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Gabrielle Alexa Noel @gabalexa.bsky.social Challenging what ppl think they know about sex/love. 💕
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The Haunted Warrior
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Sade Green @sadegabriella.bsky.social Writer, activist, poet | Words in TIME Magazine, Forbes, Teen Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE Magazine, The Nation, + more ✍🏾 | Amherst College alumna | 🇳🇬 + AA❤🖤💛 | Views = mine
Chrystal D. Giles @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social Author of books for young readers.
📚 Take Back the Block
📚 Not an Easy Win
📚 Listen to the Girls (May 2026)
📚 We Are Joy (June 2026)
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Some dreams are built on stolen things
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Blooming Uninterrupted available now
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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
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Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app Young Adult Author | Multimedia Artist | Professor | Editor @ midnight & indigo | Former Peanut Fest Queen
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💫 jackson 💫 @jackpbrown.bsky.social Author.
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Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social Writer/speaker/cosplayer/cultural critic
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Melody Simpson @melodysimpson.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Melanin in YA (@melanininya.bsky.social), your source for all things Black in traditional young adult publishing.
All things TV, movies, books, sci-fi, theatre, & theology.
Los Angeles / Austin
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Writer. Librarian. Rep'd by the extraordinary @johnmcusick at
@foliojr Latest title: #THERISEOFISSAIGWE
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LL McKinney @llmckinney.bsky.social Writer of words. Teller of tales. Chaotic neutral. Bestselling Author. God is good. NUBIA: TOO REAL out NOW! #PublishingPaidMe
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Jill Tew @jtewwrites.bsky.social THE DIVIDING SKY (YA dystopian romance from PRH) out October 8th, 2024! www.thedividingsky.com
Ameerah Holliday @msholliday93.bsky.social Someone once told me ‘the grass is much greener on the other side.’
Opinions are mine I Dancer | Poetess | Revolution | Agent - Serendipity Lit
Jessica Lewis @jessicalewisauthor.bsky.social Author of many genres and books!
Rep: Holly Root
Out now: 🏕️Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic💖
Coming soon: 💀This House is Not a Home🏡
Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social author of YOU TRULY ASSUMED || storytelling main character || PhD-ing || 1913🔺|| she/her || Rep: Beth Phelan
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Kim Johnson @kimjohnson.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller
THIS IS MY AMERICA, INVISIBLE SON, THE COLOR OF A LIE
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Sarah Raughley @sraughley.bsky.social Academic Scholar, Geek and Writer. Author of The Effigies Series, The Bones of Ruin trilogy and the upcoming thriller, The Queen’s Spade.
Hannah V. Sawyerr @hannsawyerr.bsky.social A masterpiece after a wreckage. Author: TRUTH IS 🎙️ (out September 23!) + ALL THE FIGHTING PARTS 💙 (Morris Finalist + Walter Honor!)