Dear Rabblers,

We were at the Anarchist book fair! In San Bernardino and, soon, in Ottawa, Canada. This editorial board is lucky to have team members on both sides of the East-West North American Corridor. I am writing to you from the Midwest, near Lake Michigan, which people around here call the Big Lake. I think it is endearing. This is Valerie, by the way, one of the newest editors to join the RABBLE REVIEW, along with Rowan! <3 <3

If you’ve been following along, we’ve read through hundreds of pieces and had real conversations about every single thing we read. I want to thank you for trusting us with your work. Being a writer is a vulnerable experience, and sharing that work with the world is like having an exposed underbelly at the maw of something full of need.

We reached the point in the review process where we get to sort through submissions and identify sequences, narratives, stories, or relations that travel through lines. Something spoke from the collective, I feel it as I read, I see it in the language, the meaning (and failure of meaning).

It makes sense to me that a lot of the submissions we’ve received are seeking. I think we can find something like that in Issue 10 (and 11 ;)). The release date is still to be determined! If you submitted work, you have more than likely already heard back from us about placements.

Stay tuned, friends.

Hello reader, as Valerie mentioned, Angel Neri and Andrew Adjei (me), attended the I.E Anarchist Bookfair this past weekend. This is the second bookfair we have attended as, RABBLE REVIEW. We had a lot of fun meeting artists, other orgs, and just being among our community. It is also cool to see all the interest around our literary journal. We rarely get to see the reaction to the work we do out in the real world. We have gotten glimpses from our past contributors and the occasional person who stumbled upon our social media. But seeing people interact with our samplers and open issues of the journal on their phones was very fulfilling. It’s also rare that I look at an issue as though I am a regular reader and wow, we publish some good shit! Pardon my language.

We definitely want to attend more events. Meeting people is so much fun, and having an excuse to talk about RABBLE REVIEW some more is always so much fun. And, as Valerie alluded to earlier, our very own, Jeremy Hurdis, will be at the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair on June 27th. If you’re in the area we hope you stop by. He’ll have some zines and pins to hand out. We love giving stuff out! The flyer for the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair is below:

The, Work of the Week, is chosen at random every Friday and featured on the site for one week (or more if I forget to change it.) Be sure to check back to see which work is featured next: https://rabblereview.com/work-of-the-week

Thank you for reading, reader. We’re excited to be busy bringing you some excellent work from our group of contributors. I’m sending out the final acceptance and rejection letters right now. Once we have confirmation on who will be in the issue I’ll share that info with all of you. It is always a delight to see how the disparate works we receive end up being in conversation with each other. The intention behind Issue 10 and 11 really did come together quickly. We hope to have Issue 10 ready this summer. And Issue 11 we’re aiming to have out around Halloween for reasons we will get into at a later date. For now, let the anticipation build! Or, go read a past issue. I was reminded that we do in fact publish some good shit. Thank you to the contributors who make it possible, and of course, thank you, reader. Have a good week, look out for each other, and stay safe.