Writer's Digest

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Alice Hoffman specializes in magical writing that tells the realest of stories. She published her first novel in 1977 while still at Stanford University and has written more than 30 works of fiction since, including the novels The Marriage of Opposit

The Atlantic

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This article is edited from a story shared exclusively with members of The Masthead, the membership program from The Atlantic (find out more). In part one, we explore why adults gravitate towards books written for children and teenagers. In part two,

Writing Magazine

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Odd Voice Out is inviting entries for its Teens of Tomorrow creative writing competition. Odd Voice Out is an independent publisher of diverse YA and crossover stories. The Teens of Tomorrow competition is for futurefocused diverse teen fiction, and

NPR

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life is as much a doorstopper as any young adult fantasy novel, but the world it builds is inside the head of teenaged Sal, who's struggling with difficult new emotions.

India Today

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The great American novel is now a massive international hit YA [young adult] book with film rights and merchandising," an agent tells a struggling writer in the recent Netflix comedy series Friends From College. It's a disparaging statement, but a tr

TIME

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THE BOOKS WE READ WHEN WE’RE young have a special sort of power: they can inspire us to be brave and resilient (Matilda by Roald Dahl), take us on thrilling adventures (Divergent by Veronica Roth) and even introduce us to tragedy (The Bridge to Terab

Fast Company

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With clear language and bracing honesty, Jason Reynolds’s young-adult novels grapple with thorny issues (alcohol abuse, gun violence, police brutality) in contemporary urban settings.

Writer's Digest

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You’ve written the first draft of your book or book proposal. You’ve let it sit in the proverbial drawer and gotten countless trusted beta readers to review your work. They all say it’s ready. So what does the future hold for you? We’ve consulted 20

Writing Magazine

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SUBSCRIBER-ONLY COMPETITIO WIN! £275 IN CASH PRIZES & PUBLICATION £150 TO BE WON With its closing date of 15 May, there’s still time to enter last month’s competition for poems on ‘Wordsworth’ themes. Writing for children and young adults requires a

The Writer

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Information in this section is provided to The Writer by the individual markets and events; for more information, contact those entities directly. F = Fiction N = Nonfiction P = Poetry C = Children’s Y = Young adult O = Other F N C Y 3 SEAS LITERARY

The Atlantic

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The National Book Award–winning author writes complex teenage protagonists whose real-life counterparts have long faced literary erasure.

Reason

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IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a case study in toxic internet culture, look no further than the online world of young adult fiction. That might seem surprising: After all, we’re talking about boy wizards and sexy vampires and mawkish coming-of-age tales here,

The Writer

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Two years ago, during the Writing Popular Fiction MFA winter residency at Seton Hill University, a discussion broke out amongst my students in a critique workshop geared toward young adult (YA) writers: They didn’t think YA novels were really written

The Writer

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Publishing is often seen as a “mature” person’s game, so much so that writers who successfully claim a seat at the Big-Kids Table and achieve critical success before crossing particular age thresholds are lauded as rarities, prodigies who beat the od

Malaysia Tatler

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From law to literature: How did that transition unfold? I harboured dreams of being a published novelist, but being pragmatic, decided that getting a law degree was safer. I also blame Ally McBeal for glamorising a hard life. Despite the prestige o

The Writer

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When it comes to getting published, there are many spinning cogs. Here are some of the resources you’ll need to take your work from inside your brain to in front of the eyes of readers. The following listings are a sampling of what the industry has t

The Millions

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When you write a book, there are certain questions you can expect: How long did it take you? Will you write a sequel? And—the inevitable—what is it? What it is: thousands of hours tapping away on a keyboard between swiping student IDs at the Sarah La

The Writer

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When Hannah Grieco sat down to read to her 6-year-old daughter, she couldn’t believe the words that jumped out from the page of a popular middle-grade series. “He must’ve thought we had just broken out of a mental hospital or something!” Grieco, a wr

Writing Magazine

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Win $3,000 for the first chapter of a YA novel in the competition from YA literary journal Voyage in the 2020 Voyage First Chapters Competition The competition is international, and open to any writer. Submissions must be the first chapter of a YA no

The Writer

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Information in this section is provided to The Writer by the individual markets and events; for more information, contact those entities directly. F = Fiction N = Nonfiction P = Poetry C = Children’s Y = Young adult O = Other F N C Y 3 SEAS LITERARY

Literary Hub

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In 2017, the year of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the year he banned immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, the year he threatened DACA, there was a verifiable wave in young adult literature featuring immigrants and first generation Americans. It

Literary Hub

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Both Amita Trasi and Cecilia Galante explore difficult issues in their fiction through the experiences of young characters. Galante’s most recent book, The Odds of You and Me, features a young mother grappling with sexism and abuse. Trasi’s recently-

The Atlantic

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Herman Melville, born 200 years ago next month, had some timeless advice: If the sweltering heat of July is giving you a damp, drizzly November in your soul, it is high time to get to sea, even if it’s just within the pages of a book. As Lena Lenček

Writing Magazine

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‘When I set about becoming a novelist, for seven years I wrote unpublishable twaddle that has me cringing to think of it now. ‘There are two things I dearly wish I’d known. ‘The first is that most good novels are fiction, not disguised autobiography.

The Atlantic

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A much-anticipated young-adult debut taps into a tradition of speculative fiction rooted in African culture.

The Writer

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When it comes to getting published, there are many spinning cogs. Here are some of the resources you’ll need to take your work from inside your brain to in front of the eyes of readers. The following listings are a sampling of what the industry has t

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

Post Magazine

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There's a moment in Kelly Yang's debut novel, Front Desk, when 10-year old Mia Tang is being mocked for wearing second-hand floral trousers. It's California in the early 1990s and the rest of the kids at school are in jeans, but Mia's stuck in a pair

Writing Magazine

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Due to a rapid growth resulting in a mountain of submissions After Dinner Conversation, a web based series of short stories, audio and video podcasts, had to put a temporary hold on submissions but they are now being considered. Check the website for

The Atlantic

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The bestselling young-adult book by Angie Thomas centers around a 16-year-old girl who sees her childhood friend fatally shot by a police officer.