YALLWEST maintains a selective exhibitor program. All vendors should meet to our mission of literacy outreach for young adult and middle grade readers. We will review all applications from our web form, and reply back as soon as possible. Festival is May 5 at Santa Monica High School, 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Please send any questions to to our festival producer, Shane Pangburn, [email protected]. Exhibitor deadline is March 30, 2017. YALLWEST EXHIBITORS Business Exhibitor: $1,000 Companies or individuals who wish to advertise their products or make sales at YALLWEST should apply as a business exhibitor. We also encourage businesses to consider a YALLWEST sponsorship if that would better meet their needs. • 10’x10’ TENT • POWER (by request) • 10’x1’ BANNER • DISCOUNTED PROGRAM AD (PROGRAM DETAILS TK) • TABLE AND CHAIRS (# by request) • LISTING ON WEBSITE, PROGRAM AND MAP

Non-Profit Exhibitor: $500 Non-profit organizations who meet or mission can access tent space at this discounted rate. • 10’x10’ TENT • LISTING ON MAP • 10’x1’ BANNER • TABLE AND CHAIRS

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Custom sponsorships also available. Print Deadline: Festival Banners, March 30 | Requirements: High-res (250 dpi) or vector logo FINE PRINT Checks should be made to: YALLWEST (A 501c3 non-prtofit) All contributions will be fully tax-deductible. For more information please contact: Shane Pangburn: [email protected] Read about YALLWEST in the

JACKET COPY: YALLWEST is the West Coast non-profit behind the May 5, 2018 book festival, benefitting Singalongs and Shenanigans with the Authors at the Young Los Angeles and Santa Monica school libraries. YALLWEST and our sister festival YALLFEST Adult Reading Festival Yallwest (Charleston, SC), are now the largest teen and middle grade book festivals in the US. 20,000 Organizers of YA book festival readers attended our 3rd annual event in 2017, which featured over 100 authors, artists, plan YALLWEST for L.A. and luminaries from TV, comics, games, and film.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Our festival and authors have a collective social media reach of over 5m showing exponential growth each year as our guest count moves well past 20k readers of all ages.

SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES We also offer a subsidized YALLWEST is the brainchild of a group of BESTSELLING YA AUTHORS and YALLFEST school visit program for under- resourced school populations, organizers/alumni, including our directors (Disney’s Descendants) and which brought has provided Margaret Stohl (Marvel’s Black Widow & Beautiful Creatures). Additional authors on our books and transportation for over 2,000 students so far, and board include (Beautiful Creatures), Pseudonymous Bosch (Secret Series), sponsor the “Purple Ink Award” Marie Lu (Legend), Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s), Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me), Richelle honoring outstanding teachers. For information on either, see Mead (Vampire Academy), Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows), Brendan Reichs (Virals), Ally yallwest.com/educators. Condie (Matched), Holly Goldberg Sloan (Counting By 7’s) and Veronica Roth (Divergent), as well as Gabriel Sandoval, Jonathan Sanchez, and Patrick Dolan.

TEEN AMBASSADORS: Our teen board includes over 75 students aged 10-18 from more than 15 area schools who meet twice monthly on Sundays at the Santa Monica Main Library to design social media & merch, write book reviews & interviews, make videos & vlogs, swap books, and generally plan the festival.

The author board invite you to join us for another festival of laid-back Santa Monica fun. Following a Friday Kickoff Presentation at the Santa Monica Public Library, our Saturday events— held at our Santa Monica High School—will include 100+ signings and panels, but also: an opening keynote; our Middle Grade Storyball, where kids and authors will write a book together and; our infamous YA Smackdown, a variety show of author foolery. MAY 5, 2018 SANTA MONICA, CA We would be honored to count you or your company among our sponsors. Please turn the YALLWEST.COM page for more information on how to participate.