Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring

by Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis

An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities.

Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers--primarily young people in their teens and twenties--have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026253780X
• ISBN13: 9780262537803
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"