| This Week from The Rumpus |
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Publisher's note: update from Asheville, NC
Dear Readers,
I'll keep it brief again this week, but I want to keep you updated for the sake of transparency. Over the past month, we've raised$10,915 toward the $25,000 end of year funding gap we started with in September. Thanks especially to the help of Rumpus Board Members, CLMP, Bookshop.org, our volunteer staff, and all 92 supporters who made donations AND the 33 readers who joined us as Members.
I'm beginning to find glimpses of hope that we can keep chipping away at this. Maybe we'll actually reach our funding goal AND Asheville will have drinking water by the end of the year? It's Day 36 without clean water and we know WAY TOO MUCH about turbidity at this point, y'all. The latest update on Friday is that the Army Corps of Engineers *thinks* we could have drinking water by mid-December. This is the first time the city has given us a timeline, and we're hoping for a Winter Solstice miracle.
And, we know you're hearing this from everyone right now, butplease VOTE! It's crucial here in North Carolina (and everywhere) where reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, addressing climate change, voting rights, and so much more are on the ballot. Maybe if we try and don't give up, we can have BOTH hope AND democracy!
Thank you, as always, for reading and supporting our scrappy indie literary magazine as we do our best to survive and work toward sustainability, which is difficult even in "normal" times. Thank you for not giving up. Thank you for trying.
With appreciation,
Alyson Sinclair, Publisher |
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Interviews & Reviews
Allison Adair interviews Kenzie Allen about Cloud Missives
“Poetry’s possibilities feel endless and uncharted for me. I know I’ll never reach that horizon. There will always be something new waiting to be found.”
Gwen Papp reviews Lyta Gold’s Dangerous Fictions
“The worry over what our children were reading was tied to the question of who they might become and if we could control that outcome.”
Richard Mirabella interviews Kyle Winkler about Tone-Bone
“I also care a lot about language and rhythm. I care about over-the-top metaphors and the pure musicality of words.” |
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November 15: Nina Schuyler’s short story collection,In This Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and was published in July 2024. Her novel, Afterword, won the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and Literary and the PenCraft Seasonal Book Award for Literary and Science Fiction. Her novel, The Translator, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction. Her books, How to Write Stunning Sentences and Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal are bestsellers. Her short stories have been published by Zyzzyva, Fugue, Nashville Review, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and The Writing Salon. Subscribe by November 14! |
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