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THIS WEEKEND! Come join us at the Morristown Festival of Books! 🤩 Saturday's event begins at 10 am and is FREE with no tickets needed. We have our schedules on our website with all the amazing authors for adults, kids and YA readers. morristownbooks.org

River East, River West is a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award— so grateful for this honor, and to be in the company of writers I deeply respect. Congratulations all!!! Morgan Talty Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 @jamelbrinkley &Aisha Abdel Gawad kclibrary.org/news/2024-10/2…

THE STONE HOME is a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, which honors writers committed to social justice. 🪽 Alongside these incredible humans Aube Rey Lescure, Morgan Talty, @jamelbrinkley, and Aisha Abel Gawad kclibrary.org/news/2024-10/2…

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SWIFT RIVER by essie chambers is the winner of the 2024 barnesandnoble Discover Prize, given annually to a debut novel. Chambers’ novel, which was previously longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was published in June by Simon & Schuster. ow.ly/Ofcg50TQZ8S

SWIFT RIVER by essie chambers is longlisted for American Library Association's 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction! 🥳 ala.org/carnegie-medal…

Hey. My book got a thing. Congrats, fellow long listers!!

So delighted to see Juli Min's beautiful SHANGHAILANDERS on this longlist, alongside Dialogue Publishing's COLOURED TELEVISION and SWIFT RIVER ❤️

This means so much to me! Thank you American Library Association , ALA_Booklist, and the selection committee. I'm especially grateful to the superhero librarians who create reading sanctuaries and inspire lifelong book-love. Check out the full list ala.org/carnegie-medal…

Excited to launch an initiative to connect students with diverse internship and job opportunities in the literary field! If you’re a literary organization interested in collaborating, let’s connect & create meaningful ways for the next generation. #LiteraryCommunity #Internships

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Good people of the UK, go get this gorgeous book! Congrats Temim Fruchter & Dialogue Publishing.

essie chambers will be joining us on March 22nd for the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors. Her debut novel, Swift River, debut novel is a coming-of-age story and a history of the “sundown towns” in America. Individual tickets go on sale January 15th at pfwa2025.org.

Congratulations are in order for Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG), author of GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, and winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize!

Still recovering from that first sentence. Honor on top of honor. Thank you NAACP Image Awards® !! And thanks for sharing Kirkus Reviews

Join us to celebrate Rachel Lyon's FRUIT OF THE DEAD paperback launch! 📖✨ With special guests essie chambers, Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 & more, this lively reading & signing is on Tue, Feb 4th at P&T Knitwear, NYC. RSVP here: bit.ly/3WkSliN

Never too much, always so good! Luther: Never Too Much wins Outstanding Documentary (Film)! #NAACPImageAwards

TONIGHT, 8PM, at Franklin Park Reading Series: We're launching our summer season with outstanding fiction & poetry from Morgan Jerkins, Jeanne Thornton, Paula Bomer, essie chambers, Kat Y. Tang, and Lena Moses-Schmitt! #FreeAdmission, beer specials, book raffle. facebook.com/share/19x6QTdH…

The Franklin Park Reading Series Summer Launch was a magical night! Huge thanks to phenomenal readers (L to R) Jeanne Thornton, Paula Bomer, Kat Y. Tang, Lena Moses-Schmitt, essie chambers, and Morgan Jerkins, and lots of ❤️ to our amazing audience! 🗓️Next event is July 14.

Essie Chambers has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, given annually to an emerging African American fiction writer, for SWIFT RIVER. The debut novel was published last year by Simon & Schuster. essie chambers BR Area Foundation Simon & Schuster ow.ly/E2Pu50WwSen