Interviews & Reviews
Celeste Lipkes interviews Rachel Zimmerman about Us, After
“Grief ultimately transforms you, and you don’t know how that will look. You don’t think you can evolve, and yet you do.”
Liz DeGregorio reviews Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights
“In these perfectly paced ten stories... Valencia slowly dissolves the line between fiction and surrealism.”
Arthur Kayzakian interviews Azad Ashim Sharma's Boiled Owls
“Hope stems in the imagination, in our capacity to re-imagine how life on this finite planet could coexist with non-human life...”
Darlington Chibueze Anuonye reviews Kwame Dawes's and Abani's New-Generation of African Poets (Kumi)
“Reading Kumi reminded me that both silence and sound are powerful.”
Yazmin Zaheer discusses her path to publishing The Coin for The First Book
“I want to write a book that is like a bullet, fast and deadly, and you don’t know where it came from.” |
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| JOIN US for our next virtual event:
September 9, 8pm EST / 5pm PST |
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 | Join us Monday, September 9 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST for a conversation and audience Q&A with writers Megan Giddings (The Women Could Fly), Sierra Greer (Annie Bot), Gabrielle Korn (Yours For the Taking), and Katie Williams (My Murder). This event is hosted by Reema Zaman and presented by The Rumpus.
These four authors will discuss their dystopian novels that explore power, the female body, our rapidly changing world of technology, its impact on intimate relationships, and more.
Suggested donation of $20. Pay what you can, no one turned away due to lack of funds. All proceeds after processing fees will help keep The Rumpus going. As an independent volunteer-run lit and culture magazine. *This event will be recorded, so you can watch (or re-watch) it later if you'd like. |
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New Essays & Columns
Rumpus Original Essay: "Jolt" by Joshua Roebke
“Shooting a gun was simply the local sacrament, the rite of passage into a manhood I could not refuse.”
Rumpus Original Column Voices on Addiction: "Fifteen Places" by Molly Wadzeck Kraus
“We spend our clandestine meetups underwater, swapping poems into the whiskey, pretending we can swim, pretending my boyfriend doesn’t exist.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Michael Chang
“i heard that there were seamstresses / frozen in place / / a dollar for the jukebox / concertina wire at the clavicle / i brought his mother back to life”
Rumpus Original Column Parallel Practice: "Story at the End of My Fist" by Button
“The sun shifted. Dad’s frame darkened against the bright doorway. How should I punch him, I wondered. How did you punch anyone?” |
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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 . . .
September 1: Claire Fuller is the author of the novels Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and most recently, The Memory of Animals. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband. Subscribe by August 31! |
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| Submissions for Fiction are open August 15 until September 15.
Submissions for Comics are open August 1 until October 31.
Two new columns, Collaborative Criticism and Close Reads are now open year-round!
Our new column Parallel Practice is open again for submissions. Read the call here before submitting.
We are open for Funny Women and Prose and Poetry Book Reviews submissions year-round.
Submissions for Poetry opened on Aug. 15 and closed on Aug. 19th, since we hit our 500 submissions limit in just four days.
Essays submissions will open again on Oct. 1-31.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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 | Thank you to this week's ad partner River Styx.
Find them online here.Besides reaching a large, engaged audience of literary readers, ads also help us keep the magazine alive!Interested in advertising your book, workshop, magazine, editorial services, etc? Contact Monica at ads@therumpus.net for additional information on rates, discounts, and site or e-newsletter availability. |
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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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