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Submit your poetry or prose for our current prompt through August 30: The Reluctant "I"
Our Summer Writing Contest borrows a prompt from The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction by Brian Kiteley. This exercise comes from the chapter on writing point of view.
Write a first-person poem, story, or essay in which you use the first-person pronoun (I or me or my) only two times - but keep the I somehow important to the narrative you’re constructing. The point of this exercise is to imagine a narrator who is less interested in himself than in what he is observing.
Read more about the guidelines and enter your original works »
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The Fall Youth Writing and Sticker Design Contests have closed. Please check back for more information about future contests. In the meanwhile, read previous contest winners!
Annual Friends Bookmark Contest:
Help Johnson County Library readers mark their places in style. Enter your original bookmark art in the 2024 Friends Bookmark Design Contest, and you might see your lovely design on bookmarks at all of our Library locations.
To get started, pick up a form at any Johnson County Library branch, or download from the Library website. If you like, check out last year's winners to jumpstart your imagination.
There are entry categories for ages Preschooler to Adult. The winning bookmarks will be printed and distributed at our branches and Friends events this fall.
Entries for our 2024 Bookmark Contest will be accepted between June 1 and July 29. A link for online submissions will be available here starting June 1.