In 2020, following a number of conversations with YA readers, authors, librarians, and educators, it turned clear that one of many challenges of quick tales in younger grownup literature was that discovering these by your favourite writer might be cumbersome. Many authors maintain an inventory of their contributions to anthologies on their web site, however no single catalog of quick tales made it attainable to search out as a lot data as attainable about this widespread story format in a single place. I put collectively the last word information to YA quick tales right here to each facilitate discovering the knowledge and to focus on what number of quick tales are on the market for teen and YA readers.
That information to YA quick tales ended with these printed in 2019. Beginning final yr, I dedicated to conserving this listing up-to-date, including new quick tales from the prior yr to proceed constructing out this information.
I’ve scoured by means of YA anthologies previous and current—as much as these printed previous to 2025—and pulled collectively an index to their contents by writer. That is meant that can assist you search out tales by your favourite authors, with a information to the books wherein they seem.
The duty of compiling this data just isn’t fast, simple, or with out limitation. This index to YA quick tales doesn’t embody quick tales that are interconnected in an anthology. That leaves out a couple of books, however not as many as one would possibly anticipate. Shaun David Hutchinson’s anthologies and Hungry Hearts, edited by Elise Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond, are examples of this sort of guide. These can and will get their very own type of recognition however they don’t fairly match right here. This index additionally doesn’t embody quick story collections by a single writer. Holly Black and Kelly Hyperlink are two, amongst many others, who’ve achieved solo quick story collections. Likewise, the index doesn’t embody quick tales solely printed on-line or in style publications. These are far more troublesome to trace down and are, once more, worthy of their very own compilation.
I’ve used my data of YA to whittle down the index right here to YA authors who’re well-known, widely-published, or new and rising voices. Some haven’t but printed a YA title, whereas others haven’t achieved so in fairly some time; YA authors who’ve solely printed in YA anthologies to this point are included in the event that they’ve printed a number of quick tales. I’ve pulled from this listing YA quick tales by grownup authors who haven’t written for YA in any other case except they edited the gathering. That is to maintain the index restricted to YA quick tales by YA authors.
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The quick tales beneath are organized by the writer’s final title. Every of the tales and their respective anthologies are listed beneath the writer, and in circumstances the place tales are co-authored, the story seems below each writer names. I haven’t included descriptions of the story as a result of that’s inconceivable with out having learn all of them. However by together with the guide wherein you could find the story, it ought to give a good suggestion of the themes the story might need. Maybe it’ll encourage the last word objective of this challenge, which is to get extra individuals excited to learn quick tales. In any case, the 2024 Printz Award—the very best honor given to a piece of younger grownup literature—was given for the primary time to a group of quick tales, The Collectors edited by A. S. King.
A few of these books is perhaps out of print since they’re past 10 years outdated. However chances are high you’ll be able to monitor them down at a library, and a number of the authors might have republished these tales on their web sites or elsewhere, relying on whether or not or not they personal the republication rights.
Once more, this isn’t complete, however it’s fairly strong and, I hope, helpful for readers searching for YA quick tales by their favourite YA writers.
YA Quick Tales By YA Writers
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Peter Abrahams
Tahir Abrar
Olivia Abtahi
Elizabeth Acevedo
