Ages 15-18: Best Stellar Storyteller

No Adults Allowed! These authors amaze and astound with the stories they create. Teens can choose their top 5 Best Stellar Storytellers among the list below.

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Aden Polydoros, creator of The City Beautiful

Alexandria Leigh Young, creator of Idol Gossip

Alice Oseman, creator of Heartstopper #3 (illus. Alice Oseman)

Alicia Jasinska, creator of The Midnight Girls

Alissa Sallah, creator of Weeaboo (illus. Alissa Sallah)

Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman, creators of All Of Us Villains

Angeline Boulley, creator of Firekeeper’s Daughter

Anuradha D. Rajurkar, creator of American Betiya

Arthur Slade, creator of Mr. Universe

Ayana Gray, creator of Beasts of Prey

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, creator of Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Bethany C. Morrow, creator of A Chorus Rises

Bowen McCurdy and Kaitlyn Musto, creators of Specter Inspectors SC (illus. Bowen McCurdy)

Brandon Sanderson, creator of Cytonic

Brigid Kemmerer, creator of Defy the Night

C.S. Pacat, creator of Dark Rise

Caroline O’Donoghue, creator of All Our Hidden Gifts (illus. Stefanie Caponi)

Cassandra Clare, creator of Chain of Iron

Charlie Jane Anders, creator of Victories Greater Than Death

Cherie Demeline, creator of Hunting by Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel)

Chloe Gong, creator of Our Violent Ends

Clare Rees, creator of Jelly

Colby Cedar Smith, creator of Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

Crystal Frasier, creator of Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms (illus. Val Wise)

Cyla Panin, creator of Stalking Shadows

David Michael Slater, creator of Sparks

Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon, creators of Blackout

Elise Bryant, creator of Happily Ever Afters

Elizabeth Holleville, creator of Summer Spirit (illus. Elizabeth Holleville)

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, creator of Ace of Spades

Francisco X. Stork, creator of On the Hook

George M. Johnson, creator of We Are Not Broken

Grant Morrison and Alex Child, creators of Proctor Valley Road SC (illus. Naomi Franquiz)

H.E. Edgmon, creator of The Witch King

Harmony Becker, creator of Himawari House

Holly Jackson, creator of Good Girl, Bad Blood

Jay Coles, creator of Things We Couldn’t Say

Jennifer Lynn Barnes, creator of The Hawthorne Legacy

Jerry Mikorenda, creator of The Whaler’s Daughter

Jessica S. Olson, creator of Sing Me Forgotten

John Allison, creator of Bad Machinery Vol. 10: The Case of the Severed Alliance (Pocket Edition) (illus. John Allison)

Jordan Ifueko, creator of Redemptor (Raybearer #2)

Kalynn Bayron, creator of This Poison Heart

Karen M. McManus, creator of You’ll Be The Death of Me

Kerri Maniscalco, creator of Kingdom of the Cursed

Kosoko Jackson, creator of Yesterday is History

Kylie Lee Baker, creator of The Keeper of Night

Laekan Zea Kemp, creator of Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

Lara Kaminoff, creator of How To Pick A Fight (illus. Lara Kaminoff)

Laura Pohl, creator of The Grimrose Girls

Leah Johnson, creator of Rise to the Sun

Lilliam Rivera, creator of We Light Up the Sky

Loan Le, creator of A Pho Love Story

M.J. Fievre, creator of Empowered Black Girl: Joyful Affirmations & Words of Resilience

Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, creator of One of the Good Ones

Malinda Lo, creator of Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Margaret Owen, creator of Little Thieves

Margaret Rogerson, creator of Vespertine

Margot Wood, creator of Fresh

Marissa Meyer, creator of Gilded

Mercedes Lackey, creator of Briarheart

Namina Forna, creator of The Gilded Ones

Natasha Bowen, creator of Skin of the Sea

Rachel Griffin, creator of The Nature of Witches

Ransom Riggs, creator of The Desolations of Devil’s Acre

Ray Stoeve, creator of Between Perfect and Real

Renée Watson, creator of Love Is a Revolution

Ro Salarian, creator of Spectacle Vol. 4 (illus. Ro Salarian)

Ryan La Sala, creator of Be Dazzled

Sarah Hollowell, creator of A Dark and Starless Forest

Sarah Kuhn, creator of From Little Tokyo, with Love

Stacey Lee, creator of Luck of the Titanic

Steven Salvatore, creator of Can’t Take That Away

Susan Dennard, creator of Witchshadow

Tahereh Mafi, creator of Believe Me

Tami Charles, creator of Muted

Tash McAdam, creator of Sink or Swim

Ted Naifeh, creator of The Crumrin Chronicles Vol. 1: The Charmed & The Cursed (illus. Ted Naifeh and Warren Wucinich)

TJ Klune, creator of Flash Fire

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