Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

by Saundra Mitchell, Will Kostakis, Fox Benwell, Tanya Boteju, Kate Hart

Overview

QUEER WE GO AGAIN!

Fans of Becky Albertelli, Adam Silvera and Nina LaCour will eat up this delicious anthology of romantic and adventurous contemporary and speculative stories featuring LGBTQ+ teens.

A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seventeen new short stories from amazing queer YA authors. Vampires crash prom…aliens run from the government…a president’s daughter comes into her own…a true romantic tries to soften the heart of a cynical social media influencer…a selkie and the sea call out to a lost soul. Teapots and barbershops…skateboards and VW vans…Street Fighter and Ares’s sword: Out Now has a story for every reader and surprises with each turn of the page!

This essential and beautifully written modern-day collection features an intersectional and inclusive slate of authors and stories.

With original stories from:
Fox Benwell
Tanya Boteju
Kate Hart
Kosoko Jackson
Will Kostakis
CB Lee
Katherine Locke
Saundra Mitchell
Hillary Monahan
Candice Montgomery
Mark Oshiro
Caleb Roerig
Meredith Russo
Eliot Schrefer
Jessica Verdi
Julian Winters

Read the entire set of companion anthologies featuring queer teens in the past, present, and future!
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder (coming soon!)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781335018267
Publisher:	Inkyard Press
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	442,141
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture deliverer, and a layout waxer. The author of eighteen books for tweens and teens, Mitchell has written work that includes Edgar Award nominee Shadowed Summer, The Vespertine series, and Indiana Author Award Winner and Lambda Nominee All the Things We Do in the Dark, as well as the Camp Murderface series with Josh Berk. She is the editor of four anthologies: Defy the Dark, All Out, Out Now, and Out There.

Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she's ruled by her feline overlords and her addiction to chai lattes. Her day jobs always vary, but in the past, she's worked in nuclear weapons abolition activism, lead poisoning prevention and education, and food safety at a mushroom farm. She secretly believes most stories are fairy tales in disguise. She likes heroines with dirty mouths and heroes with boyish charm. Find her on Twitter @bibliogato!

Cam Montgomery (non-binary she/her) spends her time teaching dance to queer kids, bingeing anime, tending bar and writing romancey novels. Two of her YA novels—HOME AND AWAY and BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY—are available now. Having ditched LA, the transplant now lives in Seattle and has made a habit of complaining about the weather even though she secretly loves it.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2020

Gr 10 Up—This follow-up to the All Out anthology is an assortment of 17 short stories and vignettes by a diverse slate of LGBTQIA+ authors. As a unit, the stories serve to highlight and to normalize different queer perspectives. They range in scope and style, from short reflective pieces that feel more like essays ("Player One Fight!") to quirky magical realism ("One Spell Too Many") to reimagined folktales ("Once Upon a Seastorm"). One delightful characteristic of the collection is the inclusion of stories centering on discovering and exploring orientation, labels, and identity, alongside more action-driven ones. But despite the appeal of individual stories in the collection, the range of styles and tones may lose readers looking to sink into longer narratives with a stronger sense of cohesiveness. VERDICT This is unique in the diversity and intersectionality of the contributors, and would be useful where LGBTQIA+ and #OwnVoices stories are in demand.—Erin Downey, Boise School District, ID

School Library Journal

2020-02-09
Queer prose anthology filled with diverse characters, experiences, and identities.

Dedicated to “every queer kid out there,” this volume includes contributions from 17 writers, including editor Mitchell, who share stories starring LGBTQIAP teens. The authors are a varied group (both international and multicultural), and their fiction reflects this. The anthology covers a range of genres and narrative styles—from realistic fiction to paranormal to fantasy—and no two are quite the same. Standouts include a piece that balances the need for control in “Kick. Push. Coast.” by Candice Montgomery, about a skateboarder determined to land a new trick and talk to a pretty girl despite their label not feeling right; the hilarious and moving vampire saga about coming out, “What Happens in the Closet” by Caleb Roehrig; C.B. Lee’s pitch-perfect “Lumber Me Mine,” about a lesbian reclaiming herself post-breakup and falling for a classmate in woodshop who is ace; Mark Oshiro’s entry that tackles dating as a big, Latinx gay man in the catfishing-gone-wrong “Refresh”; and Julian Winters’ story tenderly exploring a father-son relationship, “Victory Lap.” Common themes emerge: questioning and exploring self, identities, and labels; family pressure; the desire to be seen and loved; and courage. This is a wonderful addition to queer lit for teens.

Readers will find affirmation and see themselves—maybe for the first time—in this collection. (contributor biographies) (Anthology. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews