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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.
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Share Your story: Ruminate's Nonfiction Prize
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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
Layering Place: In Ourselves, in Our Writing
When we write about people of our own creation, when we write fiction, there’s different work to do. We aren’t just noticing and deciding how to tell what we’ve noticed or experienced...We’re painting in those faint images and sensations ourselves, layering them onto more concrete descriptions of place and reality.
What We've Been Looking For
Yes, the tethers of our bodies are linked like so many dandelion stems in a springtime wreath. Our tendons and muscles and bones are pieced together with the softer parts we’re made of, a promise of completion if we remember to weigh in the soul and the heart....