YALLFest

{{Short description|Annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina}} {{Multiple issues| {{original research|date=February 2015}} {{primary sources|date=February 2015}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2015}} }} '''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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:<ref>[http://yallfest.org/ YALLFest.org]</ref> {| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%; font-size:100%" |+Listed in Alphabetical Order by Authors Last Name |- | *Kwame Alexander *Pseudonymous Bosch *Sarah Rees Brennan *Heather Brewer *Lisa Brown *Rosemary Clement-Moore *Andrea Cremer *Katie Crouch | *Melissa de la Cruz *Kimberly Derting *Gayle Forman *Donna Freitas *Kami Garcia *Adele Griffin *Michelle Hodkin *Ellen Hopkins | *Caitlin Kittredge *David Levithan *Isaac Marion *Saundra Mitchel *Kaleb Nation *Diana Peterfreund *Beth Revis | *Marie Ruthoski *Carrie Ryan *Eliot Schrefer *Victoria Schwab *Holly Goldberg Sloan *Natalie Standiford *Margaret Stohl |}

===2012===

Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez

YALLFest 2012 Keynote Conversation: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

Author Track Guests:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2012/05/10/yallfest-2012-lineup/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513020105/http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2012/05/10/yallfest-2012-lineup|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 13, 2012|title = News - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Celebrity}}</ref> {| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%; font-size:100%" |+Listed in Alphabetical Order by Authors Last Name |- | *Kwame Alexander *Jennifer Lyn Barnes *Holly Black *Pseudonymous Bosch *Sarah Rees Brennan *Heather Brewer *Kiera Cass *Cinda Chima *Cassandra Clare *Andrea Cremer *Katie Crouch *Gitty Daneshvari | *Melissa de la Cruz *Matt de la Peña *Kim Derting *Simone Elkeles *Elizabeth Eulberg *Gayle Forman *Kami Garcia *Adam Gidwitz *David Macinnis Gill *Adele Griffin *Deborah Harkness *Jenny Han | *Siobhan Vivian *Michelle Hodkin *Ellen Hopkins *Tonya Hurley *Michele Jaffe *Caitlin Kittredge *Alyson Noel *David Levithan *Stephanie Perkins *Diana Peterfreund *Kathy Reichs *Brendan Reichs | *Beth Revis *Jessica Rothenberg *Carrie Ryan *Eliot Schrefer *Natalie Standiford *Trenton Lee Stewart *Margaret Stohl *Cate Tiernan *Robin Wasserman *Marjorie Wentworth *John Corey Whaley *Kathryn Williams |}

