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AWP 2017 Offsite: Write Together, Fight Together

Don’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…

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The Rumpus Interview with Rion Amilcar Scott

Rion 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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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

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…

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AWP 2017 Offsite Event: WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER

Barrelhouse, Catapult, Lit Hub, and The Rumpus are proud to present WRITE TOGETHER, FIGHT TOGETHER, an AWP 2017 offsite event!

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A Language Only We Can Hear

Kendrick 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…

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One of the Crowd

12,000 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…

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

Lock 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.

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The Lulu Fund: Burning Down the House

The 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…

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An Open Letter to Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Dear 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…

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AWP Is (Apparently) Not Us

Publisher’s Weekly has a detailed breakdown of the AWP debacle that has consumed writerly conversations this past week.

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AWP 2015 Offsite Event: GUTTER TALK

The Rumpus and Fence are proud to present GUTTER TALK, an AWP 2015 offsite event!

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In Cahoots

Richard 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…

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