Dearest Reader,

I am currently (finally) listening to The Body Keeps the Score after trying (unsuccessfully) to read it in print. Every now and then, I think about the tweet that says, "if I were the body I would simply not keep the score," and I laugh.

My intro Creative Nonfiction students have turned in their first essays for me today, and I am both eager and afraid to open the documents. Sometimes, teaching CNF and editing CNF feels like watching a giant tidal wave labeled "trauma" come hurtling in my direction. One of the greatest traits an editor can have is curiosity: What are you wanting the reader to take from this moment? How does this scene connect back to the heartbeat of the essay? Where are we in space and time?

A round of applause here for all the people in our lives who take the time to listen to our stories and ask us questions. Write your editor/teacher/writing group a thank-you email. Tag them in a nice tweet.

What are you noticing?
AS

In Rumpus News

New Shit

For this back-to-school season, The Rumpus is highlighting voices on and around the subject of disability in education. The entire series, once published, will be available at this link. Thus far, you can read about . . .

We've also got book reviews,

A comic from Lydia Conklin (!!),

Climate-change horror from the future and being middle-aged from the past,

Interviews with

Juliet Patterson on life after a loved one's death by suicide
Jonathan Escoffery re. favorite short story collections
May Lee Chai about maintaining a creative practice

and the latest from our ENOUGH column, "'Till Death."

Letters in the Mail (from authors)

We chatted with some of the October authors, and below you can see who else's words will be arriving in your mailbox later this year:

Letters in the Mail (for adult readers) authors include: Myriam J. A. Chancy, Adriana Trigiani, Rita Zoey Chin, and Eloisa Amezcua

Letters in the Mail for Kids (ages ~8-12) authors include: Anita Kharbanda, Misty Wilson, Maggie Horne, and Esme Symes-Smith

Rumpus Book Clubs

TODAY (September 15) is the LAST DAY to sign up for the October book club!

Pretend It's My Body by Luke Dani Blue for our (prose) Book Club and Jill McDonough's American Treasure for our Poetry Book Club selection.

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ICYMI

We are now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. This means a couple of exciting things for us. 1) we are now eligible to apply for grants for the first time and 2) your donations are now tax-deductible.

Fiscal sponsorship is The Rumpus trying something new that's not a paywall, overloading the site with ads, or selling the site off to a big publisher or (worse!) someone who only cares about SEO. Ultimately, capitalism sucks for most artists and the places that try to champion them. Individual donors are a crucial part of making the magazine sustainable. Please give if you can!

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~*Rumpus*~ Events

The Brooklyn Book Festival is fast approaching, and we'll be heading up two different events in NYC.

First up, on Sunday October 2 @ 10am-6pm: The Book Fair! Swing by the table, pick up some mugs, join our book club, and meet our publisher, Aly Sinclair.

Then, less than twelve hours later, on Monday October 3 @ 7pm: McNally Jackson Seaport, we're hosting an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event to celebrate Elissa Bassist's debut Hysterical (our September Book Club pick!) with some of our favorite Funny Women contributors throughout the years. Check out the full lineup below!

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