Oscar Cannon is a 19-year-old writer from Los Angeles, whose work explores the idea of change—what drives it, what delays it, the cost of its avoidance, and what becomes possible once embraced.  

“Without change we chain ourselves past ideologies, unable to wrap our heads around modern solutions, and drown in a pool of our own misconceptions and repeated mistakes.”

—Red & Yellow

His first novel, RED & YELLOW follows characters shaped by their self consuming ideologies, and what happens as those beliefs begin to work against them. One through eventual consequences, the other through quiet entrapment.

“He didn’t look like he had ambitions, dreams, or a drive to live. He looked like he had given up, unwilfully accepting the future fate had put in his hands. In the reflection of the bathroom mirror I stared into the eyes of myself. Except it wasn’t me.”

—Red & Yellow

Oscar believes that change is the essence of human growth. That moving humanity forward requires us to set aside past ways of thinking, and adapt to new ones. Modern problems can’t be solved by outdated solutions, and holding onto them only keeps us where we are. 

“Change doesn’t destroy who you are, it strips you of what was holding you back.”

—Red & Yellow