The Rumpus will be at AWP 2024
in Kansas City, MO
Feb. 8-10

If you're headed to Kansas City for AWP NEXT WEEK
(or live in the area already!) we'll be . . .

Tabling at the Book Fair (Table #1707) and offering some only-at-AWP bonus deals for people who sign up as new Rumpus Members, subscribe to Letters in the Mail, or join the Poetry Book Club.

And we're co-hosting 2 offsite EVENTS. Ticketing links and details below.

Scroll down for more info on table signings and a recommended panel too. Happy travels all and see y'all soon!
Thursday, February 8 @ 7:30 PM

Join Feminist Press, Nightboat Books, The Rumpus, Hub City Press, and LittlePuss Press for a night of queer & trans joy in Kansas City! Enjoy readings, drink specials, dancing, and win raffle prizes including brag-worthy ARCs, merch, subscriptions, and more :)

Our amazing lineup of readings includes WO CHAN, MARISA CRAWFORD, CJ HAUSER, ANNELL LÓPEZ, CARTER SICKELS, AND KAI CHENG THOM

✨ This event is FREE and open to all
✨ Accessible venue
✨ Drink specials all night
✨ Queer books & merch for sale
✨ Raffle proceeds benefit the Transgender Law Center

Please note that the bar at this venue is 💸 CASH ONLY 💸 so come prepared! There is also an ATM on the premises.
Reserve Your Spot Now!
Friday, February 9 @ 5 PM
Join The Rumpus for conversation and cocktails with Dionne Ford, Joanna Rakoff, Maggie Smith, & Reema Zaman. Hosted by Kelly McMasters.

✨ Tickets are $20/each and include 1 drink ticket!

These 5 incredible authors write about leaving relationships. These women explode traditional story arcs of a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, they explore alternate ways to move through narrative--in fiction, memoir, essay, and poetry--and reach toward the more complex and powerful movement of moving on.

Doors open @ 5 PM
Event begins promptly @ 5:30 PM
Stay for cocktails and good company until 7 PM

✨ The indie bookstore Helianthus Books will be onsite handling bookstores. Authors are happy to sign copies of their books!

*Ticket fees help us cover venue rental cost, Eventbrite fees, taxes, and labor costs. Once expenses are covered, any remaining revenue will go toward supporting ourcontributor pay for 2024.
$20 ticketed event (includes 1 free drink!)
RUMPUS TABLE SIGNINGS
This year we're partnering with friends at West Virginia University Press to host a few table signings. See the schedule below and stop by to have these authors (many of them Rumpus contributors!) sign copies of their books for you. We're all about indies supporting indies.

Thursday Feb. 8
11-11:30 am / Sejal Shah, signing How to Make Your Mother Cry

Friday Feb. 9
10:30-11 am / Kristine Langley Mahler, signing Curing Season
11-11:30 am / Kristen Gentry, signingMama Said
11:30-12 pm / Courtney Sender, signingIn Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me

Saturday Feb. 10
11:30-12 pm / Terese Svoboda, signingRoxy and Coco
RECOMMENDED AWP PANEL

Saturday, Feb. 10, 12:10-1:25 pm :
Transgender Nonfiction: Memoir and Essays Beyond the Transition Narrative. With Mel King, T.L. Pavlich (Rumpus Essays Editor), Meredith Talusan, & M. K. Thekkumkattil.
Room 2215C, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level.

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