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- Interviews with Roberto Carlos Garcia and Emily Greenberg by Annell López and Christopher Santantasio
- Review of Jill McCorkle’s Old Crimes by Margaret Hutton
- Jeff Wood drives down dar streets in the latest Voices on Addiction
- Zain Aslam checks his watch in some new Rumpus Original Poetry
- What to Read When You Need to Blaze a New Trail
- Button Poetry for Small Press Sunday
- 1 month left to submit to The Rumpus PRIZE, calls for submission, Letters in the Mail from Authors (Ethan Rutherford)
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Interviews & Reviews
“To sit with and explore yourself, to recognize different aspects of yourself freely and without hindrance is a radical act.”
Annell López interviews Roberto Carlos Garcia about his essay collection Traveling Freely
“McCorkle shows us a glimpse of another’s heart so that we can know our own—and maybe forgive both.”
Margaret Hutton reviews Jill McCorkle’s short story collection Old Crimes
“I’m trying to use fiction for another purpose: as a way of connecting, understanding, and making meaning across splintered realities.”
Christopher Santantasio interviews Emily Greenberg about her debut book of fiction Alternative Facts |
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New Essays & Columns
“...it was almost like I was in the car with her, in the dark, careening down icy 2 a.m. streets, slick with calamity.”
Rumpus Column Voices on Addiction: "Dodging Rocks" by Jeff Wood
“As a child I locked myself / in the bathroom. After a shower, / I stared into the mirror / to watch the time pass by.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Zain Aslam |
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Small Press Sunday
Featuring Button Poetry
Join us Sunday, February 2 for our next Small Press Sunday featuring Button Poetry! Join The Rumpus, Janet Rodriguez, and Button Poetry's Director of Publishing Operations Tanesha Nicole Tyler at 3:30 PT / 6:30 ET to get a look inside the inner workings of one of your favorite small publishers.
We'll see you there on Instagram Live! |
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What to Read When
You Need to Blaze a New Trail
"I didn’t know of any Palestinian American playwrights or novelists when I started my writing journey. I looked to the works by trailblazing writers from other communities for inspiration and to gleam how they managed to have the confidence and the cheek to try to change the rules on who gets to tell America’s story. Happily, my list continued to grow, even as I was putting the final touches on Too Soon."
—Betty Shamieh, What to Read When You Need to Blaze a new Trail |
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| 1 month 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 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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| 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 . . .
February 15: Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of two story collections—Farthest South (Deep Vellum, 2020) and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories (Ecco, 2013)—and for these works has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP’s Firecracker Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two children. Subscribe by February 14! |
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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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| Reading period closing soon: We are open for our Enough column from Jan. 3-Feb. 7.
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for work by women and non-binary people who engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence. We want to make sure that this conversation doesn’t stop until our laws and societal norms reflect real change. We consider personal essays, critical essays, poetry, comics, and hybrid work.
Submissions for our inaugural Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction are open until March 2, 2025. Judged by Kaveh Akbar (poetry), Rachel Khong (fiction), and Megan Stielstra (nonfiction).
Two new columns, Collaborative Criticism and Close Reads are now open year-round!
We are open for Funny Women and Prose and Poetry Book Reviews submissions year-round.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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Reader Support Keeps The Rumpus Going! |
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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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