{"id":254,"date":"2011-04-04T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-04-04T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:46:21","slug":"figment-april-writing-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/04\/04\/figment-april-writing-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"April Writing Contests from Figment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to being National Poetry Month, April is also School Library Month<\/a>.\u00a0 To celebrate this, the American Association of School Librarians<\/a> is partnering with Figment.com<\/a>, a free online community for teens to create, discover, and share new reading and writing, to present four writing contests over four weeks.\u00a0 Each contest will begin with a writing prompt for a different genre of fiction, on each Monday this month.\u00a0 This week’s contest is contemporary fiction and will be judged by Gayle Forman<\/a>, author of If I Stay<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The writing prompt is:<\/strong> Write a story or poem in fewer than 750 words (short and sweet!) that takes place in the course of one day; somewhere in the story you must include original lyrics. This means that you must include lyrics that you\u2019ve written.<\/p>\n

For more detailed instructions on how to enter, go here.
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If you decide to enter, let me know.\u00a0 I would love to read your story. You can send me an email at edaly@cwmars.org
\nCheck back next Monday for a new writing prompt.<\/p>\n

Figment is also really cool because it has interviews with authors and sneak peaks from books, like this one: Blake Nelson’s Recovery Road<\/a>. If you like what you see, you can check this book out of the library, or place a hold through the library catalog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to being National Poetry Month, April is also School Library Month.\u00a0 To celebrate this, the American Association of School Librarians is partnering with Figment.com, a free online community for teens to create, discover, and share new reading and writing, to present four writing contests over four weeks.\u00a0 Each contest will begin with a … Continue reading “April Writing Contests from Figment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30,33,32],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contests","tag-figment-com","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}