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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A campus novel, but make it weird... Happy to have a review up at Belt Magazine today. You're going to want to check out Meduri's debut novel. Just read my review first.😆 #campus #novel #debut #fiction #Ohio

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Really a fine piece of investigative reporting here. It's been a very long time since I fell prey to this mag's ways. But I remember loving Edgarian's debut novel when it came out. Sad for someone to know what it means to be a new writer and then treat younger generations of the same like this...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We can't wait to read your debut novels! ✨ Our submission period opens tonight Friday 1/10/25 at midnight PT (technically Sat 1/11/25 @ 12:01 am PT) and stays open until Sunday 1/12/25 @ 11:59 pm PT. See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work at the link! tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Poetry lovers, fiction lovers, etc., I interviewed Youngstown Oh native, poet, novelist, and retired prof William Heath. I love finding out what--and where--makes a writer tick. Hopefully you will, too... rustbeltgirl.com/2025/01/09/m...

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My interview with author William Heath

William Heath, a poet and novelist from Youngstown, Ohio, has contributed extensively to the literature of the Rust Belt and far beyond through four poetry books, three novels, and works on America…

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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

If you're waiting for a personal invitation, this is it. oleada.io/publication/...

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Rust Belt Magazine @beltmagazine.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

“May Day isn’t just an estimably American holiday, it’s a particularly #RustBelt holiday, forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and plants of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.” - Belt EIC Ed Simon beltmag.com/may-day-is-a...

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May Day is a Rust Belt Holiday

May Day isn’t just an estimably American holiday, it’s a particularly Rust Belt holiday, forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and...

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

I interviewed Amy Jo Burns about her second novel, out last year, called MERCURY. Like mystery, literary, family drama? Amy Jo's got you covered. We talked craft and process, writing about motherhood and female friendship, and even what's hot in kids' books: rustbeltgirl.com/2024/04/19/m...

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My interview with Amy Jo Burns, author of Mercury

Let's begin with a sample paragraph from Amy Jo's stunning literary (also mystery) family saga: Spring was breaking through in lilac buds and daffodil shoots, but winter held on. Tufts of dirty snow c...

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

A fellow writer and reader, who often tunes into my blog about writing about place said this about me: "You are my tour guide to the region I've lived in all my life." Tbh, that one compliment makes 7 years of blogging so worth it! I'd love to see more Bluesky friends there: rustbeltgirl.com

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Rust Belt Girl

reading and writing the Rust Belt with Rebecca Moon Ruark

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Writers! The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC and American University on April 13, 2024! Registration is open and still just $75. Lots more details coming soon. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference/

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Barrelhouse Conference Conversations and Connections — Barrelhouse

Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA on September 23, 2023.

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Anybody here in the #writingcommunity, #reading community, etc., in the Baltimore area? I'm the featured reader at this series and would love to see your face! ecpoetryandprose.org/event/salon-... #ocamocha, #q&a, #booktalk, #reading

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Salon Series at Oca Mocha – Rust Belt Girl – EC Poetry & Prose

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

My wrap-up for 2023 at the blog, Rust Belt Girl, where I hype the lit of my native place (and beyond). Author interviews, book reviews, guest essays--it was a great and collaborative year. Thank you, all! #WritingCommunity, #readingcommunity rustbeltgirl.com/2023/12/31/w...

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Welcome to the 2023 Rust Belt Girl round-up…

Cue the fireworks: Just under the wire, I present to you my Rust Belt Girl superlatives for 2023... Enjoy, and keep the writing and reading mojo going all year long!

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I hope you'll check this out--and follow! @shemaiahng chose my piece, "Jesus, My Son's Buckteeth," (first pubbed by Presence) for today's guest post. #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #Parenthood Undaunted Joy #81 Guest Post Rebecca Moon Ruark, by @shemaiahng open.substack.com/pub/shemaiah...

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Did you attend Lit Youngstown's Fall Literary Festival? I'd love to know your highlights. Also, read my recap and get psyched about next year's great lineup of featured authors!

