Help Porochista Khakpour in Her Fight Against Lyme
This active member of the literary community and brilliant writer needs our help.
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Posts by: Marisa Siegel
Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Celeste Ng
To help kick off the celebrations, we have an exclusive Q&A with Celeste Ng, 2018 National Bookstore Day Ambassador!
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A Year in the Rumpus Matriarchy
I feel ready to double down on the promise of writing, on the power of sharing stories, and on our ability to build bridges with language and knock down walls with words.
...moreAnnouncing Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Reading Periods
Learn about our new creative nonfiction reading periods.
...moreTeen Raped While in Custody of NYPD
On Sunday, I learned about this news story, and the lack of coverage it has received in the media. Let’s help change that! Please share this story and your thoughts on it as widely as you can. The impunity under which police in this country operate is unlawful and shameful, and it must end.
...moreCall for Submissions: On Rape Culture, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence
We’re inviting you to share your own experiences with and thoughts on sexual harassment, assault, domestic violence, and more.
...moreSeeking “Notable San Francisco” Blogger!
We’re looking for a Bay Area-based blogger to take over Notable San Francisco!
...moreTen Ways to Fight Hate
Here’s a community resource guide from the Southern Poverty Law Center worth checking out. There are many ways to take action in the face of hatred and bigotry. Don’t stay silent. Resist.
...moreStories about Sex Workers, Written by Sex Workers
Rumpus contributor and BFF Antonia Crane has written an episode for Driven—a web series created by Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott—called “Poppy,” that is centered on authentic representation of sex work. Antonia writes, This episode is our dream episode because it accurately reflects a sex worker’s story of intimacy and the possibility of contentment with a diverse, trans […]
...moreHanging Off the TV Cliff
At the New York Times Sunday Review, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist asks whether television shows have become reliant on cliffhangers as a way to retain viewership season over season.
...moreA Goodbye, and Some Hellos
You may have noticed a few recent changes to The Rumpus masthead. First, the sad news. Brian Hurley, the man behind Rumpus Books since 2013, is stepping down to focus on his own awesome website and small press, Fiction Advocate. We are nothing short of heartbroken to see him go (really, words can’t do our sorrow justice), […]
...moreThis Week in Essays
Brandon Taylor grapples with his sexuality and Southern identity over at Lit Hub. Here at The Rumpus, Brea Salim leaves Indonesia and takes her spirituality with her to America, using it as a necessary touchstone to help find her way.
...moreBe a Mentor for Girls Write Now
We love Girls Write Now, a community of professional women writers and media makers on a mission: for 18 years, their award-winning programs have provided creative and academic guidance, support, and opportunities for young writers in New York City. And the program is looking for its 2017-18 mentors!
...moreThat’s What She Said
Have you submitted a piece to “Funny Women” and it wasn’t quite the right fit for the column? Have you always wanted to write for “Funny Women” or Daily Shouts or McSweeney’s Internet Tendency? Our very own Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist is teaching another two-day workshop at Catapult, so if you missed out in the fall, now is […]
...moreThe Real Lives of Working Writers
Bestselling and award-winning writers Danielle Trussoni and Walter Kirn host the Writerly podcast, a weekly discussion of all things pertaining to the real lives of working writers. From getting and firing an agent, to book publicity, to contracts, to working with an editor, to writing your first draft—Writerly will cover it all. And, follow Danielle […]
...moreIntroducing the Rumpus Advisory Board
When we shared our exciting news about The Rumpus’s future last month, I mentioned that we’d create an advisory board to help us guide the site forward. The function of the advisory board is to help when we have questions or need a sounding board for new ideas, to serve as role models for us, and to […]
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Big Rumpus News!
Today, I am very excited and more than a little nervous to share with you all that I am the new Editor-in-Chief and owner of The Rumpus.
...moreThe Way Out Is Through
At Dame Magazine, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist writes with her inimitable deadpan humor and clarity on finding solace in the general population’s depression following the recent election’s alarming results. As a person who lives with clinical depression, Bassist writes that: The way out of depression is through. Good depressives go through hell, and we do […]
...moreThe Death-Defying Adventure that Saved the British Empire
At Epic Magazine, James Nestor dives deep to tell the story of “sunken treasure, death-defying adventure, sibling rivalry,” and how brothers Charles and John Deane “invented modern deep-sea diving and saved the British Empire.”
...moreInheriting Trauma
At The Millions, former Rumpus Managing Editor Zoë Ruiz pens a beautiful piece on how trauma is passed from generation to generation.
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A Note from the Editor
We live in a country that is deeply troubled, that is sick. We will not look away.
...moreSave Langston Hughes’s Harlem Home
Award-winning author Renée Watson is fighting to save the house that Langston Hughes lived in through much of the 1950s and 60s, until his death in 1967, Heather Long reports for CNN. Watson launched an Indiegogo campaign to rescue the brownstone and preserve its literary history—donate here today to make sure we don’t lose this important piece of American […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Naseem Jamnia considers memories, genetics, and what gets passed down from one generation to the next. She writes, “The brain is a curious, malleable thing, and just as cigarette smoke and alcohol can be tucked into a fetus, so can trauma. My mother’s experiences settled into her eggs and shaped […]
...moreMeet Our New Rumpus Editors!
You may have noticed some recent changes to The Rumpus masthead. First, the sad news. Our terrific Essays Editor, Tracy Strauss, is stepping down to focus on other projects, including a new series over at the Ploughshares blog. And we’re saying goodbye to our Interviews Editor, Melissa Batchelor Warnke, who is moving on to pursue her own writing—you can keep […]
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What the Cameras Show Us: Ourselves
When I decided I needed to write this piece, I spent a lot of time wondering whether I could. Whether I should.
...moreWrite for Us!
The Rumpus is looking for two new writers to join our blogging team! First, we need a new Notable Chicago blogger. Notable Chicago is a weekly column highlighting literary events in and around the city. Ideally, our Notable Chicago blogger lives in the city and is already familiar with the literary scene and events happening […]
...moreAmerican Writers on Donald Trump
American writers have issued a statement on Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. They are asking writers across the country to sign a petition signifying their agreement with the statement, which begins: Because, as writers, we are particularly aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name […]
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