Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!

Send my grad students your longform poetry and prose! Check out the open genre guidelines too! lastsyllablelit.com/submit

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Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!

Send my grad students your long-form writing. @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social is open until Oct. 15! lastsyllablelit.com/submit

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I wrote about sadness for @therumpus.net. Thank you to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social for his editorial guidance :)

The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 4mo ago

"We carry so much fear in our bodies. We carry so much love." From "A Potion for Sadness," a new essay by @meganstielstra.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/iqH5KkH

Check out this sick Vanlife essay by Kevin Kearney at @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2026/08/13/v...

Vanlife at the End of the World - The Rumpus

I expected Wells to launch into an inspirational speech about the nomadic life, one that—like his many YouTube monologues or his appearance in Nomadland—affirmed our collective decision to abandon the...

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@jawicks75.bsky.social and I are back with "Episode 28: EPs - Pixies & Flea," featuring FIGHT CLUB and an essay by Jason Magabo Perez. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-imf7d...

Proud of @sarahbsouthern.bsky.social who just graduated from the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social program! viewpoint.pointloma.edu/a-life-roote...

A Life Rooted in Creativity: Sarah Southern on Chasing Her Dreams | Viewpoint

How a trip to Michigan led this writer to PLNU and into a life of embracing her dreams and passions.

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"Shorty" by @hadas.bsky.social is the boxing essay that you didn't know you needed today! @therumpus.net #RumpusEssays therumpus.net/2026/06/26/s...

Shorty - The Rumpus

People stopped to look. Visitors asked if I was one of Rodney’s fighters and everyone confirmed that I was.

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I'm pumped to be reading at the @therumpus.net offsite #AWP26 event with @roxanegay.bsky.social, @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, @lydiamwrites.bsky.social, @anneliesz.bsky.social & others. Free food, free drinks (for first 80 guests), outstanding writers!

We're gearing up for AWP 2026 in Baltimore! Find us at BOOTH 1240, and click through to learn more about our Flash Fiction contest and offsite event with @roxanegay.bsky.social, @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social, @lydiamwrites.bsky.social & more. ➡️ buff.ly/g6CdKGw

I’m deeply proud to share my essay, “Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996.” Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for their continued support of my writing. This essay is 30 years in the making and a love letter to the time, to the age, to all the girls, and to that place, Knott’s 1996.

Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996 - The Rumpus

At thirteen, we were not afraid to speak aloud what we already knew—we would rather die than let them see the secrets of our bodies exposed. They had taught us enough about hiya, that we feared the we...

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$5 livestreamed Q&A with Jamaica Kincaid this afternoon via the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social Visiting Writers Series!!! plnu.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx...

Point Loma Nazarene University | Ticketing - (LIVESTREAM) Conversation and Q&A with Jamaica Kincaid

Writer's Symposium by the Sea: (LIVESTREAM) Conversation and Q&A with Jamaica KincaidThursday, Feb. 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM Workshop and Q&A with Jamaica KincaidJamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American wri...

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It adds some nice tension to the Olympics coverage if you imagine that Mike Tirico isn’t allowed to leave the NBC studio set. That miniature chaise lounge??? THEY MAKE HIM SLEEP ON IT. That tiny half folded accent blanket??? HIS ONLY SOURCE OF WARMTH.

If you read one essay this week, make it this one by Hazem Almassry at @therumpus.net about how academic language obfuscates the system of violence Israel is enacting in Gaza. #RumpusEssays therumpus.net/2026/01/21/w...

What They Don’t Teach You About Collapse - The Rumpus

The particular form of governance being implemented in Gaza has a shape to it. It’s recognizable if you know what to look for. It's the same shape that appeared in other places, at other times: the ar...

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In my grad workshop I taught Jamaica Kincaid's A SMALL PLACE alongside @misternagel.bsky.social's DUPLEX, CULDESAC, and his LITTLE ENGINES The Unintentionalist column. We examined humor writing and the art of digression in nonfiction. Here's my lesson plan:

Today when we arrived at the MLKJ parade, my four-year-old shouted “MARTIN LUTHER KING PARADE JR.”

Yesterday I had a blast teaching @elenavox.bsky.social's LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT in my grad CNF workshop. Picture 2 is of the books I passed around/used in the class period.

I'm a pacifist except I think that anyone who leaves up those massive yard skeletons year-round should be invaded.

Honored to be featured in @xraylitmag.bsky.social’s 2025 Sampler alongside Ryan Ashley Anderson and @writesloud.bsky.social. Many thanks to @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social for his edits on my Banksy essay! Check out these stellar essays: xraylitmag.com/x-r-a-y-2025...

Such an honor to have my @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Bill Murray story re-envisioned as a Barbie story by @sierra.in.your.corner over on insta. www.instagram.com/p/DSzAmfiEhep/

Sierra Whitney on Instagram: "“Bill Murray Likes to Dress Up as Jesus When He Creates an Altercation” By Robbie Maakestad This work of prose can be found in Whale Road Review’s Issue 34. @whaleroadrev...

22 likes, 1 comments - sierra.in.your.corner on December 27, 2025: "“Bill Murray Likes to Dress Up as Jesus When He Creates an Altercation” By Robbie Maakestad This work of prose can be found in Whale...

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Drove past the Shell gas station from A Fault In Our Stars today and my father-in-law went on about how it’s crazy that they sell gas for .60 higher per gallon than anywhere else in the city

An amazing 2025 Across the Genres reading featuring Jason Magabo Perez, @margapinta2.bsky.social, and Halina Duraj.

'Tis the season

TONIGHTONIGHTONIGHT!!! Featuring readings by @margapinta2.bsky.social, Halina Duraj, and Jason Magabo Perez.

Overheard my 4-year-old patiently talking to my 1-year-old from the other room, "Noooo, we don't put grapes in the toilet."

Earlier this year, in a season of anxious unemployment, I wrote about Chicago's pride and prehistoric joy—SUE the T. rex. It's an essay about fossils and faith; minerals and humble miracles; the conditions that enable transubstantiation. #FossilFriday @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/12/05/t...

To Become a Fossil - The Rumpus

Some people made long pilgrimages to marvel at this superlative specimen. Other people, like the girl growing up in a nearby suburb, got to know SUE through happy proximity. And because her grandma—my...

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Last week we had the absolute pleasure of @kfoslundquist.bsky.social joining the @plnuwritingma.bsky.social program to share her writerly wisdom. So grateful to her for a fantastic visit!

SO PSYCHED to have Foxglove up at @therumpus.net: longing for the lost "wild" homes I shared with my great-grandfather (+ our irregular hearts), a healthy dose of mothering, health anxiety, and suburban yard maintenance! Take your Kali arsenicosum before you read it! therumpus.net/2025/12/04/f...

Foxglove - The Rumpus

Foxglove grows in bells, a stalk with different chambers. When foxglove bells are plucked and dried, crumbled and served in a tea, they enter the ventricles of the heart. Foxglove works like a remedy....

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The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 11mo ago

“To think about the irregularities of my heart is to induce the irregularities of my heart.” From "Foxglove," a new original essay by @suburbanprairie.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/UJcFK89

Happy letter of recommendation season to those of you who celebrate!