{"id":6877,"date":"2017-09-23T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2017-09-23T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:49:58","slug":"cicada-is-a-ya-litcomics-magazine-and-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/cicada-is-a-ya-litcomics-magazine-and-is\/","title":{"rendered":"CICADA is a YA lit\/comics magazine and is . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cicada.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6878 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cicada.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>CICADA is a YA lit\/comics magazine and is <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">fascinated with the lyric and strange and committed to work that speaks to teens\u2019 truths. We publish poetry, realistic and genre fic, essay, and comics by adults and teens. (We are also inordinately fond of Viking jokes.) Our readers are smart and curious; submissions are invited but not required to engage young adult themes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Especially welcome: works by people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQAI+ folks, genderqueer folks, and other marginalized peoples. Not welcome: cultural appropriation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Fav writers, YA and otherwise: Sarah McCarry, Nnedi Okorafor, Sherman Alexie, David Levithan, Daniel Jose Older, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ntozake Shange, Anne Carson, Jacqueline Woodson, ZZ Packer, Angela Nissel, Sofia Samatar, Malory Ortberg, Saeed Jones, Octavia Butler, Andrea Gibson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s room in the world for your dark weird truths.&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Associate editor Anna Neher on what\u00a0Cicada\u00a0wants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The above is excerpted from Cicada&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicadamag.com\/node\/110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Guidelines<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CICADA is a YA lit\/comics magazine and is fascinated with the lyric and strange and committed to work that speaks to teens\u2019 truths. 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