Press Links for Cecilia’s Writing

MIT Press, 2019
Writers in the Secret Garden is available in print and Kindle editions.
2020-2021 Press
The Books Briefing: How Fan Fiction Reimagines the Writing Process, by Kate Cray, The Atlantic, Aug 20, 2021
The Books Briefing: The Writers Who Don’t Work Alone, by Kate Cray, The Atlantic, Aug 7, 2020
Organization for Transformative Works Guest Post, by Claudia Rebaza, Katie Davis, and Cecilia Aragon, Organization for Transformative Works, Jun 12, 2020
Silver Lining for Learning Episode 12, by Yong Zhao, Chris Dede, and Curt Bonk, Silver Lining for Learning, Jun 6, 2020 (an hour-long Youtube video interview with Cecilia and Katie)
Writers with a twist of tech, by Anh Nguyen, The Daily, Feb 6, 2020
Researchers Uncover Evidence That Writing Fanfic Increases Happiness, by Tobias Carroll, InsideHook, Jan 22, 2020
Writers in the Secret Garden
Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring
by Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis
2019 Press
How fanfiction is helping teens and young adults learn to write, by Emily Young, The Daily, Nov 19, 2019
How the UW iSchool explores youth tech use through phones, fanfiction, and more, by Tejus Krishnan. The Daily, Nov 18, 2019
How fanfiction is empowering young people, KUOW radio interview, Oct 29, 2019
Spotlight on WRITERS IN THE SECRET GARDEN: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring by Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis, by Darcia Helle, Quiet Fury Books, Oct 29, 2019
Q & A with Cecilia Aragon Writers in the Secret Garden, Bookvenger-44, Oct 28, 2019
Blog Tour: Writers in the Secret Garden – Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring, by Rosemary Kiladitis, Mom Read It, Oct 26, 2019
Q & A with Cecilia Aragon Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth and New Forms of Mentoring, What is That Book About? Oct 25, 2019
Q & A with Cecilia Aragon Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth and New Forms of Mentoring, by Ronda Bowen, Wining Wife, Oct 25, 2019
Book Nook: Writers in the Secret Garden, Motherhood Moment, Oct 22, 2019
Book review: Writers in the Secret Garden (Teachers, come here!) by Sara Strand, Stranded in Chaos, Oct 21, 2019
What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn’t, by Julie Beck, The Atlantic, Oct 1, 2019
Publication Interview with Cecilia Aragon: Writers in the Secret Garden, by Tiffany Grimes, The Storyteller’s Inkpot, Sep 27, 2019
Aragon, Davis explore fanfiction’s ‘Secret Garden in new book, by Doug Parry, iSchool News, Aug 26, 2019
The “secret garden” of the internet: How fanfiction transforms lives, by Casey Fiesler. Medium, Aug 22, 2019
HCDE Professor Cecilia Aragon publishes new book on mentoring in the world of fan fiction, HCDE News, Aug 22, 2019
UW Books in Brief, Aug 22, 2019
Reading for Work or Fun?, Podcast by Philip Guo, Aug 2, 2019