Maurice Ruffin

The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire Live with Maurice Carlos Ruffin A recording from Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Sari Botton's live video

This is my second interview with Oldster. Sari Botton always makes me pay more attention to my time on earth.
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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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You Need to Know Your Value Plus, a writing prompt for you.

You Need to Know Your Value.
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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...

Karisma Price's great first short story!

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The Interview with E. M. Tran Author of Daughters of the New Year

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writers' workshops - Key West Literary Seminar

Catch me in Key West this January.

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Thank y'all. Sold out!

The American Daughters: A Novel Amazon.com: The American Daughters: A Novel: 9780593729397: Ruffin, Maurice Carlos: Books

They're running a special. You can buy The American Daughters hard cover for only $9.

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You’re Going the Wrong Way Plus, a free writing prompt.

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A reminder:
Authoritarian capitalism, in which corporations ally themselves with repressive or anti-democratic political regimes, benefiting from protection and impunity.

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

My Substack is for writers, thinkers, and anyone trying to find their creative way.

THIS SATURDAY. The Souf Got Something to Say.

My Substack is for writers, thinkers, and anyone trying to find their creative way.

Poetry by Maurice Carlos Ruffin - 64 Parishes Poetry by New York Times-bestselling author of The American Daughters Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

I published a new poem in Louisiana. Hold it for me, would you?

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Hi to all the writers and creators out there. I'm Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of three fiction books. Follow me on Substack for illuminating essays, interviews, and podcast episodes about the creative experience.

The Interview with Morgan Jerkins Author of ZEAL

It's always nice to chat with the great Morgan Jerkins!

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The Burning of Nottoway Plantation A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

I had thoughts about the plantation burning. Lots of thoughts.

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Thanks for sharing!

The Burning of Nottoway Plantation A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

The great @mauricenow.bsky.social on the burning of Nottoway and how we look at places with horrific histories

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Thanks!

Craft Seminar: How To Write An Essay Collection with Alexander Chee — The Shipman Agency 2 Sessions: Sundays, July 13 + 27 1:00-3:30 pm ET Alexander Chee Alexander Chee is the author of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, named most recently as one of...

Returning with two online craft seminar classes this summer. The first meets on two Sundays in July, a look at several approaches to creating an essay collection, and includes suggested readings and writing prompts for essays, 3 per class. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

The Burning of Nottoway Plantation A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

I had thoughts about the plantation burning. Lots of thoughts.

time.com/7287295/burn...

Community Check-In The Flagship Newsletter

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It really is! Only my guy did it three times.

Too Late about Publishing My First Book - Five Things I've Learned Join writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin in his live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He's Learned about how to make the most of your one opportunity to announce yourself to the world...

Join me next month!!

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Be careful of the stories you tell yourself about yourself.

Haha! They had notes

THREAD:
So what did I hear at the oral argument in the birthright citizenship case this morning? What was clear from when the cert petition was filed: Trump & his lawyers tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Trying to squeeze a win out of his serial losses in federal district courts in….1/