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Rebecca Renner @rebeccarenner.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Gator Country is out today! "Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." — The New York Times Read an excerpt in Crime Reads: crimereads.com/gator-countr...

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A Journey Into the Heart of the Everglades, and the Alligator Poacher Sting that Divided a Community

In January 2020, I drove down from Orlando to the easternmost edge of the Everglades and booked a room in the neon-dazzled Miccosukee Casino & Resort, a hotel in the no-man’s-land between the g…

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

#writingcommunity, #authors, #fictionwriters, #amquerying Has anyone used Winning Writers' manuscript critique service before? Wondering if it's worth it for a beta read with totally fresh eyes. TIA!

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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Dear writers, poets, photographers, artists of any kind: Anti-Heroin Chic's submissions window for our December issue is now open! Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of thoughts and feelings yearning to breathe free 🧡

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Who here in the #writing community will swoon over A GHOST IN THE THROAT by Doireann Ni Ghriofa with me?! Right now I'm in the "In the Milking Parlour" chapter and I'm remember my days postpartum with one of my twins in the NICU. "... we are all in hell together." That hit me so hard. #writers #read

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2023

Folks, celebrate your friends. I know you probably know this, but it's easy to forget. Take joy in their successes and cheer on their moments in the sun, and always let them know they make your life better. It matters.

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

In honor of hearing #poet Ross Gay read at Lit Youngstown's Fall #Literary Festival in a couple weeks, I'm posting this piece from Rust Belt Girl. Enjoy Rust Belt writers, writing, and rumination from long-winded me? Check it out, #readers, #writingcommunity rustbeltgirl.com/2023/01/21/r...

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Reading rn …

If you've ever had a friend who knows just the right thing to say when you're mourning or elated, terribly empty or full to bursting ... you know what it's like to read Ross Gay. WordPress is doing #b...

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Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I have a new story out in the gorgeous Hyacinth Review. hyacinthreview.org/coleman-bige... #flashfiction #newstory #amwriting

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I am a mom and a writer. Feel like the #momswritersclub over here in the sky might be just the right spot for me?

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Sandy Butchers @sandybutchers.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

This is some super useful information for all you writers, authors and wordy creatives out there! It tells you which keywords and #'s trigger algorithms in specific Blue Sky feeds

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Where are my #funeralsingers here in the sky? Super excited to be singing at a wedding ceremony next week. Will update when I know what hymns. Fingers crossed for the Bach/Gounod "Ave Maria"--always a hit!

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I love to #interview #authors with a Rust Belt vibe at my Rust Belt Girl blog. Maybe you like to read interviews with a Rust Belt vibe? If so, it's your lucky day. Happy Friday, readers and writers! (Here's part one of two. I hope you'll visit the site for more.) rustbeltgirl.com/2023/04/21/m...

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My interview with Valerie Nieman, author of In the Lonely Backwater: Part I

Poet and author Valerie Nieman talked with me at Rust Belt Girl about how her Rust Belt and Appalachian upbringing informs her creative work, shares some of her poetry and inspiration, fills us in on ...

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 24/09/2023

There are people in this world—a lot of them, even—who don't realize that reading is "doing something." These people think reading is "waiting for something to do." Stay strong, fellow readers. I feel you. Books up. 📚

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Is it the writing? Is it the drawings? Is it the colors? All so lovely.

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hoping to connect with #fictionwriters, #poets, #essayists, and #authors--especially those writing about or living in the American Rust Belt. I'm always on the lookout for good guest posts for my Rust Belt Girl blog: author interviews, book reviews, essays and poetry on place. 🤙 rustbeltgirl.com

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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I see I'm going to have to post here. Ack, first post nerves! Such performance anxiety. I haven't even warmed up. Who thought it was a good idea to give long-winded writers 124 more characters here? OK, 95 now. Nope, 84. 77. Happy to be with you, #writingcommunity. Is that a thing here?

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