2026 AUTHORS

Author appearances are subject to change

Click on an author’s photo to learn more about them

All authors participate in panels and a signing on Saturday. Select authors will also appear on Friday

YALLFest does not require a ticket to enter the festival, or to go to panels or the majority of our signings. Select authors will be ticketed in advance for their signings to help control line capacity and promote the health and safety of attendees and authors alike. These will be announced when the full schedule is announced in October.

Authors who were announced but will no longer be appearing: Analeigh Sbrana, Gayle Forman, Jackie Khalilieh

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Veronica Roth

The Sixth Faction
Seek the Traitor’s Son
Divergent

Tricia Levenseller

What Fury Brings
Daughter of the Pirate King
The Shadows Between Us

Tracy Deonn

Legendborn
Bloodmarked
Oathbound

Tochi Onyebuchi

Harmattan Season
Riot Baby
War Girls

Teri Dederer

Feast of Hearts

Taylor Grothe

Hollow
Lethal Kiss
Monstrous Beautiful Things

Tahereh Mafi

Escape Me
Release Me
Shatter Me

Stephanie Garber

The Mirror of Infinite Endings
Alchemy of Secrets
Once Upon a Broken Heart

Soman Chainani

Young World
Beasts and Beauty
The School for Good and Evil

Shannon J. Spann

A Stage Set for Villains

Shannon Lee

Mark of the Warrior
Breath of the Dragon
Be Water, My Friend

Shannon Messenger

Let the Sky Fall
Let the Storm Break
Let the Wind Rise

Sasha Peyton Smith

The Thorn Queen
The Rose Bargain
The Witch Hunt

Sarah Beth Durst

Sea of Charms
The Faraway Inn
The Spellshop

Sarah Dessen

Change of Plans
The Rest of the Story
Along for the Ride

Ryan La Sala

Bodies of Water
The Dead of Summer
Beholder

Robyn Schneider

Spellfire
The Other Merlin
The New Camelot

Ransom Riggs

Sunderworld, Vol II: the Unfortunate Responsibilities of Leopold Berry
Sunderworld, Vol. I: the Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children