Space for YA fic?

SO, the Cooler Lumpur Festival (#Word) is happening on June 21-23 (see story about it on page 13). It’s exciting to have a book fest in KL (our cool capital city that doesn’t, in my opinion, need a cringe-worthy punny re-naming), but I’m disappointed that there is, yet again, not much on the programme for (adult) readers and writers of children’s and young adult (YA) books.

Well, perhaps more events will be confirmed over the next week and we can look forward to sessions with children’s and YA authors. It bothered me that the Georgetown Literary Festival has not so far featured any and I did mention it, casually, to its curator, Malaysian author and poet Bernice Chauly.