[Michlib-l] CALL FOR ENTRIES: Big Read animal stories collection / deadline extended to Mar 1

[Henry Fischer]

Hello,
Could you please forward this information along when you get a chance?

*Call for Entries: Animal Tales *

Are you an animal lover? Got a great story to share about your pet or any
animal, the outdoors or wildlife? As part of The Big Read celebration of
Jack London's *The Call of the Wild*, Dearborn Public Library is sending
out a call for short stories, poems or essays about animals, people's pets,
the outdoors or wildlife.

Email your original story, poem or essay of 1-4 pages to
hfischer at ci.dearborn.mi.us. It can be a little shorter or longer if that's
what it takes to tell the tale! The stories can be real or fictional. This
program is open to anyone (all ages). *The entry deadline has been extended
to March 1, 2014.* We hope to compile selected stories and publish them in
book format as "Call of the Wild Dearborn: Animal Tales." Copies will be
available for checkout at Dearborn Public Library or for purchase via
dearbornlibrary.org. Proceeds will benefit Dearborn Public Library. Read
the submission guidelines at http://bigreaddearborn.org/animal-tales/. A
flyer is available there too (attached).

Information is also on our library website at
http://dearbornlibrary.org/and on our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/dearbornpubliclibrary. A big thank you to our Big
Read partners and sponsors: http://bigreaddearborn.org/partners.

 Look forward to reading your stories!

Thank you,

 Henry



Henry Fischer

Adult Services Librarian

Dearborn Public Library

16301 Michigan Ave.

Dearborn, MI 48126

Phone: (313) 943-2341

Fax: (313) 943-2853

hfischer at ci.dearborn.mi.us

www.dearbornlibrary.org

www.facebook.com/dearbornpubliclibrary



The Big Read is coming to Dearborn! Do you hear the Call? Fun-filled
activities and events centered on Jack London's *The Call of the Wild* will
take place in and around Dearborn in March through May 2014. The adventure
- *Call of the Wild: EmBARKING on Discovery - *begins with a BIG kickoff at
The Henry Ford in Anderson Theater on Saturday, March 8, 2014, 11 a.m.-2
p.m. Sign up for email updates at www.bigreaddearborn.org!

Another date to save is Saturday, April 26, 1-3 p.m. That's when George
Guidall, renowned actor and audiobook narrator, will give a presentation on
"The Art and Artifice of Audiobook Narration," and he will do a dramatic
reading from *The Call of the Wild*. This event will take place in the
auditorium at Henry Ford Centennial Library.

*The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in
partnership with Arts Midwest. The program is designed to revitalize the
role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read
for pleasure and enlightenment.*
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