Can you help us reach our annual funding goal during the The Rumpus’s membership drive? We hope to reach at least 600 members by Dec. 1 to cover our basic operating costs and continue our mission of publishing risk-taking voices and emerging writers. We're now at 434 members (72% of our goal)!

Throughout the 2 week drive, we'll be sharing messages from authors we've published and indie presses we've work with. We hope their words will show you how the writing community is connected, and how we all need one another to survive.

The Rumpus is a large part of why I write nonfiction at all. Roxane Gay gave me a start there in 2012 and I’ve been following the website ever since, as other venues keep disappearing. I’m so excited for the new site and I hope you’ll join me in supporting this essential corner of the literary internet.”

–Matthew Salesses, author of The Sense of Wonder and Craft in the Real World

I’ve been reading The Rumpus since it began. It’s the place where I discovered Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, and the singular Elissa Bassist, editor of "Funny Women." The Rumpus is always a booster and advocate of the authors we publish at City Lights, many of whom are at the beginning of their careers and appreciate the spotlight the site brings to their work. I’m excited to see where the organization goes next, helmed by such committed and thoughtful humans. Viva The Rumpus! Let the wild Rumpus continue!

—Stacey Lewis, City Lights Publishers
Support our wild corner of the internet, by becoming a Member today!

Member Drive Bonuses!

The first 50 new monthly members will receive a sticker set (Rumpus + Read More Poems). Note: we will automatically ship these to your billing address unless you put another address in the notes section of your order!

Between now and Dec. 1, we'll randomly select 20 new yearly members to receive a mug of their choice (please note that we can only ship to a US address).

5 winners will be chose on Nov. 17, Nov. 21, Nov. 25, and Dec. 1. To enter join as a new annual member (digital only or membership + Letters) & include the mug you'd like (travel, mofo, tears, or brave) in the “Order notes” section at check out. We'll automatically ship this to your billing address unless you put another U.S. address in the notes section of your order.

The earlier you join, the more chances you have of receiving a free mug!
Become a MEMBER: $7/month OR $77/year
Membership + Letters in the Mail: $15/month OR $150/year

The Rumpus only survives with reader support

Founded in 2009 in San Francisco and now based in Asheville, NC, The Rumpusis one of the longest running truly independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We do not charge a reading fee for the over 7,000 submissions we receive a year and we regularly publish over 450 original pieces a year. This includes fiction, essays, poetry, comics, interviews, book reviews, themed columns and special issues, and more. In the past two years alone, work published by The Rumpus has been included in Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best American Poetry, along with being included in numerous other anthologies and authors first books. With reader and donor support, we hope to continue championing exciting voices. If you want to see the Rumpus continue to exist AND improve, please become a MEMBER or DONOR today!
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