The Ultimate Guide To YA Short Stories By Your Favorite YA Authors

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YA Short Stories By YA Writers

Peter Abrahams

• “Phase 2”  (Up All Night)

Dahlia Adler

• “Daughter of the Book” (The Radical Element)
• “Lygia”(His Hideous Heart)
• “Molly’s Lips” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• Two Truths and an Oy (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Jaime Adoff

• “The Truest Story There Is” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Ann Aguirre

• “Wild Magic”(Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Renée Ahdieh

• “The Blood of Imuriv” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “La Revancha Del Tango” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• Nothing into All (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Samira Ahmed

• “The Agony of a Heart’s Wish” (Color Outside the Lines)

Karen Akins

• “Strong Enough” (Welcome Home)

William Alexander

• “Found Objects”  (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Welcome” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Adi Alsaid

• “Ajshara” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Carlos and the Fifteen-Year-Old Heart” (Welcome Home)

Ameriie

•  “Jack” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Jodi Lynn Anderson

• Chicken (21 Proms)

MT Anderson

• “The King of Pellinese”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Oracle Engine” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Jennifer L. Armentrout

• “The Dictionary of You and Me”  (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Kelley Armstrong

• “Branded” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Hunting Kat”  (Kisses From Hell)
• “Kat”  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “New Chicago”  (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

David Arnold

• “Suburbian” (Behind The Song)

Stefan Bachmann

• “M” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Paolo Bacigalupi

• “A Pocket Full of Dharma” (Diverse Energies)

Tracey Baptiste

• “Gravity”(Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Schuyler Bailar

• “Catch, Pull, Drive” (Fresh Ink)

Leigh Bardugo

• “Head, Scales, Tongue, Tale” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Verse Chorus Verse” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

• “The Third Kind” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Christopher Barzak

• “Gap Year” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Elizabeth Bear

• “The Salt Sea and The Sky” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Fox Benwell

• “A Play In Many Parts” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Josh Berk

• “The Shift Sticks” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Holly Black

• “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Everything Amiable and Obliging” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “In Vodka Veritas” (21 Proms)
• “Krampuslauf” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Little Gods” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Millcara” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Once You’re a Jedi, You’re a Jedi all the Way” with Cecil Castellucci (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Perfect Dinner Party” with Cassandra Clare  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Kendare Blake

• “On the I-5” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “She Rode a Horse of Fire” (His Hideous Heart)

Francesca Lia Block

• “Lilith” (Kisses From Hell)
• “Sick Pleasure” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)

Coe Booth

• “Hackaton Summers” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Halfway” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Erin Bowman

• “The Magician” (The Radical Element)

Libba Bray

• “It’s Just a Jump to the Left” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Last Ride of the Glory Girls” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “Last Stand at the Cinegore” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Nowhere is Safe” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Not Just for Breakfast Anymore” (Up All Night)
• “Primate the Prom” (21 Proms)
• “Prom Night” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Rituals”((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health — edited by me)
• “The Thirteenth Step” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Sarah Rees Brennan

• “Beauty and the Chad”  (Grim)
• “Faint Heart” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “I Gave You My Love By The Light of the Moon” (Defy The Dark)
• “Let’s Get This Undead Show on the Road” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “The Spy Who Never Grew Up” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “Undead is Very Hot Right Now” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Zac Brewer

• “Misery”  (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Other Side” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Kevin Brooks

• “Jack And Dean” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Jennifer Brown

• “But Not Forgotten” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Keah Brown

• “Mother Nature’s Youngest Daughter” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Meg Cabot

• “The Exterminator’s Daughter” (Prom Nights From Hell)
• “Out of the Blue” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Princess Prettypants”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Rachel Caine

• “All Hallows”  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Automatic” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Dead Man Stalking” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Dogsbody” by Rachel Caine (Shards and Ashes)
• “Drama Queen’s Last Dance” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Rae Carson

• “Omega Ship” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Ally Carter

• “Star of Bethlehem”  (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Caela Carter

• “Up A Million” (Welcome Home)

Kiera Cass

• “In The Clearing” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Kristin Cast

• “Above” (Kisses From Hell)
• “Amber Smoke” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)

