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| LAST CHANCE! We're approaching the final hours of our summer campaign with $13,250 raised and $1,750 remaining to reach our GOAL! We need to raise the full $15K by 10:30 PM EST TONIGHT in order to DIRECTLY SUPPORT the 300 contributors we plan to publish between August 2024–July 2025.
Raising the final 12% is the difference between offering OR cutting paid opportunities for 35 writers. For example: $50 funds one contributor $100 funds two contributors $300 covers six contributors A tax-deductible donation is meaningful at any level you’re able to give—every dollar counts. And an extra big thank you to the 161 donorswho have given already and helped us get so close to reaching our goal! We’re asking our readers and the literary community to show that we collectively value creative labor by DIRECTLY supporting the writers we’ll publish in 2024-25. Will you help us RAISE THE RUMPUS? |
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New Essays & Columns
Rumpus Original Fiction: "Fichte Died Here" by Bryan Price
“After a pregnant pause, Claudia asked if I’d been drinking. She said I’d been slurring my speech. She didn’t like men who drank to excess. They were unreliable.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Marisa Tirado
“In the name of our frank and boundless, existing in every petal, / every day is a precious pull back into the sun’s good luck.” |
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Interviews & Reviews
Linsey Maughan interviews Emily Raboteau about Lessons for Survival
“These works of public art are gifted, if you notice them, if you’re in a state of wakefulness. To me, they feel like messages, like gifts.”
Kate Preziosi reviews Sarah Manguso's Liars
“Liars will leave a puncture wound.”
Christine Kandic Torres interviews Annell López about I'll Give You a Reason
“I wanted to write characters who confront their humanity—all of it, but especially the ugly and visceral parts, and get to have the 'release' we all deserve.”
Marcela Fuentes talks Malas for The First Book
“I’m writing for anyone who likes a messy, drama-filled story with secrets and hilarious family problems, but also for my Latinx community.” |
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"Some of the work is simply slowing down visitors and sustaining their attention long enough for the pieces to click together, or for their perspective to shift, or for a light bulb to—literally—go off. Capturing collective meaning-making around artwork in my book was almost as good as doing it in person. Here are nine other novels that feature moving, or even life-changing, encounters with artwork."
—Nicole Haroutunian, What to Read When You Want to be Changed by a Work of Art |
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| Do you want to establish a regular writing routine? |
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We recently launched a new Rumpus offering: The Writer's Welcome Kit, a 5-week asynchronous online course to establish your regular writing practice. This course was created by author and writing coach Paulette Perhach specifically for writers who are looking for a starting point as they begin to practice their craft in an intentional way. *Perhach's book, Welcome to the Writer's Life, was published in 2018 by Sasquatch Books / Penguin Random House and was selected as one of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers.
If you're a beginning writer in any genre who would like guidance on establishing a dedicated writing practice OR any writer who wants to commit to an intentional routine, this course was built for you.
Ready to start? |
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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 . . .
July 1: Matt Lee is the author of Crisis Actor. He has also written and produced work for the stage, including an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. He is a cofounder and editor of the magazine Ligeia. Lee lives in Maryland with his wife and son. Subscribe by July 15! |
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Next up in our Indie x Indie
POETRY BOOK CLUB:
Inconsolable Objects
by Nancy Miller Gomez x YesYes Books |
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For our September 2023 - August 2024 selections (and possibly beyond!), we’ll focus on great new poetry collections AND hear from the indie publishers behind the books with our new Indie x Indie Poetry Book Club format!
Join by midnight July 15, to receive our JULY Poetry Book Club pick Inconsolable Objects by Nancy Miller Gomez and join our subscriber-only conversation with author Nancy Miller Gomez, a Rumpus editor, and a representative from YesYes Books.
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 + the author's editor + 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 watch for FREE with your Member code anytime after.
About August's Poetry Book Club Selection: Part cautionary tale, part love letter to the broken objects and people of this world, Inconsolable Objects is driven by the search for beauty in the forsaken. The poems are populated with sentient tornadoes, fetal mice floating in a snow globe, soldiers marching past a disembodied heart, and birds that have learned to imitate the sound of an AK47. In her spectacular debut, Gomez offers a call and response to all of us stumbling towards connection. These poems witness, interrogate, mourn, praise, and provide a hopeful glimpse into the mysteries of our shared experience.
About the author:
Nancy Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024) and the chapbook Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, The Adroit Journal, New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, Rattle, and elsewhere. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails and Juvenile Hall. She received her J.D. from the University of San Diego and her MFA in Poetry from Pacific University. She lives with her family in Santa Cruz, California. About the Press:
YesYes Books has been publishing provocative collections of poetry, fiction, and experimental art since 2011. We look for work that acknowledges and celebrates our passionate, complex, and boundless natures. |
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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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