by Samantha Knoerzer • September 14, 2015 • Follow SamanthaKnoerze
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This week on our Publishing News Roundup series, we talk about the award winning YA novel that has been banned by New Zealand.
On this week’s series we will also be talking about Patrick Ness’ fundraising campaign for refugees:
Obsessed with Writer Activism
Maggie Stiefvater has been having a tough week. This week she made a plea on Tumblr about being misreported and taken out of context and she also explained about her inclusion on a panel that she didn’t know was on writing about race.Can white writers write about POC in their books? Can we represent the world as it is? Maggie asks these important questions and makes some decisions.
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