Sold Out

With Great Power

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Will Kostakis + Lynette Noni

Brisbane Square Library

Panel / Love YA

7123

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Will Kostakis and Lynette Noni explore how their teenage characters' normal lives are transformed through the discovery of fantasy worlds and beings, and the dual gift and burden of magical knowledge, powers, and responsibility. Chaired by Love YA Ambassador Maddie McGregor.

#Artists

Will Kostakis

Will Kostakis is a writer of all things, from celebrity news stories that score cease and desist letters, to tweets for professional wrestlers. He’s best known for his award-winning YA novels, The Sidekicks and The First Third. His first fantasy novel series Monuments releases September 2019.

Lynette Noni

Lynette Noni studied journalism, academic writing and human behaviour at university before venturing into the world of fiction. She is now a full-time writer and the bestselling author of the six-book young adult fantasy series, The Medoran Chronicles, along with the Whisper duology, which was acquired in the US by the editor of The Hunger Games. Lynette is also currently collaborating on a project with #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas.

#Moderator

Maddie McGregor

Maddie is a blogger/writer/reader, working retail in a bookstore. She recently finished a degree of creative writing at QUT and dreams of being an author like some of her Aussie favourites. You can read up on Maddie’s love for books over on her blog at https://pasomaddie.wordpress.com/.