A Reflection on Literary Crushes
Reading any novel is a journey, like passing through a fantastical world on a train going 100 miles per hour. You sit in a…
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Why I Read YA
Why I read YA: It’s honest. Without a doubt, authors are more candid when looking back on their own youth than when trying to…
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Writing What You Know in YA
In a crowded lecture room on a Thursday evening, I furiously take notes while a YA writer discusses and presents her recently released novel….
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Help Us Save Lives
For the past two years, The Passed Note has proven itself as a magazine that strives to publish excellent, engaging fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction,…
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How YA Changed Me
YA literature has been an important part of my teenage life. Fantastical storylines combined with a complex exploration of sometimes overlooked teenage experiences has…
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Characters Building Character: Reading YA as a Teenager
A moment repeated many times during my teenage years: my flashlight stills over open pages, illuminating their black and white text beneath the canopy…
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Other People’s Words: How YA Helped Me
Some words stay with you. Over the years, you will learn to measure yourself by how they’ve shaped you, how you’ve grown into the…
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Review: Dividing Eden by Joelle Charbonneau
Carys and Andreus are royal twins who thought they would never have to deal with the responsibilities of ruling, until the day their father…
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Perfection Isn’t Necessary
Something one of my dear friends, who is also a writer, has recently told me is that a novel does not need to be…
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My Amazing Staff // Behind-the-Scenes
June is an emotional and nostalgic month for me. Two Junes ago, when I started planning The Passed Note, I had no idea what…
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