YALLFest
{{Short description|Annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina}}
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YALLFest is a public two-day annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina that is the largest of its kind in the South. The festival was founded in 2011 by Jonathan Sanchez of the Charleston bookstore Blue Bicycle Books along with authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Author Melissa de la Cruz joined as Director of Development in 2012. Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz currently co-chair the festival.{{Cite web |last=Jones {{!}} |first=Iyana |title=YALLFest 2022 in Photos |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/90995-yallfest-2022-in-photos.html |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}
In 2015, Stohl and de la Cruz co-founded a sister festival, YALLWEST, that occurs every spring in Santa Monica, California.
Attending authors
=2011=
Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
Author Track Guests:[http://yallfest.org/ YALLFest.org]
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*Kwame Alexander
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=2012=
Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
YALLFest 2012 Keynote Conversation: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
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*Kwame Alexander
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=2013=
YALLFest 2013 brought together forty-eight top young adult, middle grade and crossover writers (including 25 New York Times Bestsellers) from all over the country.
Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
Programming Directors: Margaret Stohl (YA), Melissa de la Cruz (Crossover), Pseudonymous Bosch (Middle Grade)
YALLFest 2013 Keynote Conversation: Veronica Roth and Rae Carson (Presented by Epic Reads & HarperTeen)
Author Track Guests:[http://yallfest.org/2013authors 2013 Authors]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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! class="unsortable"|Author ! Prominent work ! Secondary prominent work |
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| 01.
| Grisha trilogy NYT | |
| 02.
| Pseudonymous Bosch | Write this Book NYT |
| 03.
| Alexandra Bracken | The Darkest Minds Trilogy | |
| 04.
| The Diviners NYT | |
| 05.
| Heather Brewer | The Slayer Chronicles | Soulbound NYT |
| 06.
| Fire and Thorns Trilogy | |
| 07.
| Cinda Chima | The Heir Chronicles NYT | |
| 08.
| Super | |
| 09.
| BETA NYT | |
| 10.
| Matched Trilogy #1 NYT | |
| 11.
| A Beautiful Dark Trilogy | |
| 12.
| Melissa de la Cruz | Frozen NYT |
| 13.
| Americapedia | |
| 14.
| Gayle Forman | Just One Year NYT |
| 15.
| Kami Garcia | Unbreakable | Dangerous Creatures #1 NYT |
| 16.
| Adam Gidwitz | A Tale Dark and Grim Trilogy NYT | |
| 17.
| David Macinnis Gill | Rising Sun | |
| 18.
| The Magicians Series NYT | |
| 19.
| Monster High #1 NYT |
| 20.
| Rapture Practice | |
| 21.
| Michelle Hodkin | Mara Dyer Series NYT | |
| 22.
| Teen Wolf NYT |
| 23.
| Ellen Hopkins | Crank Trilogy | Impulse Series NYT |
| 24.
| Frozen | |
| 25.
| Openly Straight | |
| 26.
| David Levithan | Two Boys Kissing NYT | |
| 27.
| Dog Tags Series | |
| 28.
| Marie Lu | The Legend Series NYT | |
| 29.
| Broken NYT | |
| 30.
| Shatter Me Trilogy NYT | |
| 31.
| Hourglass Series | |
| 32.
| Wake Series | Crash NYT |
| 33.
| 7 Souls | |
| 34.
| Alyson Noel | The Immortal Series | Soul Seekers Series #1 NYT |
| 35.
| Delirium Series | Panic NYT |
| 36.
| Stephanie Perkins | Lola and the Boy Next Door NYT | |
| 37.
| Wings Series | Earthbound #1 NYT |
| 38.
| Brendan Reichs | Virals Series NYT | |
| 39.
