The FAM Roundup: March 2019

The Split Lip FAM has been BUSY, as per usual! Enjoy recent publications, check out exciting news, and don't forget to revisit some great work in our archives:

Books!

• Interviews and reviews editor Clancy McGilligan has won Miami University Press’ 2019 novella prize for his History of an Executioner

• Jesi Bender’s The Book of the Last Word will be available on May 1, 2019

• Lucie Britsch’s book Sad Janet has been sold to Riverhead Books

• Ilana Masad’s book All My Mother’s Lovers has sold to Dutton

• Josh Denslow's book release will be at Cheer Up Charlie’s in Austin, TX on 4/26

• John Allen Taylor’s Unmonstrous is now available for pre-order from Yes Yes Books

Publications, Interviews, and Reviews

• Cathy Ulrich published “Like Doll Parts” in Cease, Cows and “Being the Murdered Professor” in Fictive Dream

• Josh Denslow was interviewed in Lit Reactor and The Rumpus

• Brandon Melendez published “Etymology of Absence, Ending in a Still Life of the Rio Grande at Sunset” in [PANK] and “Universe Ending (In Gratitude)” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• Marcos Gonsalez's essay “Throat of the Americas” appears in [PANK]

• Melissa Goode published several stories recently:

  •  “Triptych” in New Flash Fiction Review

  • “The Sound of Silence” in Okay Donkey

  • “Fast” in Pidgeonholes

  • “Goodnight” in Pithead Chapel

• K.C. Mead-Brewer's story “The Three Snake-Leaves” appears in print in The McNeese Review.

• Flash reader Lori Sambol Brody published “Real Men” and “They’ll Never Name a Sandstorm After Me” in The Atticus Review and “Visiting Day” in New Flash Fiction Review.

• Tanya Grae's “The Last Silueta” appears in print in Green Mountains Review.

• W. Todd Kaneko's poems “They Say This is How the Bone Sings,” “Land of the Free” and “Home of the Brave” appear in Construction.

• Amorak Huey's poem “We Were All Odysseus in Those Days” was published on Poets.org.

• And Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko's collaborative poem “Slash in Hell” is up at Whale Road Review.

• Francisco Martinezcuello's and memoir editor Matt Young's collaboration “Kinematic” is up at Construction

• Ruth LeFaive interviews Bryan Washington for The Rumpus.

• Kristine Langley Mahler's essay “Transitional Objects” appears in Pidgeonholes  

• Darren C. Demaree's poems “Emily as We Were Given a Room with a Balcony,” “Emily as the Light Folds into Darkness” and “Emily as We Separate the Teeth from Our Smiles” are up at Pidgeonholes

• Kara Vernor's essay “On Choosing Ignorance” was published by The Normal School

• Tyrese L. Coleman interviews Mitchell S. Jackson for Electric Literature

• Contributing editor Chris Gonzalez appears on episode 11 of the Dead Rabbits podcast

• Rebecca Kokitus's poem “the food I eat in secret” appears in in Pink Plastic House

• Alina Stefanescu's poem “Sabotage (or So Much for the Revolution)” was published The Citron Review

• Editorial assistant Anna Vangala Jones's story “Look Where We’re Going” is up at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

• Erin Slaughter's poem “[Not These White Pills Laced with Sun]” appears in Typo and also has work in the latest print issue of Passages North

• Meghan Phillips published several pieces recently:

  • “The One Who Wasn’t Attacked, Goes to Help the One Who Was (5 Jaws Erasures)” in Genre2

  • “When You First Meet the Telepath” in Jellyfish Review

  • “It’s Me, the Girlfriend from the First Part of a Rom-Com—You Know, the One the Guy Leaves for the Girl the Movie’s Really About—And These Are My Crimes” in Drunk Monkeys

• Chaya Bhuvaneswar published “Talinda” in Narrative 

• Joshua Shaw's story “Best of All Possible Worlds” is up at Sundog Lit

• Anne Rasmussen's story “The Scientific Method” also appears in Sundog Lit.

