The FAM Roundup: December 2018

The calendar may say 2019, but you can't put a timestamp on the FAM's awesomeness. You all closed the year out with a bang! Catch up on your reading and revisit our contributors' work in the archives:

Books!

• Kathy Fish’s new book Wild Life: Collected Works 2003-2018 is now available from Matter Press. 

• Rebecca Kokitus’ chapbook Blue Bucolic will be published by Thirty West Publishing House in Summer 2019.

• Olatunde Osinake’s chapbook The New Knew will be published by Thirty West Publishing House in Spring 2019.

• Elisabeth Horan’s chapbook Bad Mummy/Stay Mummy will be published by Fly on the Wall Poetry in May 2019

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Chloe N. Clark's story “Bound” appears in Anomaly.

• Devin Kelly has a poem in the latest issue of F(r)iction and also published “A Day with the Christmas Tree Vendors of New York” in The Outline:

• Sandra Marchetti's poem “Distortion” was published in Blackbird

• Kathryn McMahon has won New Delta Review’s Ryan R. Gibbs Flash Fiction Contest with her story “Snow”! 

  • Her story “Star of Wonder” is also up at Okay Donkey:

  • ​And “Of Walruses and Queens” appears in formercactus:

• The FAM was well represented in Little Fiction's year-end Top Ten lists:

  • Ruth LeFaive, “Top Ten Things Worth Remembering from 2018” 

  • Chloe N. Clark, “Top Ten Things I Did in 2018 Instead of Writing That Also Probably Helped My Writing”

  • Liz Howard, “Top Ten Most ‘Philly’ Philly Moments of 2018” 

  • Kate Gehan, “Top Ten Times Music Saved Me in 2018”

  • Cathy Ulrich, “Remembering Ten Murdered Women: These Are Their Names” 

  • Our own flash editor Maureen Langloss, “Top Ten Bits and Pieces of Ice”

  • Beth Gilstrap, “Top Ten Moments I Thought My Heart Would Burst in a Good Way” 

• Cathy Ulrich also published “The View from Here” in Moonpark Review and “Being the Murdered Teacher” in Mojave River Review

• Lynn Mundell's piece “Ballet as a Respite from Parkinson’s” was published by Kaiser Permanente

• Kim Magowan's story “Surfaces” is up at Bull: Men’s Fiction and “Drain Cycle” appears in formercactus

• Darren C. Demaree's poem “Emily as she Overwaters Me” appears in Scrittura Magazine:

• Memoir editor Matt Young’s book Eat the Apple made Military Times’ Top 10 Books of the Year list and Writer’s Bone’s list of The 50 Best Books of 2018

• Christopher James's story “If…” is up at Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

• Jill Talbot published “One Missing Piece” at The Paris Review and “On Being (Lost)” in Superstition Review

• An episode of LeVar Burton Reads featuring our own Kendra Fortmeyer is live!

• Martha Silano's poem “In the Little Wenatchee Drainage” was published in Cascadia Magazine

• Michael Martone published “Klaus Weber, Curb House Numbers,” “Janet Vachon’s Glider,” “Juan Reyes, Lineman,” and “Gloria Gleason’s Crocheted Pennants” in The Collagist

• Tyler Barton published “The Species, Broadly” in The Collagist

• Michelle Ross published two stories recently: “An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot” in Pidgeonholes and “Carrot” in formercactus

• Dorothy Chan's poem “It’s Vending Men” appears in Shift 

• Todd Dillard published two pieces recently: “I Forced a Bot to Watch Over 1,000 Hours of a Poet Writing a Poem and Then Asked It to Write a Script of a Poet Writing a Poem” in Bending Genres and “In the Dream Where My Father Doesn’t Have Cancer He Makes Origami Animals” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Tommy Dean published two stories recently: “Hollows” in Lascaux Review and “Bearing Witness” in gravel

• Flash reader Nick Farriela published “The Flaming Hawk” in Barrelhouse

• Contributing editor Chris Gonzalez edited Barrelhouse’s 2018 all-Latinx holiday issue

• Anne Rasmussen published “Bela Karolyi” in Blood Orange Review

• Belinda Hermawan's story “Vanishing Point” appears in Flock

• Kathy Fish’s Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018 was reviewed in jmww

• Anastasia Stelse's poem “October” appears in gravel

• Memoir reader Kristine Langley Mahler published “The Parts No One Wants to Hear” in Hypertrophic Literary and “Kristine at the Gun Show” in Superstition Review

• Brianna McNish's piece “Museum of Unwanted Things” appears in Hypertrophic Literary

• Georgia Bellas also published “Dance Party Remix” and “Quercitron” in Hypertrophic Literary

• Liz Howard published “When Pain Makes Me ‘Good’” in Synaesthesia Magazine:

• Flash reader Amy Stuber's story “I’m on the Side of the Wildebeest” appears in American Short Fiction

• Kristin Garth published “The Ladies are Waiting” in SWWIM and “Toe” in sidereal magazine

• Alina Stefanescu's story “On a Rooftop in New York” is up at matchbook

• Beth Gilstrap published “Earth Eating as Suppression” in Jellyfish Review and  “Becky” in Pithead Chapel

• Yael van der Wouden published “Forgiven” in The Offing

• Marvin Shackelford's story “Titan” appears in Blue Fifth Review and “A Little Something Sweet” in Pithead Chapel

• Leesa Cross-Smith was interviewed in Superstition Review

• Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson's story “Night Moves” appears in Superstition Review

• Mike Nagel's essay “The Origin of the Species” is up at formercactus

• Gale Acuff's poem “Wonder Woman” also appears in formercactus

• Katelyn Delvaux published “I’m Tired of Men Writing About Female Masturbation” in formercactus

• James A.H. White's poem “Tuglines” appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Awards, Honors, and News

• Belinda Hermawan’s Split Lip story “Bound” made Entropy’s Best Online Short Fiction of 2018 list

• Cathy Ulrich launched a new lit journal called Milk Candy Review

• Erin Calabria launched a new lit journal called Empty House Press

• Melissa Wiley was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hot Metal Bridge

• Chloe N. Clark was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Likely Red Press

• Melissa Ragsly was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pigeon Pages

• Tommy Dean was nominated for Best Microfictions by The Citron Review

• Melissa Ragsly and Cathy Ulrich were nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Atticus Review

• Tyler Barton is hosting a series of submitting workshops in Lancaster, PA via FEAR NO LIT

• Melissa Ragsly was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Craft Literary

• Robert James Russell was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Boiler

• Raven Leilani and Melissa Goode were nominated for Pushcart Prizes by Forge Literary Magazine

• Cortney Lamar Charleston was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by AGNI

• Michele Finn Johnson was nominated for Best Small Fictions by FlashBack Fiction

• Olatunde Osinaike was nominated for Pushcart Prizes by The Indianapolis Review and Crab Creek Review

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Margins (@aaww)

• Alina Stefanescu and Meghan Phillips have been nominated for Best Microfiction by formercactus

• Reader Eshani Surya was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Joyland Magazine

• Melissa Ragsly and Melissa Goode are two winners of Atticus Review’s 2018 flash fiction contest

• torrin a. greathouse was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Sundog Lit

What a year! Here's to a great 2019!