Interviews

Cecil Castellucci and Nate Powell Interview Each Other!

What do you get when you combine the prose power of Cecil Castellucci and the illustrative immortality of Nate Powell? Beasts. “Year of the Beasts,” specifically, which just hit your local bookstores and libraries.

Cecil and Nate offered to interview each other for YARN! WITH sketches for the book you won’t see anywhere else!! [...]

Blog

The Pulitzer Argument

Lourdes muses on whether Pulitzer has space for YA…

On April 17, 2012 – the day after The Pulitzer Prizes were announced – Figment.com posed an interesting question on their Twitter page: “Do you think a YA book could ever win the Pulitzer?” This was prompted after noticing that this year’s winners did not include one for the “Fiction” [...]

Fiction

Crime Scenes, a short story by debut novelist Diana Renn

With enthusiastic reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and a host of YA and mystery writers you already know and love (Kirsten Miller, Alane Ferguson), Diana Renn’s debut novel “Tokyo Heist” is a page-turning thrill-ride through the gritty art worlds of [...]

News

YARN Editor & Founder signs book contract!

Exciting news! Kerri Majors, YARN’s Editor and Founder, has just signed a contract with Writer’s Digest Books for her YA writing memoir, “This is Not a Writing Manual” [...]

Essays

Depressed, Not Depressing

By Francisco X. Stork

A few months ago, Cheryl Klein, my editor at Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, asked if I would be interested in writing a novel about a young girl recovering from depression and a failed suicide attempt. My initial reaction was that such a book was the last thing I wanted to write. [...]

News

Essay by Francisco Stork–here now!

With starred reviews for all his books, and a laundry list of honors, Francisco Stork has made an important contribution to YA in the last few years.

His next novel will be about depression and suicide–but he is determined not to make it “depressing.” How is that possible? Well, he’s going to share his thoughts on that with us in an essay he offered to write just for YARN. [...]

Fiction

The Fire Tree

By Catherine Valdez

Her flesh was blotchy and red from the mosquito bites that she had scratched raw, and dried blood had dug under the rims of her fingernails. The hot Amazon canopy seemed to curdle her wounds and cook the blisters on her feet. She stopped to rest [...]

Blog

Stealing from the Screen

Jessica Tackett wonders….

With Hunger Games fresh on everyone’s minds (even Kerri’s!), I’ve heard lots of recent chatter about book-to-screen adaptations.

But what I’ve been thinking about is the reverse: Screen-to-book. [...]

Poetry

NPM 8, an Encore: Indiana & Beyond

Okay, we just couldn’t resist ONE MORE installment of NPM. This, #8, is the last. Sorta sad. But with two such georgeous poems to remind us of why we read poetry, I know none of us will mourn long. Plus, this installment has poems by RAW INK founder Paul Hankins and much-decorated YA writer Jamie Adoff. Hot stuff.

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YARN is an award-winning literary journal that publishes outstanding original short fiction, poetry, and essays for Young Adult readers, written by the writers you know and love, as well as fresh new voices...including teens.

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