Since we know you’ve come to depend on your regular doses of YA from YARN, we thought it was only polite to let you know that we’re taking a little break in August. Only a break from publishing new material, mind you. We’re still reading and hatching new plans–in fact, in September, we’ll be back [...]
Fall Photography Needed: What to submit now.
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.)
Please check our submission guidelines for [...]
YA-Summer Reads
What are YARN readers taking pool-side this summer? Here’s a list of reader recommendations. Have something to add? Comment and let us know [...]
Fan-Poetry Contest Winners to be announced in September!
YARN Fan-Poetry Contest
Inspired by the characters in Terra Elan McVoy’s “After the Kiss” who write poetry to emulate the style of their favorite poets, YARN is hosting a Fan-Poetry Contest! The winner will receive a signed copy of “After the Kiss” by Terra Elan McVoy. Entries are due by July 31st and Terra McVoy HERSELF [...]
Coming Soon — Fiction, Essays, & Poetry by YOU!
Imagine. Envision. Write. Revise. Submit. Dive into YARN and be published alongside the Young Adult writers you love. YARN publishes outstanding original short fiction, poetry, and essays geared toward Young Adult readers. Since we publish new material twice per month, [...]
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Interviews
Interview with Malinda Lo
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 [...]
Fiction
In the Spotlight
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 [...]
Fiction
Fire Escape and Q&A with Mitali Perkins
Asha hurried through the aisle of pulsating washers and whirling dryers. The machines sang like a choir of middle-aged American ladies, but she ignored them. She was headed for the table marked “Give-Aways.”
The laundry room could have been a refuge if it hadn’t been for the other, darker [...]
Essays
Ragged Margin
By Lili Rosenkranz
It was only a few months ago when I boarded the subway looking like some suburban snob. I was wearing stockings in July because they made me feel pretty and my face was painted with bronzer and blush, ballerina pink. I remember feeling, put-together, poised, purposeful. That morning in the mirror I slid my fingers down my figure [...]
Poetry
Poetry & Commentary by Terra Elan McVoy
So, my new book, “After the Kiss,” is finally out, and I’m incredibly proud and excited. Camille and Becca were fun characters to work with, and this was a neat book to write. I think the finished product turned out well. (And I hope you all do, too!)
One of my favorite things about the book [...]
Fiction
Ruby Riding Hood
By Hanna C. Howard
Like everything else, the nickname Red was my grandmother’s fault. My mother had a similar idea upon first seeing my wild, apple-red hair, but the name she christened me was slightly more distinguished: Ruby Gretel Ridingood [...]
Interviews
Barry Lyga Interview, Part 2
And here’s Part 2 of our “astonishing” interview with Barry Lyga.
YARN: “Boy Toy” is an amazingly difficult novel to describe in terms of plot. However, it seems like Josh’s main issue is not so much the actual sexual abuse but the memory of it. Could you elaborate on the fine line between the two [...]
Interviews
Interview with Barry Lyga, Part 1
Guts. If there’s a word that describes Barry Lyga’s amazing novels, it’s that. Guts. I mean, what other writer is willing to totally reveal his comic book geekdom in his first novel (“The Amazing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”), then discuss the complicated sexual abuse of a teen boy by a female teacher in his second book (“Boy Toy”) [...]
Poetry
Enlighten Your Ears, This Earth, & Home
By Emily Gersky
Enlighten Your Ears
Twinkle twinkle go the stars
as the sun sets and the
moon rises in your ears.
The folds and freckles
dusted in random clusters on [...]
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