Instructor

Shana Youngdahl

Class Type 

Lit & Craft

Course Description

This course will explore how Young Adult fiction has become known for its ability to blur conventional genres of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, literary fiction, horror, etc. and consider how a study of these genre-bending texts can instruct us in our own writing. Students will read several contemporary texts as well as try their hand and writing their own genre-blurring story.

Textbook

Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds 978-1481438261

Jane, Unlimited, Kirstin Cashore ‎ 978-0147513106

Sia Martinez and The Moonlit Beginning of Everything, Raquel Vasquez Gilliand 978-1534448643

The Stars and The Blackness Between Them, Junauda Petrus ‎ 978-0525555490