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Breaking the Lore: Highlights from Sydney Writers Festival
How Australia’s YA authors are challenging – and evolving – fantasy tropes Tropes! Love them or hate them, they’re a huge part of YA literature….
What does it mean to write about ‘home’ in Australian young adult fiction? Notes from Sydney Writers Festival
What does it mean to write about ‘home’ in Australian young adult fiction? From cities to remote bushlands, where we grow up and live can…
Ask Alice: What makes a compelling young adult book cover?
Ask Alice is an online column produced by the #LoveOzYA team, and written by our Secretary, Alice Boer-Endacott, who has published several young adult fantasy…
Ask Alice: Did new adult ever really ‘die’ and what lessons can we draw from it for the future of young adult?
Ask Alice is an online column produced by the #LoveOzYA team, and written by our Secretary, Alice Boer-Endacott, who has published several young adult fantasy…
Ask Alice: Is writing advice bad, actually?
Ask Alice is an online column produced by the #LoveOzYA team, and written by our Secretary, Alice Boer-Endacott, who has published several young adult fantasy…
#LoveOzYA celebrates charity status with a Pozible Party!
Seven years since its inception as a passionate, proactive, and much-loved grassroots movement, #LoveOzYA – a national organisation celebrating and promoting Australian youth literature –…
Ask Alice: What impact has #LoveOzYA had on the Australian literary scene?
Ask Alice is an online column produced by the #LoveOzYA team, and written by our Secretary, Alice Boer, who has published several young adult fantasy…
#LoveOzYA Q&A with Astrid Scholte for LEAGUE OF LIARS
Astrid Scholte was raised on a diet of Spielberg, Lucas and Disney, and knew she wanted to be surrounded by all things fantastical from a…
#LoveOzYA Q&A with Zach Jones for GROWING UP IN FLAMES
Zach Jones has been an acrobat, a psychologist, and taught Shakespeare in prison. He completed his doctorate in Creative Writing at USC. Growing Up in…