Response time can vary from a few days to a few months. Please only send one submission to a given section at a time when we've responded with a decision, you are welcome to submit to that section again. All work must be previously unpublished, which includes personal blogs and social media. Please do not submit the same piece to multiple categories at the same time. Please note, that during our open reading periods, we regularly receive 500-1,000+ submissions within a couple of weeks. To allow our volunteer editorial staff to better handle the workload and respond to your work in a more timely fashion, we've instituted reading periods for certain sections of The Rumpus.
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We are often overwhelmed by the breadth and quality of our submissions. We hope to build enough ongoing support to increase the funding pool for contributors sooner than later. One way we are working toward this is by launching a new Membership program in June 2022. We know that this amount is not enough, and we are always working toward being able to pay a standard industry rate to all feature contributors and book reviewers. All eligible contributors are able to opt in for payment at the end of the month, and the money is divided between those writers who opt in. If you do not see a category, please reference the below reading periods for information on when you can submit.īeginning May 2016, The Rumpus began to pay feature writers and book reviewers.
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