Poster Contest–Win $1,000!

The Illinois Library Association and Illinois Reading Enrichment and Development (iREAD) are sponsoring a poster contest to promote teen reading. The contest is open to all middle and high school aged artists, and should illustrate the theme “Scare Up a Good Book.”

The poster should include images of books, a library, or something related to reading. All art and characters must be original–we can’t use existing cartoon or comic characters. Artwork should be appropriate for hanging in public libraries.

Poster size can be up to 19 inches by 26 inches. Final art can be either computer generated or a drawing, painting, or collage using traditional media. If submitting computer art, please be sure that it is either vector art (Adobe Illustrator) or, if it is a Photoshop file, that it is 300 pixels per inch. A completed entry form, available at the library and on the ILA iREAD website, must accompany all entries.

All entries are due by July 31, 2008, and will become property of the Illinois Library Association. The statewide winner will be announced in October 2008, and that winner will receive $1,000 in prize money.

YA Film Festival

Make your own film! Win prizes! Compete at the YA Film Festival! Submit a 2-10 minute film on a standard DVD by 5 p.m. on July 5. First place winners in each of three categories (PERFORMANCE, CINEMATOGRAPHY, and PICTURE) will win $50! View finalists and help choose the winners at the YA Film Festival, Saturday, July 26, 2-4 p.m. in Meeting Room A.

$5 entry fee.

Entrants must be between the ages of 12 and 25.

ZOMO Japanese Tea House

Join us in the coffee shop on the afternoon of Saturday, June 21 from 1-3 for tea, sushi, a yogurt bar, tea cakes, and pocky!

Small charge for all items.

TuneGlue

TuneGlue is a web-based music “relationship explorer.” Enter the name of an artist or band, click on the target, and investigate the band’s releases. Even cooler–click “expand,” and explore the bands TuneGlue has suggested as sound-alikes.

Submit to Teen Ink!

Teen Ink magazine is a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art. Submit your own work for publication, read over 19,000 pages written by other teens, join teen blogs, get advice on writing and what books to read next, and more! If you are published in Teen Ink magazine, you will receive a free copy of the issue containing your work, a Teen Ink pen and a special Teen Ink Post-It pad.

Visit https://www.teenink.com/Submissions/ and submit your art, videos, reviews of books and movies, or whatever else you’ve produced!