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Why do ya'll play with Cory?!!! #themorningshow

The Rumpus Submission Manager The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...

Some personal news…

@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

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Rebecca Starks’s “The Two Denvers” — brilliant writing! @dawnwriter.bsky.social I’m officially making you my flash fiction reference god. 😎

I got new prescription glasses on Friday. I woke up this morning to find that my cute little monster puppy chewed them up. Not great.

Fuck yes they are

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: digital zine!

SEEKING: photography, painting, illustration, poetry, essays, short stories, and more. if it can be inserted into a digi zine, we want it! on the theme “Oh Beautiful World, How I Wish to Reconnect”

email with your name to floatandfriends@gmail.com by MAY 7.

THE FINALISTS FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD!

Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harpervia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)

CRAFT 2025 Winter Salon - CRAFT CRAFT 2025 Winter Salon Please join us for an hour of readings by award-winning authors! Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 4-5 p.m. PST / 7-8 p.m. EST on Zoom The event is free and open to all intereste...

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I was in the fifth grade the first time I read The Color Purple, and you know what, I’m doing just fine.

I’m curious about whether or not parents actually try to stop their children from reading books on banned book lists?

This might be important to someone you know. Please pass it on.

Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.

Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...

The Millennial CAPTCHA Our 3rd most-read article of 2024. - - -

Our 3rd most-read article of 2024. (Also, our 1st most-read CAPTCHA of '24):

I get this every Sunday. It also sends me messages asking if I want to record my workout. Apple Watches don’t know the difference between running and shouting. A mess.

I wish I still had mine. Jump, Little Children’s Cathedrals just doesn’t play the same on an iPhone.

Lol. Another disappointment.

Is it too late?

Lat night I had two nightmares that somebody ate my to-go plate. At 2 AM I considered eating it just so the inner turmoil could be over. #thanksgiving

Yesterday I used Scrivener and set a session count goal. It really helped! #goals #writing #writersky

My dog’s name is Nas and I only play “The Bridge is Over” on my headphones in case he’s sensitive to slander, but it turns out he’s not even that sensitive.

The way I thought it the same thing… 😂 And I have both Apple Music and Spotify.

drake filing this lawsuit

I have one week until submission reading starts. If my puppy allows it, I’m going to write a draft of short story today. #writing #goals #writersky

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Great advice. That’ll be today’s goal… 500 crappy words!

#Amwriting and I’m very proud of myself for doing so!

I think I'm just going to put on noise canceling headphones for the next four years.

Today’s goal: write 500 words. I can do that, right???? 😫 #writing

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

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