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Leila Mottley

@leilamottley

Writer📘Oakland 🏙 (she/her) 🌈✏️ WOKE UP NO LIGHT & NIGHTCRAWLING available everywhere ✨ Represented by the Friedrich Agency

Joined April 2016
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so ecstatic to share that my sophomore novel, THE GIRLS WHO GREW BIG, is forthcoming from @aaknopf in 2025 with another novel to follow. the book follows the joys and challenges of three teen mothers in the Florida panhandle. welcome to Padua Beach. 🌴🍟🌊

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🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ Oakland’s 2018 Youth Poet Laureate @leilamottley about her poetry and coming of age in the nation’s gaze after the enormous success of her novel, “Nightcrawling." ❓What's your fave Bay Area book? 📻 Listen: kqed.org/forum/20101019…


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FRI at 9AM w/ guest host @ArianaProehl: Oakland’s 2018 Youth Poet Laureate @leilamottley joins to talk about her poetry and coming of age in the nation’s gaze after the enormous success of her novel, “Nightcrawling." ❓What's your fave Bay Area book? datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/leila-mo…


come thru tomorrow to @OctaviasBkshelf where i’ll be in conversation with the one and only @morganapple !! so excited for this - rsvp below👇🏾 octaviasbookshelf.com/events/book-si…


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A few seats opened up for our partners @tblsofcontents's sold out event in Brooklyn tonight! RSVP through the link below:

.@tblsofcontents's next reading celebrates three MacDowell Fellows' new books! @leilamottley (23) reads from WOKE UP NO LIGHT, @alex___tanner (17) WORRY, and @iamlisako (14, 21) MEMORY PIECE, a MacDowell-supported novel! April 23 at @BrooklynGrange! thethirdplace.is/event/toc-read…



coming up on @WNYC !!! tune in 🎧

Today on All Of It: @amortowles has a new short story collection! Plus, a @NYHistory show about a bygone era of the city, @tommytomlinson’s new book, “Dogland”🐩, and @leilamottley’s debut poetry collection. Live at Noon @WNYC!

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There’s still time to get tickets to this event @booksaremagicbk with @tatianajboria !! Can’t wait to see you there ❤️

Today on All Of It: @amortowles has a new short story collection! Plus, a @NYHistory show about a bygone era of the city, @tommytomlinson’s new book, “Dogland”🐩, and @leilamottley’s debut poetry collection. Live at Noon @WNYC!

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Happy publication day to ⁦@leilamottley for her debut poetry collection “woke up no light”! Out now from ⁦@AAKnopf⁩ 💓 And don’t miss her original piece for ⁦@marieclaire⁩ ‘Sea to Sea' 🤩 marieclaire.com/culture/leila-…


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For Marie Claire's Makers issue, author and poet @leilamottley pens an evocative poem. 📖: marieclaire.com/culture/leila-…

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A must-read this Monday ❤️ "How Oakland author @leilamottley found sanctuary in poetry as way to ‘connect deeply'" 📖: datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/leila-mo…

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come to a reading for WOKE UP NO LIGHT! i’ve got events in the bay, new york, and LA for the next few weeks. link in bio for event info & tickets and check my website for more info and updates ♥️

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it’s officially 1 week till WOKE UP NO LIGHT hits shelves! 📕🌓 now’s your chance to preorder to get your copy as soon as possible - and check out the audio version, i got to narrate it myself! more soon!! 🌱💋 preorder: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672149/w…

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Leila Mottley per "Passeggiare la notte" - pubblicato in Italia da Bollati Boringhieri - è nella cinquina finalista del #PremioTerzani 2024

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While you wait for her debut poetry collection, WOKE UP NO LIGHT, read your way through the San Francisco Bay area with @leilamottley ❤️ nytimes.com/2024/03/13/boo…


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.@leilamottley’s sophomore novel is coming from @AAKnopf in 2025. Mottley’s debut novel, NIGHTCRAWLING, published when the author was 19, was longlisted for @TheBookerPrizes Mottley’s next book, a poetry collection, is expected from Knopf on April 16. ow.ly/a50e50QAJ6V


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