May 1st: I'll Write Queer Characters Forever by Francesca Lia Block May 2nd: I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It but not in a Vapid Katy Perry Way Justina Ireland May 3rd: They Turned My Gay Teen Novel Into a Movie. Here’s What I Learned. by Brent Hartinger May 4th: Have You Ever Considered Writing About Straight People? by Robin Talley May 5th: DOUBLE POST The Love That Does Not Know Its Name by Elizabeth Wein Booktube Needs You! by Danika Leigh Ellis May 6th: Guest Blog by Kimberly Derting May 7th: Guest Blog by Tanuja Desai [...]

GayYA has many goals, but everything we do essentially comes down to one purpose: get more LGBTQIA+ YA published. We are more committed to this than ever! This May, we're thrilled to bring you a month long blogathon. Every day, you'll hear from different authors, librarians, educators, and bloggers. We hope to use this opportunity to spread the love far and wide for LGBTQIA+ YA, and show anyone that might have any doubt that there is huge audience for LGBTQIA+ YA. (If we can accomplish these things, more LGBTQIA+ YA will be published!) We so look forward to [...]

Join us in our mission to provide a platform to discuss and promote queer YA! As a GayYA volunteer you can connect with our group of volunteers who are all extremely passionate about queer YA, create unique resources that support authors and enable teens to find queer books, and occasionally read queer YA before it is published. We are looking for five new volunteers. The general time commitment for volunteers is 5 hr/wk, but it is subject to change as our busyness increases and decreases, and we can be a little flexible around your schedule. Volunteers may be [...]

For our Fourth anniversary, we are taking a trip back through the best of GayYA's archives, and celebrating 4 years of excellence from authors, readers, educators, and more by featuring a post a day for the month of April. In May, we'll host a month long blogathon, which we are SO EXCITED ABOUT!! :D To keep up with which posts we're featuring as the #BestofGayYA, follow this post! Speaking Into the Frost by Jessica Albrecht One of my characters recently – and completely unexpectedly – came out to me. I smiled when it happened. I looked up into the trees. It [...]

Welcome to our first monthly call for guest bloggers! Each month we will put up a list of topics, prompt questions, or specific kinds of people we're looking for submissions on/from. For this first call, we want to hear from some teens, twenty-somethings, authors, agents, and editors. We're interested in co-written posts as well, so if you want to grab a friend or colleague to write with you about one of these, that would be great! We're also interested in interviews. Below are some prompt questions about specific things we're really interested in hearing about. Your post can touch on [...]

The new year for GayYA is looking pretty amazing! Thank you to everyone who answered our end of the year survey, who helped with questions about representation, libraries, and everyone who was a part of GayYA's community in 2014. We’re taking all of your feedback into account, and hope to make GayYA a better place for you and for everyone.   Some things that will be changing in the new year on the site: Search Function – right now if you’re logged into a wordpress account, you can search pretty easily, but we did not realize that other people [...]

Hey everyone! It's almost the end of 2014 (??!?!?!??!?!!!!!). We're looking ahead at the new year, and planning out what 2015 will look like. GayYA is driven by the community, and we want to go where your interests are. To do that, we need to get some basic info from ya'll, and feedback on things that are and are not working for you, and things that you'd like to see in the future. Go here and answer these 10 questions to help make 2015 an awesome year for GayYA! Also: if at any time you have have any comments, concerns, [...]

We are looking for up to seven guest bloggers to write posts for a Black Lives Matter series. Topics can range from what Black Lives Matter means to you in relation to queer YA, to fave queer Black characters to improving queer literary spaces to anything else you may be interested in or passionate about. Only caveat is that it must somehow be related to queer YA. Please email me (Vee) at victoria@gayya.org with a topic idea, and a little bit about yourself. Deadline for submissions is the 5th of December. We'd like to start the series on [...]