Cecil Castellucci

• “Best Friends Forever” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Marker”(After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Once You’re a Jedi, You’re a Jedi all the Way” with Holly Black  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Wet Teeth” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Soman Chainani

• “Gwen and Art and Lance” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Elsie Chapman

• “The Boy Is” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Bullet, Butterfly”  (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Erica M. Chapman

• “The Sign” (Welcome Home)

Sona Charaipotra

• “Still Star-Crossed” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Cherry Cheva

• “Talent Show” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Preeti Chhibber

• “Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Roshani Chokshi

• “Forbidden Fruit” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Rin Chupeco

• “The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” (His Hideous Heart)

Cassandra Clare

• “Brand New Attraction” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Cold Hands”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “I Never”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Mirror House” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Other Boys” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “The Perfect Dinner Party” with Holly Black (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “Some Fortunate Future Day” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

• “The Downside of Fabulous” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Dhonielle Clayton

• “Dear Nora James, You Know Nothing About Love” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “The Trouble With Drowning” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Way We Love Here” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “When the Moonlight Isn’t Enough” (The Radical Element)

J. Anderson Coats

• “Mother Careys Table” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Rachel Cohn

• “Prom for Fat Girls” (21 Proms)

Brandy Colbert

• “Good Luck and Farewell” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Hurdles” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Oreo” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “In Search of Sisterhood”(Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World edited by me)
• “The Truth About Queenie” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Jay Coles

• “Wild Horses, Wild Hearts” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Ally Condie

• “Leaving”  (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Dave Connis

• “A Kingdom Bright and Burning” (Welcome Home)

Zoraida Cordova

• “Divine are the Stars” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Eireann Corrigan

• “The Lost Chapter” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Katie Cotugno

• “Riddles in Mathematics” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Siege Etiquette” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Elizabeth Craft

• “You Are a Prom Queen, Dance Dance Dance” (21 Proms)

Andrea Cremer

• “Afterbirth” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “High Stakes” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Jocelyn Davies

• “The Unlikely Likelihood of Falling in Love” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Melissa de la Cruz

• “Code of Honor” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “The Magis Gifts” (Snow In Love)
• “One Voice”  (Fresh Ink)
• “Shelter Island” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “A Six-pack of Bud, a Fifth of Whiskey, and Me” (21 Proms)

Charles de Lint

• “Barrio Girls” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Heather Demetrios

• “Three Imaginary Conversations with You” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Susan Dennard

• “Shirley and Jim” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Kimberly Derting

• “Light It Up” (Grim)
• “Skin Contact” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Cory Doctorow

• “Clockwork Fagin” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Jaclyn Dolamore

• “The Airship Gemini” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Mayra Lazara Dole

• “Inside the Inside” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Kathleen Duey

• “The Third Virgin” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Jeanne DuPrau

• “Seekers in the City” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Helen Dunbar

• “The Inexplicable Weight of Mountains” (Welcome Home)

Corinne Duyvis

• “A Curse, a Kindness” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Daniel Ehrenhaft

• “Better Be Good to Me” (21 Proms)

Simon Elkeles

• “Fate” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Zetta Elliot

• “Sweet Sixteen” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Kate Ellison

• “Like Kicking a Fence” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Stephen Emond

• “The Night of the Living Creeper” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Sarah Enni

• “The Blessing of Little Wants” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Julie Eshbaugh

• “Webbed” (Welcome Home)

Sara Farizan

• “The End of the World as We Know It” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Take Me with U”(The Radical Element)
• “Why I Learned to Cook” (Fresh Ink)

Becca Fitzpatrick

• “Dungeons Of Langeais” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Huntley Fitzpatrick

• “Say Everything” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Sharon G. Flake

• “A Boy’s Duty” (Fresh Ink)

Patrick Flores-Scott

• “The Good Brother” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Gayle Forman

• “What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Aimee Friedman

• “Three Fates” (21 Proms)
• “Working in a Winter Wonderland” (Snow In Love)

Neil Gaiman

• “Bloody Sunrise”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Sleeper and the Spindle” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Witch Work” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Eric Gansworth

• “Don’t Pass Me By”  (Fresh Ink)

