LGBTQIAP+ YA books change lives. This Pride month, we want to collect stories about those life-changing experiences.

Has your life been impacted by LGBTQIAP+ YA? Now’s your chance to tell your story! We want to feature as many as possible during this year’s Blogathon.

If you’re interested in submitting something, you can either email us directly with your submission at contact@yapride.org, or submit your experience via Google Forms (link below). There is no hard and fast word limit– our shortest submission to date is just under 100 words, but we also publish pieces on our site that are over 3,000 words. For this topic, we’ll probably have more that are on the shorter side, but if you need more space to explain your story, take it! We can always edit it down if need be.

We’re also very open to non-traditional post formats such as videos, poems, interviews, or anything else. Just give us a heads up on what you’re thinking so we can make sure it will work!

If you’d like to submit something but are stuck on a topic, here are some prompts: the first time you saw yourself on the page, meeting your favorite author, talking with a librarian who helped you find exactly the right book, recommending a book to someone who loved it, letting yourself write the story you really want to write.

Submit Here! Unless you’re a teen– in which case, submit here instead!

Email us at contact@yapride.org with any questions.