YA OUGHTA!

UK-based podcast about all things YA lit. 📚Current ep: MENTAL HEALTH w/ @k_a_dunn @lydiaruffles @tomhpollock @chloeseager 📚 ✉️ : [email protected]

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NEW EPISODE 🎉
In honour of #MentalHealthWeek, we’ve go @k_a_dunn chatting to @tomhpollock @lydiaruffles and @ChloeSeager

https://t.co/Zqg7INaPfo

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@twittersupport please can I speak to a human person about by account issue, your DM bot keeps advising that I file a claim and I am unable to do that

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‘Twas the eve before #londonpride... and we’ve got a new episode featuring @cookieplease and @simonjamesgreen talking about 🏳️‍🌈 stories in UK YA. Spoiler alert: we want more of them!

LISTEN HERE:

https://t.co/OzJ1LAJwQZ

[The Good Literary Agency @thegoodagencyuk]

Call out to writers from backgrounds under-respresented in publishing – @STWevents’s #londonwritersawards are open for applications – bursaries are available and an access fund for #writers with access requirements. Find out more and how to apply here – https://t.co/0sEtDXGBOO

[🎃Shift Zine🎃 @Shift_Zine]

YES. ONE OF THE BEST YA BOOKS IN YEARS. Good work that @WillHillauthor https://t.co/54gVPR9HnJ

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After the Fire author @WillHillauthor on research: “I felt like if I was going to write this book I really needed to know what I was talking about.” #YA10

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Congrats to @WillHillauthor, winner of the 2018 @yabookprize for After the Fire!!!! #ya10 @hayfestival #HayFestival2018

[The YA Book Prize @yabookprize]

The winner of the YA Book Prize 2018 is... After the Fire! Congratulations to @WillHillauthor and @Usborne 🎉🎉🎉 #TeamHill

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AND THE WINNER IS....

[The YA Book Prize @yabookprize]

Our very own @CarolineC1988 to introduce the YABP special achievement award 👏🙌🎉 #YABP #HayFestival

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.@tanyabyrne and @catwrote accept the first and very well-deserved @yabookprize Special Achievement award on behalf of the team behind #ChangeBook.

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“La Belle Sauvage isn’t a prequel, it isn’t a sequel, it’s an equal.” @PhilipPullman for @yabookprize #YA10 @hayfestival

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“Sometimes things have to fall apart for you to become who you need to be.” - Patrick Ness on Release #YA10 @yabookprize @hayfestival

[Hay Festival @hayfestival]

"You are stuck with you forever. So if you can start loving you, being the best boyfriend or girlfriend to yourself, I promise you it'll make romantic love with other people so much better. That really is a Hollywood happy ever after." @Holly_BourneYA #YA10 #HayFestival2018

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.@Sally_Nicholls and @brixtonbard on how they create tension and transformation in their books. #YA10

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“Straight Outta Crongton tells a story I hear often in my youth work.” - @brixtonbard on his #YA10 book.

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Things a Bright Girl Can Do author @Sally_Nicholls on her #YA10 book: “The suffrage movement had a huge impact on the lives of every single person in this room.”

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On writing tough content for teens: “When I write I write in a way that the person who understands it will understand it and the person who doesn’t won’t be exposed to something they’re not ready for. And that’s the skill required of a young adult writer.” - @SarahCrossan #YA10

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“I hope people whose voices we don’t hear can find themselves in my books.” @LawrencePatrice

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Indigo Donut author @LawrencePatrice on how her relationship with her father, to what the book is dedicated, informed her storytelling. #YA10

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After the Fire author @WillHillauthor on research: “I felt like if I was going to write this book I really needed to know what I was talking about.” #YA10