Call for Contributors!
We are looking for 5 new regular contributors for GayYA.org. Regular contributors are people who write monthly posts for us. The posts must be somehow related to queer characters in YA lit. Contributors can go [...]
Review of Searching for Grace by Juliann Rich
At the end of Caught in the Crossfire I was convinced I would not last until Searching for Grace... and the end of Searching for Grace has left me in the exact same state. I believe the email [...]
Announcing our October Book of the Month: Pantomime by Laura Lam!
Every month we choose a book as our Book of the Month, one of our favorites that has contributed something great and unique to queer YA literature. We chose Pantomime because it is an excellently [...]
Review: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
by Laurel May When I heard this book was about an interracial lesbian couple living in the 1950's I immediately wanted it. I was just blown away by the idea of this story! Now that [...]
Interview With Alaya Dawn Johnson, Author of The Summer Prince
Part 1 of Interview: Part 2: Transcript to come! Next month we'll be interviewing Laura Lam, author of our October Book of the Month, Pantomime. Let us know what you thought [...]
From Activist to Author, and Back Again
by Andrew J. Peters Note: Suicide content warning Writing fiction started out as something I did privately as an outlet for self-expression. For most of my career, I worked at an LGBT youth organization. I [...]
Guest Post from Author KE Payne
Originally published on the UK Lesfic website. I did a Q&A on another author's blog a while ago, and I was asked what one message did I hope readers took away from my books? My [...]
How Ideas Evolve
“Where do you get your ideas?” is a question that gets some pretty interesting responses from writers—but an even more important question is: “How do your ideas evolve?” When you read a good book, it [...]
The Magic of Rhyming Words (And the Agony of Titling Books)
By Juliann Rich Choosing a title is one of the hardest parts of writing a book for me. Seriously, I’d rather write thirty additional chapters than one word or a few words for a title. [...]
Transcript: Gay YA Interview with Francesca Lia Block
In August of this year, we had the honor of interviewing Francesca Lia Block, author of numerous Gay YA novels including Weetzie Bat, first published in 1989, and our August Book of the Month, Love [...]