===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:<ref>[http://yallfest.org/2013authors 2013 Authors]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> {| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%; font-size:100%" |+(NYT = New York Times Bestseller) |- ! # ! class="unsortable"|Author ! Prominent work ! Secondary prominent work |- ! 01. | Leigh Bardugo | ''Grisha'' trilogy '''NYT''' | |- ! 02. | Pseudonymous Bosch | ''The Secret Series'' | ''Write this Book'' '''NYT''' |- ! 03. | Alexandra Bracken | ''The Darkest Minds Trilogy'' | |- ! 04. | Libba Bray | ''The Diviners'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 05. | Heather Brewer | ''The Slayer Chronicles'' | ''Soulbound'' '''NYT''' |- ! 06. | Rae Carson | ''Fire and Thorns Trilogy'' | |- ! 07. | Cinda Chima | ''The Heir Chronicles'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 08. | Matthew Cody | ''Super'' | |- ! 09. | Rachel Cohn | ''BETA'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 10. | Ally Condie | ''Matched Trilogy'' '''#1 NYT''' | |- ! 11. | Jocelyn Davies | ''A Beautiful Dark Trilogy'' | |- ! 12. | Melissa de la Cruz | ''Witches of East End'' | ''Frozen'' '''NYT''' |- ! 13. | Daniel Ehrenhaft | ''Americapedia'' | |- ! 14. | Gayle Forman | ''If I Stay'' | ''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. | Lev Grossman | ''The Magicians Series'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 19. | Lisi Harrison | ''The Clique Series'' | ''Monster High'' '''#1 NYT''' |- ! 20. | Aaron Hartzler | ''Rapture Practice'' | |- ! 21. | Michelle Hodkin | ''Mara Dyer Series'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 22. | Nancy Holder | ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' | ''Teen Wolf'' '''NYT''' |- ! 23. | Ellen Hopkins | ''Crank Trilogy'' | ''Impulse Series'' '''NYT''' |- ! 24. | Mike Johnston | ''Frozen'' | |- ! 25. | Bill Konigsberg | ''Openly Straight'' | |- ! 26. | David Levithan | ''Two Boys Kissing'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 27. | C. Alexander London | ''Dog Tags Series'' | |- ! 28. | Marie Lu | ''The Legend Series'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 29. | C.J. Lyons | ''Broken'' NYT | |- ! 30. | Tahereh Mafi | ''Shatter Me Trilogy'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 31. | Myra McEntire | ''Hourglass Series'' | |- ! 32. | Lisa McMann | ''Wake Series'' | ''Crash'' NYT |- ! 33. | Barnabas Miller | ''7 Souls'' | |- ! 34. | Alyson Noel | ''The Immortal Series'' | ''Soul Seekers Series'' '''#1 NYT''' |- ! 35. | Lauren Oliver | ''Delirium Series'' | ''Panic'' '''NYT''' |- ! 36. | Stephanie Perkins | ''Lola and the Boy Next Door'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 37. | Aprilynne Pike | ''Wings Series'' | ''Earthbound'' '''#1 NYT''' |- ! 38. | Brendan Reichs | ''Virals Series'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 39. | Ransom Riggs | ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' '''#1 NYT''' | |- ! 40. | Veronica Rossi | ''Under the Never Sky Series'' '''NYT''' | |- ! 41. | Veronica Roth | ''Divergent Series'' '''#1 NYT''' | |- ! 42. | Rainbow Rowell | ''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. | Sean Williams | ''Twinmaker'' | |- ! 48. | J.E. Thompson | ''The Girl From Felony Bay'' | |}

===2014=== {| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%; font-size:100%" |- |YALLFest Board of Directors:

*'''Festival Director:''' Jonathan Sanchez *'''Programming Committee:''' **Pseudonymous Bosch **Melissa de la Cruz (Board Vice Chair) **Kami Garcia **Margaret Stohl (Board Chair) *'''Treasurer:''' Brendan Reichs *'''Librarian Liaison:''' Andria Amaral *'''Board Secretary, Festival Assistant:''' Emily Williams *'''Board Member:''' Patrick Dolan *'''Merchandise, Green Room:''' Stephanie Barna

|Advisory Board:

*Richard Abate (3 Arts Entertainment) *Jennifer Besser (Penguin Young Readers) *Sarah Burnes (The Garnet Company) *David Levithan (Author) *Emily Meehan (Disney-Hyperion) *Carrie Ryan (Author) *David Stohl (Activision) *Sally Willcox (Creative Arts Agency)

