Diverse

"Bringing together interviews with the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children, DiVerse develops illuminates how the genre exemplifies inclusive storytelling. Getting into the nuts and bolts of process, inspiration, technique and more, the writers discuss themes in their work such as representation of diverse voices, identities and lived experiences, empowering stories of girls and women; resilience; and characters between countries, cultures, identities and languages. With 27 interviews with writers discussing their best-loved work, the collection includes authors such as Margarita Engle, Rajani LaRocca, Carole Boston Weatherford and Jasmine Warga alongside many more from Australia, the US and the UK"--

Linda Weste is a writer, researcher, teacher and editor based at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches poetry and poetics and completed her PhD in creative writing. Her verse novel Nothing Sacred (2015) won the Wesley Michael Wright Prize and was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Prize. She is editor of The Verse Novel: Australia & New Zealand (2021) and Inside the Verse Novel: Writers on Writing (2020). Previously, she was an editor of TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Programs.