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Call for Submissions: November ’23 Adoptee Awareness Month

  • Lauren Sharkey
  • October 27, 2022
We’re accepting essays by adoptees from 11/1 through 12/31. Curated by Lauren J. Sharkey, publication in November 2023.
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Call for Submissions: Themed Month

  • The Rumpus
  • March 7, 2022
This May, during Mental Health Awareness Month, The Rumpus will be exploring this subject through the lens of the things that keep us going.
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  • Funny Women
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FUNNY WOMEN: Send Us Your Weird

  • Allison Ellis
  • October 21, 2021
Our nascent but well-established literary magazine is now open for submissions.
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Life Is Odd: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore

  • Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
  • February 22, 2021
Dinty W. Moore discusses his new essay collection, TO HELL WITH IT.
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FUNNY WOMEN: A Poetry Editor’s Note, by Dick Shear

  • Jenny Molberg and Erin Adair-Hodges
  • December 10, 2020
This moment has come to its crisis. As you can see I really can’t be blamed.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Rejection Letters from an Overly Empathetic Editor

  • Jill Adams
  • August 22, 2019
Sorry for my obtuseness! I wish you the best of luck elsewhere!
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Announcing Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Reading Periods

  • The Rumpus
  • October 27, 2017
Learn about our new creative nonfiction reading periods.
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Call for Submissions: Hiding in Plain Sight

  • Lyz Lenz
  • August 21, 2017
This October, The Rumpus is exploring the theme of "Hiding in Plain Sight" and we want all your essays about disguises!
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Call for Submissions: Redefining Patriotism

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 15, 2017
Raised in Texas, I was taught to hold my hand over my heart when the flag was raised, to thank everyone in uniform, and to organize my life in this…
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  • TORCH

Call for Submissions: New Rumpus Series on Immigration

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • February 1, 2017
TORCH is a series devoted to showcasing personal essays, interviews, and art about immigrant and refugee experiences.
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Men Explain Submissions To Me

  • Sarah Blake
  • March 15, 2016
Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favor by explaining this to me so I might not get into further trouble. I’m afraid I have continued to get myself into trouble instead.
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Submitting, from A to Z

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 10, 2015
I am not trying to brag, humble or otherwise, but merely establishing that perhaps the only thing I’m actually qualified to talk about in this world is literary magazine publication.…
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