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Hi! Thanks for taking the time to read this post. If this is your first time seeing a post from us, here’s a little bit about us: YAPride.org is a website dedicated to supporting LGBTQIAP+ YA literature. We were started in 2011 by two teenagers who were passionate about representation. We are now run primarily by a team of college students and young adults!
We have always believed that books can touch readers and change lives, often in unseen ways. For this Pride month, we want to make those experiences seen. We want to hear from teens like you about the LGBTQIAP+ YA books and authors that have touched your life. Our hope is to round-up some of these stories and feature them on our site during our month-long blogathon!
Interested in participating? Here’s some more information!
You can submit your story via this Google Form. We’ll ask you for an email as a way we can reach out to you if your story is selected! We’ll also ask you for “personal information,” which you can include as much or as little of as you would like. Some things you may choose to include are: first name (or whatever you would like to be called/identified by), last initial, age, State/Province/etc where you live. If you’d prefer to have your entry be completely anonymous, you can simply put N/A into the form. If you or a parent/guardian have further questions, feel free to email us at [email protected].
If you’re stuck on something to write about, here are some potential topics/questions to think about!
- A book that changed your life– How did it help you see the world in a new way? What possibilities did it open up for you that had not been opened before? What would you tell the author if you could?
- Seeing yourself on the page for the first time– What book was it? What was the experience of reading it like?
How has the experience stuck with you since finishing it? - The first time you read a LGBTQIAP+ YA book– What book was it? What was the experience of reading it like?
Where did you find it/get it from? Did someone recommend it to you? - Having a librarian or teacher who helps you find LGBTQIAP+ YA
- Seeing LGBTQIAP+ YA in bookstores, libraries, and classrooms
- A book you would recommend to other teens
- Meeting your favorite author
Submit your story here or email it to [email protected]. You can also send any questions you have to that email, or tweet us at @YA_Pride.
Saundra Mitchell is holding open submissions for the third and final OUT anthology, OUT THERE: Into the Queer New Yonder! Coming May 2022 from Inkyard Press.
OUT THERE will feature stories written by queer YA authors, about queer teen protagonists, and there are two slots to be filled through open submissions by any queer YA author.
If selected, your story will join stories by Leah Johnson, Kalynn Bayron, Alex London, Nita Tyndall, Abdi Nazemian, Alechia Dow, Kayla Ancrum, Naomi Kanakia, Adam Sass, Mason Deaver, Claire Kann, Zabé Ellor, Emma K. Ohland, Jim McCarthy and Z Brewer in this fantastic, futuristic collection!
Authors may be published or unpublished, agented or unagented.
Submissions will be considered by the review panel, featuring Saundra Mitchell, and and award-winning authors Tehlor Kay Mejia and Julian Winters. Mejia appeared in ALL OUT, and Winters appeared in OUT NOW. The two authors whose stories are selected will be paid $900 US, and a prorated share of any royalties.
Only a couple of weeks left to submit stories for OUT THERE! Writers have until March 1, 2021 to submit.
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