[Michlib-l] Help us spread the word about the Young Authors' Festival!

[Raya Samet]

Hello all,
This email goes out especially to all the public librarians and school
librarians/media specialists on the list, but also to any of you with
elementary school-aged children or elementary teachers in your life!

*We need your help to spread the word about the Young Authors' Festival and
its writing contest to kids, parents, and teachers in southeast Michigan!*

[image: YAF_Logo_noyear.jpg]
This year will mark the 7th annual Young Authors' Festival at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn's Mardigian Library. The festival is
completely FREE and open to students in grades 3-5, their families, and
their teachers. We feature an author visit and fun writing breakout
sessions led by our pre-service education students, while parents and
teachers learn literacy strategies. We also have a writing contest, and
present awards and prizes (Barnes & Noble gift certificates) at the
festival.


   - 2019 Writing Contest deadline: *October 11*
   - 2019 Festival: *November 9* (Registration opens October 14)

More info at: https://library.umd.umich.edu/yaf/

*Here's how you can help: *
(1) Post the flyer
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=14iivEYeVKjgsyWHk5F53RAu_mVRAAy_Q> or put
it into the hands of someone who should have it.
(2) Send out the info in a newsletter or share it on your blog. Have a
social media feed? Share our Facebook event
<https://www.facebook.com/events/374860506530756/> or give the posts in the
Mardigian Library's social media content about the YAF a boost.
(3) Encourage kids to read the featured book this summer, before they come
to the festival this fall. It is Jean Alicia Elster's *The Colored Car*.
There are lots of copies available through MeLCat
<http://search.mel.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb25978764>!
(4) Do you have some young writers in your library or run any writing
programming? Encourage kids (directly, or through parents and
teachers) to enter
our writing contest <https://library.umd.umich.edu/yaf/writingcontest.php>!
(5) If you have any questions, please email yaf-contact at umich.edu.

Really and truly, thank you for helping us to spread the word and bring
kids from all over the metro-Detroit/southeastern Michigan region to this
FREE event to promote literacy and a love of writing.

Thank you,

Raya Samet
Prounouns: she/her
Education, Health & Human Services Librarian
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Mardigian Library, Room 1252, AND
Fairlane Campus South, Suite C, C6
313-593-4936
rsamet at umich.edu
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