S215. CANCELLED: Misrepresentation and Stigmatization of Suicide in YA Novels about Suicide

Status: Not Accepted

Room 006D, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

How should we define the responsibility of YA writers and publishers to represent suicide as a public health issue, in order to avoid common misconception, stigmatization, or taboo associated with the topic? What genre conventions or narrative techniques are privileged over the understanding and analysis the topic deserves? What are some ways YA writers can better represent the complexities of suicide, in an effort to encourage young readers who experience suicidality to seek help?


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_YA_Panel_2020.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Virginia Lee Wood is a Korean American writer and former assistant fiction editor at the American Literary Review. A PhD candidate and dissertation fellow in literature and creative writing at the University of North Texas, her work appears in The Minnesota Review, online at Cutbank, and elsewhere.

Minadora Macheret is a poetry editor for Devilfish Review and is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of North Texas. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of the body, disability, Judaism, and epigenetics.

Carly Susser is a teaching fellow in the PhD in English and creative writing program at the University of North Texas. Her prose and poetry have appeared in various online journals. She is the assistant fiction editor at the American Literary Review.

Brian Clifton writes poetry and studies in Dallas.

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