YA-related Podcasts
This is my first week participating in Weekly Geeks, a weekly book blog challenge. This week’s theme is book podcasts. I’m an occasional podcast listener — I’ll download a bunch and listen over the course of a couple weeks and then drop off for awhile. For the most part, I’ve listened to public radio podcasts from NPR and PRI, but have also enjoyed Filmspotting and The Bugle. For this challenge, I thought I’d investigate YA-related podcasts.
The YA Literature Review has been around since summer of 2008. Hosted by Vilate, Ragu, Rose, and occasional guests, the podcast features book reviews, author interviews, story readings, and news. They post new episodes every few weeks or so and are also launching a literary magazine next year.
The Read Carpet was a short-lived venture by a group of book bloggers including Adele from Persnickety Snark. It looks like they only produced two podcasts in early 2009. It consisted of five-minute segments from a variety of bloggers on topics related to YA literature including book reviews and commentary. I really enjoyed these podcasts and was sorry to see there weren’t more!
The Fireside Book Chat features reviews of teen books by teens. It looks like the podcast is part of a high school class and is hosted by the teacher. Each segment covers one book and is less than 10 minutes long.
The Screening Room is a video podcast series created by Penguin Books. New episodes are released seasonally and the first five episodes have featured conversations with Lauren Myracle, Laurie Halse Anderson, T.A. Barron, John Green, and Jacqueline Woodson.
YALSA hosts a podcast numbering over 70 episodes. The content includes author interviews, interviews with librarians, conference sessions, and other topics of interest to YA librarians. New episodes come out about once a month, though sometimes more often.
Plus, lots of libraries are podcasting! Hennepin County Library TeenLinks has songs, poems, and reviews by teens, Seattle Public Library Teens Podcast features audio from its events and from its teen advisory group, Cape May County Library makes video podcasts about library programs, and The Orange County Library System podcasts monthly about upcoming teen events.
I’m sure there are more podcasts out there of interest to YA librarians. Let me know of any favorites in the comments!
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Welcome to Weekly Geeks! I hope you have fun participating and visiting with other participants. I know there are a lot of YA enthusiasts out there, and this looks like a great place to start for resources.