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13 Going on 14

Lyn Hawks · January 4, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Picture of a typewriter with the Twitter handle @nervesofsteel. This is the cover page of a young adult novel by Lyn Fairchild Hawks. There is a phone and a stylus pen.

I feel like I'm 13 anytime a book of mine is coming out. @nervesofsteel is no different. (More about the book and its release April 2023, here.) What I want to talk about now is why this book came to be. When you're 13 going on 14, a whole lot of things are going … [Read more...] about 13 Going on 14

Filed Under: Young Adult Books Tagged With: @nervesofsteel, YA, young adult literature

Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon

Lyn Hawks · July 26, 2022 · Leave a Comment

So a thing happened, as folks today like to say, deliberately understating the bigness of said thing. And as part of my work these last two years at Vermont College Fine Arts' program in Writing for Children and Young Adults—besides writing one and a half young adult novels, … [Read more...] about Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon

Filed Under: Publishing, Writing Lessons, Young Adult Books Tagged With: canon, curriculum, high school, high school canon, lessons, literary, young adult, young adult literature

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Could I live without words, writing, story? Probably not. I love telling stories. I love teaching stories. I love helping other people find theirs. That’s my story. [READ MORE...]

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