Susan Muaddi Darraj
@susanmd.bsky.social
Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com
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Breaking news: @susanmd.bsky.social 's BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA is longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award! Personal gratitude to jurors @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social @bruceholsinger.bsky.social @urrealism.bsky.social & 🥂 to an incredible longlist...if you haven't yet, read this bighearted book.
February 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Breaking news: @susanmd.bsky.social 's BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA is longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award! Personal gratitude to jurors @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social @bruceholsinger.bsky.social @urrealism.bsky.social & 🥂 to an incredible longlist...if you haven't yet, read this bighearted book.
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Good news. Anne Tyler has a new novel out, Three Days in June. This is a lovely interview. And by the way, she recommends Susan Muaddi Darraj's novel "Behind You Is the Sea." @susanmd.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...
At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else. (Gift Article)
While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: Start on Page 1, then keep writing.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Good news. Anne Tyler has a new novel out, Three Days in June. This is a lovely interview. And by the way, she recommends Susan Muaddi Darraj's novel "Behind You Is the Sea." @susanmd.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...
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Nice to see @susanmd.bsky.social's BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA on @thenewyorker.bsky.social Best of 2024
"Darraj writes with great emotional resonance about hope and disappointment."
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"Darraj writes with great emotional resonance about hope and disappointment."
www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Nice to see @susanmd.bsky.social's BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA on @thenewyorker.bsky.social Best of 2024
"Darraj writes with great emotional resonance about hope and disappointment."
www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
"Darraj writes with great emotional resonance about hope and disappointment."
www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
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We're so grateful for this chance to gather stories by 15 brilliant writers of color, incl @susanmd.bsky.social & @cholasalvation.bsky.social to celebrate Kweli Journal's 15th anniversary. Read the publisher's note on the book & stay tuned for pre-orders 💫 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sing-t...
December 12, 2024 at 3:28 PM
We're so grateful for this chance to gather stories by 15 brilliant writers of color, incl @susanmd.bsky.social & @cholasalvation.bsky.social to celebrate Kweli Journal's 15th anniversary. Read the publisher's note on the book & stay tuned for pre-orders 💫 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sing-t...
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ASK THE NIGHT FOR A DREAM: PALESTINIAN WRITING FROM THE DIASPORA — edited by @susanmd.bsky.social — is available for pre-order; 20% off for a limited time with code: dream.
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Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing From the Diaspora (2024) – Palestine Writes
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January 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ASK THE NIGHT FOR A DREAM: PALESTINIAN WRITING FROM THE DIASPORA — edited by @susanmd.bsky.social — is available for pre-order; 20% off for a limited time with code: dream.
palestinewrites.org/product/ask-...
palestinewrites.org/product/ask-...
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And all of a sudden it's January, and my monthly Reads for the Rest of Us is live @msmagazine.bsky.social !
Check out my book recs which include new releases by @susanmd.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @crystalwilki.bsky.social and more!
msmagazine.com/2024/01/10/j...
Check out my book recs which include new releases by @susanmd.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @crystalwilki.bsky.social and more!
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January 2024: Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, APPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers for January 2024.
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January 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM
And all of a sudden it's January, and my monthly Reads for the Rest of Us is live @msmagazine.bsky.social !
Check out my book recs which include new releases by @susanmd.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @crystalwilki.bsky.social and more!
msmagazine.com/2024/01/10/j...
Check out my book recs which include new releases by @susanmd.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social @crystalwilki.bsky.social and more!
msmagazine.com/2024/01/10/j...
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The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial... /1
November 5, 2023 at 12:01 AM
The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial... /1
October 31, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Proud to be Palestinian ♥️🇵🇸🕊
October 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM
Proud to be Palestinian ♥️🇵🇸🕊
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Do not go gentle into that good night
July 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
August 12, 2023 at 2:27 PM
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
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Do you even know how many pillows I need to sleep bro
August 17, 2023 at 5:05 AM
Do you even know how many pillows I need to sleep bro
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Have been baffled abt how to use social media the past few years, but it’s dawning on me what it’s gonna be now for gen x—and all generations, eventually: a place to share our collective grief.
August 1, 2023 at 12:48 AM
Have been baffled abt how to use social media the past few years, but it’s dawning on me what it’s gonna be now for gen x—and all generations, eventually: a place to share our collective grief.
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It feels like a fresh, new school year here at BlueSky, and I'm bumping into all the people I want to hang out with at lunch:)
August 3, 2023 at 4:47 AM
It feels like a fresh, new school year here at BlueSky, and I'm bumping into all the people I want to hang out with at lunch:)
So grateful 🙏 to poet, novelist, and overall extraordinary human being Naomi Shihab Nye for her thoughtful statement about BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA!
August 3, 2023 at 12:11 PM
So grateful 🙏 to poet, novelist, and overall extraordinary human being Naomi Shihab Nye for her thoughtful statement about BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA!
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I guess I should finally do one of those introductory posts on here. Hello everyone. My name is Hanna Alkaf, and I write critically-acclaimed, sometimes-award-nominated, sometimes-even-award-winning, very Malaysian MG and YA novels.
July 30, 2023 at 2:11 AM
I guess I should finally do one of those introductory posts on here. Hello everyone. My name is Hanna Alkaf, and I write critically-acclaimed, sometimes-award-nominated, sometimes-even-award-winning, very Malaysian MG and YA novels.
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I have realized that I've been so tired for so long that I can't even remember what it feels like to be rested.
July 30, 2023 at 1:25 AM
I have realized that I've been so tired for so long that I can't even remember what it feels like to be rested.
The sky before the Orioles game last night. We were all told to leave the stands and seek shelter. We camped out in the stairwells for over an hour. It was wild to watch the lightning flash across the sky and listen to the rain. What a storm.
July 29, 2023 at 1:19 PM
The sky before the Orioles game last night. We were all told to leave the stands and seek shelter. We camped out in the stairwells for over an hour. It was wild to watch the lightning flash across the sky and listen to the rain. What a storm.
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Great to see so many writers coming here now. Let's rebuild the writing community. If you’re an author or screenwriter, reply and say hello so we can all find you and follow each other. And if you want to repost this, that would also help.
July 28, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Great to see so many writers coming here now. Let's rebuild the writing community. If you’re an author or screenwriter, reply and say hello so we can all find you and follow each other. And if you want to repost this, that would also help.
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Finally wrote a blog post. First one this summer! "Where to Submit Your Stuff," in which I provide links to ranked lists and databases for writers looking for places to submit their work. Take a look. #authors
Where to Submit Your Stuff
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July 27, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Finally wrote a blog post. First one this summer! "Where to Submit Your Stuff," in which I provide links to ranked lists and databases for writers looking for places to submit their work. Take a look. #authors
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