The second annual Young Adult Author Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 9:00 AM-2:00 PM. Want to be the first to find out all the details for this year's YAAS? Sign up for our newsletter here! young-adult-author-symposium-yaas.kit.com/da40aac5a2

Fabulous news! Follow @youngteenlit.bsky.social and let's get #youngteenlit books in the hands of young teen readers!

It's Time for Young Teen Lit@youngteenlit.bsky.social · last yr.

We now have a #youngteenlit Feed, thanks to @patrickdjoyce.com! Please use our hashtag to help promote books for ages 12-15 that fit our criteria. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.

#youngteenlit #itstimeforyoungteenlit #mglit #tlsky #Publishers, we are asking for a new category of literature that falls in between middle grade and young adult. Middle schoolers need Young Teen Lit and librarians are eager to purchase! #youngteenlit should have the following 5 elements (1/6)

📚The #KidLit event of the year is almost here! Join us for the live announcement of the 2025 ALA Youth Media Awards! 📅 Mon., Jan. 27 🕖 7am PT | 8am MT | 9am CT | 10:00am ET Watch at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page. www.facebook.com/AmericanLibr...

The Writers' Loft Presents: 6 WILD WINTER Picture Book Workshops w/ Karen Boss, Senior Editor at Charlesbridge. 🪝TOMORROW - TH, 1/16, get your hooks into the New Year with HOOKS! More info & register here: www.thewritersloft.org/loft-workshops Sign up for 1 or ALL 6! 🤩 #kidlit #writers #pb 🎉

As we begin to look forward to our 2025 YAAS festival, here's a look back at the inaugural YAAS in 2024 here in Concord, MA with thanks to @quirkwrites.bsky.social for the coverage! concordbridge.org/index.php/20... #kidlit #yalit

‘YAAS’ to writing: First symposium draws established and aspiring authors

CCHS librarian Kip Wilson and Concord Free Public Library teen librarian Erick Gordy planned the event.

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