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The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 ( https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit ),">https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit&qu... so as an editorial staff we put together this thread of what we would like to see in @The_Rumpus submissions:
@marisasaystweet, the Editor-in-Chief of @The_Rumpus, would like to see “Prose by poets, hybrid genre writing, lyric essays. All the weird but good stuff!”
@likethchampagne, the Managing Editor of @The_Rumpus, requests: “Essays that tackle toxic masculinity, particularly from men. Essays that use images to do their emotional lifting. More kink essays plz.”
@The_Rumpus Senior Features Editor, @crf_pdx has “been asking for evergreen pieces, since my queue stretches into the fall. Stories about protest, collective power, and justice are what I& #39;m looking for, told by writers who are writing about their own communities. No Columbusing!”
@The_Rumpus Senior Features Editor, @megiddings: in essays, "all I want is to be surprised."
@The_Rumpus Features Editor, @eve_ettinger would love to see “Hyperlocal essays, hospitality industry essays, medical industry essays, non-white people exploring heritage pieces.”
@The_Rumpus Assistant Features Editor, @darcyjaygagnon requests “Science, lyricism, or both.”
@The_Rumpus Senior Features Editor, @LFB27 would like to see “QTBIPOC writers envisioning a new world through experimental personal-political essays that surprise not explain.”
@The_Rumpus Senior Features Editor, @RobbieMaakestad (me!) would like to see “Researched or experimental essays that undermine power structures; essays that fragment, essays that do something different. Send us your unique and weird!”
@The_Rumpus Features Editor, p.e. garcia wants to see more essays from “new writers, particularly people of color and queer folx.”
@The_Rumpus Assistant Features Editor, @blktinabelcher would like to see “more researched essays, but I also want to hear more from BIPOC.”
@The_Rumpus Features Editor, @happiestwerther loves “researched essays :) I like learning about something (a job, a movie, upholstery, eyeshadow application, etc.) while learning about a narrator.”
@The_Rumpus Features Editor, @kaytaybayy wants “essays that project themselves into the future and ask readers to feel or see beyond now. From LGBTQ & POC, please!”
@The_Rumpus Assistant Features Editor, @mezamanian says, “I would like to see diaspora essays. I am always interested in people& #39;s relationships to their diaspora communities and their family& #39;s origins.”
@The_Rumpus Asst Feat Ed, @DJ_theoretical: “I want to see queer & trans joy from older QT folks, to read abt how QT(esp POC) families are incorporating (often historically anti-queer) heritage to create new, queer traditions. Or creating traditions independent of heritage.”
@The_Rumpus Feat Ed, @theljsharks wants "essays that wake me up at 3AM; essays that showcase what we& #39;re afraid to say out loud. Essays sometimes play it safe or get lost trying to sound a certain way or use too many metaphors. I want the story& #39;s bones to get into mine"
Last, but not least, @The_Rumpus Senior Features Editor, @lmecham would like to see essays “on joy (not from white people).”
