Young Adult Fiction – Category Description

The world as it was and is. Not as it could, or would, or should be. Send the dystopias and space operas, the fairies and angels, the blood-suckers, zombies, and alternate realities to Seculative Fiction. In YA Fiction we are looking for realistic fiction, be it contemporary or historical, funny or mysterious, romantic or adventurous. We want the real world …

Meet the Organizers: Jackie Parker, Young Adult Fiction

Jackie fully believes that her ability to consume great quantities of literature in short periods of time was first fostered by the elementary school program β€œBook It” which promised a button and free Pizza Hut to those who read enough. It served her well in college, and then again, in 2006 during the inaugural year of the Cybils. Since then, …