Kami Garcia

• “Burn 3” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Improbable Futures” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Red Run” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “The Soul Collector” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Sonia Gensler

• “Untethered” (Grim)

Lauren Gibaldi

• “Life: Starring Tallulah Grey” (Welcome Home)
• “What We Love” (Color Outside the Lines)

Shannon Gibney

• “Salvation” (Welcome Home)

Lamar Giles

• “Black. Nerd. Problems” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Historian, the Garrison, and the Cantankerous Cat Woman” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Oval Filter” (His Hideous Heart)

Steven Gould

• “Rust with Wings” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Michael Grant

• “This Is a Mortal Wound” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Tessa Gratton

• “Beast / Beast” (Grim)
• “Before She was Blood”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The King of Greenlight City”  (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Night-Tide” (His Hideous Heart)
• “This Was Ophelia”(Defy The Dark)
• “Three Witches” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages)

Claudia Gray

• “Bloodshed” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Free” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Giovanni’s Farewell” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “I Don’t Like Your Girlfriend” (Vacations From Hell)
• “A Real Boy” (Grim)

John Green

• “Freak the Geek” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Great American Morp” (21 Proms)

Bethany Hagen

• “Unus, Duo, Tres”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Jenny Han

• “Polaris is Where You’ll Find Me” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Frances Hardinge

• “Payment Due” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Kim Harrison

• “Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Kate Hart

• “The Well Witch” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Brett Hartinger

• “The Question: A Play in One Act” (21 Proms)

Rachel Hawkins

• “Eyes in the Dark” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Key” (Grim)

Karen Healey

• “Careful Magic” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Heidi Heilig

• “The Long Road” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “What We’re Born With and What We Pick Up Along the Way” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Leah Henderson

• “Warning: Color May Fade” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Christine Heppermann

• “The Devil Inside” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Faith Erin Hicks

• “Untitled” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Tanuja Desai Hidier

• “Eight Minutes” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Amanda Hocking

• “The Pink” (Grim)

Nancy Holder

• “Changed” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Letters to Romeo” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Pale Rider” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Passing” with Debbie Viguie (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Ellen Hopkins

• “Before the Rose Bloomed” (Grim)
• “Tiffany Twisted” (Behind The Song)

Nalo Hopkinson

• “The Easthound” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

A.G. Howard

• “Stitches” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

James Howe

• “How Miracles Begin” (Behind The Song)

Shaun David Hutchinson

• “Better” (Grim)
• “Defying Definition” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Inferno and the Butterfly” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Justina Ireland

• “Dread South” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Kissing Sarah Smart” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Tiffany D. Jackson

• “It’s Carnival!”  (His Hideous Heart)

S. Jae-Jones

• “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Michelle Jaffe

• “Kiss and Tell” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Brian James

• “Filthadelphia” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

N. K. Jemisin

• “Valedictorian” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Book Riot Editor Kelly Jensen

• “The Light Bulb, the Broom, and the Work They Don’t Tell You about” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Owning My Feminism”(Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Alaya Dawn Johnson

• “A Hundred Thousand Threads” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Christine Johnson

• “Shadowed” (Defy The Dark)
• “Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tongue” (Grim)

Maureen Johnson

• “The Children of the Revolution” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Law of Suspects”  (Vacations From Hell)

Varian Johnson

• “Black Enough”  (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Like Me” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “A Thousand Words” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

E.K. Johnston

• “Work in Progress” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Susan Juby

“Flattened” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Julie Kagawa

• “The Brothers Piggett” (Grim)
• “Eyes like Candlelight” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Rahul Kanakia

• “Next Door” (Diverse Energies)
• “Spear Carrier” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Lydia Kang

• “Yuna and the Wall” (Color Outside the Lines)

Sheba Karim

• “On Your Own Level” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Michelle Ruiz Keil

• “Gilman Street” (Color Outside the Lines)

Beth Kephart

• “The Opposite of Ordinary” (Behind The Song)

Kody Keplinger

• “Britt And The Bike God” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “The Choice Is Yours” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Walking After Midnight” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Caitlin R. Kiernan

