Cynthia Levinson
cylev.bsky.social
Cynthia Levinson
@cylev.bsky.social
Kidlit author/presenter specializing in nonfiction and social justice--and now STEM! See more at cynthialevinson.com. Contact me at clevinson@austin.rr.com. Rep’d by EMLA.
Congratulations to all who have something new in the works. Thank you @CarolynYoder @agentemurph.bsky.social @Astrapub @CalkinsCreek #kidlit #Megakidlit #LBJ #bio #GreatSociety #civilrights #Vietnam #environment
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@dheiligman.bsky.social is a super researcher, writer and presenter
We taked about Theme, voice, mantra, throughline, research, how a #nonfiction writer's DNA is in every book we write. You can see our fingerprints! @cylev.bsky.social Thanks to @macappiello.bsky.social for pulling together the great slide show!
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I just learned about a wonderful organization, NEW VOTERS, started by @JahnaviRao that's terrifically successful in getting young people to #register to #vote! www.new-voters.org/about?gad_so...
About Us | New Voters
Learn about New Voters, a Gen-Z-led nonprofit that mobilizes high school students to vote and engage in democracy across the U.S.
www.new-voters.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I was soooo honored that @moribajah joined me @texasbookfest to talk about #WhoOwnstheMoon @peachtreepublishing @mmcquinlin #spaceexploration #spacelaw #spacepolicy #spacedebris #spacestewardship
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@margomcm.bsky.social thank you for the reposts!
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sooo much is happening @texasbookfest.bsky.social this weekend! One of them is that Moriba Jah and I will talk about #WhoOwnstheMoon @PeachtreePublishingCompany at noon on Saturday in the YA HQ Tent. Please come! #spaceexploration #spacelaw #spaceconundrums #StarbaseTexas
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you're in Central Texas this weekend, come to the UT Law School at 1:30 to hear co-author Sandy and me get grilled about our book Fault Lines in the Constitution! @PeachtreePublishingCompany Then, stay to hear our daughter @MeiraLevinson host a panel on #CivicEducation #kidlit #megakidlit
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#kidlit #Megakidlit What are your favorite #nonfiction #picturebooks for 6- to 8-year-olds published in the last 20 years?
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Leave it to @michellemarkel.bsky.social to find this unknown fascinating story and tell it just the way it needs to be told. #kidlit #Megakidlit #Quaker #nonfiction
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Boston-area #authors, come share your WIP on Nov. 12 @whitelambooks.bsky.social ! Get positive, helpful feedback from your peers! Hosted by @BostonAuthorsClub #kidlit #grownuplit
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
.@UTexas is hosting a conference Nov. 7 on #FaultLinesintheConstitution @PeachtreePub co-authored by me and Sandy, and on #civiceducation, led by our daughter @MeiraLevinson. All are welcome! No registration needed. #kidlit #MegaKidLit
liberalarts.utexas.edu/lawanddemocr...
Constitutional and Civic Education in a Time of Upheaval
The University of Texas at Austin's Constitutional Studies Program and Center for Law and Democracy are pleased to announce a conference on Constitutional and Civic Education in a Time of Upheaval, ta...
liberalarts.utexas.edu
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Please join Moriba Kemessia Jah and me @texasbookfest.bsky.social at noon on Nov. 8 in the #YA tent as we talk about #whoownsthemoon @PeachtreePublishingCompany @MargaretQuinlin #SpaceX #spaceexploration #SpaceDebris #spacelaw #kidlit
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Co-author Sandy Levinson hoping the third edition of FAULT LINES IN THE CONSTITUTION @peachtreepublishing will persuade a US senator we need Constitutional reform. (Posted with her permission) #electoralcollege #votingrights #congress #executiveorder #emergencypower #gerrymandering #unitaryexecutive
October 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Schedules – Texas Book Festival
texasbookfestival.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
.@texasbookfest #schedule is out! @moribajah and I will be in convo in the #YA tent noon 11/8 @TxCapital about #WhoOwnstheMoon @mmcquinlin @peachtreepublishing @holidayhousepeachtree @walkerbooksuk #spacedebris #spacelaw #spaceexploration
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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“...issues that are universal and, therefore, always timely…include the quest for justice. In some cases, the lens is civil rights or immigration or the role of democracy.”
@cylev.bsky.social interviewed by @gayleenwrites.bsky.social for Cynsations: cynthialeitichsmith.com/2025/09/auth...
October 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM