Marci Lyn Curtis

A photo collage showing an arc made up of five photographs, titled “2025 Walter Awards.” From top to bottom, the photos show a close-up shot of the welcome screen for the Walter Awards ceremony, a photo of WNDB Founding Member Ellen Oh smiling and speaking at the podium, a photo showing a high school student from behind as they ask the author panel a question, a photograph of all five winning and honoree authors on the Walter Awards stage, and a photograph showing the Walter Awards audience in the DC Public Library.

A collage of three photos, showing speakers who gave opening remarks at the Walter Awards Ceremony in Washington D.C. on April 11th. The speakers shown are Maryann James-Daley, Director of Public Services for the DC Public Library; Ellen Oh, Founding Member and former CEO of We Need Diverse Books; and Chris Myers, artist, poet, and son of the awards’ namesake Walter Dean Myers.

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!

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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

Plot schplot. You have WORDS. I love me some Lola Words

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magical! ✨

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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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! 🇵🇸

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horribly familiar with this problem! Sending metaphorical chocolate!

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.

And...oh, fun fact: my great-great grandfather was the late Robert Burns, who wrote the song we sing at the stroke of midnight on New Year's, "Auld Lang Syne."

Let's see...what else?

I'm a wife and a mom of two amazing grown sons and a Kelpie. (The latter of which is a dog breed, not a fictional character from Narnia/Harry Potter/GOT...sorry to disappoint.)

I've lived in Montana, California, Hawaii, Connecticut, Tennessee, and (currently) Florida.

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!)