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,

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

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

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.

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

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 Atlantic

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

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

SFX

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

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 Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Woman & Home

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Renowned for her twisting plots and dark-toned domestic thrillers, Louise Candlish’s latest chilling read, The Other Passenger, has an emotional secret at its core. When I start writing, I always get the first 10,000 words down so I have a good la

SFX

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

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

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

You South Africa

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This is one of those books that has arrived at the perfect time. If the pandemic has put you into a bit of a reading lull, this is the novel that will snap you out of it. It’s a book that will have you howling with laughter the one moment and wiping

SFX

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

SFX

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Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

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

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

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l