DIVERSITY MATTERS:
Diversity in children's and teen lit.
Diversity in children's and teen lit.
PHIL EARLE discusses BEING BILLY and writing gritty teenage fiction.
WENDY MEDDOUR says 'whoever we are - we all want the same thing in the end: to feel at home in this strange, old, beautiful, world!
COLIN MULHERN and his publisher talk CLASH & respecting the teen reader.
‘We’re Here, We’re Queer’ by JAMES DAWSON
TRENT REEDY on “insider/outsider” narratives and the young Afghan girl who inspired Words in the Dust.
JOANNE HORNIMAN on the teen dads who inspired, Mahalia, and the intensity of first love in, About A Girl.
‘Soil of my ancestors.. I miss you’ : Writing with asylum seekers by MIRIAM HALAHMY
ZANNAH KEARNS ~ 'my life experience has been one of enjoying diversity, and I have come to realise how much I like to see that reflected in stories - not only the ones I write, but the ones I read, too.'
ELLIE DAINES ~ Does multiculturalism promote separateness?
SARWAT CHADDA ~ Colouring in Heroes
