MFA in WCYA Alumna Meg Wiviott to Receive Christopher Award
Meg Wiviott's (’11) Paper Hearts (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster) was selected to receive a Christopher Award in the Books for Young People category.
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The Walls Around Us by WCYA Faculty Member Nova Ren Suma Is a #1 New York Times Best Seller
Congratulations to Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Nova Ren Suma, whose YA novel The Walls Around Us became a New York Times…
WCYA Faculty and Alumna Receive 2016 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honors
We are pleased to share that works by Writing for Children & Young Adults faculty member Kathi Appelt and alumna Alicia Potter ’05 have been…
Candlewick Publishes Skila Brown’s “Slickety Quick”
Slickety Quick: Poems About Sharks, a picture book by Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Skila Brown (’12), will be released on March 9th…
MFA in WCYA Faculty Member Kekla Magoon (’05) Wins NAACP Image Award for Youth Literature
Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon, authors of X: A Novel, won the Outstanding Literary Work Award for Youth/Teens.
VCFA Faculty & Alumnx Lead LoonSong Writer’s Retreat, September 8-12
LoonSong, a retreat for writers for children and young adults, will take place at Elbow Lake Lodge in northern Minnesota from September 8-12, 2016, in…
Vibrant Ideas: The MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults at VCFA
A look into the acclaimed MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults program at VCFA.
Join Us for an Interview with M.T. Anderson on Monday, January 18
Award-winning author M.T. Anderson, the man who brought us Feed and the extraordinary two-part historical fiction Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, will join us…
Rita Williams-Garcia, Kekla Magoon Earn Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Two MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adult faculty members earned high honors on January 11 as part of the American Library Association’s 2016…
Circus Mirandus Makes “New York Times” Best Seller List
Circus Mirandus, the debut novel of MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults alumna Cassie Beasley ’13, has earned a spot on the New…