Join Porter Square Books for a virtual panel event to celebrate the release of the new anthology Up All Night, with editor Laura Silverman and contributors Marieke Nijkamp and Francesca Zappia! This event is free and open to all, hosted on Crowdcast.

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. Anything is possible.

It’s a time for romance and adventure. For prom night and ghost hunts. It’s a time for breaking up, for falling in love—for finding yourself.

Stay up all night with these thirteen short stories from bestselling and award-winning YA authors as they take readers deep into these rarely seen, magical hours.

Laura Silverman is an author and freelance editor in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. Her books include Girl Out of Water, You Asked for Perfect, It’s a Whole Spiel, and Recommended for You. You can contact Laura on Twitter @LJSilverman1 or through her website LauraSilvermanWrites.com.

Marieke Nijkamp is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of YA novels, graphic novels, and comics, including This Is Where It Ends, Even If We Break, and The Oracle Code. Her short stories can be found in several anthologies. Marieke is a storyteller, dreamer, globe-trotter, and geek.

Francesca Zappia is the award-winning author of Made You Up, Eliza and Her Monsters, and the serialized novel The Children of Hypnos. She is represented by Louise Fury of the Bent Agency. She graduated from the University of Indianapolis with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, and currently lives in Indiana. She spends her free time drawing, playing video games, and baking.

Laura Silverman, Marieke Nijkamp and Francesca Zappia: Up All Night