• “Fake Plastic Trees” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Behind the Red Door” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “The Vast Machinery of Dreams” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Ellen Klages

• “The Education of a Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Elizabeth Knox

• “Gethsemane” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Ron Koertge

• “Call Me!” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Ron Koertge

“Baby” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

E.M. Kokie

• “Quick Change” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Jay Kristoff

• “Sleepless” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Stephanie Kuehn

• “Being Heard and Hating Sound” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Happy Days, Sweetheart” (His Hideous Heart)

Ellen Kushner

• “The Threefold World” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Nina LaCour

• “The End of Love” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Print Shop” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Margo Lanagan

• “Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “A Thousand Flowers”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Justine Larbalestier

• “Thinner Than Water” (Love Is Hell)

James Lecesne

• “Still Not Dead” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Lori M. Lee

• “Starlight and Moondust” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Steel Skin” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Mackenzi Lee

• “Burnt Umber” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “You’re a Stranger Here” (The Radical Element)

Stacey Lee

“Land of the Sweet, Home of the Brave” (The Radical Element)

Tanith Lee

• “Felidis” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Table Manners” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Why Light?” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Y.S. Lee

• ‘The Legendary Garrett Girls” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

David Levithan

• “The Hold” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Lost Sometimes” (21 Proms)
• “Quiz Bowl Antichrist” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Vulnerable Hours” (Up All Night)
• “Your Temporary Santa” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Elie Lichtenschein

• “He Who Revives the Dead” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Kelly Link

• “The Lady and the Fox” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Secret Identity” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Summer People” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

Lesley Livingston

• “Rude Mechanicals” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Emily Lloyd-Jones

• “A Drop of Stolen Ink” (His Hideous Heart)

Malinda Lo

• “Forever Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Ghost Town” (Defy The Dark)
• “Good Girl” (Diverse Energies)
• “Meet Cute” (Fresh Ink)
• “New Year” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “One True Love” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Twelfth Girl” (Grim)

Katherine Locke

• “Per Aspera Ad Astra” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Some Days You’re the Sidekick; Some Days You’re the Superhero” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

E. Lockhart

• “How I Wrote to Today” (21 Proms)

Alex London

• “Indoor Kids” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Katherine Longshore

• “Hard Times” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Emery Lord

• “The Five People You Overhear When Depressed at the Van Gogh Exhibit” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Gherin Girls”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Oomph” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

amanda lovelace

• “The Raven (Remix)” (His Hideous Heart)

Marie Lu

• “The Girl Without a Face” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• ‘The Journey” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Elisa Ludwig

• “About You Now” (Behind The Song)

Barry Lyga

• “The Truth about Dino Girl” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Chris Lynch

• “Lucky Buoy” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Jonathan Maberry

• “Fat Girl With a Knife” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “You Know Something’s Happening Here” (Behind The Song)

Karen Mahoney

• “Falling to Ash” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “The Spirit Jar” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Sangu Mandanna

• “Five Times Shiva Met Harry” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Upon the Horizon’s Verge” (Welcome Home)

Kekla Magoon

• “For a Moment, Underground” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Makeshift” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)
• “Out of the Silence” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• ”Pulse of the Panthers” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Melissa Marr

• “Awakened” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Corpse Eaters” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Love Struck” (Love Is Hell)
• “Transition” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Zoe Marriott

• “Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Wendy Mass

• “The Stars at the Finish Line” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Elizabeth May

• “Why they Watch Us Burn” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Lish McBride

• “We Should Get Jerseys ‘Cause We Make a Good Team” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Sarah McCarry

• “Girl Lessons” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Patricia McCormick

• “Orange Alert” (Up All Night)
• “Smoking Lessons” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Myra McEntire

• “Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Naughty or Nice” (Defy The Dark)

Katharine McGee

• “Click” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Mindy McGinnis

• “Census Man” (Welcome Home)

L.L. McKinney

• “Your Life Matters” (Color Outside the Lines)

Anna-Marie McLemore

• “Glamour” (The Radical Element)
• “Love Spell”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Roja” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Turn the Sky to Petals” (Color Outside the Lines)

Lisa McMann

• “The Angriest Man” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

Richelle Mead

• “Blue Moon” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Homecoming” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Sunshine”  (Kisses From Hell)

