Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still, joins me to talk about how she’s expanding her teaching role with The Slow Novel Lab, and an exciting new podcast venture called Keeping a Notebook.
Nina LaCour Show Notes
Nina LaCour’s first First Draft interview
Nina’s interview on Yin Chang’s podcast, 88 Cups of Tea
The Castle of Otranto, a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole
Frida Kahlo (Artist)
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Keeping a Notebook (and the episode featuring Sarah Enni)
“On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion
Sara Zarr’s podcast This Creative Life
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Nina’s short story in the Foreshadow YA online YA anthology collection