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.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
United States of America
Placed on record in United States of America.
03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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2011Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez Author Track Guests:
2012Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez YALLFest 2012 Keynote Conversation: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black Author Track Guests:
2013YALLFest 2013 brought together forty-eight top young adult, middle grade and crossover writers (including 25 New York Times Bestsellers) from all over the country.
2014The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “YALLFest”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
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What is YALLFest in plain words?
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.
Where is YALLFest practised or documented?
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Cite as: "YALLFest." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/yallfest, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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.
In 2015, Stohl and de la Cruz co-founded a sister festival, YALLWEST, that occurs every spring in Santa Monica, California. 1
2011
Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
Author Track Guests: 1
2012
Festival Director: Jonathan Sanchez
YALLFest 2012 Keynote Conversation: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
Author Track Guests: 1
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: 1
2014
Author Track Guests: 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “YALLFest”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
YALLFest is annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2