NPR Best Books of 2015
I truly can’t believe this! The Walls Around Us was just named a Great Read of 2015 by NPR! NPR’s Book Concierge features books that NPR staff and critics loved this year, and my book is among them!
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Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2015
Whenever a library praises one of my books, I flail, because libraries made me a life-long reader and turned me into the writer I am today. Thank you to the Chicago Public Library for choosing The Walls Around Us as a Best Book of 2015!
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
How thrilling! The Walls Around Us was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by The Boston Globe!
Celebrate My Paperback Release with Me & Courtney Summers!
I cannot even articulate how excited I am about this upcoming event… To celebrate the March 2016 paperback release of The Walls Around Us, I’m doing an event in New York City with one of my favorite authors, Courtney Summers!
Horn Book 2015 Fanfare Selection
Every year The Horn Book magazine announces its choices for the best books of the year in their Fanfare list… and this year The Walls Around Us is one of the Fiction selections!
2016 Tayshas Reading List
Every year, the Texas Library Association announces reading lists for high schools in the State of Texas, and I am excited to say that The Walls Around Us landed on the Tayshas Reading List for 2016!
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year!
School Library Journal announced their picks for the Best Books of the Year, and I was so thrilled to discover that The Walls Around Us was on the list!
The 2016 Djerassi YA Novel Workshop-Retreat
Even with my big teaching news that’ll keep me busy next year (I’m joining the faculty at VCFA!), I have a YA Novel Workshop-Retreat coming at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, and I am now accepting applications from serious, talented writers!
Joining the Faculty of the VCFA MFA Program!
I am beyond thrilled to say that I’m joining the faculty of the low-res MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts starting with the January residency!
FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD Anthology
So excited to announce that I’ll be a contributor to the YA anthology Feminism for the Real World. Edited by Kelly Jensen, and forthcoming from Algonquin YR, it will feature essays, lists, poems, photos, and illustrations about feminism from a diverse range of well-known voices.
SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS
This fall brought the release of the YA horror anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, edited by April Tucholke and featuring a story of mine called “The Birds of Azalea Street”…
MUREN VAN VERRAAD in the Netherlands
The first foreign edition of The Walls Around Us was published in the Netherlands! Called Muren van verraad (“Walls of Betrayal”) in Dutch, this edition was released by Karakter Uitgevers in July.