Tag Archives: YA Fiction

YA Gothic at ‘Investigating Identities’, 16th December

Posted on 1st December 2017 by Sam George

Just a quick post to say that I will be giving a keynote on YA Gothics at Investigating Identities in Young Adult YA Narratives symposium 16th December. If you are interested in attending it is only £10.00 for students and … Continue reading →

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YA Fiction Reading Lists: Otherness and Oddity

Posted on 18th October 2017 by William the Bloody

Some more tempting reading lists of YA fiction for you. First, from Penguin Teen, ‘10 YA Characters Who Will Mess with Your Mind‘: a list of novels with unreliable narrators or narrators who unsettle. I would add to this the … Continue reading →

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The Cuckoo in the Nest: Changelings in YA Literature

Posted on 9th October 2017 by firekrank

‘Changelings. The eagerness of FAIRIES to possess themselves of human children is one of the oldest parts of the fairy beliefs and is a specific form of FAIRY THEFT. Mentions of the thefts of babies are to be found in … Continue reading →

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Alan Garner, Flower Maidens and Gothic Animals

Posted on 6th October 2017 by Sam George

This post is a clue to the creature I have chosen to write about for the Gothic Animals edited collection. My choice is influenced by Alan Garner’s The Owl Service (London: Collins, 1967). The novel draws on ‘Math, son of Mathonwy’, an eerie … Continue reading →

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My 10 must-read YA books …

Posted on 26th September 2017 by firekrank

This morning I awoke to a tweet from the YA Literature, Media and Culture Research Network which made me a little angry to say the least. It was a link to The Telegraph‘s list of ‘The 10 must-read YA books’. What … Continue reading →

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Latest YA Fantasy Reading

Posted on 25th September 2017 by William the Bloody

We now and then like to supply reading lists that we have come across from various sources. These have all been placed in their own Reading Lists category so you can easily search through them. The Barnes & Noble Teen … Continue reading →

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YA Literature, Media, and Culture website

Posted on 23rd September 2017 by William the Bloody

Dr Leah Phillips, a researcher in YA literature, has set up a marvellous resource, the YA Literature, Media, and Culture Research Network website. This is still being developed but already holds a useful database of YA literature researchers, a news … Continue reading →

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Reading Lists: Urban Fantasy, Imaginary Cities, New YA, Women in SF & Fantasy

Posted on 23rd August 2017 by William the Bloody

I’ve gathered together here four reading lists of interesting writing in the literature of the fantastic. The first, which ties in nicely with OGOM’s forthcoming conference The Urban Weird, is a guide by Chelsea Mueller to the genre of urban … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming SFF Adaptations for Film and TV

Posted on 15th August 2017 by William the Bloody

Natalie Zutter, at the always useful Tor blog, has been looking at forthcoming adaptations of SF and fantasy books for film and TV. Some of these are very intriguing; I’m particularly interested in the coming to screen of Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed … Continue reading →

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CFP: Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives, 13 December 2017, The University of Northampton

Posted on 5th August 2017 by William the Bloody

This symposium on Investigating Identities in Young Adult (YA) Narratives offers opportunities for researchers in YA Gothic and fantastic genres, which is a core part of OGOM’s own research. OGOM’s Dr Sam George will be delivering a plenary on identity … Continue reading →

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