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Anthologies are great for a number of reasons, most of all being that they collect some seriously awesome authors together, and they have short stories that you can read when you’re pressed for time. To help out anthology lovers and YA lovers, I’ve compiled a list of YA anthologies coming up in the rest of 2018. Enjoy!

Fresh Ink: An Anthology

In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors come together in this remarkable YA anthology featuring ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print.

I think almost everyone in the YA book community knows about We Need Diverse Books, and now they have their own YA anthology in the works! There are some are some favourite YA authors in there, as well as some fresh names. I’m particularly excited for Malinda Lo’s story because I love her writing.

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(Don’t) Call Me Crazy

Algonquin Young Readers has acquired an anthology from Kelly Jensen titled (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, which will explore, through essays, artwork, poetry, and other ephemera, the ways that mental illness impacts individuals, family and friends, with contributions from Victoria Schwab, Adam Silvera, Libba Bray, Esmé Wang, Yumi Sakugawa, Mike Jung, s.e. smith, Meredith Russo, and Stephanie Kuehn, among others.

I hadn’t heard of this anthology until I started looking around for this post, but now that I know it’s coming, I’m excited for it. Silvera, Schwab, and Bray are three of my favourite authors, and I’m looking forward to learning more about their experiences.

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Meet Me at the Intersection

Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen through each author’s unique, and seldom heard, perspective.

Another all-Aussie YA anthology! I remember when Lim and Kwaymullina hosted Voices from the Intersection in 2017, and I’m excited to see that the theme remains the same in their anthology. I love that there’s a blend of new and established Aussie writers in this anthology, and I’m pretty excited to read it.

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings. These are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate.

That first line has me hooked, line and sinker. And that absolutely beautiful cover is just the cherry on top. Roshani Chokshi is one of my favourite authors so I know I’ll be reading her story first. I’m also very excited for Cindy Pon’s story, as hers was my favourite from the Because You Love to Hate Me anthology, and I also loved her book WANT.

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Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

A YA Anthology of short stories featuring disabled teens, written by #OwnVoices disabled authors. The stories reflect a range of genres and disabilities; contributors include bestselling authors Kody Keplinger and Francisco X. Stork, as well as newcomers Fox Benwell, Keah Brown, and more.

Can I have a heck yeah for this anthology? And also some hype for it because I haven’t seen anyone talking about it yet! And it sounds amazing. I’m so ready for this anthology.

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Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

YES to everything about this anthology! It honestly sounds amazing, and I hope the words inside are as awesome as that cover *heart eyes* I’ve wanted to read this book for what feels like forever, so I’m super excited that the wait is almost over. Bring on the witches.

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Do you know of any more YA anthologies releasing in 2018?

If you’re a bookworm, you know your TBR list is going to be millions of miles long. Buuuuuut just to help you out, on this sunny day, here’s some books that are on my TBR (and maybe they’ll find a home on yours too).

The Treatment by C.L. Taylor

The Treatment is a thriller and boy can I tell you it starts off with a bang. It’s actually my current read buuuuut I think it’s one of those books I need to include because it is a seriously good book and I’m only ten pages in. I only just put it down to write this review! This book is fantastic and if you ever see it in a bookstore sometime, I highly recommend!

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Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood

This is one of those adorable reads that takes you back to your days in high school when life is simple (or meant to be simple). Unfortunately, though, these girls find themselves victims of some online bullying so life is just a little bit tougher for them. If you attended the book event for this over at Brisbane Square Library, then you will know this book sounds absolutely hilarious and is a must read.

Fall in love with Take Three Girls!

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

This year is all about books that are kicking people in the butt and making them see another world outside of their own. Moxie is exactly one of those books and there have been raving reviews for this it. I need it in my hands NOW!

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Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

It’s labelled the next big Harry Potter series and I believe it. It is selling up a storm and the world the book is set in looks fantastic. I have heard nothing but great reviews about this and it has a gorgeous cover that just makes you want to peek inside.

Fall into a magic world here!

The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken

So, I am a huge fan of Alexandra Bracken (hello The Darkest Minds!) and I screamed the second I found out she had a middle grade book coming out. It has a really interesting premise of some poor kid who has to live with a demon inside him because his great-great-something-grandfather made a deal with the devil. I mean, helloooooo how good does that sound??

Follow Prosper’s story with Brisbane Libraries.

What are some books on your TBR? Let us know!

Day 18 of #fanaticalbirdjan is Books with Gold on the Cover. I love a book with Gold foil and will admit that’s the only reason I’ve picked up a book before. But how’s an ALL gold book just to be different? #Disruption by @jessicashirvington is AWE.SOME and shiny.

Early last year, I read and recommended an Australian YA sci-fi featuring multiple trans/NB/genderfluid characters - “Ida” by Alison Evans. 

Today, thanks to some unpleasantness, the author’s being attacked on Twitter by some transphobic trolls. So, if you can, please go check out the link above to buy a copy of the book. The tweet thread has links for print copies in and out of Australia and the Amazon link for the ebook :)

We’ve looked at the exciting new series starting in 2018, but what about those that are on their final book? Sometimes you can be reading so many series that the ones ending are lost in your Goodreads shelves. To help with that, I have collected five YA series that are ending in 2018!

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

This is a world divided by blood - red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace.

Series ending with book four: War Storm

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Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fantasies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above.

Series ending with book two: Shadowsong

Borrow Wintersong from Brisbane Libraries

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

Series ending with book three: Obsidio

Borrow Illuminae from Brisbane Libraries

Ruined by Amy Tintera

Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war. She lacks the powers of her fellow Ruined. Worst of all, she witnessed her parents’ brutal murders and watched helplessly as her sister, Olivia, was kidnapped. But because Em has nothing, she has nothing to lose. Driven by a blind desire for revenge, Em sets off on a dangerous journey to the enemy kingdom of Lera. Somewhere within Lera’s borders, Em hopes to find Olivia. But in order to find her, Em must infiltrate the royal family.

Series ending with book three: Allied

Borrow Ruined from Brisbane Libraries

The Program by Suzanne Young

Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who’s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone—but so are their memories.

Series ending with book six: The Complication

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Borrow The Program from Brisbane Libraries

Do you know of any more series ending in 2018?

27 May 2017. Have you read #BeginEndBegin yet? If not, you NEED to!

BOOK REVIEW: My Life as a Hashtag

If you’re a girl called MC, you get mad as hell, that’s what you do.