ENOUGH: The Mark Thing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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What Did You Expect, Though?
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
Seeking Terra Firma
To truly know a land is to become it—to embody its storms in your bones, taste its dark soil beneath your nails, know the tangled history of the people who walked before you.
The Experience Takes Its Shape from You: Talking with Naima Coster
Naima Coster discusses her debut novel, Halsey Street, getting pushback on her use of Spanish, and the importance of equity and inclusion in higher education.
Join Us for SINKING GROUND, RISING VOICES
An evening with Burrow Press, Catapult, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus presented by sponsors Submittable and Aevitas Creative Management!
The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
The Third Iago Sensibility: A Conversation with Laurie Stone
Laurie Stone discusses her story collection, My Life as an Animal, writing about death, how the reader doesn’t care about you, and the Third Iago.
Fitting In
Without men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
A Matriarchy of Bees: Q&A with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Deputy Managing Editor Christine Hyung-Oak Lee discusses what she hopes to do in her new role, what she looks for in an essay, and beekeeping.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Rebecca
Grace shook her head, surprised by both her reluctance to speak and her impulse to lie. She had seen many photos of Rebecca.