November 21, 2022
Today, we write to you with bittersweet news.
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October 31, 2022
Just in time for Halloween: We're announcing the winner, runner-up, and finalists of the 2022 Waking Flash Prose Prize.
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October 03, 2022
When she thought of all that shiny porcelain shattering down the slope, angels’ limbs mangled and plump cheeks drowned in the muddy river, her body quivered in an almost religious ecstasy.
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October 03, 2022
She had lemons/who crooned to her,/lemons that smoked unfiltered cigarettes,/lemons that rolled down mountains to be near her.
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October 03, 2022
No hurry, the motor idling/away from work/& no five-point schedule or/overnight shifts
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October 03, 2022
Because he found/brother, cousin/facedown. Because he lost/home like bones lose/flesh.
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October 03, 2022
What shock to find a child/can transform you. Once, the Lord in flesh was like this:/strangler fig and tentacled.
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October 03, 2022
Juvenescent jellyfish live to infinity in the mega-flooded/garden of the Mediterranean, those raised, sedimented beds first/planted by the Atlantic.
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October 03, 2022
a cure-all for the colic,/was a baby/in a well-bundled snowsuit -
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October 03, 2022
Oh mother, once upon a time, mother. I owe you something/but what? And what of me here in this white room with the ash/scattered and the rocker stationed at the window.
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October 03, 2022
Cursing, he sat up and then found the goat watching him, a petulant look in its black eyes, and its mouth full and chewing on the woman’s wet hair.
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October 03, 2022
Love is relativistic like that. It can dilate the world to the sharp intake of half a breath, the space between parted lips, the incremental uptick of temperature as two forms share heat. It makes it all stretch into the infinite.
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August 08, 2022
Congratulations to Elisávet Makridis and our other eight finalists!
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June 06, 2022
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May 10, 2022
A short story from Gabriela Halas, which is one of five prose pieces featured in Issue 62.
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May 03, 2022
Poems from our 2021 Broadside Poetry Prize winner and runner-up, Denise Miller and Maria Zoccola.
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April 21, 2022
Up this week: "Encroachment" and "Everbearing"
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April 12, 2022
Up this week: "The Difference Between a Year and a Lifetime" and "Papier-mâché."
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April 06, 2022
Over the next few weeks, we'll be celebrating the winners and runners-up of our last three annual poetry contests.
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March 19, 2022
With our 2022 Poetry Contest in full swing, we're ecstatic to finally announce the judge of this year's prize.
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February 17, 2022
Here at Ruminate, we are so excited to finally share the results of the 2022 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, judged by writer, critic, and journalist Erin Keane.
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December 20, 2021
An interview between Ruminate’s fiction co-editors, Joe Truscello and Emily Woodworth, and Morgan Talty, the judge for the 2022 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize.
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November 10, 2021
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November 03, 2021
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh's visual art "Labyrinth" appears in Issue No. 61: Beginnings and Endings.
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October 27, 2021
Cynthia Gralla's piece "Friendship: A Haiku" appears in Issue 61: Beginnings and Endings.
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October 18, 2021
Arah Ko's winning poem poem "Fish Eye" originally appears in Issue No. 61: Beginnings and Endings
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August 02, 2021
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 60: At Sea.
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July 29, 2021
Walter Robinson's piece "White Coat, Black Habit" appears in Issue 60: At Sea.
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July 28, 2021
Nicholas Samaras's poem "Human Condition" originally appears in Issue No. 60: At Sea.
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July 28, 2021
Paul Roorda's visual art "Falling Sky, Rising Sea" appears in Issue No. 60: At Sea.
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May 26, 2021
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 59: Forged.
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May 19, 2021
This visual art appears in Issue 59: Forged.
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May 12, 2021
Allison Field Bell's piece "Of the Eating Variety" appears in Issue 59: Forged
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May 05, 2021
E. Kristin Anderson's poem "In the Hopes I Can Spell Out My Name" appears in Issue 59: Forged.
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March 09, 2021
Karen Kubin's poem "Lake Harriet, 2005" originally appeared in Ruminate's Issue 53: Shelter.
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