YALLFest
YALLFest, which was co-founded in 2011 by Jonathan Sanchez of Blue Bicycle Books, along with authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, is a two-day festival that is open to the public and sponsored by Blue Bicycle Books, the YA and youth publishing community, the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, and a host of local businesses. Author Melissa de la Cruz joined as Director of Development in 2012; authors Veronica Roth and Brendan Reichs now co-chair the festival. YALLFest has become the largest young adult book festival in the South.
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 SanchezAuthor Track Guests:
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2012
Festival Director: Jonathan SanchezYALLFest 2012 Keynote Conversation: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
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2013
YALLFest 2013 brought together forty-eight top young adult, middle grade and crossover writers from all over the country.Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
Programming Directors: Margaret Stohl, Melissa de la Cruz, Pseudonymous Bosch
YALLFest 2013 Keynote Conversation: Veronica Roth and Rae Carson
Author Track Guests:
| # | 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
Author Track Guests:| # | 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 |