Maceo Nafisah
@mamaceo.bsky.social
Insomniac writer and book coach. ☪️🇨🇺🇺🇸 living in 🇵🇹 🔻🆓🇵🇸🤎
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Trying to write while there is constant construction noise is jarring. I can only imagine what it’s like to write while your homeland is being bombed. #freepalestine
December 3, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Trying to write while there is constant construction noise is jarring. I can only imagine what it’s like to write while your homeland is being bombed. #freepalestine
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Some days I think my heart can’t break anymore, but each day it shatters further.
This man has done so, so much good for so, so many people.
Inna lillahi wa inna illeyhi raji'un, and prayers for his seven children.
This man has done so, so much good for so, so many people.
Inna lillahi wa inna illeyhi raji'un, and prayers for his seven children.
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
November 30, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Some days I think my heart can’t break anymore, but each day it shatters further.
This man has done so, so much good for so, so many people.
Inna lillahi wa inna illeyhi raji'un, and prayers for his seven children.
This man has done so, so much good for so, so many people.
Inna lillahi wa inna illeyhi raji'un, and prayers for his seven children.
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It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.
November 28, 2024 at 6:58 PM
It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.
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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
More than a year into...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 28, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List
I’m failing at this post 20 books for 20 days trend. Thanks ADHD!
Here’s my version of it. I’ll get to 20 books somehow.
#books
#reading
#writingcommunity
#beyourself
Here’s my version of it. I’ll get to 20 books somehow.
#books
#reading
#writingcommunity
#beyourself
November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I’m failing at this post 20 books for 20 days trend. Thanks ADHD!
Here’s my version of it. I’ll get to 20 books somehow.
#books
#reading
#writingcommunity
#beyourself
Here’s my version of it. I’ll get to 20 books somehow.
#books
#reading
#writingcommunity
#beyourself
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There’s no more bread
The children can’t be fed
Everything has been said,
My sister tells me.
It’s getting very cold
Our bodies can’t hold
This pain can’t be told,
My sister tells me.
Our belongings are wet
The wind is now a threat
No warmth to ever get,
My sister tells me.
#KeepTellingofGaza
The children can’t be fed
Everything has been said,
My sister tells me.
It’s getting very cold
Our bodies can’t hold
This pain can’t be told,
My sister tells me.
Our belongings are wet
The wind is now a threat
No warmth to ever get,
My sister tells me.
#KeepTellingofGaza
November 26, 2024 at 7:04 AM
There’s no more bread
The children can’t be fed
Everything has been said,
My sister tells me.
It’s getting very cold
Our bodies can’t hold
This pain can’t be told,
My sister tells me.
Our belongings are wet
The wind is now a threat
No warmth to ever get,
My sister tells me.
#KeepTellingofGaza
The children can’t be fed
Everything has been said,
My sister tells me.
It’s getting very cold
Our bodies can’t hold
This pain can’t be told,
My sister tells me.
Our belongings are wet
The wind is now a threat
No warmth to ever get,
My sister tells me.
#KeepTellingofGaza
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According to Raja Sharaf, audiologist and speech-language pathologist from Gaza, hearing loss has remained a significant and growing problem since the Israeli siege on the enclave in 2007 due to frequent Israeli bombing and sonic booms.
www.newarab.com/news/bombed-...
www.newarab.com/news/bombed-...
Bombed into silence: Hearing loss skyrockets in besieged Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza have been shocked to find their hearing impaired following Israeli bombing and are concerned they won't be able to hear incoming attacks
www.newarab.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
According to Raja Sharaf, audiologist and speech-language pathologist from Gaza, hearing loss has remained a significant and growing problem since the Israeli siege on the enclave in 2007 due to frequent Israeli bombing and sonic booms.
www.newarab.com/news/bombed-...
www.newarab.com/news/bombed-...
Any photogenic white doctor who follows me gets blocked. If you’re going to cat phish me at least know my type!
November 26, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Any photogenic white doctor who follows me gets blocked. If you’re going to cat phish me at least know my type!
Hey writers, saw this call for pitches and thought of you!
I got it from The Writers Job Newsletter.
#BIPOCwriters
I got it from The Writers Job Newsletter.
