The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 (therumpus.submittable.com/submit), 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'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's relationships to their diaspora communities and their family'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'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'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).”
