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Rumpus8/1/2023 We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. Thank you, thank you!įounded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest running independent online literary and culture magazines. It’s good to be part of a literary community that understands that our survival is interconnected. We appreciate all the indie bookstores, presses, and authors who are stepping up to show their support and help us get closer to our 500 Member goal. Stay tuned as we’ll have additional bonus literary gifts from friends-of- The- Rumpus come through this month.So the sooner you become a Member, the more chances you’ll have of winning something cool! No one will win more than once, to keep things fair and give everyone better odds.We’re happy to ship to a friend if you’d like to gift or share a prize. We will email winners the day of each raffle to ask for preferred mailing address (unfortunately, we can only ship to the US). Sophie Hughes and Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Three members will win a Coffee House Press tote containing a bundle of recent release faves: Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan (which just won TWO Lammy awards) When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán, trans.Five members will win a Graywolf Press tote containing a bundle of recent release faves: Wonderlands (our July Book Club pick!) by Charles Baxter, Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn, and Life is Everywhere by Lucy Ives.(update: winners contacted for this giveaway!) Five members will win the amazing Always Carry A Book tote from our friends at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago.If you’ve already joined us as a Member, you’re automatically included in ALL the drawings! The earliest Members have the best chances of receiving a bonus gift this month as you’ll be entered into every raffle following signup. To encourage readers to join sooner than later (and to reduce our anxiety levels) we’ve adding some bonus incentive s. Even though our 500 Member goal is way less than 1% of the people who read the magazine every day, there’s a lot of chaotic energy out there and maybe some of you are even on vacation (a future we’d like to imagine)?! that narrative was a third parent-guiding me, shaping me, informing me.Īs I type this, we’re at 149 Rumpus Members, which puts us not-quite a third of the way (29%) toward our June goal of 500.īy now (a little more than halfway through June), we were hoping to be a bit past the mid-point of 250 members. The dominant adoption narrative that my parents had spared me from a terrible fate, that my birth mother had relinquished me out of love, that I had been saved. Relatives, friends, and strangers assured me the life I led in New York was better than anything my biological parents could have given me. Raised on Long Island by Irish Catholics, I grew up being reminded how blessed and how lucky I was to have been adopted. We boarded a plane bound for the United States and my new parents. When I was three-months-old, I was placed in the arms of an American soldier returning from the parallel that divides Korea. Sharkey will be curating this series, and she’s elaborated on the types of stories (and whom) she is hoping to feature below. Rumpus Essays Editor (and Book Club coordinator extraordinaire) Lauren J. We’re accepting essays (750-4,000 words) by adoptees from 11/1 through 12/31 via Submittable. Greathouse, True Love, We Had No Rules, What to Read When, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, Wow No Thank You, Xandria Phillips, You Exist Too Much, Zaina ArafatĬall for Submissions: November ’23 Themed Month Guzmán, Saeed Jones, Samantha Irby, Sarah Gerard, Shine of the Ever, Space Struck, Taylor Johnson, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Freezer Door, The Groom Will Keep His Name, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons, Thrown in the Throat, Tomboyland, Torrin A. Sycamore, Melissa Faliveno, memorial, Meredith Talusan, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Natalie Diaz, Paige Lewis, Pass With Care, Paul Lisicky, Postcolonial Love Poem, Pride, pride month, queer, R. Jarboe, Juliana Delgado Lopera, K Ming Chang, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, LGBTQ, Matt Ortile, Mattilda B. Tags: Akwaeke Emezi, All My Mother's Lovers, Benjamin Garcia, Bestiary, Boys of Alabama, Brandon Taylor, bryan washington, carmen maria machado, Catrachos, Claire Rudy Foster, Cleanness, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Corinne Manning, Danez Smith, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Eric Tran, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, Fairest, Faylita Hicks, Fiebre Tropical, garth greenwell, Genevieve Hudson, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, Here for It, Homie, HoodWitch, How We Fight for Our Lives, Hull, Ilana Masad, In the Dream House, inheritance, Jenn Shapland, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Julian K.
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