Story Week Story Week Festival: Young Adult Fiction

From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.

For this panel, four award-winning Young Adult authors whose characters have gone on harrowing journeys to confront their own monsters read excerpts from their work and answer audience questions.

Host: Laurie Lawlor, This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year
Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray
Stephanie Kuehn, Complicit
Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia

 

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