#BIPOCwriters
November 26, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Hey writers, saw this call for pitches and thought of you!
I got it from The Writers Job Newsletter.
#BIPOCwriters
I got it from The Writers Job Newsletter.
#BIPOCwriters
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🚨🌍✨ Our international call for submissions is now OPEN! Writers, artists, and scholars, we invite YOU to contribute to our prestigious yearly issue, available in print & digital. Don't miss this chance to share your voice with the world! 🖌️📚 #CallForSubmissions #WritersLife
November 25, 2024 at 7:27 PM
🚨🌍✨ Our international call for submissions is now OPEN! Writers, artists, and scholars, we invite YOU to contribute to our prestigious yearly issue, available in print & digital. Don't miss this chance to share your voice with the world! 🖌️📚 #CallForSubmissions #WritersLife
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The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM
The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
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This Thursday online 7-8 pm GMT
Working-class Writing: Why your voice needs to be heard - Women's Prize
Join 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction chair of judges and writer Kit de Waal and 2025 Discoveries judge and novelist Dreda Say Mitchell for this online event exploring the challenges […]
womensprize.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:11 AM
This Thursday online 7-8 pm GMT
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BlueskyBooks
Day 3
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BlueskyBooks
November 22, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BlueskyBooks
Day 3
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BlueskyBooks
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Surprise! At Home Author is hosting an online PB conference in January! We have 6 agents taking pitches and incredible presenters like Ivan Taurisano and Rosie J. Pova (and many more!) Registration goes live Black Friday! #WritingCommunity #pb
www.allthingspicturebooks.com/pbcc-notify
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November 21, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Surprise! At Home Author is hosting an online PB conference in January! We have 6 agents taking pitches and incredible presenters like Ivan Taurisano and Rosie J. Pova (and many more!) Registration goes live Black Friday! #WritingCommunity #pb
www.allthingspicturebooks.com/pbcc-notify
www.allthingspicturebooks.com/pbcc-notify
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They're right about one thing: "There's no equivalence--none--between Israel and Hamas."
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
November 21, 2024 at 7:36 PM
They're right about one thing: "There's no equivalence--none--between Israel and Hamas."
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
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What a day! The ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Canada says it will abide by the ruling, and now Matt Gaetz withdraws his bid for AG. Good news all around.
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
What a day! The ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Canada says it will abide by the ruling, and now Matt Gaetz withdraws his bid for AG. Good news all around.
My favorite way of developing craft is by reading. 🙌🏼
I edit others & do publishing things in the day and write my own stuff at night.
I can say editing writers that are way better than me has made my own writing better.
Make sure to read a lot and read why something works or doesn't work. It helps a lot with improving your craft.
I can say editing writers that are way better than me has made my own writing better.
Make sure to read a lot and read why something works or doesn't work. It helps a lot with improving your craft.
November 21, 2024 at 9:07 AM
My favorite way of developing craft is by reading. 🙌🏼
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It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain.
How my family has survived the famine in Gaza
It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In…
mondoweiss.net
November 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM
It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain.
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Here is the full list of National Book Award winners:
Here are the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards…
After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speeches about books, presenting the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards: YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between G.P. Putna…
lithub.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Here is the full list of National Book Award winners:
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We're honored to share this excerpt from former Palestinian prisoner Wisam Rafeedie’s autobiographical novel from 1804 Books, The Trinity of Fundamentals, alongside striking art visuals by Malak Mattar.
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
Love, Life and Revolution
An excerpt from former Palestinian prisoner Wisam Rafeedie’s autobiographical novel The Trinity of Fundamentals .
inthesetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
We're honored to share this excerpt from former Palestinian prisoner Wisam Rafeedie’s autobiographical novel from 1804 Books, The Trinity of Fundamentals, alongside striking art visuals by Malak Mattar.
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
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November 21, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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#kidlit #writers #childrensbooks #authors check out this opportunity 👇👇👇
bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...
bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 - £5,000 writing prize
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 is a £5,000 international writing competition for children’s novels, chapter books, YA novels and picture book texts.
bathnovelaward.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:03 PM
#kidlit #writers #childrensbooks #authors check out this opportunity 👇👇👇
bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...
bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...