Meg Medina

• “The Birth of Susi Go-Go” (The Radical Element)

Tehlor Kay Mejia

• “Healing Rosa” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Starsong” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Billy Merrell

• “My Boyfriend Refuses To Speak In Iambic Pentameter” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)
• “Off Like a Prom Dress” (21 Proms)

Marissa Meyer

• ”Gold in the Roots of the Grass” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Sea Witch” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Stephenie Meyer

• “Hell on Earth” (Prom Nights From Hell)

Elizabeth Miles

• “Defense Mechanisms” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Kirsten Miller

• “Nemesis” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Saundra Mitchell

• ”Bonnie and Clyde” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Chosen One” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Now Bid Time Return” (Defy The Dark)
• “Thinner than Water” (Grim)

Sarah Mlynowski

• “Cruisin'” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Your Big Night” (21 Proms)

Goldy Moldavsky

• “Good Shabbos” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Hillary Monahan

• “Red” (His Hideous Heart)

Kass Morgan

• “259 Million Miles” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Lauren Morrill

• “Invited” (Welcome Home)

Hannah Moskowitz

• “Neilah” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Julie Murphy

• “Lessons for Beginners” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Something Real” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

E.C. Myers

• “City Girl” (Behind The Song)
• “Kiss and Kiss and Kiss and Tell” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Land of the Morning Calm” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Lily Myers

• “I Have Always Eaten The Bread” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Shrinking Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Walter Dean Myers

• “Tags”  (Fresh Ink)

Lauren Myracle

• “The Corsage” (Prom Nights From Hell)

G. Neri

• “Under Berlin” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Marieke Nijkamp

• “Better For All The World” (The Radical Element)
• “Changeling” (His Hideous Heart)
• “The Day The Dragon Came” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Garth Nix

• “A Handful of Ashes” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Happy Go Lucky”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Highest Justice” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Losing Her Divinity” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Peace in Our Time” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Quiet Knight” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Triangle Solo” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Vampire Weather” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “You Won’t Feel a Thing” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Alyson Noel

• “Bring Me to Life” (Kisses From Hell)

Naomi Novik

• “Purity Test” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

Naomi Shihab Nye

• “Lexicon” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Sarah Ockler

• “The Moth and the Spider” (Defy The Dark)

Daniel José Older

• “Many Stories, Many Roads” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “A Stranger at the Bochinche” (Fresh Ink)

Ellen Oh

• “The Last Day”  (Diverse Energies)
• “Second Chances” (Behind The Song)

Tochi Onyebuchi

• “Samson and the Delilahs” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Danielle Paige

• “The Dark, Scary Parts and All” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Prom” (Color Outside the Lines)

Natalie C. Parker

• “Cass, An, and Dra” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Sweet Trade” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Shannon Parker

• “Tunneling Through” (Welcome Home)

Jackson Pearce

• “Sell Out” (Grim)
• “Where The Light Is” (Defy The Dark)

Mary E. Pearson

• “Gargouille” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Susan Beth Pfeffer

• “Reunion” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

Ashley Hope Pérez

• “The ‘Nice Girl’ Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Mitali Perkins

• “Three Pointer” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Stephanie Perkins

• “In Ninety Minutes, Turn North” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “It’s a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Diana Peterfreund

• “Burned Bright” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Errant”(Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “Foundlings” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Stray Magic” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Aprilynne Pike

• “Nature” (Defy The Dark)

Marcella Pixley

• “Hush” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Cindy Pon

• “Beautiful Venom” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Blue Skies” (Diverse Energies)
• “The Crimson Cloak” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

James Preller

• “The Mistake” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Liz Prince

• “So I Guess This Is Growing Up” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

CJ Redwine

• “These Broken Stars” (Welcome Home)

Amy Reed

• “Bless This Mess” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

Dia Reeves

• “Chickie Hill’s Badass Ride” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “The Dark Side of the Moon” (Defy The Dark)

Beth Revis

• “Love is a Choice” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Night Swimming” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Other Elder” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• ”Pearls”  (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Jason Reynolds

• “Eraser Tattoo”  (Fresh Ink)
• “The Ingredients” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Karuna Riazi

