This morning at Vermont College, I had the honor of listening to Michael Cart and editor Melanie Kroupa talk about short stories.
Michael announced that his groundbreaking YA journal, Rush Hour, will no longer be published. I’m sad to see it go.
For more thoughts on my VC guest faculty experience,
Author Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson has launched an official Web site. Her books include A Fast and Brutal Wing (Roaring Brook, 2004), Target (Roaring Brook, 2003), and The Parallel Universe of Liars (Roaring Brook, 2002). Check out her IAQ (infrequently asked questions).
Cynsational Links
See an author bio of Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson from Adams Literary,
“Real Texans do not use the word ‘summer’ as a verb.”
—Molly Ivans
I’m a visiting faculty member for the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults program summer residency, along with author Rita Williams-Garcia and author/editor Marc Aronson, but incoming guest faculty aren’t the only visitors.
Others include: author/editor/commentator/educator Michael Cart;
I’m leaving today to guest teach in conjunction with the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and I’m not sure how the Internet access will be there. So, in case I’m offline for the most of the next couple of weeks, everyone have a wonderful last half of July!
Please also note that Greg will be the Austin area Barnes and Noble Author of the Month for August 2005.
What’s In A Name by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon Push, 2000). Scrub Harbor or Folly Bay? The rich families with the $500,000 a year dads, they’re the ones who think it’s a good idea to change the name to Folly Bay. Good for real estate, good for the future. But the working class families who’ve lived here forever–Scrub Harbor sounds like home to them.
Anyone But You by Lara M. Zeises (Delacorte, 2005). It’s one hot summer. Seattle’s planning to spend her early vacation days hanging out with her stepbrothers–Jesse and Critter. But it’s too hot for Sea to skate, too hot for Critter to chase girls, and responsible Jesse is busy working. Layla, the boys’ mom, is working all the time,
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“The World calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers,
but they are just the people who have never forgotten the way to fairy land.”
— L.M. Montgomery,
quoted on Nancy Castaldo’s Web site
Pizza for the Queen by Nancy Castaldo, illustrated by Melisande Potter (Holiday House, 2005).
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Stained by Jennifer Richard Jacobson (Atheneum, 2005). Jocelyn loves Gabe, loves Benny, but Father Warren sees her as a demon child, a temptation, in league with Satan, all bad. Or is that just a diversion from his own agenda and manipulations? Ages 12-up.
What was your inspiration for creating this book?
Sometimes an event will spark an idea for a story —
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Anyone But You by Lara M. Zeises (Delacorte, 2005). It’s one hot summer. Seattle’s planning to spend her early vacation days hanging out with her stepbrothers–Jesse and Critter. But it’s too hot for Sea to skate, too hot for Critter to chase girls, and responsible Jesse is busy working. Layla, the boys’ mom, is working all the time,
The Crown Award Reading Program, which is endorsed by the National Christian Schools Association, has announced its annual children’s/YA book awards:
Children’s Crown Gallery Award
Winner: The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by Mary GrandPre (Dial)
Honor Book: Eaglet’s World by Evelyn Minshull and illustrated by Andrea Gabriel (Albert Whitman)
See the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 nominees.