Notable Online: 8/8–8/14
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Nadia Owusu
What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Women’s History Month.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Nadia Owusu
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Nadia Owusu!
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Notable Online: 2/14–2/20
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Notable Online: 1/10–1/16
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!
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Notable Online: 12/6–12/12
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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What to Read When You Are Searching for Community
Contributors to A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY share reading recommendations.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to Black history past, present, and future.
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Notable NYC: 1/11–1/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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All Lit Up: An Evening Under the Stars
An evening with Apogee Journal, Burrow Press, and The Rumpus!
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Congratulations to the 2019 Whiting Award Winners!
The Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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Noriko Nakada writes with mesmerizing beauty on outrunning her darkness for Catapult. In the latest TORCH installment at The Rumpus, Nadia Owusu traces the inherited trauma in her family’s history.
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TORCH: Blood Trauma
But still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
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