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Beverly Cleary once said that her fans love Ramona ‘because she does not learn to be a better girl.’
The radical hope we find in the arts, culture and literature is often a reflection of the times. Drawing from the past there are many examples of how dreams can become a form of resilience.
Including queer texts in the English curriculum has the potential to affect real social change, including in understanding and confronting inequalities.
Poetry has been a part of teaching and learning for hundreds of years. But how has poetry education changed? And how are young voices using poetry to express themselves today?
The young adult novel “Eleanor & Park” is a frequent target for book challengers. But swears and sex aside, there’s something deeply subversive – and important – about this controversial book.
Experts once thought that young adult literature was doomed. Now it’s got some of the fastest-growing sales in publishing. What changed? Social media might be the key.
When only six people showed up for a panel designed to raise awareness of banned books, the pot needed to be stirred a bit.
Can emojis be used to tell stories, and if so what kinds of stories can we use them to tell? The National Young Writer’s Festival, which opens today, aims to find out.
Sex is part of young people’s lives. So how do we teach young authors to navigate tricky narrative waters when they write about it?
This is not the first response to writer and radio presenter Helen Razer’s recent piece on young adult (YA) fiction in the Daily Review, the latest in a trend to either shame adult readers who enjoy the…
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Director of Library and Information Resources, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
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PhD Candidate and Academic Sessional, Victoria University
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Academic Sessional, Victoria University
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Masters Candidate in Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh
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Poet, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of English & Women's and Gender Studies, Drake University
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Associate Professor, Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University Schools, University of Sydney
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Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services, University of Washington
