Dearest Readers,
I spent the past three? four? five? days gallivanting around NYC, stuffing myself full of Malaysian desserts. I got to see my friend's 7-month old and share an existential crisis about the fact that we're older than our favorite professors were back when we first met them and that he is responsible for teaching the most basic concepts like "pants" to his baby. I also visited the Met Cloisters and got a little too excited about medieval lions, which has resulted in an in-progress Twitter thread.
On the drive home, I picked up a bunch of Rumpus merch to lug to AWP, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come by our booth (#555) so that my car is less crowded on the way home. There's also a special lil something-something happening that will allow you to a) get your fave merch for *cheap* and b) help The Rumpus become fully self-sustaining.
Scroll down to see where we'll be (both virtually and IRL) during AWP. There are both Rumpus-sponsored events as well as "stuff we are looking forward to" listed separately below.
For those of you who aren't able to go or are choosing not to go this year, we 100% support you and will be continuing to post according to our regular content schedule, so there will still be lots of goodies for you to read. We've also got a bit less than a week left on our Bonfire campaign to raise funds for our April contributors, so make sure to get your READ MORE POETRY merch while you can and help us hit our goal of 200---we're at 58 as I type this! Till next week,
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We are stilltaking submissions for our take on Mental Health Awareness Month andWe Are More. Send us your best! |
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Upcoming LETTERS IN THE MAIL from:- SOON WILEY, author of When We Fell Apart, a forthcoming novel set in Korea that opens with an apparent suicide
- ROBIN MCLEAN, a lawyer/potter/ice skater-turned author of Pity the Beast
- ANNIE HARTNETT, author of the celebrated Rabbit Cake, whose newest novel, Unlikely Animals, comes out next month
Upcoming LETTERS FOR KIDS from:- Navdeep Dhillon, writer of the recently-released Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions, a"coming of age adventure about a cosplaying Punjabi Sikh"
- Natasha Wing, author of the bestselling The Night Before ... series
- Karina Evans, whose forthcoming novel features a girl going on Hollywood adventures with her starlet grandmother
Sign up by April 15 for our next book club picks: |
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I Only Cry With Emoticons by Yuvi Zalkow coming from Red Hen Press in June—a quirky comedy featuring a protagonist who writes novels in the bathroom at work and is failing at interpersonal relationships. |
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Oh You Thought This Was a Date? by C. Russell Price out in June from Triquarterly—a ” somatic grimoire exploring desire, gender, and sexuality in multiverse littered with flowers and product placement.” |
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Rumpus ~*Sponsored*~ Events at AWP |
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Thursday, March 24 @ 7:00pm (offsite event)
Reading at The Yards Brewery w/ Coffee House Press and Feminist Press, including Rumpus readers Megan Fernandes and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and more.Office hours at our booth (#555) with: - 9 - 10:30 AM: Daley Farr, Publicist at Coffee House
- 10:30 AM - NOON: Anitra Budd, Publisher at Coffee House
- NOON - 1 PM: Sarah Cassavant & Mandy Medley, Publicists at Nectar Literary
- 1:30 - 3 PM: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Interviews Editor at The Rumpus
Friday, MARCH 25:
Office hours at our booth (#555) with:
- NOON - 1:30 PM: Daley Farr, Publicist at Coffee House
- 1:30 - 3 PM: Anitra Budd, Publisher at Coffee House
Saturday, MARCH 26 @ 7:00pm (offsite event)
Poetry reading at Colorspace Labs w/ Burrow Press. This one will be emceed by Rumpus EiC Alysia Sawchyn and features readings from former Rumpus EiC Marisa Siegel and other poets.Office hours at our booth (#555) with: - 9 AM - NOON: Robbie Maakestad, Features Editor at The Rumpus
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** I've gotten a few notes about this, so just FYI: This section always contains events that we're excited about, but not affiliated with. Unfortunately, we're not able to get people in to sold-out events nor do we get kickbacks for including them here.
Wednesday, March 23Thursday, March 24Friday, March 25Saturday, March 26- Faith, Family, and Fanaticism Panel, 9am EST
- @ Convention Center with panelists: Anjali Enjeti, Liz Harmer, Sakinah Hofler, and Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
- Writing Imprisonment, Incarceration, & Social Change, 1:45pm EST
- @ Convention Center with panelists: Caleb Gayle, Deb Olin Unferth, Caits Meissner, and Deirdre Sugiuchi
- Winners on Winning Panel, 3:20pm EST
- @ Convention Center with panelists: Devon Walker-Figueroa, Joy Priest, Ananda Lima, and Suphil Lee Park
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