October 27, 2021
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August 18, 2021
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May 20, 2021
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February 27, 2021
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2021 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize!
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December 14, 2020
Ruminate Magazine is thrilled to share with you the winners of the 2020 Broadside Poetry Prize!
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November 26, 2020
Joy is the purest form of gratitude.
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September 17, 2020
We are taking care and taking care. But we are more than that. We are always more.
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September 09, 2020
This week we want to introduce our new fiction editors, Joe Truscello and Emily Woodworth.
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July 24, 2020
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...
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July 22, 2020
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.
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June 22, 2020
Daesha Devón Harris's visual art appears in Issue 48: Exposure.
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May 19, 2020
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.
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May 16, 2020
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.
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April 01, 2020
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."
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January 18, 2020
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!
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November 16, 2019
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.
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August 01, 2019
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.
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May 24, 2019
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.
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May 10, 2019
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.
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March 13, 2019
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!
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December 10, 2018
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.
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August 03, 2018
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.
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July 18, 2018
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.
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July 18, 2018
I’m excited today to introduce you guys to three new staff members: Amanda Hitpas, Rachel King, and Josh MacIvor-Andersen.
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April 27, 2018
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
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February 21, 2018
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January 08, 2018
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July 28, 2017
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July 25, 2017
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June 02, 2017
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May 02, 2017
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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February 01, 2017
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October 31, 2016
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October 12, 2016
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