2021 VANDERMEY NONFICTION PRIZE WINNERS: Caroline Tracey + Alex Pickens
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2021 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize!
2020 Broadside Poetry Prize Winner
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2020 Broadside Poetry Prize!
The Thing That Can't Wait: A Reflection on Winning Ruminate's William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
We are taking care and taking care. But we are more than that. We are always more.
Announcing our New Fiction Editors
This week we want to introduce our new fiction editors, Joe Truscello and Emily Woodworth.
A Poetry Editor’s Guide to Ruminate
I’ve tried to quantify my time here. In close to six years as poetry editor, I’ve read and evaluated near 10,000 poetry submissions, worked with over 250 poets, and co-edited twenty-four issues. However, I can’t quite quantify what I’ve learned from Ruminate—the community it’s extended to me, the people I’ve learned from and with along the way. In preparing an editorial handbook for the two incredible poets who will soon take up my position, I tried to distill the essential duties of being po...
2020 JANET B. MCCABE POETRY PRIZE WINNERS: Laura Budofsky Wisniewski and Yvette Siegert
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2020 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. The winning poems were selected by our final judge Katie Peterson.
Six Month Update
Dear Friends of Ruminate,
Thank you for your faith and trust during this transition. We’re nearly six months into our journey toward the future of Ruminate Magazine and it’s been a privilege to watch our amazing community and staff step up to the plate as we navigated uncharted territory for the organization. I’m pleased to announce that we’ll all be a part of this community for a long time to come: Ruminate has decided to remain an independent literary arts magazine.
2020 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize Winners: Leigh Claire Schmidli + Etan Nechin
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2020 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize! The winning pieces were selected by our final judge, Wendy J. Fox, and will appear in our fall 2020 issue which releases mid-September! You can subscribe now to receive Issue 56 or pre-order the issue here.
Happenings
Please join us May 19-23 for this wild and beautiful experience. Our contributors want to take your narrative and as Marie Howe said, "transform it, type it out, and then read it back to [you]. It [is your] own lives, given back, if you will."
2020 VANDERMEY NONFICTION PRIZE WINNERS: JASMINE V. BAILEY + KELLY J. BEARD
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2020 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize! The winning poems were selected by our final judge, Brianna Van Dyke, and will appear in our summer 2020 issue which releases mid-June!
2019 RUMINATE BROADSIDE POETRY PRIZE WINNER: Meredith Stricker
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2019 Ruminate Broadside Poetry Prize. The winning poems were selected by our final judge, Kristin George Bagdanov.
2019 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize Winners: John Sibley Williams + Amy Trotter
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2019 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. The winning poems were selected by our final judge, Craig Santos Perez.
2019 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize Winners: Joshua Gray + Kate Bradley
We're pleased to share with you the winners of the 2019 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, selected by our final judge, Tyrese Coleman.
2019 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize Winners: Porter Huddleston + Kristin Leclaire
Ruminate Magazine is pleased to share with you the winners of the 2019 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. The winning piece was selected by our final judge, Jessica Wilbanks. You can read the winning pieces in Issue 51: Consume.
Ruminate at AWP 2019 in Portland
We are very excited to be heading to Portland for AWP in just a few weeks! We are co-hosting two readings and will be at the AWP Bookfair for its duration. Here's a run down of where we'll be and when. We'd love to see you!
2019 Kalos Visual Art Prize Winners: Jennifer Cronin + Margie Criner
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2019 Kalos Visual Art Prize. The winning piece was selected by our final judge, Betty Spackman.
2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize Winners: Paula Harris + Clemonce Heard
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. The winning piece was selected by our final judge, Ilya Kaminsky.
Announcing the 2018 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize Winners
We are excited to share with you the winners of the 2018 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. The winning stories were selected by our final judge, Susan Woodring.
Welcome, welcome!
I’m excited today to introduce you guys to three new staff members: Amanda Hitpas, Rachel King, and Josh MacIvor-Andersen.
The 2018 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize Finalists & Semifinalists
We are excited to announce the semifinalists and finalists of Ruminate's 2018 William Short Story Prize! Thank you to everyone who entered, and special thanks to Susan Woodring, who is judging the prize
2017 Short Story Prize Winners: April Vázquez, Andrew McCuaig, and Monica Jimenez
Ruminate Magazine is excited to share with you the winners of the 2017 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. The winning story was selected by our final judge, LaToya Watkins.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.