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Dearest Readers,
Greetings from the first week of the semester. Today I asked my students what they were doing in the fall of 2009 (we had read an excerpt from Eula Biss' On Immunity for class), and one of them shouted out, "I was five then!"
If you need me, I'll be lying on the ground with cucumber slices over my eyes.
Until I am revived,
AS
(PS. We are starting to get ready for AWP! Scroll to the bottom for events!!)
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New Funny Women: Dear MFA Faculty at Private University,
When I was a child, I lived on the sea. It was me, my parents, and my five older siblings on a small dinghy that bounced between Maryland and the Isle of Wight for eighteen years.
Interviews with . . .
Jamila Minnicks (Moonrise Over New Jessup)Monica Macansantos (Love and Other Rituals)
Maggie Millner (Couplets)Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao (Funeral)
Liz Harmer (Strange Loops)New essay: The year my baby turned sixteen was the year my novel died.
The manuscript lies in a drawer now, after multiple revisions, it is over-processed sausage meat.
It’s time to tell the truth about my years making a living selling the sexy promise of my female body. I am embarking on a memoir.
Poems . . . from Enough("A Moratorium on Sex," Rufinol," and "Not all Men" by Madari Pendás)by Janan Alexandra("parable as ars poetica," "parable of water & mothers")New fiction: Our mother called us two sides of the same coin, the moon and the sun, the rabbit and the rat. Anna led you around when you were a baby, she’d tell me, like you were attached to her by an invisible leash. I’d drag myself on my back legs, trying to keep up, until my skin broke, leaving trails of blood on the carpet.
Reviews of . . .Jesse Ball's Autoportrait (absurdity!)Lynn Xu’s Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Light (poetry!)Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On (ACAB!)Leila Phillip's Beaverland (illustrated!)
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Important update: Due to our existing backlog and a high volume of new submissions this week, our open reading period for poetry will close TOMORROW, Jan. 20th. We'll open again in July.
Our submissions period for essays is open through the end of February.
Our submissions period for comics is open through mid-March.
Our submissions period for fiction will open mid-February.
We are open for Funny Women and Reviews submissions year-round.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.)
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Our MARCH (?!?!?) book club picks are Sabrina Orah Mark's Happily (for prose) and Michael Chang's Synthetic Jungle (for poetry). Subscribe by February 15 <3
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As a subscriber, you'll also be invited to an exclusive online discussion with the book's author the last week of every month and we'll send you a pass code to join. These will take place on the brand new Rumpus Crowdcast channel and will remain available to members for 1 month after they take place in case you miss the live event or you'd like to re-watch the conversation later.
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Wednesday, February 8 @ Story Parlor
IRL in Asheville, NC
Morgan Thomas + Alysia Sawchyn
7pm - 9pm EST
Tickets are $13, space is SUPER limited!
Thursday, March 9 @ The Woods
IRL in Seattle, WA, 7 pm
Sapphic Storytelling in Seattle
Allegra Hyde + Ariel Delgado Dixon || Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya + Kristen Arnett
co-sponsored by Elliot Bay Books
Y'all are the 1st to see the ticketing link!!
FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Additional AWP offsite event TBA
with our partners Feminist Press and Coffee House Press
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