Enter the Wimpy Kid Contest! $500 for you and $1000 for your library!
Deadline is June 10, 2011 For more information and guidelines, visit:
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Remember: This Saturday, May 21, is the California Writers Club, Mt. Diablo Branch’s Young Writers Contest Banquet which will be held at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant in Pleasant Hill.
- As we’ll have many guests, REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AT 11:00 AM, a half hour earlier than our regular 11:30 schedule.
- To acknowledge this special event, the cost per guest is reduced to $20 per person, the equivalent of our regular member rate.
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Sign-in: 11:00 a.m. – noon; Buffet Lunch
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Presentation follows
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Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA, 94523
About Abigail Samoun
Abi has worked in children’s publishing for over a decade. During that time she’s edited board books, picture books, middle-grade novels, and early young-adult novels for Tricycle Press, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Little, Brown. Her books have received numerous honors including a CCBC Charlotte Zolotow award, an SCBWI Golden Kite, a Pura Belpre Honor, a Smithsonian Notable, and a New York Public Library Ezra Jack Keats award.
Abigail also edited the middle grade series Edgar & Ellen which has sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide and inspired a cartoon series on Nickelodeon. She has just launched a brand-new children’s literary agency with agent extraordinaire Karen Grencik.
For YOUR reservation, please send an e-mail to Joanne Brown. jobrown5273@sbcglobal.net by noon May 18. Seating is limited.
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- Pleasant Hill History Writing Contest
- More information will be posted here this summer, but in honor of Pleasant Hill, California’s 50th anniversary as a city, there will be a middle school writing contest with $ awards $ for essays about living in Pleasant Hill. Students may research and interview people to discover the rich history of Pleasant Hill.
