YARN has just the antidote to your back-to-school blues: an interview with Pete Hautman, coming this fall!  In case you haven’t picke dup one of his books at your local library yet, he’s the author of the National Book Award winning “Godless,” about a teen who founds his own religion based on the worship of [...]

I know that many of you YARN readers spent the summer nurturing the writer in you—by going to summer creative writing programs, or just spending hours under a tree with a journal. And now, it’s back to school time! Time for exciting new pencils and sneakers, sure, but also time for the drudgery [...]

YARN is searching for images that capture the eye, are artistic in nature, and that surprise us.  We are excited by photographers that play with light and color…we are not so excited by vacation photos.  (Well, I mean, they’re really cool and all…but probably won’t artistically fit someone else’s words.)
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YARN editors were thrilled to interview Malinda Lo, the brilliant and witty author of “Ash.” If you haven’t yet had a chance to read “Ash,” (which you definitely should) it’s the Cinderella story retold with a fairy/lesbian twist. Malinda’s prose recreates an ancient world, where fairies dominate the forests alongside farming villages, and carriages carrying [...]

By Emily S. Deibel
Any minute Ms. Morris will call the girls up on stage.  The cattle call.  You certainly feel like a large heifer standing under the hot lights with Ms. Morris telling everyone to turn right, then left.  This time you suck in your stomach and hold your breath because all the boys in the drama class [...]

I’ve always been a monogamous reader. I like to read one book at a time because then I can totally immerse myself in the world the writer has created, without distraction from another imagined world. I mean, Jane Austen would probably roll over in her grave if she knew I wanted to take [...]