This year’s Walter Dean Myers Awards Ceremony took place on April 11th at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., presented in collaboration with the @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social! 📚

Thank you to everyone who made the 2025 Walter Awards Ceremony such a success!

I’m THRILLED to announce my next two books will be published by Entangled Teen!
This story has been a piece of my soul for a long time and I can’t wait to share Devica and Nate’s journey with you!

If you know of someone with a recently launched #KidLit book or one that's launching in the next few wks, pls ask them to keep an eye on my #KidLitLaunches threads & post their book info?

I'm going to keep doing these for another few weeks but if they don't seem to be useful, I'll probably stop. 😁

Just a reminder that you should read books by black authors year around ✨️

Here are some favorites to get you started.

Not entirely sure why but the Kindle edition of FAT GIRL ON A PLANE is $1.99 right now 🤔

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Last night’s sunset, though 😍😍😍 #glamping #jacksonvillebeach

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

Well, if there's one thing we can do to honour the memory of David Lynch it's to make sure we stay as weird as fucking possible and embrace the deepest strangeness possible in our art. And then use that to shine a light on human darkness at every turn.

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It is live!!!

There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸

Link:
bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚

Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

We have four more teams headed to Pasadena Humane
today to pick up more dogs and bring them to San Diego. Yesterday, we sent two teams up to help free up space as they deal with the devastating #EatonFire. If you can help, please consider fostering a dog: sdhumane.org/foster.

Totally new to this platform, so probably I should...introduce myself? I'm Marci Lyn Curtis, author of two YA contemporaries--THE ONE THING (Disney-Hyperion), and THE LEADING EDGE OF NOW (KCP), and I just finished a new draft for a YA romantic dramedy/romcom. (Such a fun story!)