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- 1 DAY left to submit to The Rumpus PRIZE. Submissions close at midnight, Sunday March 2.
- New Interviews with Shayne Terry, Stephanie Niu, and Paul Lisicky
- New Review of Julia Kornberg's Berlin Atomized by Valerie Stivers
- Nan Tepper lights up in her essay for Voices on Addiction
- The blood is oranges in Alex Vigue's two new poems
- Shake up your syllabus with the newest What to Read When by Allison Epstein
- Silvia Park for the latest Letters in the Mail (from authors!).
- New Rumpus 📚 > 🤖 BOOKS OVER BOTS tote bags in collaboration with Pilsen Community Books! Available and shipping now.
- Thank you to this week's sponsor Volume 0 Magazine
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Interviews & Reviews
“Things change, the way you feel about them changes, and the way you remember them changes.”
Jiordan Castle interviews Shayne Terry about Terry's debut book Leave: A Postpartum Account
“Each sentence is like a bullet, targeting her characters and their milieu.”
Valerie Stivers reviews Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized
“Poetry is the most long-lived practice of my life.”
Ashley-Devon Williamston interviews Stephanie Niu about her poetry collection I Would Define the Sun
“I didn’t want to write about love without impediments and obstacles.”
Davon Loeb interviews Paul Lisicky about his book Song So Wild and Blue |
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New Essays & Columns
“She told me she’d never smoked before, but I didn’t believe her.”
Rumpus Original Column Voices on Addiction: "Gotta Light?" by Nan Tepper
“the bank always needs blood / but yours is dirty / the blood is oranges / the blood is in every scene”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Alex Vigue |
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| 1 DAY left to submit to the
RUMPUS PRIZE for
Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction! |
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Announcing the inaugural Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction!
Submissions are open December 5, 2024 to midnight EST, March 2, 2025. The Rumpus has a long history of championing emerging and established poets, fiction writers, and essayists, and we’re pleased to announce a new way the magazine will bring attention to great writing.
All submissions will be read by The Rumpus‘s editorial team, and our final judges will be Kaveh Akbar (Poetry), Rachel Khong (Fiction), and Megan Stielstra (Creative Nonfiction).
The Rumpus Prize offers $3,600 total in prizes, with $1,000 awarded for 1st place prize and publication in 3 genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Honorable mentions receive $200 and publication in each of the 3 genres.
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What to Read When:
You Want to Shake Up the Syllabus
I’m not saying we should take Oliver Twist off of English literature syllabi because it’s “problematic.” The opposite, in fact. I would love to see more literature courses used to bring canonical books into conversation with other authors, taking another writer’s point of view to expand and critique the lens offered by the canon. The nine books that follow are personal favorites I see as being in conversation with (or at least rhyming with) the classic texts so many of us were assigned in school.
—Allison Epstein, What to Read When You Want to Shake Up the Syllabus |
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| This Week's Sponsor:
Volume 0 Magazine |
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| Click the image above or this link to learn more about Volume 0 Magazine. |
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| Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back!
Up next, an author letter from...
March 15: Silvia Park grew up in Seoul and split their time between Korea and America. They received a BA from Columbia and MFA from NYU, in addition to completing the Clarion Workshop in 2018. Their short fiction has been published in Black Warrior Review, Joyland, Reactor, and reprinted in the 2019 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Luminous is their first novel. Subscribe by march 14! |
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| AVAILABLE NOW!
New Rumpus tote bags in collaboration with Pilsen Community Books! |
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| Introducing brand new Rumpus tote bags made in collaboration with the very fine worker-run bookstore Pilsen Community Books in Chicago—the first totes The Rumpus has made in over a decade!! Back in October, as those of us in Asheville, NC were still struggling with getting running water back after Hurricane Helene, Pilsen Community Books worker-owner and long-time friend, Mandy Medley, reached out to see if there was a way to help boost The Rumpus from afar. We spend so much time publishing new work that we don’t often have the resources or bandwidth to create new merch, so we came up with the idea of collaborating on a tote and commissioning Asheville-based artist Kyndra Sweep to create the illustrations and lettering for us. Net proceeds will be split evenly between Pilsen Community Books and The Rumpus. If you’re in the Chicago area, you can purchase totes in-person at the bookstore NOW.
If you’re anywhere else in the US (or it’s too cold to leave the house!) you can order HERE directly through The Rumpus store. Online orders are selling fast! If we run out of our first batch, we'll take backorders and (if demand is high enough, we'll make more in April). Thank you for supporting human artists, writers, and workers. Books over bots, freethinkers over algorithms forever!
—Alyson Sinclair, Publisher, The Rumpus
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| Our ceramic mug
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| Sometimes our international friends ask how they can order our classic "Write Like a Motherfucker" ceramic mug. Well, we now have an option for you to get them through Bonfire. Get one for yourself or your best overseas bud. Also available to US folks, of course! |
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Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA and now based in Asheville, NC with readers and editors all over the US and abroad, The Rumpusis one of the longest-running 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 lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Often, we are an emerging writer's first notable publication, which is something we’re really proud of. We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Our Membership and subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, help keep us going and brings us closer to sustainability.
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