Headlining the event is US author Rainbow Rowell, whose first YA title 'Eleanor & Park' spend six weeks in the New York Times Bestseller chart, was voted Goodreads' best Young Adult Fiction of the year and was chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013. The first draft of her second YA novel 'Fangirl' was written as part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Alongside Rowell, there are also a host of other names from the YA writing world joining the line-up, including 18-year-old author Beth Reekles, who was recently named by Time magazine as one of the 16 most influential teenagers in the world.