This year's line up is AWESOME! Check out the full lineup and details for this Saturday's FREE event, here, as well as below! I look forward to seeing some of you there!
Details Per The TTBF PRESS LEASE
FRIDAY NIGHT
For the first year ever, the TTBF will be partnering with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Penguin Teen for a special screening of The Outsiders on September 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the South Lamar location to kick off the festival. Penguin authors Sabaa Tahir, David Arnold, and Renée Ahdieh will join the exclusive event for a Q&A prior to the screening with Sarah Pitre from Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Forever YA to talk about The Outsiders, a seminal work of the YA genre, and its special spot in their hearts as writers for a young adult audience. Tickets for the screening are $25 and are available here.
SATURDAYS LINE UP
The jam-packed festival day will begin at 8 a.m. and features panels, keynotes, and events, including:
● 10:15 a.m. – Official Welcome and Mindy Kaling Q&A at RCC Gym
○ Moderator: Sarah Pitre
● 11:30 a.m. – Panel: Just Like Old Times at RCC Gym
○ Featuring Renée Ahdieh, Roshani Chokshi, Sarah Porter, Sabaa Tahir, Laini Taylor
● 11:30 a.m. – Panel: Can You Keep a Secret? at Mabee Ballroom
○ Featuring Carrie Jones, Adriana Mather, Caleb Roehrig, Sherri L. Smith, Maggie Thrash
● 11:30 a.m. – Badgerdog Poetry Workshop at Fleck Hall Room 305
● 12:30 p.m. – Texas Throwdown Game Show at RCC Gym
○ Featuring Sabaa Tahir, Rene S. Perez II, David Arnold, Caleb Roehrig, E.K. Johnston, and Jeffery Self
● 1:15 p.m. – Costume Contest Judging at Fierce Reads Photo Ops Booth
● 1:30 p.m. – Keynote Speaker Laini Taylor and Announcement of Writing Contest Winners at RCC Gym
● 2:30 p.m. – Panel: Hiding in Plain Sight at RCC Gym
○ Featuring Leigh Bardugo, Ally Carter, A.J. Hartley, Morgan Rhodes, and Billy Taylor
● 2:30 p.m. – Panel: Pieces of Me at Mabee Ballroom
○ Featuring Paula Garner, Joe Jiménez, Isabel Quintero, Jeffery Self
● 2:30 p.m. – Panel: Where Loyalties Lie at Jones Auditorium
○ Featuring Shaun David Hutchinson, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Rene S. Perez II, Jeff Zentner
● 2:30 p.m. – Badgerdog Poetry Workshop at Fleck Hall Room 305
● 3:30 p.m. – Panel: What the Heart Wants at RCC Gym
○ Featuring David Arnold, Brendan Kelly, Samantha Mabry, Kenneth Oppel, Mary E. Pearson
● 3:30 p.m. – Panel: With Great Power… at Mabee Balroom
○ Featuring Kendare Blake, Katherine Catmull, Traci Chee, C.C. Hunter, E.K. Johnston
● 4:30 p.m. – Closing Note Speaker Leigh Bardugo and Announcement of Fierce Reads Costume Contest at RCC Gym
In addition to panels and workshops throughout the day, the festival will feature a writing workshop hosted by Barrio Writers at 3:30 p.m., a creative writing program that provides free college level writing workshops to teenagers in underserved communities. Additionally, the TTBF is thrilled to add four new authors to the previously-announced lineup: Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of Shame the Stars; Joe Jiménez, author of Bloodline; Rene S. Perez II, author of Seeing Off the Johns; and Isabel Quintero, author of the award-winning Gabi, a Girl in Pieces and recipient of the first annual Barrio Writers Featured Author Sponsorship and Tomás Rivera Book Award.
TTBF is presented in collaboration with the Texas Book Festival, BookPeople, a dedicated team of librarians, and venue sponsor St. Edward’s University. The program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
TTBF remains free and open to the public thanks to generous donors, sponsors, and dozens of committed volunteers. For more information, please visitwww.texasteenbookfestival.org and keep up with announcements at Facebook.com/ TexasTeenBookFestival, and on Twitter and Instagram@TXTeenBookFest.
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