Dear Readers,
It's Alyson this week, pinch-hitting for our EiC Alysia who I'm sure is really into sports slang. I can't wait until we're neighbors in Asheville this summer and she learns what a jock I am. 😀
Next week, The Rumpus will officially launch our 1st ever Membership drive. And, throughout the month of June, we'll be highlighting some of our favorite pieces from the archives, ramping up our new original fiction, sharing weekly Instagram Q&As with our editors, and more!
Also, starting in June, this (always free!) newsletter will come to you every other week instead of weekly. We're reserving our mid- and end of the month newsletters for monthly and annual Members. These will include special newsletter-only essays, Q&As, and advice from our editors, early calls for submissions, and more. So, if you're a Rumpus Member, you'll continue to find us in your inbox every Thursday. If you're not able to join at this time, you'll still hear from us twice a month. We hope you'll support us if/when you can.
In the meantime, see what's newly published this week, our next Book Club picks, and call for submissions below.
Finally, it's been a(nother) hard week for most of us. Please take care of yourself and others. -APS |
Just a reminder that we'll be opening up next week (June 1-30) for submissions on the theme of disability and education. Read the full call here. |
Upcoming Letters in the Mail |
|
I am delighted to share our JULY Book Club picks. Subscribe by June 15th to receive these selections.
For our prose Book Club, we'll be getting meta and talking with Charles Baxter about WONDERLANDS, which is subtitled "essays on the life of literature." I first read Baxter's BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE in college, and I am so excited for this conversation.
Poetry Book Club will be reading the gorgeous collection O by Zeina Hashem Beck that features formal structures including triptychs and ghazals. A perfect, immersive summer book. |
|
Haley Hamilton interviewed Courtney Maum about her new memoir, The Year of the Horses.
"A Hundred Orbits" original fiction by Eshani Surya.
Comics legend Julie Doucet releases, Time Zone J her first graphic memoir in 20 years.
"No one told me that when I had a child, I would no longer be my child." Read "The Dark Mothers' Club" a new essay by Val Kiesig.
Yanyi's second poetry collection, Dream of a Divided Field, reviewed by Austin Nguyen.
"Sarah Fay has a long history with labels." Read Diane Gottlieb's interview with the author of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnosis.
|
|
| |
Your support keeps The Rumpus going! |
|
257 Haywood Rd Unit 201
Asheville
28806
United States of America |
|
| | |
|
|
