Thinking about this may have actually started four or five
years ago. When I met my final year student for the first time then one of my
students declared “I want to write for people our age. No one seems to write
specifically for us.” She meant people in their early twenties. She managed it,
in fact.
This particular student had been on my Writing Novels for
Young People course. She’d actually done very well and I had rather hoped she
would carry on with it. But no, she wanted to start on this new venture. She
did very well with this as well.
What might be the features of this new genre and what is a
“new adult”?
I would say “new adults” are more comfortable with their
adult status than the “young adults”. All of the shenanigans in the brain are
over. They would be living away from home in their first jobs or nearing the
end of higher education.
In stories written for them there may be a little less about
identity but much about further progression in the world. There may be more
outward –looking scenes. There will still be much about sex and relationships. What
will be the main types of stories told here? Perhaps amongst others there will
be stories of early career development. I watch the emergence of this new genre
with interest.
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