DeAndra Davis

Still reeling from all the good news as of late but this deserves a spot on the grid! 🎉 So excited to be honored with this award from @thealanorg ! This book is unapologetically Black and autistic. To see it get the love it’s getting, to see it lauded, to see it succeed in this way—it means everything to me. 😭 Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, and supported this book. ✨ You’re changing my life everyday. 🤍

Umm, excuse me? All these books for young adults and look which one is in the top tennnnnnnn!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 So excited that YALSA has included All the Noise at Once in their Top Ten Books for Young Adults!! 💅🏾💅🏾 I’m so beyond proud of how far this book has come and the backflips it’s doing to show people the importance and impact of autistic stories. ☺️ This book has a little something for just about anyone! Young adults or not, no matter the gender, sports lover or not. I promise something in this book will pull at your heart strings or open your mind. 🤍 This is what’s supposed to happen during Black History Month 😏😏😂😂 Check out reasons to check ATNAO out AND reasons to check out what I’ve got coming next! ✨🤗

It’s really my moment 😭🥹✨ I get to call myself an award-winning author! 🏆🥇🏅 The William C Morris Award is significant and such an honor, not just to be a finalist but to WIN! To be honored by the amazing librarians and educators as the foremost debut of the year! Especially when I KNOW so many amazing, talented, stellar debuts released this year!! I never saw myself winning this but I could not be more grateful! I could not be more excited!! To my editor @thejumbles thank you for being the best teammate on this ride! You believed in this book from the start!! To my team @ssedlib @alex_kelski I know how much work you all did to push this book and get it in the right hands! Thank you! To everyone who has supported me and cheered me on! To everyone who read it and invited me to a conference! I can’t say enough thanks! This means EVERYTHING!! Excuse me while I go cry! Little me is so proud. 🤍

A lovely review from SLJ on my sophomore novel! 🤗🤗✨ Have you snagged your copy yet? Do you know you can get it signed and personalized from Bookmarks and support an indie bookstore? Check out the b!o for that!! 💞💞

Ok are you guys completely sick of me yet? No? Because this also deserved a spot on the grid! An award voted on and decided by a committee of the lovely teens that I wrote it for (and some of the most accomplished teens I’ve ever seen tbh). Thank you @bankstreetlibrary and the Youth Ambassadors and the committee for this award. It means so much. They said: “All the Noise at Once is the rarest kind of debut. It knows precisely what it is, who it is for, and why it matters. We hope you know that too, now more than ever.” I know it now. Thank you. 🥹🤍

Somebody’s cool ass mama 💅🏾

Congratulations to our YA winner- “Song of a Blackbird” by @vanlieshoutstudio 🎉🎉🎉 and the honor winner of “All the Noise at Once by @deandrawrites . Amazing stories to share with our students! Congratulations to the entire Top 10!

With the 2026 WriteHive Annual Conference approaching July 10-12, we are excited to announce our second of three Guests of Honor! DeAndra Davis is an award-winning, neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author whose books feature main characters as messy as she is.She loves 100%’ing video games and reading worlds more interesting than her own. She has too many kids, dogs, and songs from Wicked on her phone. You can find her @deandrawrites on most socials. To keep tabs on the WriteHive conference, visit writehivecon.org 🐝

It’s gonna be MAY!!!! As a long time JT fan I can’t not make the joke. 😂 April was quiet and productive. Restful and peaceful. For me, summer lies ahead. More time, more space, more creativity. April brought the release of my paperback, awards, nominations, and amazing news and plans for the rest of the year. I’m so proud of how everything is going. 🤍✨ And just cause April’s over, don’t forget autistic people. Yall still gotta accept me (and my autism) or else you’re raggedy. 😂😂 I don’t make the rules. 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

Yesterday I saw some flowers in a neighbor’s yard that PERFECTLY matched @hildurknutsdottir ’s DEAD WEIGHT cover. And then I couldn’t stop seeing the colors of friends’ covers on our entire walk! So I present: the cover garden! Featuring my amazing UK cover!

An amazing review from Kirkus!! We love to see it! Have you checked out my sophomore book yet?

. The 2026 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA) comments from the judges. 📚THE MG/YA WINNER 🏆All the Noise at Once @deandrawrites Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. . . . The judging committee consisted of Read Your World board members, advisors, and friends. They were joined by Julie Majerčák, a Multilingual Learners Specialist and a Literacy Influencer, for the selection of this year’s winners and finalists. Each of the two [2] winners will receive a $1500 prize through a grant funded by board member Federico Erebia and his husband, James J. Jordan. All of the PADIBA winners, finalists, longlists, and commended books can be viewed and bought AT A DISCOUNT on the PADIBA Bookshop page: ⏩Bookshop.org/shop/PADIBA . . . Starting in 2027, The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA) will be four [4] annual prizes of $750 each for a PB, GN, MG, and YA novel that feature intersectional protagonists. The submission window for the 2027 PADIBA will be July 1 - August 31, 2026 for books traditionally published in 2026. More at ⏩ReadYourWorld.org/awards. #PADIBA #2026PADIBA #ReadYourWorld #PedroAndDaniel