• “Faithfull” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Plus One” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Randy Ribay

• “The Snow-Covered Sidewalk” (Welcome Home)

Debbie Rigaud

• “Voilà!” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Caroline Tung Richmond

• “The Coward’s Guide to Falling in Love” (Color Outside the Lines)
• ”The Red Raven Ball” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

William Ritter

• “Deeply” (Welcome Home)

Caleb Roehrig

• “The Glittering Death” (His Hideous Heart)

Matthue Roth

• “The Ambush” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)
• “Find the River” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “The Waitress” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Veronica Roth

• “Hearken” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Inertia” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Vim and Vigor”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Rainbow Rowell

• “Midnight” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Lance Rubin

• “Jewbacca” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Meredith Russo

• “Coda” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Somewhere That’s Green” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Carrie Ryan

• “After the Cure” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Almost Normal” (Defy The Dark)
• “Bougainvillea” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Dream Eater” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Hare Moon” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “In the Forest Dark and Deep” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The Killing Garden” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Miasma” (Shards and Ashes)
• “That the Machine May Progress Eternally”(Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Aisha Saeed

• “The Smile” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Aminah Mae Safi

• “Be Cool For Once” (Fresh Ink)

Sofia Samatar

• “Walkdog” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Alex Sanchez

• “The Secret Life of a Teenage Boy” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Lisa Ann Sandell

• “See Me” (21 Proms)

Kate Scelsa

• “The Coven” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

Tiffany Schmidt

• “Anyone Other Than Me” (Behind The Song)

Samantha Schutz

• “Picking” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Victoria Schwab

• “Black Hole” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Death Knell” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Dana Schwartz

• “El Al 328” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Michael Scott

• “Deadwood” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Tarun Shanker

• “Giving Up the Ghost” with Kelly Zekas (Color Outside the Lines)

Tess Sharpe

• “The Girl With the Blue Lantern” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Heart in Her Hands” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Nisi Shawl

• “Otherwise” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Sara Shepard

• “The Intern” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

Megan Shepherd

• “Hide and Seek” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Lady Firebrand” (The Radical Element)

Delia Sherman

• “Flying”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Witch in the Wood” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

Adam Silvera

• “Happiness Goes On” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Something Gay and Magical” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “You, You, It’s All About You” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Laura Silverman

• “Be Brave and All” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Tara Sim

• “Death and the Maiden” (Color Outside the Lines)

Jon Skovron

• “Love is the Last Resort” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “The Raven Princess”(Grim)
• “There’s Nowhere Else” (Defy The Dark)

Jordan Sonnenblick

• “The Sweeter the Sin” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

Cynthia Leitich Smith

• “Cupid’s Beaux” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Haunted Love” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “The Wrath of Dawn” with Greg Leitich Smith (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Book Riot Contributor Eric Smith 

• “In Pieces” (Welcome Home)
• “Sandwiched in Between” (Color Outside the Lines)

Jennifer E. Smith

• “A Thousand Ways This Could All Go Wrong” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)

Lindsay Smith

• ”City of Angels” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Death in the Sawtooths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

Jeri Smith-Ready

• “Bridge” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Figment” (Grim)
• “Thief” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Maria V Snyder

• “Berserker Eyes” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Sword Point” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Under Amber Skies” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

Rachel Lynn Solomon

• “Aftershocks” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Jessica Spotswood

• “Beware of Girls with Crooked Mouths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”Madeleine’s Choice” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Step Right Up” (The Radical Element)

Lili St. Crow

• “Ambition” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Say Yes” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

Courtney C. Stevens

• “Peace of Paper” (Welcome Home)

Maggie Stiefvater

• “The Hounds of Ulster” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Margaret Stohl

• “Death for the Deathless” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “IV League” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Necklace of Raindrops”(Shards and Ashes)
• “Sirocco” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

• “Sleeping with the Spirit” (Love Is Hell)

Nic Stone

• “Grounded” (Snow In Love)
• “Happy Beginning” (Welcome Home)
• “Into the Starlight” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Francisco X. Stork

• “Brotherly Love” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Captain, My Captain” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Nova Ren Suma

• “The Birds of Azalea Street” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The One Who Stayed” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Reading Worthy Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Twelve Frames”(It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

Courtney Summers

• “The Likability Rule” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Sleepstalk” (Defy The Dark)

Sabaa Tahir

• “Waiting” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Robin Talley

• “The Dresser and The Chambermaid” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Legend of Stone Mary” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”The Whole World is Watching” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Liara Tamani

• “Stop Playing” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Sarvenaz Tash

• “The Belle of the Ball” (The Radical Element)

Laini Taylor

• “Gentlemen Send Phantoms” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

McCormick Templeman

• “A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Shveta Thakrar

• “Daughter of the Sun” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Krishna Blue”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Moonapple Menagerie” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “A Thousand Paper Cuts” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Scott Tracey

• “Willows” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

April Genevieve Tucholke

• “The Flicker, the Fingers, the Beat, the Sigh” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Indigo and Shade” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

Catherynne M. Valente

• “In the Future When All’s Well” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Carrie Vaughn

• “Now Purple With Love’s Wound” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

Jessica Verday

• “At The Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

Debbie Viguie

• “Passing” with Nancy Holder  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

Rachel Vincent

• “Fearless” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Siobhan Vivian

• “Corny Won’t Kill Your Cred: Rearview Mirror Reflections on Feminism and Romance” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Ned Vizzini

• “Apology #1” (21 Proms)

Cecily Von Ziegesar

• “All She Wants” (21 Proms)

Adrienne Maria Vrettos

• “Mom Called, She Says You Have to Go to Prom” (21 Proms)

K.M. Walton

• “Doomed?” (Behind The Song)

Lesley Walton

• ”El Destinos” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Daniel Waters

• “Many Happy Returns” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Kate Watson

• “The Take-Back” (Welcome Home)

Sarah Weeks

• “Superman is Dead” (Up All Night)

Elizabeth Wein

• ”The Color of the Sky” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

Kasie West

• “Snow and Mistletoe” (Snow In Love)

Scott Westerfield

• “Definitional Chaos” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Inoculata” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Stupid Perfect World” (Love Is Hell)

Kayla Whaley

• “Broken Body, Worthless Girl, and Other Lies I Called The Truth” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “The Leap and the Fall” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Kiersten White

• “Tick, Tick, Boom” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Welcome to Christmas, CA” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

Fran Wilde

• “The Fall of the Bank of Usher” (His Hideous Heart)

Rita Williams

• “Whoa!” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Sean Williams

• “The Legend Trap” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

Cat Winters

• “Emmeline” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

Ellen Wittlinger

• “The we-are-like-everybody-else-game” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

Alyssa Wong

• “Olivia’s Table” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

Chris Wooding

• “People Watching” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

Jacqueline Woodson

• “Geechee Girls Dancing” (21 Proms)

Erika T. Wurth

• “Dear Teen Me: It Would Have Changed Everything; It Would Have Changed Nothing” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Kristine Wyllys

• “Ballad Of Weary Daughters” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

Wendy Xu

• “The Princess and the Witch” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

Gene Luen Yang

• “The Motherless One” (Up All Night)
• “Paladin/Samurai” (Fresh Ink)
• “Why I Won’t Be Watching the Last Airbender Movie” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

Lisa Yee

• “Everyone But You”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Jane Yolen

• “Andersen’s Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Gray” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

David Yoo

• “Becoming Henry Lee” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Everyone’s Nice” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

Nicola Yoon

• “The Department of Dead Love” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “Sera” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Super Human” (Fresh Ink)

Suzanne Young

• “The Ride” (Behind The Song)

Brenna Yovanoff

• “Daughters of Baba Yaga” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Vega” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

Sara Zarr

• “This is My Audition Monologue” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

Kelly Zekas

• “Giving Up the Ghost” with Tarun Shanker (Color Outside the Lines)

Gabrielle Zevin

• “Fan Fictions” (Love Is Hell)

Michelle Zink

• “The Assassin’s Apprentice” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

Ibi Zoboi

• “Hourglass” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “The (R)evolution of Nigeria Jones” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

Markus Zusak

• “The First Six Killers” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)