Young Adult Archives

August 13, 2015 3 min read

Captivating you in the first few pages, visionary author Cordelia Jensen has put forth Skyscraping, a semi-autobiographical novel in verse for young readers Read More

‘Boo’ by Neil Smith

Francisco Tirado

Fiction

May 9, 2015 3 min read

Smith ventures to convey a reality about bullying and mental health that is far braver than any you’ve ever read, as Boo is a spelunking adventure deep into the caves of life, death, good, evil, mortality, loss and grief. Read More

‘Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before’ by Karelia Stetz-Waters

Courtney Gillette

Reviews Young Adult

November 25, 2014 4 min read

Filled with tender moments and a remarkable family, Karelia Stetz-Waters’ YA novel Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before...

‘Beau, Lee, The Bomb, and Me’ by Mary McKinley

Francisco Tirado

Reviews Young Adult

October 29, 2014 3 min read

Mary McKinley’s debut novel offers a unique point of view that most young adult authors shy away from, while at...

‘Alex As Well’ by Alyssa Brugman

Jackson Nash

Reviews Young Adult

January 2, 2014 3 min read

If there were such a thing as the perfect YA novel, Alex As Well (Text Publishing) would be it. Alex...

‘Secret City’ by Julia Watts

Julie Harthill Clayton

Fiction Young Adult

October 29, 2013 2 min read

In the vast sea of YA novels, there used to be a dearth of stories for the LGBTQ community. Slowly...

‘Proxy’ by Alex London

Patrice Caldwell

Reviews Speculative Fiction

July 28, 2013 3 min read

“Some debts cannot be repaid.” Knox is a Patron, born into one of the City’s wealthiest families. He has everything...

‘Bereft’ by Craig Laurance Gidney

Lydia Harris

Reviews Young Adult

June 24, 2013 2 min read

Rafael Fannen is indeed young (14 years old), gifted (recipient of a minority scholarship to an all-male Catholic preparatory school),...

‘Mermaid in Chelsea Creek’ by Michelle Tea

Sara Rauch

Reviews Young Adult

May 7, 2013 3 min read

There’s a lot of fantasy in Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. After all, one of the characters is a foul-mouthed mermaid. There are also talking pigeons and witches. This fantasy world rests just on top of the real world, and Tea never loses sight of how the two interact. Read More

‘Beautiful Music for Ugly Children’ by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Reviews Young Adult

April 24, 2013 1 min read

A trans teen’s local southern Minnesota radio show inspires an unlikely cult following in Kirstin Cronn-Mills‘ quiet coming-of-age novel Beautiful Music...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Skyscraping’ by Cordelia Jensen

‘Boo’ by Neil Smith

‘Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before’ by Karelia Stetz-Waters

‘Beau, Lee, The Bomb, and Me’ by Mary McKinley

‘Alex As Well’ by Alyssa Brugman

‘Secret City’ by Julia Watts

‘Proxy’ by Alex London

‘Bereft’ by Craig Laurance Gidney

‘Mermaid in Chelsea Creek’ by Michelle Tea

‘Beautiful Music for Ugly Children’ by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta