Young Authors 24/25 Young Authors Show Transcript young authors is a competition for Creative writers you will be competing against students at your own school but this is actually a district-wide competition so what is it it's basically just a fun competition fun way to show your creative writing skills so this is for people who love thinking about Epic Adventures or Play Endless stories in their mind or have something they'd like to say well multiple people from each School are chosen and each person who is chosen gets a professionally bound copy of their book not only that you get to see it in the library so your school gets a copy of the book as well and it lives in the library so you can walk in there and see your book uh finally gather all the winners from the different schools come together to this young authors conference they usually have professional authors to meet they have a reader chair a photo booth some gifts and some refreshments which usually includes cookies definitely my favorite part of that all right so if you are interested this is sounding like something you want to do then Step 1 is just going to be right write a creative story or you can even write several short stories that's Step 1 Step 2 is you are actually going to share those stories with me um mix pee by February 2nd so February 2nd is the deadline for the competition so at some point by February 2nd you will just share your Google doc with me with your stories and say hey I'm submitting this for young authors all right uh after that if you were chosen we will spend February we will work together to edit and format your story but we will work together on that and finally step 4 is party you can pick up your books at the young authors conference where again you can meet professional authors you can hang out with other creative writers from different schools and you get cookies it's awesome now if you have any questions please feel free to stop by d10 before or after school or during advisory or Flex um we can talk about ideas I can answer any questions you have um just stop by d10 any of these times