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roxanegay.bsky.social
roxane at therumpus dot net
July 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
vcmyers.bsky.social
Lit journals here so far (all .bsky.social):

barrelhouse
cincinnatireview
cottonxenomorph
dreampop
epochliterary
havehadhas
icefloepress
louisianalit
okaydonkey
pinkplastichouse
psalteryandlyre
rustandmoth
smokelong
stonecirclereview
tbq
theoffingmag
therumpus
thebaffler
uncannymagazine
zyzzyva
August 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM
sctrott.bsky.social
This is so generous—thank you! If you’ll send an email to hello(at)therumpus(dot)net, our publisher will be able to talk more with you more.
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Wonderful review in TheRumpus for Uruguayan poet Silvia Guerra's new book, translated by Jeannine Pitas & me, published by Eulalia Books therumpus.net/2024/03/20/s...
Perfumed by Fear: Silvia Guerra’s A Sea at Dawn - The Rumpus
Guerra attempts to maneuver around obstacles with riverine language, and tensions organize around this effort.
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March 21, 2024 at 2:47 AM
bunkong.bsky.social
Thanks to Alden Jones for this wonderful interview at the Rumblr, where I discuss why I wrote Koan Khmer, different approaches to trauma, the interplay between fiction & nonfiction, and spirituality in the novel.

Please give it a read when you have a minute. Thanks!

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What Happened After the War? The Mini Interview with Bunkong Tuon
By Alden Jones In 1975, spurred on by bombings in Cambodia by the US military near the border with Vietnam, the communist Khmer Rouge party took control of Cambodia. During the four years Pol Pot wa…
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February 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
futureboy78.bsky.social
Rebecca's writing is not like anything else I've ever read - it's prose with the same density of imagery as poetry. This will be an amazing couple of days:

#creativenonfiction #writersworkshop #books #storytelling #litmags #therumpus #theguardian #bookerprize #zürich #poetry

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Creative Writing Craft Workshop in Zürich - Led by Rebecca Schiff · Luma
Join for a two-day creative writing craft workshop in Zürich, with a focus on the basics of effective fiction writing and story-telling. The workshop, which…
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February 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
trinajwood.bsky.social
Hard to believe it’s been 7 years since this essay came out. Terrifying to share then, but so grateful to @therumpus for letting me do so.

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Voices on Addiction: Travels with My Daughter - The Rumpus
I imagine the box of obsidian flakes and chunks at home—gathered from explorations in the desert. Their edges cut through skin, draw blood.
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November 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
sarah-salcedo.com
"Q: How many male novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: This lightbulb is inauthentic." #litjokes <a href="http://tmblr.co/ZASoYyzVlbAy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://tmblr.co/ZASoYyzVlbAy
How Many Male Novelists Does It Take to Screw in a Lightb...
therumpus: “Q: How many male novelists does it take...
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November 18, 2024 at 6:19 AM
lisarokusek.myatproto.social
This interview of @lidiayuknavitch w/@therumpus http://therumpus.net/2015/07/the-rumpus-interview-with-lidia-yuknavitch-2 is wonderful. So So Good.
The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch - The Rumpus
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Bac...
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December 2, 2024 at 1:55 AM
dianejosefowicz.bsky.social
Nathalie Léger's SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN, trans. Natasha Lehrer & Cécile Menon, is stunning. https://shar.es/189k2K @therumpus
December 1, 2024 at 6:50 PM
mwatsonfore.bsky.social
“When your partner gives you a ride to the airport, that’s access intimacy. That’s love.” I love the framing of care (expressed in craft) from #robmacaisacolgate’s recent interview at #therumpus
#writerinterviews #writingcommunity #AuthorInterviews

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I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate - The Rumpus
I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up p...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
marincil.bsky.social
Lovely, moving piece on disability - "Something’s Wrong With Me" http://bit.ly/1AxgTWM via @therumpus
Something’s Wrong with Me - The Rumpus
To help make the world I want more possible I have to wri...
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November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
kittystryker.bsky.social
just to quickly check - on Submittable, it says if you have a book you want reviewed, to email michael.barron at therumpus - is that still the case? Or am I looking at the wrong thing (prose book reviews)
March 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM