Identifying Inclusion: Publishing Industry Trends and the Lack of #OwnVoices Australian Young Adult Fiction

Authors

  • Emily Booth
  • Bhuva Narayan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v3i.1572

Keywords:

Publishing industry, youth literature, Australian literature

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2021-04-27