500 WORDS

500 WORDS

New Writing competition for 13 year olds and under.

Radio 2 have launched a brilliant short story writing competition.

Submit a story or offer to volunteer to be a judge.

Check out the competition here!!

Some of the most famous authors are involved!!

The view from our office

Taken at about 8am this morning. Directly in front of us is The Hall of Memory. To the right of that is the new Library of Birmingham which is still under construction. The funny curved shapes at the front of the image are actually letters which spell out the word 'Library.'

We're here....

...yes we are! Sorry about the gap in blogging lately but we have been really busy doing, creating, planning and organising some wonderful things to bring you. 

First of all we want to say hello to Young Readers Birmingham who are organising a brilliant year long celebration of children's reading. They have lined up some fantastic events throughout the year as well as an amazing two week festival in June featuring authors, illustrators, workshops and other events.

Also a big hello to Dorset Libraries who are running a fantastic young writers competition again this year. Stories from the Web worked with Dorset to provide the online resources for this project.

Xaos is currently working on our new half-term programme for libraries, the Crazy Comics Extravaganza. As well as all the usual games, activities and downloads that we always bring you, we are working with Phoenix Comics to bring you a great competition prize, more information on that coming soon.

At the end of December, Stories from the Web moved offices. We are still in the Central Library in the heart of Birmingham, but we have moved out of the cupboard office we had on the third floor down onto the second floor. This office has windows! So we can see daylight! It's all very exciting.

Phew! what a busy start to 2012....