We will examine such questions as: Does writing for teenagers mean avoiding expressing strong views? As adults struggle to establish objectivity as a value can an author be both impassioned and fair? Now that the most explicit material is readily available what should or should not be in a YA book? What is the balance of reaching teenagers and not falling afoul of adult gatekeepers who control school and library budgets? Issues of authenticity and sensitivity are roiling all of publishing, who should write what? As teenagers themselves are becoming politically active, what kind of writing can match their intensities and give them new insights? What makes a book YA anyway?
Taught by Marc Aronson (author of over 20 books including Trapped, about the rescue of trapped miners in Chile in 2010) and Candy J. Cooper (Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting), co-authors of an upcoming YA book about the Flint water crisis.
1.5 hours/Tickets $35.
succeed2gether.org/event/workshop-ya-novel/
Part of Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2019
