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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br>
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2010 YOUTH AND ADULT WRITING CONTEST -- WRITERS’ DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL
FEDERATION OF THE BLIND (NFB)<br>
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<a name="OLE_LINK2"></a>Contact: Robert Leslie Newman,
<a href="mailto:Newmanrl@cox.net">Newmanrl@cox.net</a><a name="OLE_LINK2">
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The annual youth and adult writing contests sponsored by the Writers’
Division of the NFB, 2010, are open January 1 to April 1. Adult contests,
poetry and fiction, are open to all entrants eighteen years and over.
Youth poetry and fiction entries will be divided into three categories:
first through sixth grades, seventh and eighth grades, and ninth through
twelfth grades. Prizes for contest winners range up to $100 for adult
categories and up to $25 for youth categories. <br>
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All contest winners will be announced at the Writers’ Division
business meeting during the NFB national convention to be held in Dallas,
Texas, the first week of July, 2010. In addition to being announced
during the business meeting, the winners will appear on the Writers’
Division website,
<a href="http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.nfb-writers-division.org</a>, shortly after convention adjournment.
First, second, and third place winners in each category will appear in
the summer and fall issues of the Writers’ Division magazine, “Slate and
Style.”<br>
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For additional contest details and submission guidelines, go to the
Writers’ Division website,
<a href="http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.nfb-writers-division.org</a>.<br><br>
<font size=2>Robert Leslie Newman <br>
Email- newmanrl@cox.net</font> <br>
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