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Can your life story fit inside a matchbook cover? - pacificsandiego.com Can your life story fit inside a matchbook cover? - pacificsandiego.com Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:30 AM PDT The Library Shop in San Diego's Central Library is accepting entries for its third annual short-short story contest. Entries have to fit inside a matchbook cover. That leaves room for about 40 words, if the author uses 7-point font. The winner receives a $50 gift card to the Library Shop, 50 matchbooks with the winning entry printed on them, publication in the library's e-newsletter, and a temporary exhibit in the Central Library's Hervey Family Rare Book Room, which is home to the institution's tiny book collection. Entries are due Nov. 15. The entry fee is $5, with all proceeds benefiting the library. Multiple entries are allowed. Entry forms are available online at libraryshopsd.org/shortstory. Advertisement Entries can be on any ...

Matchbook story contest returns - The San Diego Union-Tribune Matchbook story contest returns - The San Diego Union-Tribune Posted: 30 Oct 2019 05:02 AM PDT The Library Shop in San Diego's Central Library is accepting entries for its third annual short-short story contest. Entries have to fit inside a matchbook cover. That leaves room for about 40 words, if the author uses 7-point font. The winner receives a $50 gift card to the Library Shop, 50 matchbooks with the winning entry printed on them, publication in the library's e-newsletter, and a temporary exhibit in the Central Library's Hervey Family Rare Book Room, which is home to the institution's tiny book collection. Entries are due Nov. 15. The entry fee is $5, with all proceeds benefiting the library. Multiple entries are allowed. Entry forms are available online at libraryshopsd.org/shortstory. Advertisement Entries can be on any topic and in any gen...

20 Must-Read YA Books with Disabled Characters - Book Riot 20 Must-Read YA Books with Disabled Characters - Book Riot Posted: 29 Oct 2019 03:41 AM PDT Until the last few years, finding YA books with disabled characters could be a real challenge. Not only were they few and far between, but those that did exist could too easily fall into representing disabled characters as either helpless or inspirational (or both all at once). Few #OwnVoices stories were being told, and few recognitions went to showcasing the books that told stories of disabled characters well, meaning those that did often fell under the radar. It wasn't until 2003 that a specific award was created for honoring disability representation in books for young readers, thanks to Katherine Schneider. She began the award because it was a librarian who changed her life as a young blind person and helped her find books—and she wished to pay this forward for future generations. It...

20 Best Stephen King Movies and TV Shows, Ranked From Best to Worst - Esquire 20 Best Stephen King Movies and TV Shows, Ranked From Best to Worst - Esquire Posted: 23 Oct 2019 03:00 AM PDT . When Stephen King first wrote Carrie , he was a poverty-stricken twentysomething typing his first four novels in a trailer to sell for pennies. Carrie wasn't the first novel King wrote—it was his fourth—but his first to get published, and the book that began the greatest horror legacy of all time. Since then he's written 61 novels and about 200 short stories —dozens of which have been turned into films, TV shows, or mini series. We all know his hallmarks, from everyday telepaths, to sentient cars, to teens looking for an escape from high school through fantastical means. The lonely writers, the shadowy men in black, the punks, the nobodies, the outsiders, the ragtag groups of kids—we know and love all of these people who haunt King'...