The FAM Roundup: December 2018
January 3, 2019
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:
Chloe N. Clark, “Top Ten Things I Did in 2018 Instead of Writing That Also Probably Helped My Writing”
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!
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