Simmone Howell Simmone Howell’s YA novels include Notes from the Teenage Underground, Girl Defective and Take Three Girls (with Fiona Wood and Cath Crowley). She is a PhD candidate at LaTrobe University researching life-writing and teenage dreamlives. @postteen More of their work Culture Memoir 26 Aug, 2019 Patron Saint of My Teens: Growing up with Tatum O’Neal Simmone Howell Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I saw my own coming of age reflected in the films of child star Tatum O’Neal – navigating newfound desires, the world of men, and multiple selves being invented and reinvented. Continue Reading More Culture Culture Memoir 26 Aug, 2019 Patron Saint of My Teens: Growing up with Tatum O’Neal Simmone Howell Culture 21 Dec, 2015 Forever, Forty Years Later Simmone Howell Judy Blume’s most loved – and controversial – novel, Forever, empowered millions of girls about their sexuality. But how does it stand up to a close reading four decades after its original publication? Continue Reading More Culture Culture 21 Dec, 2015 Forever, Forty Years Later Simmone Howell
