Creative Arts Teen Summit is a special event for teens, which involves an opening panel followed by writing and illustrating workshops and book signing.

Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337)  
Fri, Mar 3, 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
Children / Teens
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA BookStore Lower Level (following presentation)  

Panelists: Claire McFall, Jonathan Case, Sunya Mara, Andrew Maraniss, Zahra Marwan, Magdalena Mora, Sonora Reyes, Ari Tison

YA authors build fantasy worlds that invite readers into the intense drama of danger, high-stakes action and romance. Sabaa Tahir creates a fantasy world in the Ember in the Ashes quartet, while Clare McFall invites readers into the afterlife in the Ferryman trilogy and Sunya Mara introduces a dark world of storms in a new duology.

Teen & Author Stage (Seats 105)  
Sat, Mar 4, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Children / Teens
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Claire McFall, Sunya Mara, Sabaa Tahir
Moderator: Kaitlin Murphy

Meet a bunch of YA authors in 60 minutes and enter teen worlds of fantasy, mystery and complicated relationships. Each author will be seated at a table to talk with a small group about their newest book. Every eight minutes the authors will rotate to a new table in our version of author speed-dating.

College of Education Kiva 211 (Seats 200)  
Sun, Mar 5, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Children / Teens
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  

Panelists: Nick Brooks, Alexene Farol Follmuth, Kathleen Glasgow, E. Lockhart, Sofia Lapuente, Kami Larsen, Liz Lawson, Sunya Mara, Jarrod Schusterman, Ibi Zoboi
Moderators: Marie LeJeune, Tracy Smiles

Fantasies are often grand adventures of quests to save the world, but sometimes those adventures are journeys of grief and love in a struggle with the unknown. Guadalupe Garcia McCall tells a gothic Mexican tale of family trauma and healing while Joanna Ruth Meyer's fantasy revolves around a teen's identity and agency and Sunya Mara invites readers into a storm-devastated fantasy world.

Teen & Author Stage (Seats 105)  
Sun, Mar 5, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Children / Teens
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Sunya Mara, Joanna Ruth Meyer
Moderator: Kaitlin Murphy