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Young people’s creative online practices in the context of school community

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2013
This article concentrates on young people’s creative online practices, such as making videos, writing lifestyle blogs, and engaging in online role-playing games.
Reijo Kupiainen
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Life Writing on Sex and Relationships: Australian LGBTQ+ Youth’s Sexual Subjectivities

Youth
Narrative therapy and expressive writing interventions have been found to improve health and wellbeing among vulnerable populations; however, few have been conducted with young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, and those of other ...
Roz Bellamy, Adam Bourne, Christopher Fisher   +2 more
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Editors’ Letter, Volume 1, Issue 2

Leaf Journal, 2023
Managing Editors Elen Caldecott and Lucy Cuthew introduce the articles and papers presented in this issue of 'Leaf Journal', many of which were presented at our inaugural conference.
Lucy Cuthew, Elen Caldecott
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Don’t Look Back In Anger: The Mythic World-building of Melinda Salisbury’s Her Dark Wings

Leaf Journal, 2023
Through a close reading of Her Dark Wings by Melinda Salisbury and Ash Bond’s own work-in-progress this article examines the use of mythology as a megatext.
Ash Bond
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On Writing for Young People Conference 2023, Keynote Speech

Leaf Journal, 2023
A full transcript of Prof Emerita Julia Green’s keynote speech at the Leaf Journal’s ‘On Writing Conference 2023’. Julia sets out the origins of the discipline of Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and beyond.
Julia Green
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How to Build a Patriarchy: Conceptualising Themes and Creating Normalised Belief Systems in Young Adult Feminist Dystopias

Leaf Journal, 2023
In recent years, Young Adult (YA) fiction has – following its speculative adult counterparts – seen an influx of feminist dystopias. With this increase, comes a vast assortment of patriarchal systems created to coerce and control young female ...
Sophie Clarke
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Reimagining “Beauty”: Young Adult Fairytale Retellings in Perpetuation of & Resistance to Patriarchy

Leaf Journal, 2023
In recent years, Young Adult (YA) fiction has – following its speculative adult counterparts – seen an influx of feminist dystopias. With this increase, comes a vast assortment of patriarchal systems created to coerce and control young female ...
Zoe Marriott
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Travelling Through Time on My Quest to be a Children’s Author

Leaf Journal, 2023
In her quest to become a published children’s author, Charlotte Teeple-Salas explores why she is compelled to write time-slip stories, and whether their appeal in the publishing industry is a passing trend, cyclical or enduring.
Charlotte Teeple-Salas
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THE PRACTICE OF CREATIVE WRITING FOR BUILDING PHILOLOGY STUDENTS’ RESILIENCE

Nova fìlologìâ, 2023
The article analyses the creative writing practice as an instrument for building the resilience of philology students, namely, future translators. The paper outlines the meaning of the term “resilience” as the ability to “bounce back” from negative life ...
А. Ю. Бовт
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Talking Tigers: Concepts of Representational Ethics Applied to Non-Human Characters in Writing Children’s Fiction

Leaf Journal, 2023
This is a paper to open discussion about the representation of animals in children’s fiction. Arguing that the destruction of animal habitats and the reduction of non-human species intersect with colonial practice, the author looks at the tradition of ...
Mimi Thebo
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