YALLFest 2011

Event Details

YALLFest 2011: Twenty top young adult writers from all over the country converge on Charleston for two days of seminars and panels at the College of Charleston, Fri., Nov. 11th, and Blue Bicycle Books on Sat., Nov. 12th.

Fans: This festival is a spin-off from last year’s successful Capital Bookfest, which drew more than 5,000 people to the Downtown Public Library and Blue Bicycle Books.

Fun Friday: the College of Charleston will host master classes, panels and seminars for area students to work with YA authors intimate round-table sessions.

Super Saturday: Blue Bicycle Books will host panels, readings, book signings, a food truck
rodeo, a live band, prizes for kids’ micro-fiction contests, Window Wheel of Fortune, “write of fall” writing workshop, and rounding out the day with an “all-star jam” as teams of our visiting YA authors compete in storytelling games.

Brought to you by: Jonathan Sanchez of Blue Bicycle Books and Write of Summer: a camp
for kids, the College of Charleston’s Literary Outreach Initiative, LILA, the Charleston Area Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, Fuzzco graphic design. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, writers of the Lowcountry-based bestselling series Beautiful Creatures are the official author hosts.

Publicity: Heavy promotion in local, state and regional print and broadcast media, radio
giveaway packages. “Block Captain” teachers and librarians at area schools. Tumblr,
Facebook, Twitter.


Jonathan Sanchez, Blue Bicycle Books
843-722-2666, cel 843-323-2834 [email protected]

RAISING LOCAL LITERACY THROUGH GREAT Y.A. LITERATURE!