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Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.
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Ted O’Connell discusses his first book, K: A NOVEL.
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Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Celebrate with Electric Literature and The Rumpus at AWP 2019: Portland!
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An evening with Foglifter and The Rumpus at AWP 2019: Portland!
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How hard it is to trust the difference between sacrifice and sabotage!
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An evening with Burrow Press, Catapult, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus presented by sponsors Submittable and Aevitas Creative Management!
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James Allen Hall on I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, unmaking boundaries, and book titles.
...moreIf you’re at AWP this week, please stop by and say hi! We’re tables 433 and 434 at the bookfair, and we’ll be ready to fulfill all your Rumpus merchandise needs and answer any questions you may have about the site. And, if you’re around tomorrow evening, don’t miss our offsite, WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER, co-hosted […]
...moreDon’t miss our 2017 AWP offsite event, co-hosted with Barrelhouse, Catapult, and Lit Hub! Write Together, Fight Together will include readings from: Jericho Brown, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Melissa Febos, Morgan Parker, and Sarah Sweeney, to be followed by music and dancing. Free admission, February 9, 2017, doors at 6:30 p.m., readings begin at 7 p.m. Join us as we […]
...moreRion Amilcar Scott discusses his story collection Insurrections, father relationships, hip-hop, knowing when to abandon a project, and choosing not to workshop certain stories.
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Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He pays close attention to the details of the every day, infusing humor and self-deprecation, combining […]
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Barrelhouse, Catapult, Lit Hub, and The Rumpus are proud to present WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER, an AWP 2017 offsite event!
...moreKendrick Lamar’s debut album “Good Kid, M.A.D.D. City” contains the basic, essential elements of a novel: a protagonist faced with an antagonistic outer world, plot and its arc—from opening scene to crisis to climax on down to denouement, a narrative connected through scenes, and character development and expression through dialogue. It follows the structure of […]
...more12,000 members of the literary community/industry gathered in LA for AWP last week. Viet Thanh Nguyen considers the writer’s sometimes conflicting needs for audience, privacy, and the tribe. He writes of his own process preparing for a readership, “The constant reworking of sentence and narrative through writing short stories was my version of rubbing two sticks […]
...moreLock the gates, board the doors, AWP is nigh. Vincent Scarpa offers his tips for surviving the week, including this gem: …arrive alive if you can.
...moreThe Lulu Fund is a new organization founded by Anna March, Ashley Ford, Jen Fitzgerald, and Ashley Perez dedicated to breaking down barriers within the writing community. The Lulu Fund mission statement says: We support individual writers and organizations who demonstrate their commitment to these ideas by telling critical stories and lifting marginalized voices. Lulu offers financial […]
...moreDear Aimee, So the latest thing (why is there always a latest thing) is that a white man used a Chinese name to submit poems that were then chosen for Prairie Schooner and then included in Best American Poetry 2015 which of course has a lovely poem of yours in it too! Your first appearance, you said. The scandal no one […]
...morePublisher’s Weekly has a detailed breakdown of the AWP debacle that has consumed writerly conversations this past week.
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The Rumpus and Fence are proud to present GUTTER TALK, an AWP 2015 offsite event!
...moreRichard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Sherwood Anderson and William and Faulkner. Henry James and Edith Warton. And now, X… and you! The Association of Writers & Writing Programs just announced the establishment of a mentorship program starting in September. As stated on their community page, they are giving special consideration to applicants of backgrounds “typically […]
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Prize-winning writer and Authors Guild Vice President Richard Russo discusses publishing in the age of ebooks, the continued relevance of the Guild, and the Amazon-Hachette conflict.
...moreHave you been wondering what the point of the AWP conference might be to the 11,800 who attended this year? The Atlantic gives the ins, outs, and mishaps of the conference, along with tenuous or even doubtful optimism for the future of publishing: I asked the editors of two-dozen journals to briefly describe their publications and […]
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“You’ve got a problem, Mom. I mean, it’s a good problem, but it’s a problem,” said my daughter when she walked into my office the other day and saw the stacks of books I brought back from AWP.
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Throughout AWP, I heard people groan: “Yeah, I’ll start tweeting soon.” “I know I know: I should tweet.” They seemed resigned to it, and I suppose I did too, but I didn’t know why.
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Our offsite AWP event is sure to be one of the after-hours highlights of the conference.
...moreThe Rumpus proudly presents… Rumpus by the Sound Thursday, February 27, 2014 Doors at 8:30 p.m., show at 9:00 p.m. Spitfire 2219 4th Avenue Seattle, WA Our offsite AWP event is sure to be one of the after-hours highlights of the conference. Readings by Katie Crouch, Monica Drake, and Gina Frangello! Music by Wesley Stace and […]
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