• Chloe N. Clark published several pieces recently:

  • “Aphelion” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

  • “Other Skins” in Milk Candy Review

  • “Geologic Maps of Places I Belong To,” “You’d Be Home Now,” and “Questions for Science” in Graviton

• Managing editor Amy Rossi's story “In Hollywoodland” is up at matchbook

• Fiction reader Anna Cabe's piece “Why Should Young Filipinos in the Diaspora Care about Martial Law?” appears in Rappler and “On Hauntings: Rewriting the White Lady of Balete Drive” is up at Queen Mob’s Teahouse

• Ariel Francisco's poem “Along the East River and in The Bronx Young Men Were Singing” was published in The New Yorker:

• John Allen Taylor helped translate a piece from Mario Melendez’s Waiting for Perec in Gulf Coast

• Martha Silano published “Spring” in Whale Road Review

• Charnell Peters' poem “a fictional character comes to my deathbed” appears in Whale Road Review

• Kim Magowan published “Middle Ages” and “Battle Scars” in Wigleaf and “Ice” in Fictive Dream

• Memoir reader Karie Fugett's essay “Expendable” appears in Entropy

• Dorothy Chan published “A-List Celebrities and Chinese Immigrant Families” in Storm Cellar and “Triple Sonnet for Dragons Spitting Out Pearls” and “Triple Sonnet, Because Let’s Record Ourselves Eat and Make Love” in The Offing

• Assistant fiction editor Michele Finn Johnson's story “Watching the Crash in Slow Motion” is up at We Were So Small

• Ellie Black’s poem “When I Say There is No Way to Talk about JonBenet Ramsey” appears in the Best New Poets 2018 anthology

• Robert James Russell's story “You Owe Me” appears in Necessary Fiction

• Flash editor Maureen Langloss' story “Love in the Time of Brad Pitt’s First Marriage” was published in The Journal

• Marvin Shackelford's stories “Loose Pastoral” and “Migratory Pastoral” are up at Terrain.org

• Tyler Barton's story “Gainer Over Hidden River” was published in Wigleaf

• Elisa Gabbert discusses her poem “About Suffering” on the Poetry Now podcast

• Melissa Ragsly's story “Napkin of Death Metal” appears in Hobart

• John Carr Walker published “The Hack” in Entropy

• Sophie Paquette has work in the latest issue of Black Warrior Review

News

• Megan Giddings’ “A Husband Should be Eaten and Not Heard” from Split Lip has been named to Sundress Publications’ 2018 Best of the Net!

• Other #SplitLipFAM members named in Best of the Net: Raven Leilani, Brandon Taylor, Krys Malcolm Belc, Marcos Gonsalez (winners); Leesa Cross-Smith, Michelle Ross, Cathy Ulrich, Dorothy Chan, torrin a. greathouse, Brandon Melendez, Joanna C. Valente (finalists)

• Also, Megan Giddings has joined The Rumpus’ Features team.

• Joshua Jones won Paper Darts’ Microfiction contest with his story “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)”

• Editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Michelle Ross, and Dorothy Chan are 2019 mentors for the Adroit Journal summer mentorship program.

• Fiction reader D Arthur is now social media coordinator for VIDA

• Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s poem “Keloid Scar” was a finalist for the Mississippi Review prize

• Poetry editor Marianne Chan’s poem “The Lives of Saints” was a finalist for the Mississippi Review prize

• Meg Pokrass is judging flash fiction for F(r)iction’s Spring Literary Contest:

• Ivelisse Rodriguez was nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award in Fiction and her book Love War Stories is a finalist for the Foreward Reviews INDIES:

• K.C. Mead-Brewer has joined the 7x7 editorial team

• Christopher Allen is judging the Bath Flash Fiction Award.

Whew! Have a great April!