Dear writers and readers,
Finally! The inaugural post for the new Rumpus column Funny Women can be read here.
This is just the beginning. You, the writers and readers, will be generating the content each week.
I’ll keep the Funny Women Submission Guidelines updated to reflect why I’m choosing the pieces I’m choosing. Of course, every one of you is special and unique and funny, but I’m looking for specific criteria that is subject to change with every emotional and inexplicable whim of mine. Sometimes you’ll feel like you’re being rejected if I don’t choose your piece, as if we’re in a relationship and I choose to sleep with your best friend instead of you, but on The Rumpus, it’s just not like that.
This is what it is like: if I don’t choose your piece, what I mean is, “it takes hundreds of drafts and submissions and edits to even produce one sentence that isn’t crap, and that one stunning sentence you wrote that isn’t crap makes life worth living, etc.” More than or equal to submitting, I encourage you to resubmit, rework, or throw it all away and try again. If nothing else, read Bird by Bird.
In the meantime, the revolution is happening. Although I was expecting half the population to participate with alacrity, I still received quite a few submissions to start us off. The first comes from Wendy Molyneux, entitled “I Am Sorry That I Didn’t Write a Comedy Piece.”
