Dearest Readers,
I got a few emails after my moon-titled newsletter asking, rightfully, "WHERE IS THE MOON CONTENT??" I confess: There were no Easter Eggs. I underestimated the level of enthusiasm that you all have for the moon, which was a huge rookie mistake (that's a sports term, right?) on my part.
To make it up to you, here are some fun moon facts:A "blue moon" is the second full month in a calendar monthThere is a traveling art installation called The Museum of the MoonThe moon is not responsible for your feelings June's full moon is named the Hawthorne MoonOkay, so you may have heard that we're, like, doing a membership drive? I take back all the mean thoughts I had during early-morning commutes to campus when I just wanted to listen to NPR in peace. The Rumpus needs your support.
As of Noon ET today we have 84 Members and hope to get to 500 by the end of June!
Next Thursday will be the last free weekly newsletter! After that, we'll be on a biweekly—that's every-other week—basis. Of course, if you'd like to keep hearing from me every week there's always the membership newsletter, which I definitely haven't already mentioned.
Till next week,
AS
ps. our Publisher, Alyson Sinclair is doing an AMA on The Rumpus's Instagram today. She's answering ?s about the magazine and Membership. Ask yours if you have them! Stay tuned for AMAs with our Fiction team (June 7), Interviews team (June 14), and Essays team (June 21).
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| As of yesterday, we are open for ~*two*~ types of essay submissions:Our regular reading period, June 1 - August 31On the theme of disability in education, June 1 - June 30You can read the full call for submissions hereWant more exclusive info from the editors about what they're hoping to see? That's exactly the kind of content that we're going to be including in our members-only newsletter. |
We got to chatting with Letters in the Mail authors Ashleigh Bell Pedersen and Anika Fajardo about the books that got them hooked on reading as children and their favorite pieces in The Rumpus.
Sign up to get letters in the actual mailbox for yourself or for a young reader in your life. This month and next month's authors include Kaitlynn Wells, Natalka Burian, and Eloisa Amezcua.
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| The last few installments of Getting Through It—our Mental Health Awareness themed-month—are up and ready for your eyeballsA reading list from The Rumpus editors"A Disassembled Room"The entire themed month is available hereKeeping things light and breezy, we've also got May's Voices on Addiction installment, which looks at how class and race intersect w/ addiction, "The Gray Area." |
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| . . . Have I mentioned that we've started our inaugural membership drive? For $7/month or $77/year you get perks like behind-the-scenes info from the editors, early access to content, and a magic Submittable portal. Sign up here <3 |
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Thursday, June 2Emma^ 2, Emma Snyder in conversation with Emma Straub
6 pm ET, IRL in Baltimore, MD, @ The Ivy Jasmine Guillory and Nicole Chung for By the Book!
7 pm ET, online via Loyalty Books
Monday, June 6Lydia Conklin (Rainbow Rainbow!!!!!) w/ Leslie Jamison7pm ET IRL @ Books are Magic in NYC
Tuesday, June 7Queer Comics (!!!!!) w/ Bishakh Som, Gabriel Ebensperger, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, and Shelby Criswell 7 pm ET, online via White Whale Bookstore w/ Street Noise BooksJoseph Osmundson w/ Garrard Conley + Denne Michele Norris launching Virology7pm ET IRL @ The Strand in NYC (register in advance online!)
Arinze Ifeakandu launches God's Children Are Little Broken Things in conversation with Brandon Taylor7:30pm ET IRL @ Greenlight Bookstore in NYC |
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