Websites
Blogs
Books and Articles
Videos
YouTube Channels
Podcasts
Websites
Collection Development “Urban Fiction”: Streetwise Urban Fiction
Good Read’s Urban Fiction Lovers Group
Good Read’s Listopia called Best Urban Fiction
Libraries Unlimited’s Reader Advisory E-Newsletter – Urban Fiction Edition
- By Jessica Zellers, December 2007
Street Lit Collection Development Resources
Teens Love It, Some Librarians Loathe It. Welcome to the World of Urban Lit.
Urban Fiction/Street Lit/Hip Hop Fiction Resources for Librarians
- No longer being updated.
What’s Hot in Street Literature? by K. C. Boyd, Librarian at Chicago Public Schools
- Powerpoint
WorldCat Genres: Urban Fiction
Blogs
30 Days of Street Lit on Megan Honig’s Blog
- no longer being updated
- and her wiki: PhatFiction Wiki
Urban Fiction/Street Lit for Teens: Telling Like It Is
- No longer being updated.
Books and Articles
Agosto, Denise and Sandra Hughes-Hassell, eds. Urban Teens in the Library: Research and Practice. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010.
- Has chapter on “Street Lit: Before You Can Recommend It, You Have To Understand It”
Brehm-Heegar, Paula. Serving Urban Teens. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.
- Mentions Street Lit in collection building.
Carpenter, Susan. Not Just For Kids: A Lifeline for Struggling Teen Readers. Los Angeles Times. 17 June 2012.
- Article on new easy reader series.
Franklin, H. Bruce. “Can the Penitentiary Teach the Academy How to Read?” PMLA. 123.3 (2008): 643-9.
- Franklin nicely ties in the importance of Urban Literature in prison and the academy through historizing and validating the genre as a canon of American Literature while forcing the reader rethink their position of literacy and incarceration.
Honig, Megan. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.
- This guide, while has a short introduction to the genre, is primarily chapters of sub-genre annotated bibliographies with further sub-sub-genres within each chapter. Subgenres include crime, coming-of-age, erotica, prison, etc. Books are rated with a key to indicated level of violence and sexual content.
McCovey, Sherri McGee. “Urban Literati.” Essence. Sep 2005: 113. Print.
Morris, Vanessa Irving. The Readers Advisory Guide to Street Literature. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012.
- This guide is aimed towards libraries to further understand the genre of Street Lit/Urban Fiction. Morris covers the genre’s appeal, history, literary motif, collection development, and provides a list of the genre broken down into subgenres such as GLBTQ, Tween, Graphic Novel, etc.
- Visit her blog here: Street Literature.
Ratner, Andrew. Street Lit: Teaching and Reading Fiction in Urban Schools. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Stanley, Tarshia. The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2009.
Sweeney, Megan. Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Talley, Erin A. You’re Not Really Black Until You’ve Been Shot — Or So Says Urban Fiction. MA Thesis. Eastern Illinois University. 2010. Paper 314. On-line.
“Behind Those Books” Extended Trailer:
Exploring Prison Librarianship 
I also have a blog on street lit/urban fiction at http://www.streetliterature.com. It has been in publication since 2009.
Vanessa,
Thank you for letting me know that I was missing your blog on my resource list! I can’t believe I didn’t have it on here!
By the way, I love your Readers Advisory Guide to Street Lit!
Becca