Editorial Track Guests: *Daniel Ehrenhaft – ''The Last Dog on Earth'' *Emily Meehan *Jocelyn Davies – ''A Beautiful Dark'' *Sarah Burnes YALLFest 2014 Keynote Conversation: *James Dashner and Sarah Zarr (Presented by Random House) |} Author Track Guests:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yallfest.org/2014authors |title=YALLFest |access-date=September 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917203637/http://yallfest.org/2014authors |archive-date=September 17, 2014 }}</ref> {| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%; font-size:100%" |- ! # ! class="unsortable"|Author ! Prominent work ! Secondary prominent work |- ! 01. | Kwame Alexander | ''The Crossover'' | |- ! 02. | Jennifer Armentrout | ''Don't Look Back'' | |- ! 03. | Leigh Bardugo | ''The Grisha Trilogy'' | |- ! 04. | Pseudonymous Bosch | ''The Secret Series'' | |- ! 05. | Alexandra Bracken | ''The Darkest Minds Series'' | |- ! 06. | Ann Brashares | ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' | |- ! 07. | Libba Bray | ''Gemma Doyle Trilogy'' | |- ! 08. | Coe Booth | ''Bronxwood'' | ''Kinda Like Brothers'' |- ! 09. | Kiera Cass | ''The Selection Trilogy'' | |- ! 10. | Ally Condie | ''Matched Trilogy'' | |- ! 11. | James Dashner | ''The Maze Runner series'' | ''The Mortality Doctrine series'' |- ! 12. | John Parke Davis | ''Map to Everywhere'' | |- ! 13. | Melissa de la Cruz | ''Blue Bloods Series'' | ''The Ring and the Crown'', and more |- ! 14. | Matt de la Peña | ''Mexican WhiteBoy'' | ''The Living'' |- ! 15. | Sarah Dessen | ''Along for the Ride'' | ''The Moon and More'' |- ! 16. | Jim di Bartolo | ''In the Shadows'' | |- ! 17. | Susan Ee | ''Penryn & the End of Days Series'' | |- ! 18. | Daniel Ehrenhaft | ''The Last Dog on Earth'' | |- ! 19. | Sarah Fine | ''Guards of the Shadowlands Series'' | |- ! 20. | Becca Fitzpatrick | ''Hush, Hush series'' | ''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. | Ryan Graudin | ''The Walled City'' | |- ! 25. | Adele Griffin | ''The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone'' | |- ! 26. | Nikki Grimes | ''Bronx Masquerade'' | ''Words with Wings'' |- ! 27. | Lev Grossman | ''The Magician's Land'' | |- ! 28. | Aaron Hartzler | ''Rapture Practice'' | |- ! 29. | Michelle Hodkin | ''Mara Dyer Series'' | |- ! 30. | Ellen Hopkins | ''Smoke'' | ''Crank'' |- ! 31. | Varian Johnson | ''The Great Greene Heist'' | |- ! 32. | Mike Johnston | ''Frozen Series'' | |- ! 33. | Christina Lauren | ''Sublime'' | |- ! 34. | David Levithan | ''Two Boys Kissing'' | |- ! 35. | E Lockhart | ''The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks'' | ''We Were Liars'' |- ! 36. | Alexander London | ''Proxy'' | |- ! 37. | Marie Lu | ''Legend Series'' | ''The Young Elites'' |- ! 38. | Sarah J. Maas | ''Throne of Glass Series'' | |- ! 39. | DJ MacHale | ''Sylo'' | |- ! 40. | Barnabas Miller | ''7 Souls'' | |- ! 41. | Lauren Myracle | ''Twelve'' | ''The Internet Girls Series'' |- ! 42. | Lauren Oliver | ''Delirium Series'' | ''Panic'' ''Rooms'' |- ! 43. | Danielle Paige | ''Dorothy Must Die Series'' | |- ! 44. | Stephanie Perkins | ''Anna and the French Kiss'' | ''Isla and the Happily Ever After'' |- ! 45. | Brendan Reichs | ''The Virals Series'' | |- ! 46. | Kathy Reichs | ''The Virals Series'' | ''The Temperance Brennan Series'' |- ! 47. | Morgan Rhodes | ''Falling Kingdoms'' | ''Rebel Spring'' |- ! 48. | Veronica Roth | ''Divergent Series'' | |- ! 49. | Rainbow Rowell | ''Eleanor & Park'' | ''Fangirl'' |- ! 50. | Carrie Ryan | ''The Forest of Hands and Teeth series'' | ''The Road to Everywhere'' |- ! 51. | Kieran Scott | ''Private'' & ''Privilege'' series | ''Only Everything'', and more |- ! 52. | Jen E Smith | ''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. | Laini Taylor | ''Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy'' | |- ! 56. | J.E. Thompson | ''The Girl From Felony Bay'' | |- ! 57. | Maya Van Wagenen | ''Popular: Vintage Wisdom for the Modern Geek'' | |- ! 58. | Scott Westerfeld | ''Uglies'' | ''Leviathan Series'' |- ! 59. | Rita Williams-Garcia | ''One Crazy Summer'' | |- ! 60. | Sara Zarr | ''Story of a Girl'' | ''Roomies'', and more |}

==See also== {{Portal|Children's literature}} * Books in the United States

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.facebook.com/yallfest/info YALLFest Facebook Page] * [https://www.yallfest.org/ YALLFest website]

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