Fall 2015: Why YA?

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The Return of Passionate Reading

While the best YA is often plot driven, the most significant reason readers eat these books up is because the characters express their emotions directly.

—“The YA Conspiracy—and How I Grew Up”

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

 


Flash Nonfiction

Pandora’s Box by Lori Michelle Hawks
Haunted by Robin L. Flanigan
Clothes to Die In by Mel Andrews
Liquid Ballerina by Paige Nichols

Interviews

Fiction

Sure Things by Hannah Thurman

Theme for this Issue

Sex and the Young Reader by Karen J. Ohlson
How Hollywood Screws up YA Books by John Michael Bell
Hooking Teens with the Real World by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson
Spoilers in English Class by Jason J. Griffith

Why I Write

The Landscape Portal by Kaori Fujimoto

Advice

Poetry

Iris Jamahl Dunkle: Two Poems by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

TW Reading Series

We’ve Got to Move by Sanderia Faye

Columns