57% raised and $6,488 to go! |
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There's 1 week to ensure that we can continue publishing at the same pace in 2024-25 and TRIPLE OUR funding pool for the 300 contributors we plan to publish between August 2024-July 2025. Thanks to the 101 supporters below, we've reach 57% of our goal and raised $8,512 of our $15K goal.
What happens if we don't reach this goal? We have two paths. The simplest but most painful option is to decrease the number of pieces we publish by 50% or more. The other option might be to less drastically eliminate work we publish by around 25%, set a $25 minimum payment, and tier out payments by type of content (for example, a piece of original fiction might receive a higher minimum payment than a book review). In either scenario that means less opportunities for writers and the indie literary community shrinks a little smaller.
However, YOU can help us avoid this. If 2% of the people who signed up for this e-newsletter donated to support just 1 contributor this year ($50), we'd reach our goal. If you want to preserve (and improve!) The Rumpus for future emerging authors, make a tax-deductible donation now! Support in any amount helps.
We've also asked some recent contributors to share their experience working with The Rumpus. Here are a few MORE reasons to give . . . |
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| An extra big THANK YOU to our 101 supporters who helped us pass the halfway mark: |
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| Nancy Agabian Brandon Amico Andrea Askowitz Margot Atwell Elizabeth Austin Ashley Bethard LuAnn Bigelow Ági Bori Helyn Trickey Bradley Emily Breese Julie Buntin Linda Button Vanessa Chan Michael Todd Cohen Lila Chu Christina Rivera Cogswell Mo Daviau Chris Santantasio In memory of Kris Edwards Susan Evans Quinn Franzen Roxane Gay Adrienne Goering Lacey Leavitt Gray William Harrison Jenny Hassler Emma Hyche Lesley Jenike Maris Kreizman Ronan Kristopher Lauren Krouse Sue Landers Kristine Leja Kate Lewis |
| Yvonne Liu Kelly Marages Courtney Maum Marcia Meier Viann & Moriah N-F Rani Monson Ethan Nosowsky Jennifer Ochman Margaret O’Donnell In Memory of Suzanne O’Donnell Anika Orrock Amanda Parsels Adria Quinones Sue Repko Kathleen Seltzer Lauren J. Sharkey Audrey Siegel Marisa Siegel Elizabeth Sparkman Kelly Sundberg Spencer Tierney Cindy Tran Mark Wallace Raffi Wartanian West Virginia University Press Basia Wilson Ellen Wilson Naomi Woronov Cheryl Wright-Watkins Tiffany Yo Nicole Zhu And 37+ donors who gave anonymously! |
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| If you prefer to send a check, make a general support contribution, or if you'd like to offer a donor match incentive, please contact our Publisher, Alyson Sinclair at hello@therumpus.net for assistance. |
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| About The Rumpus: Founded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest-running online literary magazines around. We’ve been independent since the start, which means we're not connected with any academic institution or part of a larger publishing company; no rich investor is paying the bills. Our magazine is primarily volunteer-run and focuses on publishing emerging writers and historically underrepresented voices. In recent years, we’ve paid special attention to the latter demographic with the addition of our Rumpus Original Poetry section as well as columns dedicated to marginalized writers such as ENOUGH (devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, and fiction by women, trans, and nonbinary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence), Voices on Addiction (devoted to personal narratives of addiction), and We Are More (for Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) and SWANA diaspora writers). We are committed to supporting the literary community at large, and also regularly publish interviews with authors and book reviews of both poetry and prose titles. |
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