First off, THANK YOU to the 21 new Members who joined us in the last week (we're now at 385 active Members---600 is our 1st goal!) and to the 54 people who donated to The Rumpus through Fractured Atlas (since Sept, you've helped us raise ~$3,000 total, which chips away at our $10K goal to fully fund a website refresh). Your support is meaningful and appreciated. As I wrote earlier, if 5% of the people receiving this newsletter were joining at our lowest level of $7/month, we would be GOLDEN.

Also, since last week, we've heard from dozens of former Catapult teachers and we're talking to people with online workshop experience about the best way to fill some of the gap the abrupt closing left behind. If you're a Catapult instructor whose class was recently cancelled, we're collecting interest here. We'll most likely start with some 1-day workshops as we already have the tech and event know-how to feel comfortable testing this out. We also want to test out multi-week workshops. However, we know these are trickier and we don't want to underestimate the serious amount of admin work, cost, labor, and thoughtful communications these take to pull off on a regular basis.

If you're deep into the literary community, you might have also heard that we're pausing outside automatic advertising services. We want to be thoughtful about what appears on our site. If you'd like to run an ad (for your book, press, workshop, services, literary-adjacent product) on The Rumpus site or in our e-newsletter, please contact us directly via ads@therumpus.net. Note: we don't run sponsored content/ads disguised at editorial content.

In more upbeat news, we're headed to AWP Seattle in less than 2 weeks and looking forward to seeing many of our colleagues, contributors, and readers there. Details below about our 2 offsite events. Next week we'll have a bigger roundup of what our editors and contributors are up to in Seattle too. Come by our table at the conference and say hello!

As always, if you believe in indie (non-corporate, and non-rich person owned!) publishing, support it. Thank you, The Rumpus truly can't exist without you.

-Alyson Sinclair, Publisher on behalf of The Rumpus

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