Young Adult Prompts Gone Wild

Love. Friendship. Trauma. Identity. Vampire sex.

Young Adult fiction covers all the complicated coming-of-age subjects that make growing up such a unique experience. But for every YA story told with subtlety and skill, there are a thousand dull, cliché-riddled turds out there, written by a bunch of out-of-touch cat moms and dog dads in their mid-forties.

Screw that. It's time for the next gen of writers to craft characters, stories, and worlds that'll flip the YA genre on its head. From tem...