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Authorial Authenticity in the age of social media
In the world of publishing, particularly genre and YA, the tag #ownvoices was popular from 2015 to 2021. It was “a shorthand way to tell agents, editors, and readers that a manuscript’s diverse main characters were authentic and drawn from a creator’s lived experience” (Swanson, 2021). A writer with a disability writing a disabled character,
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The original inspiration for Incandescent Girl
Australian YA novel stack photograph by Mary Borsellino My initial inspiration for writing Incandescent Girl came from a piece of writing I did as part of my master’s degree. I chose to write on the subject “Gender Variance in Contemporary Fantasy Young Adult Literature,” using work by three authors from Melbourne as my case studies.
