As the name ‘young adult’ suggests, YA is a book category targeted towards young people. For the sake of argument, let’s say 25 years and below – although there’s definitely a wider perception that it’s made purely for high schoolers. As a 21-year-old, I grew up in the dystopian golden age of YA. The Hunger […]

There’s a soft amount of pressure, being the first person on the Te Papa Tupu program to release their blog post. I don’t really know what people are expecting. A literary masterpiece. Something to rival William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or Colleen Hoover (the three greatest writers of all time, unquestionably, uncontroversially). Luckily for me […]