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The next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Kristen Kittscher!
Kristen is the author of The Wig in the Window and The Tiara on the Terrace, the first two books in a mystery series for middle-grade readers.
...moreThe next Letter in the Mail, going out May 15, is from Alexis Smith!
Alexis is the author of the novel Glaciers and a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program in creative writing. She grew up in Alaska and Washington state, and now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her son.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Janet Tashjian!
Janet is the author of several award-winning books for children and young adults, including the My Life As A… series and Tru Confessions, which was turned into a Disney Channel original movie.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Arthur Slade.
Slade is the author of several short stories, comics, and novels for children and young adults, including Draugr, Dust, and The Hunchback Assignments. He also writes reviews and articles, and maintains a podcast and a blog.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Erin Fry, and it’s going to be a doozy.
Erin is a dynamo. She’s not only a writer but also a middle-school English and history teacher, a kickboxing and running coach, a book reviewer, and a mother of three.
...moreWoohoo! The next Letter in the Mail, going out next Friday, is from Alix Ohlin!
Alix Ohlin is the author of two short-story collections (Babylon and Other Stories and Signs and Wonders) and two novels (The Missing Person and Inside).
...moreExciting news: The next Letter for Kids, going out this Thursday, is from Irene Latham!
Poetry editor of the Birmingham Arts Journal, Irene has written two novels for kids: Leaving Gee’s Bend and Don’t Feed the Boy. Dear Wandering Wildebeest, forthcoming in 2014, is her third collection of poetry—but her first collection of poetry for young readers.
...moreWe’re pleased to announce that the next Letter in the Mail, going out next Thursday, is from Chloe Caldwell!
Chloe Caldwell is a Rumpus contributor and interviewee. Her essay collection Legs Get Led Astray and her e-book The New Age Camp both came out last year, and she has written for Salon, The Nervous Breakdown, xoJane, Freerange Nonfiction, and several other noteworthy publications.
...moreIn honor of Letter Writing Month, City Lights is publishing a few of our Letters in the Mail!
First up is Deb Olin Unferth’s letter. Stay tuned for another by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from Elissa Bassist.
Elissa Bassist is the editor of our Funny Women column. Her writing has appeared here on The Rumpus, in The New York Times, NYMag.com, The Paris Review Daily, The Daily Beast, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, and most recently in Get Out of My Crotch, a collection of twenty-one writers responding to America’s war on women’s rights and reproductive health.
...moreThe next Letter for Kids, going out this Wednesday, is from Grant Baciocco.
Baciocco is the creator/host of Henson’s podcast and a puppeteer for Stuffed & Unstrung.
He also created several other award winning, family friendly podcasts including The Radio Adventures of Dr.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out this coming Wednesday, is from Melissa Febos.
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press/2010), which chronicles the four years she spent working as a dominatrix.
...moreLast week, we kicked off our third round of Letters to Each Other.
The way it works is you send us a letter, no more than one page (front and back OK), and a self addressed stamped envelope. We send you five letters back and photocopy your letter and send it out to five other people.
...moreIt was a year ago today we launched Letters In The Mail. It’s been a learning process, and we’re still learning. It’s a struggle, always, to stay relevant and interesting without repeating yourself. The Sun Magazine does this particularly well. The most recent letter, from Rumpus artist Jason Novak, is unlike any we’ve sent before.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from artist and head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak.
Jason brings countless Rumpus essays–including today’s OG Dad–to visual life. You can peruse his own illustrated stories right here.
...moreClaire Bidwell Smith’s fantastic memoir, The Rules Of Inheritance, is coming out this week in paperback. If you haven’t already read this book you should take the opportunity.
Here’s an interview with Smith we did earlier this year.
Claire wrote one of our most popular Letters In The Mail.
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Since launching Letters for Kids in July, we’ve sent some wonderful letters through the mail. To give everyone a better sense of what the subscription is all about, we’ve released two of those letters from their envelopes and brought them online.
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The next Letter for Kids, going out this Friday, is from Lisa Yee.
Lisa’s debut novel, Millicent Min, Girl Genius, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, So Totally Emily Ebers, Absolutely Maybe, and a series about a 4th grader, Bobby vs.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from Lisa Jane Persky.
Lisa Jane is a writer, photographer, actress and editor. Her fiction, journalism and photography has appeared in periodicals ranging from Bomb to MOJO to The Los Angeles Times.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out early next week, is from Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award.
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The next Letter In The Mail, going out this Friday, is from Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay!
...moreLisa Yee tweets a picture of her Letter For Kids.
You might not know who Lisa Yee is, but your child probably does. Check out her website.
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In August, we donated $2 from every new Letters For Kids subscription to our favorite non-profit tutoring center, 826. We’re doing the same thing throughout September, the end of which is fast approaching.
826 started in San Francisco with a pirate supply store at 826 Valencia.
...moreWith the ninth month of Letters in the Mail coming to an end, we thought it would be a good time for a recap.
Here, in chronological order, are all the letter writers since the conception of the program in January 2012:
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The next Letter In The Mail, going out early next week, is from Emily Gould.
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This Just In: Announcing Letters For Kids! Letters For Kids is just like Letters In The Mail, except intended for subscribers six and older. We’re helping people appreciate the post office at a younger age.
You’ll get two letters a month written by middle-grade authors like Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler, Adam Rex, Kerry Madden, Natalie Standiford, Susan Patron, Rebecca Stead, Cecil Castellucci, and more.
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In March 2012, I published a letter as part of a subscription program begun at The Rumpus. The following poem is fashioned from language contained in the responses to that letter.
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The next Letter In The Mail is from Steve Almond. Steve Almond is the author of eight books, including Letters from People Who Hate Me and the best-selling Candyfreak.
...moreOur next letter writer is Matthew Siegel, a poet and essay writer living in San Francisco. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and teaches literature and creative writing at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Stanford’s Online Writer’s Studio.
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Our next Letter In The Mail, going out later this week, is from poet D. A. Powell!
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