Ravynn K. Stringfield
@ravynnkamia.bsky.social
YA Author of LOVE IN 280 CHARACTERS OR LESS & LOVE REQUIRES CHOCOLATE. Editor at midnight & indigo. Has a PhD but doesn’t talk about that anymore 😅 Very Virginian. Real Down to Mars Girl 🪐
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I write young adult books! I write with young people as my primary audience but all are welcome ❤️
My debut Love Requires Chocolate is out now! My second novel Love in 280 Characters or Less will be out April 15, 2025
My debut Love Requires Chocolate is out now! My second novel Love in 280 Characters or Less will be out April 15, 2025
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Flash Sale!
We’re offering a selection of titles 60% off
We’re offering a selection of titles 60% off
Flash Sale: 60% off select titles!
We're having a FLASH SALE with 60% off some of our favorite books for a limited time only!*
*Discount applies to selected formats only, and excludes UK editions.
This omnibu...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Flash Sale!
We’re offering a selection of titles 60% off
We’re offering a selection of titles 60% off
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My joy today, presenting and teaching about digital misogynoir and sharing safety tips for Black women and girls. S/O to the home team Justice for Black Girls!
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
My joy today, presenting and teaching about digital misogynoir and sharing safety tips for Black women and girls. S/O to the home team Justice for Black Girls!
I’m a former professor turned young adult author that is passionate about helping young folks develop positive relationships to books and reading in my spheres of influence, outside of school/in my community.
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5 Things I've Learned While Working With Kids On Reading (Outside of School)
Evolving into my final form as the Friendly Neighborhood Book Lady
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November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’m a former professor turned young adult author that is passionate about helping young folks develop positive relationships to books and reading in my spheres of influence, outside of school/in my community.
open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
I’m really grateful to my friends who listed to me talk about the big spread sheet of data about the books I read this year and encouraged me to write a blog post about it! I think it’s cool!
It’s also been a great way to assess how my reading goals have been going
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It’s also been a great way to assess how my reading goals have been going
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2025 Book Audit, part 1!
A look at what happens when you set non-numbers related yearly reading goals
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October 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I’m really grateful to my friends who listed to me talk about the big spread sheet of data about the books I read this year and encouraged me to write a blog post about it! I think it’s cool!
It’s also been a great way to assess how my reading goals have been going
open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
It’s also been a great way to assess how my reading goals have been going
open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
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Hey the top left book is by my friend!!!!!! @ravynnkamia.bsky.social
Books about Black kids in college where they are the main character in their own stories #booksky #blackbooksky
October 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hey the top left book is by my friend!!!!!! @ravynnkamia.bsky.social
Got a little focused on Black women writers’ journaling and note taking practices and so wrote up a little blog post on it: open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
Black Women Writers and Note Taking Practices
Some Black women writers (including me!) on how/if they journal or take notes
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October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Got a little focused on Black women writers’ journaling and note taking practices and so wrote up a little blog post on it: open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...
After I bothered everyone I loved about finding that 1990 Beacon Press reprinting of Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset at The Printed Word in Portsmouth, VA, I decided everyone needed to know why it was important, so I wrote a blog post 😂
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Why Finding a 1990 Edition of Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun Might Change My Mind About Collecting Rare Books
Finding a Piece of Black Women's Literary History in a Local Black-Owned Book Store
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September 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After I bothered everyone I loved about finding that 1990 Beacon Press reprinting of Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset at The Printed Word in Portsmouth, VA, I decided everyone needed to know why it was important, so I wrote a blog post 😂
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The series was a game changer.
I went to visit The Printed Word, a Black owned indie bookstore in Portsmouth, VA and they had a solid collection of used books—
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
September 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The series was a game changer.
I went to visit The Printed Word, a Black owned indie bookstore in Portsmouth, VA and they had a solid collection of used books—
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
September 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I went to visit The Printed Word, a Black owned indie bookstore in Portsmouth, VA and they had a solid collection of used books—
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
Found this copy of Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset from the Black Women Writers series @dem8z.bsky.social edited at Beacon Press from 1985-1993 😍
Sharing author Breanna McDaniel’s GoFundMe to open a new bookstore in Atlanta! Always happy to support new Black owned bookstores!
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Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel
Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville
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August 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Sharing author Breanna McDaniel’s GoFundMe to open a new bookstore in Atlanta! Always happy to support new Black owned bookstores!
gofund.me/eb003b9e
gofund.me/eb003b9e
I had so much fun chatting with @clockhartwrite.bsky.social for the Written in Melanin podcast about my YA digital epistolary Love in 280 Characters or Less! Check out our conversation here or on Spotify!
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Navigating Writing and Mentorship with Ravynn K. Stringfield | Written Melanin Podcast
YouTube video by Written In Melanin
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July 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I had so much fun chatting with @clockhartwrite.bsky.social for the Written in Melanin podcast about my YA digital epistolary Love in 280 Characters or Less! Check out our conversation here or on Spotify!
