Wordstock Festival, October 7th-10th in Portland, OR

What happened to “it’s just for teens”?

Once upon a time, the Young Adult lit section of your favorite bookstore may have been

a destination solely for teen readers. But not anymore. Young Adult (or YA) is bigger than

ever these days. You can thank Harry Potter or Twilight, or simply the massive wave of

incredibly well-written, fascinating stories coming from YA authors. Whatever the cause,

there is a plethora of fantastic YA to choose from at this year’s Wordstock Festival.

Join us for authors like New York Times best-seller Becca Fitzpatrick, or Patrick Ness,

whose Chaos Walking trilogy is drawing comparisons to the widely popular Hunger

Games series. You can also find some of these authors in our “YA Gets Real” panel,

discussing how the genre is increasingly addressing serious subjects and how they

relate to teens (not just wizards and sparkly vampires). YA authors discuss their work on

other panels, as well, such as the supernatural in fiction, ghostwriting, selling the movie

rights and social networking. We’re really excited about this year’s YA authors, and we

think you will be too.

Panels:

YA Gets Real:

Patrick Ness, L.K. Madigan, Conrad Wesselhoeft, Mod. Anne Osterlund

Creature Feature:

Becca Fitzpatrick, Joey Comeu, Rick Yancy, Mod. Sara Gundell

Authors:

Joëlle Anthony

Mac Barnett

Dale E. Basye

Cecil Castellucci

Nancy Coffelt

Kerry Cohen Hoffman

Becca Fitzpatrick

April Henry

Amanda Howells

Adam Jay Epstein

Andrew Jacobson

L.K. Madigan

Jane Mendle

Kaleb Nation

Patrick Ness

Heather Vogel Frederick

Renee Watson

Conrad Wesselhoeft

Rick Yancey

(above quoted from Wordstock's PDF)

Be sure to visit Wordstock's site for more information about the event, to find out about the authors, panels and more http://www.wordstockfestival.com/cms/

You can also visit Novel Novice's site http://tinyurl.com/2fwjbuk for more!