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    Call for Participation | Online Launch Event: Publication “Diversity and Inclusion in International Young Adult Sports Fiction” | February 16, 2026 on MS Teams

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    Join our Online Launch Event to celebrate the publication of the Special Section “Diversity and Inclusion in International Young Adult Sports Fiction”, guest edited by Dr. Carla Plieth and Dr. Sarah Layzell. The special section was published in Vol 6.1 of the open-access, peer-reviewed International Journal of Young Adult Literature.

    This free launch event will feature a roundtable conversation between the guest editors and some of the article authors.

    The special section includes the following open-access publications:

    Editorial: Diversity and Inclusion in International Young Adult Sports Fiction by Carla Plieth, Sarah Layzell
    Game-Changers: Re-Imagining Sports as a Diverse Social Field in Young Adult Graphic Narratives by Paul Venzo, Sue Chen, Kristine Moruzi
    Blow by Blow: Muhammad Ali’s Life as Depicted in Graphic Biographies for Young Adults by Luke Rodesiler, Mark Lewis
    Young Women Athletes (Re)Crafting Conceptions of Self Through Sport in Young Adult Fiction by Wendy Glenn
    “Not for Everyone?”: Teenage Girls Transgressing Social Norms in Selected French Young Adult Sports Novels by Magdalena Grycan
    Unravelling Disparities in Indian Sports YA: An In-depth Critical Analysis of Half the Field is Mine by Swati Sengupta by Abish Jebeshy R, Selvam A
    Alternative Toughness: Reimagining Athleticism, Femininity, and Empowerment in Tanya Boteju’s Roller Derby Novel Bruised  by Shuya Su
    Review: Fußball in der deutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur [Football in German Children’s and Youth Literature] by Carla Plieth
    Review: Reading the World through Sports and Young Adult Literature: Resources for the English Classroom by Sarah Layzell

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