Need a break from potato salad and parades?
Have a bit of brain food:<\/p>\n
After all the brouhaha about That Woman and the Wall Street Journal Thingy, and the idea of YA lit being “dark,” Hunger Mountain<\/i> explores the themes of bright and shadow in this month’s edition. Neesha Meminger<\/a> kicks it off with a piece on the task and purpose of writing – are you writing to impart lessons – which is what it seemed that the WSJ chick wanted YA writers to do – or do you only want to create art? Is there a way to even only do that anymore? All stories contain a message… what’s yours? <\/p>\n The Flipside<\/i> pieces bring out another dimension of messages, lessons, darkness and light in YA lit. It’s Jennifer Ziegler for the light<\/a>, and Clare B. Dunkle comes to us from the dark side.<\/a> (Exciting! love her work) As always, there’s the happy array of short fiction, a couple of pieces from new writers, and we want to especially point out the one from Jen Hubbard<\/a> called “Monsters.” You’ll want to see that.<\/p>\n Read. Savor. Have another helping of potato salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Need a break from potato salad and parades?Have a bit of brain food: After all the brouhaha about That Woman and the Wall Street…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,73],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-what-we-do","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}