Hi friends, you really need to do this if you're writing anything. mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/p/yes-you-ne...
Yes, You Need to Write Like There’s No Tomorrow.
A June Post for You
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Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
I think you should read THE ONES WHO DON'T SAY THEY LOVE you by @mauricenow.bsky.social for a gritty realist tribute to New Orleans wrought with love. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
Stories
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I don't think it's exaggerating to say that the stark contrast between Delia Deetz in "Beetlejuice" and Kevin's mom in "Home Alone" was the first time it really dawned on me what acting was.
My number one awp tip is leave the inner harbor because you will just find yourself stumbling around an abandoned landscape of dead malls and a rotting bubba gumps looking for meaning
one thing you could definitely talk me into doing at #awp is getting a spontaneous tattoo
I'm very sorry to say I'll be everywhere at AWP Baltimore this week 😅
Start your Black History Month off right with an awesome Black historical novel! This by @mauricenow.bsky.social is amazing! Get into this story of spies in the antebellum!
My former student has a debut novel out. And we're doing an event together! mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/p/the-interv...
When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.
We can learn from the wise choices we made during difficult times. Those leaps of faith we took that allowed us to fly. mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/p/you-need-t...
Godspeed, bruh🖤
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 10mo agoGonna be scaling back my social media usage as well. Social media is a tool that is useful in quite a few ways, but it’s also an outrage machine. To paraphrase something @mauricenow.bsky.social once said: social media can devour your creativity. I wanna start using them creative muscles agains.
Thank you for the love🖤
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11mo agoHighly recommend re/reading Du Bois's The Comet with the novel We Cast a Shadow by @mauricenow.bsky.social Seems like folks in the US are inching closer to the dystopian futures they describe. #Lit #BlackSky #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Your empathy will never be questioned, if you've truly shown them you cared all along. The right people will always recognize the difference between sincerity and performance.
Thank you to Dr. Greene for this brilliant review of The American Daughters! ourtimepress.com/sowing-the-s...
Sowing the Seeds of Resistance
What you need to know for now is that it was just like this. I wasn’t running away. I was running toward myself.”From The American Daughtersby Maurice Carlos Ruffin We know that spies have always been...
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Dear novelists: thank you. Keep writing. That is all.
I wrote this piece to help writers find their center. mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/p/you-must-l...
You Must Love Yourself to Write Well
The Flagship Newsletter
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Oh man. I loved interviewing author Cleyvis Natera for The Grand Paloma Resort! mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with Cleyvis Natera
Author of The Grand Paloma Resort
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My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @newyorker.com, Jane Mayer, Erika Hayasaki, @lesleymmblume.bsky.social, @vanityfair.com, @mauricenow.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, and @brendanomeara.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/08/a...
‘A Noiseless Flash’: Hiroshima, 80 years later - Nieman Storyboard
The power of one story, and the need for many. Plus: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on “getting your protagonist out of the house”
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I'm glad you enjoyed it, Kate!
Kate 🍾@k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · last yr.By the way, this book was fantastic! So many layers of bravery and love, and the fast pacing was perfect while I bopped around NYC. I saw @mauricenow.bsky.social speak at Baldwin books! Love going there to find new authors, especially local ones :)
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @danaawilliams.bsky.social, @cmtapper.bsky.social, @texasmonthly.bsky.social, @mallarytenore.bsky.social, @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social, @minakimes.bsky.social, @pablo.show, @mauricenow.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/18/t...
Two evergreen lessons in writing and reporting - Nieman Storyboard
Author Dana A. Williams on Toni Morrison's influential work as an editor, plus Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre on the pitfalls of writing about athletes.
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This is my second interview with Oldster. Sari Botton always makes me pay more attention to my time on earth. open.substack.com/pub/mauricec...
The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire Live with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
A recording from Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Sari Botton's live video
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Community Writer Check-In
Hello and welcome to the newsletter about writing, craft, worry, and joy. From time to time, we’ve found it helpful to reach out and check in on the writing community. Who’s in the writing community? ...
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Karisma Price's great first short story! joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...
What Love Makes of Us
They led the men in the church shackled to each other, them big rifles flirting with they backs. They sounded like a choir of Black bells jingling to the alter. They brought them men for labor and for...
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Catch me in Key West this January. www.kwls.org/writers_work...
writers' workshops - Key West Literary Seminar
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