MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

“Troubled.” That’s seventeen-year-old Genesis according to her small New Jersey town. She finds refuge and stability in her relationship with her boyfriend, Peter—until he ...

Four members of the VCFA community have been honored with FY2021 Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council.

A.R. Capetta (all pronouns) writes about magic, science, weirdness, mystery, and the places where they meet. Their eight YA novels include The Lost Coast...

Ann Dávila Cardinal, Gilbert Ford, Charles R. Smith, Jr., and Padma Venkatraman are the special guests at this winter's MFA in Writing for Children &...

Vermont College of Fine Arts will be in San Antonio, TX for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference in March.

Running Press published Kate Hosford's A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems About Sleeping Animals in November 2019, with illustrations by Jennifer Potter.

Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India, the setting of her latest novel, The Bridge Home.

In 2019 alone, Printz Honor recipient Julie Berry released three picture books and a YA novel.

Eric Pinder's book The Perfect Pillow, published by Disney-Hyperion, received the 2019 New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children's Literature. 

Donna Bowman Bratton's picture book, King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara, was published by Peachtree on October 1, 2019.