Currently BPL Teens have two ways for young adults to express themselves via the written word: Book Reviews and the BPL Scribe.
2012 Scribe Anthology
Deadline: 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Beginning February 1st, 2012 we will accept submissions for the annual Scribe Anthology, a collection of short stories, essays and poetry by middle and high school students. The submission rules are as follows: Students in 6th through 12th grades can submit original short stories, essays and poems. You may not submit someone else's work under your name; that is plagiarism, and it is illegal.
- All entries must be typed or emailed as a .doc file.
- You may submit up to five entries. Please type one entry on a page. Use paper clips on entries that are more than one page long; do not staple pages together.
- Each individual entry must have the following information PRINTED on the BACK of the first page of each entry:
- Entries must be 1,000 words or less.
- No entries will be returned.
- Entries can be submitted at the Bettendorf Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus Dr, Bettendorf, 52722 or emailed to
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. They must be received by 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 10th, 2012.
- Entries which do not follow these rules will be ineligible.
- This is a juried anthology; not all entries submitted will be published. We will notify you only if your entry has been accepted.
There will be an author reception for those young adults whose poems or prose have been selected to appear in the 2012 Scribe Anthology on Tuesday March 27th 2011 at 6:00 pm in the Junior League Program Room at Bettendorf Public Library.
