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From the Archive: Funny Women Whimsical Abortion Procedures
Mentally replay every worst memory of your childhood until pregnancy is scared away. Works every time.
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Jade Sharma
Jade Sharma discusses her first novel Problems, the complicated feelings that came with debuting to rave reviews, and her writing and editing processes.
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Call for Submissions: We Are More
Now reading submissions for our WE ARE MORE column.
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In Praise of Marisa Siegel
Some words from the editors in praise of Marisa Siegel.
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Big Rumpus News 2.1!
Holy shit!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Meet Our New ENOUGH Series Editor!
A warm Rumpus welcome to our new ENOUGH editor!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Every Book Is a Bridge
I can’t wait for the stories yet to be told, and am thrilled to help bring you the books that will tell them.
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Rumpus Poetry Reviews, Reimagined
Meet our new poetry reviews editors!
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Memoir Monday Online: Belcourt, Andersen , Young, Wood
Watch August’s online Memoir Monday reading!
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Artists Wanted!
We’re looking for new volunteer artists!
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Memoir Monday Moves Online!
Watch the first-ever online Memoir Monday reading!
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State of The Rumpus
Together, we will make it through this upcoming year.
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It’s My Party, I’ll Cry If I Want To: A 10th Birthday Bash
Celebrate with Electric Literature and The Rumpus at AWP 2019: Portland!
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State of The Rumpus
We are here because of you.
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The Rumpus Top 20 of 2018
We share our twenty most-read pieces of 2018!
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We Stand with Moira Donegan
I, and The Rumpus, stand firmly with Moira Donegan.
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It’s Not Goodbye
“Nothing is more important than telling our stories in the face of forces that would erase us.”
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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.
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The Rumpus Top 15 of 2017
We share our fifteen most-read pieces of 2017!
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Learn about our new creative nonfiction reading periods.
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My Life with Annie Lennox: Nostalgia
I don’t use the term “lifelong hero” frivolously. There are a lot of people I respect and wish to emulate; Annie Lennox, however, is the only “lifelong hero” I’ll ever have. I need her.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Willow Grove, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and at the […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with George Saunders
George Saunders discusses his new (and first) novel Lincoln in the Bardo, Donald Trump, and a comprehensive theory of literature.
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