Writing successfully for children is an art, and the best authors are the ones who identify with the child, touching on the deep well of a child’s feelings without being preachy. The best authors of ...

March 8, 2024 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people how they really got their jobs. This week ...

Celebrated author Mac Barnett is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and has a new, short book about writing for kids: "Make Believe." He talks with NPR's Elissa Nadworny about it.

Louis Sachar, the author of Holes and the Wayside School series, has spent nearly half a century writing books for kids. And he was originally going to continue that streak with his new novel, The ...

Young readers deserve our best work. The Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration is part of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, founded in 1996. Students study with our ...

I have been an editor and author of children’s and young adult books for over 20 years. I’ve taught writing for children and young adult fiction to hardworking and serious emerging writers since 2010.