Braid that essay! Start with a personal experience, add a bit of research and follow this with imagined scenes or scenarios to create a braid that is both powerful and unexpected. Join us on Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. EST with @HeidiCzerwiec 👉lafayettewritersstudio.com/classes/braided

Shout out to all the parent poets, the scribble-it-on-a-napkin novelists, the midnight memoirists— to everyone stealing time to write amidst round-the-clock caregiving, working double shifts, handling family situations. Shout out to writing in chaos. Shout out to writing anyway!

Send us summer reading material and tell your friends!

***deadline extended*** We're hiring! ⚡️ We're looking for a full-time Senior Editor to work closely with the executive director and other editorial staff to shape our list. ⁠ Applications due by 6/24: bit.ly/3Y5Ef3R

UPDATE!! We're looking for submissions for our Summer 2024 edition: short fiction, poetry, hybrid, non-fiction, and art pieces are all welcome. Submissions will be accepted from today to 7/4 at midnight (PST). For more info and submission guidelines, see our website!

Show The Rumpus some love!!

From "Scavenging" by Christine Sneed, CQR #39: "At this hour, the garbage trucks haven’t yet started their trips to the last resort, Mom’s name for the landfill less than a mile away. It’s where she drags me two mornings a week to look for anything she can clean up and sell."

Happy 4th of July! I got to be Lady Liberty for the day!

#storysouth is open for submissions for our 58th issue. Read Small Blinking Lights by JOAN LEOTTA storysouth.com/stories/small-… and submit your #cnf via JUAN DORAME storysouth.com/submissions/

LAST DAY to get in your submissions for #storySouth Issue 58. Read "Eddie My Love" by ELEANOR LEVINE (storysouth.com/stories/eddie-…) and submit your #fiction via JUAN DORAME storysouth.com/submissions/

Registration for the 2024 Gathering of Writers is Open! Check out the superb faculty and register now! September 28 at the State Library indianawriters.org/product/gather…

Looking for a generative class? Mighty and Flawed: Characters That Demand Attention-Part 2 1 day Zoom generative class Cost: Pay What You Can/Want (Suggested minimum $10) September 17 @ 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

Essayists: Randon Billings Noble will explore the thinking work of essays in Speculate, Explore, Propose, Reconsider: The Thinking-Work in Essay on 10/24. Randon will be look at writing by Cheryl Strayed, Cathy Park Hong, Maggie Nelson and more! Register 👉lafayettewritersstudio.com/classes/essays

SUBMISSIONS UPDATE: We have hit our cap for PROSE submissions, yet we have a few more spots left for POETRY submissions! Our CHAPBOOK CONTEST, will remain open through 4/15. Send us your best!

Where to Submit Roundup: April 4, 2025 courtesy of NewPages buff.ly/BJMSMpR

News & Reviews featuring Eric Schnall Dr. Giusi Russo Melissa Fraterrigo Sara Dant Alice Beck Kehoe Chris Donnelly George S. MacLeod and more! wp.me/p4J9AE-hah

News and reviews featuring Mitchell Nathanson John M. Glionna Elise Franklin Ed Armston-Sheret Melissa Fraterrigo Tim Manners and more! unpblog.com/2025/08/27/new…

We're giving away 7 copies of THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD by Melissa Fraterrigo (Melissa Fraterrigo) Enter the giveaway on Goodreads here: bit.ly/4mNApbl