| A quick note, that The Rumpus is trying a couple of Twitter alternatives this week. If you're on Blue Sky, find us at @therumpus or if you're on Threads, we're @the_rumpus. We're a lean, mostly volunteer team, so eventually one of these 3 will win out. In the meantime, we're testing to see which platform is most helpful in promoting the authors and artists we publish and connecting with the literary community! Who knows how this will shake out, but here's your daily reminder that there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire. |
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Interviews & Reviews
Emilie Moorhouse interviewed about her book Emerald Wounds.
"Well, my impression of [Joyce Mansour's] work is that it is very gender-fluid, she plays around with gender in her writing quite a bit, so I feel like she absolutely would, in a way, fit into our now."
Jessica Sequeira reviews Carlos Fonseca’s Austral.
"Hidden within all these constellations and labyrinths of philosophy is a love story and a story about the struggle of a writer to find meaning in words."
Rita Chang-Eppig interviewed.
"There’s actually a lot of aggression and violence inherent in preteen girls. It just comes out in a different form because society tells women and girls that it needs to come out in a different form."
Brian Strang reviews Aaron Shurin’s Unbound: A Book of AIDS
"Shurin writes Unbound with an acute awareness of the frames within frames of perspective. It offers comfort in its beauty and compassion for so many dying people, but it never looks away." |
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Originals & Columns
"Animal Rescue" an essay by Asha Dore:
"Even though Nollie was mine in all measurable ways, he treasured the ex, turning into a puppy when the ex walked in the door and curling up at his feet when we slept together. When I broke up with the ex, he often asked to visit Nollie, to take him to the dog park or walks when the weather was good." |
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Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff.Now through midnight on JULY 15, you can sign up for our August Poetry Book Club pick I Done Clicked my Heels Three Times by Dr. Taylor Byas.
As a subscriber, we'll send you a copy of this book the first week of August and you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + a Rumpus Editor and fellow book club members. Subscribers are encouraged to join in the chat with their questions before and during the conversations. These will take place on the Rumpus' Crowdcast channel and will remain available to subscribers for 1 month after they take place.
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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, author letters from . . .
July 15: Eugenia Leigh (subscribe by July 14)
August 1: Brian Turner author of Here, Bullet and two new poetry collections, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, forthcoming this fall from Alice James Books (subscribe by July 31) |
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| Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held. We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
Poetry open reading period: We're opening up Submittable for original poetry TOMORROW, July 1-14 OR until we reach 500 submissions (*update: we have currently received 300 submissions, so we are likely to hit our 500 cap BEFORE July 14, don't wait to submit!)---whichever comes first. We're capping submissions in order to allow our volunteer readers and editors to respond in a timely manner. Please note, in the past, we've regularly received 500-1,000+ submissions during a 2 week open reading period. Submit early if you'd like to be considered during this round.
Essays open reading period: We're open for original essays June 2-August 1. Read this thread from our Essays Editor, Robbie Maakestad to learn more about what we're looking for.
(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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