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Announcing the $1000 for 1000 Words award winners!
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Spring 2014 Newsletter
Welcome to the inaugural quarterly newsletter of the Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation.  We're off to a great start - thank you to all the donors, volunteers, and participants who are making us a success!

And the winners are...!

Announcing the 1000 Word Contest award recipients.

The inaugural $1000 for 1000 Words fiction-writing contest has concluded and here are the outstanding young authors who will be published in the upcoming edition of our Bluefire journal.

$1000 Scholarship
Junko Anderson, 9th Grade, Crystal Springs Uplands School for her story Two Men on a Sidewalk.
Zachary Lo, 8th Grade, Central Middle School for his story Beauty.

Grade Level Winners ($100 Cash Prize)
6th Grade:  Sarah Marks, Hillview Middle School for her story FlavorMorph.
7th Grade:  Tuvya Bergson-Michelson, Nueva Middle School for his story The Sound of Running.
10th Grade:  Nik Brocchini, Lick-Wilmerding High School for his story He and He.
11th Grade:  Darya Behroozi, Leigh High School for her story Alteration.
12th Grade:  Harry Patino, Woodside High School for his story Strata.

Honorable Mention
6th Grade:  Eliah Munoz.
7th Grade:  Jenna Lange, Audrey Chin, Rose Bendekgey.
8th Grade:  Serena DeTata, Andrew Zerbe, Sidney Hirschman.
9th Grade:  Ananya Ram, April Li, Nolan Bangs, Alix Westgaard.
10th Grade:  Caroline Bailey, Jaclyn Hovsmith.
11th Grade:  Linnea Arneson.
12th Grade:  Emily Wang.

We received well over 300 entries, had 48 finalists, and 22 young authors being published in this year's Bluefire journal.  Entries came from schools on the Peninsula, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties, and the East Bay - we even had entries from New York and Georgia!

Thank you to all the participants!  If you didn't get published this year, please try again next time.
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The Foundation publishes an annual literary journal of the contest award recipients and honorable mention young authors.  Copies of the journal are available for a donation to the Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation.  Click the donate button or visit the Donation page of our website, www.blue4beban.org or www.bluefire.org.

Bluefire Blog

Announcing the Bluefire Blog
Didn't get published this year?  We have launched a blog site that takes submissions year round.  The guidelines are looser than the contest - we take creative fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry of up to 2500 words.  We will publish the 'Best of Bluefire Blog' in next year's journal, so if you are an aspiring young author, check out the Bluefire Blog on our website for guidelines and to submit a piece.

Spring Fundraiser

We are holding a Spring Fundraiser to raise money for providing creative writing curricula to underserved segments of our community.  This is one of the key specific aims of our Foundation, and this year we will be working with Girls to Women of East Palo Alto to provide a creative writing summer camp.  Our Foundation will provide a creative writing curriculum, and we need to raise $3000 to pay for materials and the teacher.  If you can help out, please click the donate button or visit our Donation page on our website, www.blue4beban.org or www.bluefire.org.
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You are invited to our free event!
Award Celebration April 27th, 2014, 2-4PM at Kepler's Bookstore

We will be holding an award celebration on Sunday, April 27th, 2014, from 2-4 PM at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, CA.  The award recipients and some honorable mention students will read their piece and receive their awards.  In addition, I'm pleased to announce that local YA author Linsay Tam Holland will be there to talk to our young authors about their work, about being an author, to provide words of wisdom on becoming a writer, and to answer questions.  If you are interested in attending this free event, please follow this invitation link to register.
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The Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation is a California public benefit nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion of creative writing in kids and teens.  The Foundation is dedicated to the memory of Leyla Beban and her love of books, creative writing, imagination, and adventure.  Find out more at our website, www.blue4beban.org.