YALC 2019 – who’s there and what’s happening?

The line up has been announced and the schedule is on its way. It’s official, the countdown to YALC 2019 has begun.

Being held at at the London Film and Comic Con in London’s Olympia from Friday 26th to Sunday the 28th of July, YALC is where all your bookish dreams can come true.  There’s no doubt about it, this is one of the biggest weekends in books and one you won’t want to miss.

YALC is a celebration of the very best books for young people. It’s a place for YA fiction fans to meet their favourite authors, discover new books, listen to inspiring panels, take part in creative workshops, meet agents and publishers – and much more!

The full line up for YALC 2019 is a doozy, so you’re going to want to get started on that reading list asap. Want to know what to read by who? Look no further.

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• Adrienne Young, author of Sky in the Deep.
• Akemi Dawn Bowman author of Summer Bird Blue.
• Shadow Captain author, Alastair Reynolds.
• Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize winner, Alex Wheatle, author of Home Girl.
• Oh My Gods author, Alexandra Sheppard.
• Alice Oseman, author of Heartstopper.

• YouTuber and author of Every Colour of You, Amelia Mandeville.
• Anna James, author of the Pages & Co series.
• Anna Mainwaring, Tulip Taylor author.
• Author of The Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch.
• No Big Deal author, Bethany Rutter.
• Bex Hogan, author of Viper.

• The Devouring Gray author, Christine Lynn Herman
• Clare Rees, author of Jelly.
• Connie Glynn, YouTuber and author of the Rosewood Chronicles.
• Author of Unstoppable, Dan Freedman.
• All The Lonely People author, David Owen.
• Dean Atta, author of The Black Flamingo.
• Author of the Skullduggery Pleasant series, Derek Landy.

• Author of The Belles series, Dhonielle Clayton.
• Dom&Ink, author of Free To Be Me: An LGBTQ+ Journal of Love, Pride and Finding Your Inner Rainbow.
• Emily Barr, author of The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods.
• The Million Pieces of Neena Gill author, Emma Smith-Barton.
• Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series.
• gal-dem and I Will Not Be Erased.

• The Places I’ve Cried in Public author, Holly Bourne.
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• Holly Smale, author of Happy Girl Lucky.
• Gracie Dart series author, Jess Vallance.
• Harry Potter illustrator, Jim Kay.
• John Tarrow, author of The Stranger’s Guide to Talliston.

• Meat Market author, Juno Dawson.
• Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation.
• Karen M. McManus, author of Two Can Keep a Secret.
• Summer of No Regrets author, Kate Mallinder.
• We Are Blood and Thunder author, Kesia Lupo.
• Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Deathless Girls.
• Author of The Tesla Legacy, K.K. Perez.

• Iskari series author, Kristen Ciccarelli.
• Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and author of The Burning, Laura Bates.
• Speak Up! author, Laura Coryton.
• A Girl Called Shameless author, Laura Steven.
• Lauren James, author of The Quiet at the End of the World.
• Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now author, Lauren Sharkey.

• Lex Croucher, YouTuber and author of You’re Crushing It: Positivity for living your REAL life.
• I Am Not a Number author, Lisa Heathfield.
• Book blogger and author of The Paper & Hearts Society, Lucy Powrie.
• S.T.A.G.S author, M. A. Bennett.
• YALC founder and author of the Noughts and Crosses series, Malorie Blackman.
• The Wickerlight author, Mary Watson.
• Melinda Sailsbury, Sorrow series author.

• All The Bad Apples author, Moria Fowley-Doyle.
• Natasha Ngan, author of Girls of Paper and Fire.
• The Boxer author, Nikesh Shukla.
• Shadowscent author, P.M. Freestone.
• Patrice Lawrence, author of Rose, Interrupted.
• Rachel Burge, author of The Twisted Tree.

• Flame in the Mist author, Reneé Ahdieh.
• Sabina Khan, author of The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali.
• Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.
• The Year I Didn’t Eat author, Samuel Pollen.
• Sara Barnard, author of Fierce Fragile Hearts.
• Sarah Ann Juckes, author of Outside.

• Other Words for Smoke author, Sarah Maria Griffin.
• BookTuber and co-author of Nexus, Sasha Alsberg.
• YouTuber and author of The Truth About Keeping Secrets, Savannah Brown.
• Monsters author, Sharon Dogar.
• Alex in Wonderland author, Simon James Green.
• Poet and author of Somebody Give This Heart a Pen, Sophia Thakur.

• Poet and author of Everything All at Once, Steven Camden.
• Taran Matharu, author of Contender.
• Do You Dream of Terra-Two author, Temi Oh.
• Heartstream author, Tom Pollock.
• V. E. Schwab, author of the Villains series.
• Sing Like No One’s Listening author, Vanessa Jones.

• The Dark Gifts Trilogy author, Vic James.
• Yaba Badoe, author of Wolf Light.
• Yasmin Rahman, author of All the Things We Never Said.
• Author of The True Queen, Zen Cho.
• The Hand, the Eye and the Heart author, Zoe Marriott.

Full Weekend or Day Tickets are available now, here.