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The words and images in Ruminate awaken your creative spirit.
Stories, poetry, and art teach us to slow down, to listen, and to pay attention—awakening our hearts to ourselves and one another.
Every quarter, we bring you a beautiful issue full of honest and heart-changing stories, poetry, essays, and art. Read our current issue or subscribe and join fellow creatives and contemplatives—let's stay awake together!
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Nonfiction Prize Bundle
$ 21.00 $ 42.00
Nonfiction is the genre that helps us remember we're not alone. It invites us to connect with ourselves and others, revealing our shared human experiences.
The bundle saves you 50% off the cover price and includes three issues–Issue 39, Issue 35, and Issue 28. In addition to art and poetry, these three issues contain past winning essays/short memoirs from the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. If you wish to submit to our Nonfiction Prize, we highly recommend this bundle!
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Encounter the stories, poetry, and art from Ruminate's 10-year anniversary issue
Autumn Rush
As September waltzes into October, nature extends an invitation for all to come outside and join in its pleasant song. And once you begin to notice its melody, fall takes its time to rise to a crescendo.
foreign, or nyctophobia in twelve parts
I am so desperate to explain. I understand you!...It burns my mouth, the shameful logic my parents taught me. I’m Nigerian, not African-American. I am black, but not in that way.