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children #1 NYT | |
| 40.
| Under the Never Sky Series NYT | |
| 41.
| Divergent Series #1 NYT | |
| 42.
| Fangirl NYT | |
| 43.
| Carrie Ryan | The Forest of Hands and Teeth Series NYT | |
| 44.
| Victoria Schwab | The Archived | Vicious |
| 45.
| Natalie Standiford | The Boy on the Bridge | |
| 46.
| Margaret Stohl | Icons | Dangerous Creatures #1 NYT |
| 47.
| Twinmaker | |
| 48.
| The Girl From Felony Bay | |
=2014=
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YALLFest Board of Directors:
|Advisory Board:
Editorial Track Guests:
YALLFest 2014 Keynote Conversation:
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! class="unsortable"|Author ! Prominent work ! Secondary prominent work |
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| 01.
| Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | |
| 02.
| Don't Look Back | |
| 03.
| Leigh Bardugo | The Grisha Trilogy | |
| 04.
| Pseudonymous Bosch | The Secret Series | |
| 05.
| Alexandra Bracken | The Darkest Minds Series | |
| 06.
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | |
| 07.
| Libba Bray | |
| 08.
| Bronxwood | Kinda Like Brothers |
| 09.
| Kiera Cass | |
| 10.
| Ally Condie | Matched Trilogy | |
| 11.
| The Mortality Doctrine series |
| 12.
| Map to Everywhere | |
| 13.
| Melissa de la Cruz | The Ring and the Crown, and more |
| 14.
| Matt de la Peña | The Living |
| 15.
| Along for the Ride | The Moon and More |
| 16.
| In the Shadows | |
| 17.
| Susan Ee | Penryn & the End of Days Series | |
| 18.
| Daniel Ehrenhaft | |
| 19.
| Sarah Fine | Guards of the Shadowlands Series | |
| 20.
| Black Ice |
| 21.
| Gayle Forman | If I Stay | Just One Day |
| 22.
| Kami Garcia | The Beautiful Creatures Series | The Legion Series |
| 23.
| Adam Gidwitz | A Tale Dark and Grim Series | |
| 24.
| The Walled City | |
| 25.
| Adele Griffin | The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone | |
| 26.
| Bronx Masquerade | Words with Wings |
| 27.
| Lev Grossman | |
| 28.
| Aaron Hartzler | Rapture Practice | |
| 29.
| Michelle Hodkin | Mara Dyer Series | |
| 30.
| Ellen Hopkins | Smoke | Crank |
| 31.
| The Great Greene Heist | |
| 32.
| Mike Johnston | Frozen Series | |
| 33.
| Sublime | |
| 34.
| David Levithan | Two Boys Kissing | |
| 35. |
| 36.
| Proxy | |
| 37.
| Marie Lu | Legend Series |
| 38.
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| 39.
| Sylo | |
| 40.
| Barnabas Miller | 7 Souls | |
| 41.
| Twelve | The Internet Girls Series |
| 42.
| Lauren Oliver | Delirium Series | Panic Rooms |
| 43.
| Dorothy Must Die Series | |
| 44.
| Stephanie Perkins | Isla and the Happily Ever After |
| 45.
| Brendan Reichs | |
| 46.
| Kathy Reichs | The Virals Series |
| 47. |
| 48.
| Veronica Roth | Divergent Series | |
| 49.
| Rainbow Rowell | Fangirl |
| 50.
| Carrie Ryan | The Forest of Hands and Teeth series | The Road to Everywhere |
| 51.
| Only Everything, and more |
| 52.
| The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight | The Geography of You and Me |
| 53.
| Natalie Standiford | How to Say Goodbye in Robot | Switched at Birthday |
| 54.
| Margaret Stohl | The Beautiful Creatures Series | Icons Series |
| 55.
| Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy | |
| 56.
| J.E. Thompson | The Girl From Felony Bay | |
| 57.
| Popular: Vintage Wisdom for the Modern Geek | |
| 58.
| Uglies | Leviathan Series |
| 59.
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| 60.
| Roomies, and more |
See also
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References
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External links
- [https://www.facebook.com/yallfest/info YALLFest Facebook Page]
- [https://www.yallfest.org/ YALLFest website]
Category:Book fairs in the United States
Category:Festivals in South Carolina