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Jason Reynolds

July 2022

  • Mr write … Kwame Alexander will present America’s Next Great Author.

    Kwame Alexander to present new reality show America’s Next Great Author

    Contestants will enter a writers’ retreat and be given 30 days to write a novel while completing ‘live-wire’ challenges

November 2021

  • Jason Reynolds

    The books of my life
    Jason Reynolds: “Reading rap lyrics made me realise that poetry could be for me”

    The American YA author on discovering Stephen King, growing into Toni Morrison – and the perfect novel

October 2021

  • Unsung heroes … Olaudah Equiano, Alexandre Dumas and Beryl Gilroy.

    My favourite overlooked Black writer – by Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and more

    From the memoirs of a slave to the story of Britain’s first Black headteacher, leading writers including Malorie Blackman and David Olusoga choose the Black authors who fired their imaginations

April 2021

  • ‘Thought to promote anti-police views’ … Jason Reynolds, current ambassador for young people’s literature in the US.

    Sharp rise in parents seeking to ban anti-racist books in US schools

    The American Library Association’s annual Top 10 ‘most challenged’ books is usually dominated by LGBTQ+ reading, but 2020 registered other anxieties

February 2021

  • Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys

    'Outstanding' Carnegie medal longlist includes three previous winners

    Previous winners Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys up for prestigious children’s book award, with loss a common theme

November 2020

  • Jason Reynolds

    Jason Reynolds: 'Snoop Dogg once told white folks: 'I know you hate me. But your kids don't.' That's how I feel'

    America’s ambassador for young people’s literature talks about touring Trump country, facing down racism and why there’s no such thing as a bad kid

March 2019

  • Writer/poet Kwame Alexander is among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Carnegie medal.

    Carnegie medal shortlist celebrates novels in free verse

    Three of the eight shortlisted novels for the UK’s most prestigious children’s book award are coming-of-age stories in verse

February 2019

  • Jason Reynolds

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Jason Reynolds and JD Salinger's posthumous return – books podcast

    Jason Reynolds talks about tackling difficult subjects for children, and we discuss the ‘new’ work on the way from the Catcher in the Rye author

August 2018

  • Jason Reynolds

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Jason Reynolds: ‘What’s unusual about my story is that I became a writer’

    The American author on his gut response to a friend’s death, how to get young people reading, and the value of crochet

February 2015

  • Malcolm X

    Black History Month reading list: the best books this February

    There’s a graphic novel about the Selma marches, new YA fiction from the genre’s latest star and classic James Baldwin for those craving knowledge and escapism
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