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I just backed Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...
July 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I just backed Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...
“So I deal in straight-up fiction myself, cause I value my family and friends, and mostly cause I lie a lot anyway.”
The preface of Gorilla, My Love is one of the best openers I have ever read
The preface of Gorilla, My Love is one of the best openers I have ever read
July 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“So I deal in straight-up fiction myself, cause I value my family and friends, and mostly cause I lie a lot anyway.”
The preface of Gorilla, My Love is one of the best openers I have ever read
The preface of Gorilla, My Love is one of the best openers I have ever read
Love writing about what I’m reading and writing lol ravynn.substack.com/p/media-late...
Media, Lately (July Edition)
What I've been reading, watching, and listening to since the top of May
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July 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Love writing about what I’m reading and writing lol ravynn.substack.com/p/media-late...
I just finished Toni at Random and it was simply glorious.
And it makes me certain we need just as thorough of an account of @dem8z.bsky.social’s editorship of the African American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press, if it doesn’t already exist!
And it makes me certain we need just as thorough of an account of @dem8z.bsky.social’s editorship of the African American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press, if it doesn’t already exist!
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I just finished Toni at Random and it was simply glorious.
And it makes me certain we need just as thorough of an account of @dem8z.bsky.social’s editorship of the African American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press, if it doesn’t already exist!
And it makes me certain we need just as thorough of an account of @dem8z.bsky.social’s editorship of the African American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press, if it doesn’t already exist!
What #ironheart had me thinking about post-viewing: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Riri Williams, Bad Girl Genius
Yes, I have already watched all three episodes twice. This is likely part 1 of ?
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June 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What #ironheart had me thinking about post-viewing: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Sharing some Ironheart sources from one of my favs. I just know we’re getting blessed with a full dissection of these episodes after today 😂
Dr. Christian M. Hines and I made a little IRONHEART mixtape! If you’re excited about the show dropping on Disney+ on June 24th, here’s some stuff you can read, watch or listen to about our girl! What are you exploring first?
June 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sharing some Ironheart sources from one of my favs. I just know we’re getting blessed with a full dissection of these episodes after today 😂
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Dr. Christian M. Hines and I made a little IRONHEART mixtape! If you’re excited about the show dropping on Disney+ on June 24th, here’s some stuff you can read, watch or listen to about our girl! What are you exploring first?
June 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This was so good. I gotta sit on that last episode tho. Wish this got a traditional weekly release. Can’t wait to see what @ravynnkamia.bsky.social types up about this.
Just a reminder that Ironheart comes out tonight. they’re dropping 3 episodes at 9pm.
This show didn’t get the best marketing and is currently being review bombed by loser incels that get overly emotional when characters don’t look like them on screen. Produced by Ryan Coogler. Go check it out.
This show didn’t get the best marketing and is currently being review bombed by loser incels that get overly emotional when characters don’t look like them on screen. Produced by Ryan Coogler. Go check it out.
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This was so good. I gotta sit on that last episode tho. Wish this got a traditional weekly release. Can’t wait to see what @ravynnkamia.bsky.social types up about this.
My dog passed on Thursday. I wrote about him because this is how I love best.
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On Grief and Love
Things you should know—and that I want to remember—about my dog, Genghis
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June 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My dog passed on Thursday. I wrote about him because this is how I love best.
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I liked the piece Melina Moe wrote for LARB last year on Toni Morrison’s rejection letters from when she was an editor at Random House.
Today she’s got a new piece out in Lit Hub about Morrison’s editorial relationship with Muhammad Ali and his co-writer Richard Durham:
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Today she’s got a new piece out in Lit Hub about Morrison’s editorial relationship with Muhammad Ali and his co-writer Richard Durham:
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“Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali
Sometimes editors want a sign their writers are still out there. The deadline might have been a few months—or even years—ago, and they aren’t expecting a completed manuscript, maybe not even pages …
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May 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I liked the piece Melina Moe wrote for LARB last year on Toni Morrison’s rejection letters from when she was an editor at Random House.
Today she’s got a new piece out in Lit Hub about Morrison’s editorial relationship with Muhammad Ali and his co-writer Richard Durham:
lithub.com/writing-is-f...
Today she’s got a new piece out in Lit Hub about Morrison’s editorial relationship with Muhammad Ali and his co-writer Richard Durham:
lithub.com/writing-is-f...
Dr. Christian M. Hines and I made a little IRONHEART mixtape! If you’re excited about the show dropping on Disney+ on June 24th, here’s some stuff you can read, watch or listen to about our girl! What are you exploring first?
May 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Dr. Christian M. Hines and I made a little IRONHEART mixtape! If you’re excited about the show dropping on Disney+ on June 24th, here’s some stuff you can read, watch or listen to about our girl! What are you exploring first?