Reported by Chadwick Gillenwater Brent Hartinger gave a talk titled "HOW FAR IS TOO FAR? The Limits of Teen Lit." He started with a brief history of the YA genre: 1950s: everything’s “peachy” 1960s: new funding for school libraries and The Outsiders published 1970s: Judy Blume 1980s: school funding cuts = publishing disaster 1990s: edgier,... Continue Reading →
2011 Conference Series- Faculty Q & A with Brent Hartinger
The 20th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference is right around the corner (a good reason for a mid-week dance of joy!). We've still got so much to share about our faculty, events, and more (more celebratory dancing!). Here's an Faculty Q & A with Distinguished Faculty member Brent Hartinger. You can check out... Continue Reading →
2011 Conference Series-Distinguished Faculty: Brent Hartinger
Happy Wednesday fellow SCBWI WWA members! It's time to meet another one of our Distinguished Faculty for our 20th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference; Author (and Playwright) Brent Hartinger. Brent has sold eight novels; including GEOGRAPHY CLUB; a novel about a secret high school gay-straight alliance. Besides books, he writes screenplays, published articles,... Continue Reading →