Hometown Haunts
Hometown Haunts (Wakefield Press) showcases some of the best voices Australian YA fiction has to offer in this sometimes strange, sometimes terrifying collection of short horror.
Judges' Report
Hometown Haunts (Wakefield Press) showcases some of the best voices Australian YA fiction has to offer in this sometimes strange, sometimes terrifying collection of short horror. This anthology acts as a reminder of how it feels to explore the unknown: unknown genre, unknown worlds, unknown lives. Editor Poppy Nwosu has compiled an anthology that celebrates and reflects the grassroots beginnings of Australian YA—raw, playful, and packing a hell of a punch
About the author
Poppy Nwosu is an author of young adult fiction. She has published three romantic contemporary novels: Making Friends with Alice Dyson (Wakefield Press, 2019), Taking Down Evelyn Tait (Wakefield Press, 2020) and Road Tripping with Pearl Nash (Wakefield Press, 2021), and is the editor of the 2021 Wakefield Press YA anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA horror tales (a project supported by an Australia Council for the Arts grant). Her work has been shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Readings Young Adult Book Prize, and has been awarded the SA Writers Fellowship residency at Varuna Writers House, as well as an Arts SA grant. She has appeared at Adelaide Writers Week and Salisbury Writers Festival, among others.
Poppy is based in Adelaide, Australia.
