Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens.įrom a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten.īecause You Love To Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy by Amerie Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. I’ve included both young adult short story anthologies, as well as young adult anthologies with essays and nonfiction.Īll Out: The No Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Through The Ages edited by Saundra Miller Drop your favorite young adult anthologies into the comments if it’s not included I can’t wait to hear about more and put them on other readers’ radars. Not included on this list are short story collections by a single author while they’re also anthologies, my focus here is on young adult anthologies which are edited works of numerous other authors.ĭescriptions pulled from Goodreads/Amazon. While editorship of YA anthologies skews white and straight, there are more diverse titles in recent years and additionally, these collections themselves have gotten much stronger in representation in recent years, too. These span topics and genres, with a wide range of voices and styles represented. I’ve also curated a semi-regular series here called “ Anatomy of a YA Anthology,” wherein editors of other YA anthologies have shared their inspirations, their processes, and talked about who their book is for.įind below a round-up of 50 (actually 52, since two are forthcoming in 2019) young adult anthologies you should know about. Of course, young adult anthologies are something I care deeply about, having now edited two of my own. The teacher used the stories as a means of getting teens interested in reading in a different way - something short, catchy, and with their reading in mind, young adult anthologies helped encourage new reading experiences and voices to those who might otherwise not be exposed to them outside the typical classroom canonical works. At my very first library job, one of the school requests I got was specifically for Young Adult anthologies.
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