuber has recent work in Copper Nickel, West Branch, South Carolina Review, Nailed and Hobart
Janelle Bassett's essay “Bright Bright Bright Bright” was published in The Rumpus:
Kristin Garth's poems “Tentacles” and “The Prophet” appear in Moonchild Magazine
Liz Howard's essay “The First Time It Happens” was published in Pithead Chapel
Chloe N. Clark's story “Over and Somewhere” appears in Pithead Chapel
torrin a. greathouse reviews Kristin Chang’s Past Lives, Future Bodies for The Rumpus
torrin a. greathouse's poem “On Confinement” was also published in Poetry
Anne Rasmussen's essay “Instructions for Losing Your Mind” is up at Cosmonauts Avenue
Awards, Honors, and News
Christopher Gonzalez reading at The Red Room in NYC on 12/19!
Mark Galarrita will be the 2019 editor of Black Warrior Review
Joshua Jones nominated for Best Microfictions by Cincinnati Review
Tommy Dean has been nominated for Best Microfictions by Pithead Chapel
Tommy Dean, Amy Silverberg, and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Pithead Chapel
Kara Vernor and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by New Flash Fiction Review
Devin Kelly was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by SmokeLong Quarterly
Marvin Shackelford was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Posit Journal and for Best Small Fictions by Atlas & Alice
Kim Magowan and Lori Sambol Brody were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by jmww
Christina Dalcher has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Crack the Spine
Brandon Melendez has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Black Warrior Review and by the Journal
Todd Dillard and Elisabeth Horan have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Cease, Cows
Jill Talbot and Cathy Ulrich have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Little Fiction/Big Truths
Poetry editor Marianne Chan has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Puerto del Sol
K.C. Mead-Brewer and Marcelle Heath have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by matchbook
Amorak Huey has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Gulf Coast
Bob Hicok and Dorothy Chan have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Diode Editions
Tanya Grae was nominated for a Pushcart by Moria
torrin a. greathouse was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Cathy Ulrich has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Ink in Thirds:
Cortney Lamar Charleston was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Passages North
Amanda Miska was nominated for Best Small Fictions by Wigleaf
Dan Sanders was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Okay Donkey
Dave Housley was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Genre2
Robert James Russell was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by decomP Magazine
Dorothy Chan was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Redivider
Meg Pokrass was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Ilanot Review
Marvin Shackelford and Cathy Ulrich were nominated for Best Microfictions by MoonPark Review
Meghan Phillips has been nominated for Pushcart and Best Small Fictions by Wigleaf
Kathy Fish, Kaj Tanaka, and Melissa Goode have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Pidgeonholes
Kathy Fish, Kaj Tanaka, Meghan McClure and Amorak Huey have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Pidgeonholes
Kara Vernor and Meghan Phillips have been nominated for Best Microfictions by Pidgeonholes
Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson was nominated for Best Microfiction by Vestal Review
Kim Magowan was nominated for Best Microfictions 2018 by Okay Donkey
Cathy Ulrich and Kim Magowan have been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Okay Donkey
Kathryn McMahon has been nominated for Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018 by CHEAP POP
Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The MacGuffin
Great job, FAM! Can't wait to see how you all close out 2018!
