Entries for our 2025 Ruth Blank Venner and Mary Jane Blank McCormick Youth Writing Contest are due Saturday, April 5!<\/p>\n
Kids in grades K-12 can participate by writing and submitting their original story.<\/p>\n
The 2025 topic is: Imagine you\u2019ve found a treasure! Write a story about what you found. Where did you find it and what did you do with it?
\nGrand prizes awarded in four categories:
\nGrades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12.
\n* First place: $200 Visa gift card
\n* Second place: $100 Visa gift card
\n* Third place: $50 Visa gift card
\n* Branch finalists: $25 Visa gift card (one per location)<\/p>\n
Entries are due by (Sa) April 5, 2025, and may be dropped off at any Library location or submitted online here. (https:\/\/www.toledolibrary.org\/writing-contest\/<\/a>) Entries for our 2025 Ruth Blank Venner and Mary Jane Blank McCormick Youth Writing Contest are due Saturday, April 5! Kids in grades K-12 can participate by writing and submitting their original story. The 2025 topic is: Imagine you\u2019ve found a treasure! Write a story about what you found. Where did you find it and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[286],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFind other great programs for youth and adults here! (https:\/\/events.toledolibrary.org\/events?v=grid&d=2025-03-24<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"