Amber McBride
@ambsmcbride.bsky.social
🥀Award Winning Author/Folklorist/ Hoodoo/ Poet/Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner, National Book Award finalist.🏳️🌈
🥀Cozy (Virginia) Country Living
🥀Cozy (Virginia) Country Living
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Amber McBride's latest is a MUST READ! It is also rightfully long-listed for the National Book Award - stay tuned!👀💙 @ambsmcbride.bsky.social @slj.com
www.slj.com/story/4-minu...
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4 Minutes with Amber McBride: An SLJ Exclusive Interview
Take the next four (or more!) minutes to read an exclusive interview with Amber McBride about The Leaving Room, her latest novel in verse for young adults.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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So excited and grateful!
This list of @nationalbook.bsky.social is full of #novelsinverse and I am so here for it 🙌🏽 ! Congrats to all of the long listers🎉 - this is so exciting 🥰 ! #NationalBookAward
#YoungPeoplesLiterature
#LongList 📚💙
📚👍🏼 #Booksky
#YoungPeoplesLiterature
#LongList 📚💙
📚👍🏼 #Booksky
September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So excited and grateful!
Full moon in Aquarius while five planets are in retrograde…
As an Aquarius sun, just don’t talk to me for the next few days. Lol 😬🙃
As an Aquarius sun, just don’t talk to me for the next few days. Lol 😬🙃
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Full moon in Aquarius while five planets are in retrograde…
As an Aquarius sun, just don’t talk to me for the next few days. Lol 😬🙃
As an Aquarius sun, just don’t talk to me for the next few days. Lol 😬🙃
Reposted by Amber McBride
Did you know we've created a teacher's guide for ONYX & BEYOND by @ambsmcbride.bsky.social?
Consider adding this title into your curriculum next year! Tap the link to download ✨ bit.ly/3Fq0Eol
#edusky
Consider adding this title into your curriculum next year! Tap the link to download ✨ bit.ly/3Fq0Eol
#edusky
June 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Did you know we've created a teacher's guide for ONYX & BEYOND by @ambsmcbride.bsky.social?
Consider adding this title into your curriculum next year! Tap the link to download ✨ bit.ly/3Fq0Eol
#edusky
Consider adding this title into your curriculum next year! Tap the link to download ✨ bit.ly/3Fq0Eol
#edusky
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March 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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THE LEAVING ROOM (Out Oct. 7th) 🖤🏳️🌈🫙
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room--a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room--a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
THE LEAVING ROOM (Out Oct. 7th) 🖤🏳️🌈🫙
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room--a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room--a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Hear me out…
Maybe I should just announce an ENTIRELY NEW BOOK that comes out in 2025 with A NEW BOOK COVER crafted by the brilliant Rich Deas on Monday to celebrate MLK Day, diversity & books about the Black experience bc like nothing else important is happening that day. Yay MLK! 🖤
Maybe I should just announce an ENTIRELY NEW BOOK that comes out in 2025 with A NEW BOOK COVER crafted by the brilliant Rich Deas on Monday to celebrate MLK Day, diversity & books about the Black experience bc like nothing else important is happening that day. Yay MLK! 🖤
January 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hear me out…
Maybe I should just announce an ENTIRELY NEW BOOK that comes out in 2025 with A NEW BOOK COVER crafted by the brilliant Rich Deas on Monday to celebrate MLK Day, diversity & books about the Black experience bc like nothing else important is happening that day. Yay MLK! 🖤
Maybe I should just announce an ENTIRELY NEW BOOK that comes out in 2025 with A NEW BOOK COVER crafted by the brilliant Rich Deas on Monday to celebrate MLK Day, diversity & books about the Black experience bc like nothing else important is happening that day. Yay MLK! 🖤
MOTH & GONE WOLF are making moves! 🦋🖤🐺
January 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
MOTH & GONE WOLF are making moves! 🦋🖤🐺
over a decade ago, 23 year old me would have given up writing after i got my MFA if not for Nikki Giovanni & Dr. Gabbin. yall would have had no books from me.
grateful for Nikki Giovanni’s life & legacy.
rest well 🖤
grateful for Nikki Giovanni’s life & legacy.
rest well 🖤
December 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
over a decade ago, 23 year old me would have given up writing after i got my MFA if not for Nikki Giovanni & Dr. Gabbin. yall would have had no books from me.
grateful for Nikki Giovanni’s life & legacy.
rest well 🖤
grateful for Nikki Giovanni’s life & legacy.
rest well 🖤
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All the Black Virginian girls are going through it on IG. It's amazing how many of us have been in community with Nikki Giovanni throughout our lives. ❤️🩹
December 11, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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my grandma passed yesterday morning from complications associated with dementia.
ONYX & BEYOND was inspired by my dad & his mom. we wrote it as a gift to her, to show what dementia can be like but also to highlight how Black families take care of & love each other.
all the moonstones 🖤
ONYX & BEYOND was inspired by my dad & his mom. we wrote it as a gift to her, to show what dementia can be like but also to highlight how Black families take care of & love each other.
all the moonstones 🖤
November 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM
my grandma passed yesterday morning from complications associated with dementia.
ONYX & BEYOND was inspired by my dad & his mom. we wrote it as a gift to her, to show what dementia can be like but also to highlight how Black families take care of & love each other.
all the moonstones 🖤
ONYX & BEYOND was inspired by my dad & his mom. we wrote it as a gift to her, to show what dementia can be like but also to highlight how Black families take care of & love each other.
all the moonstones 🖤
my middle grade & young adult book covers are (chefs kiss)…the best cover artists. 🖤🙏🏾
November 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
my middle grade & young adult book covers are (chefs kiss)…the best cover artists. 🖤🙏🏾
I almost reactivated my Twitter account before the 30 days to talk to Black Twitter about Kendrick bc yall are NOT hype enough here.
(side eye 👀)
(side eye 👀)
November 23, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I almost reactivated my Twitter account before the 30 days to talk to Black Twitter about Kendrick bc yall are NOT hype enough here.
(side eye 👀)
(side eye 👀)
Kendrick taught me the true definition of they go low I GO TO THE CORE OF THE EARTH.
& I respect him for that.
& I respect him for that.
November 23, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Kendrick taught me the true definition of they go low I GO TO THE CORE OF THE EARTH.
& I respect him for that.
& I respect him for that.
Hi. I made an account.
I write books.
I write books.
November 20, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Hi. I made an account.
I write books.
I write books.