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  2. Young Chicago Authors - Wikipedia

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    Young Chicago Authors was founded in 1991 by Robert Boone, a former author and creative writing teacher from Winnetka, Illinois.YCA was established with the intent of inspiring the youth of Chicago to engage in creative writing to tell their stories.

  3. Louder Than a Bomb - Wikipedia

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    Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival (formerly named Louder Than a Bomb) is an annual youth poetry slam in Chicago every spring. Founded in 2001 by Kevin Coval and Anna West of the nonprofit organization Young Chicago Authors. [1] It is now the largest youth slam in the world with over 1,000 teams competing in 2014. [2]

  4. Robert Boone - Wikipedia

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    Robert Boone is an author and creative writing teacher. He is the founder of Young Chicago Authors, founded in 1991 with the mission of encouraging teenagers to write. [ 1 ] The program now serves more than 5000 teens a year.

  5. List of books written by children or teenagers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.

  6. Kevin Coval - Wikipedia

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    Coval was named artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, an organization that sends professional writers to schools to teach, in 1999. [9] In 2001, Coval co-founded the youth performance-poetry competition Louder Than a Bomb with Anna West. By 2017, the competition was considered the largest youth performance-poetry competition in the world. [9]

  7. Chicago releases names for 2nd annual 'You Name a Snowplow ...

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    The City of Chicago's second annual “You Name a Snowplow" contest is entering Phase 2, and now you can vote for your favorite names!

  8. List of young adult fiction writers - Wikipedia

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    Charlie Higson: Young Bond; S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now; Will Hobbs: Downriver, Far North, Crossing the Wire; Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy; Alice Hoffman: Green Angel; Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow

  9. Poem earns local student Young Georgia Authors state ... - AOL

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    Dec. 3—Ariana Pimentel adroitly blended English and Spanish, as well as history with contemporary immigration, and her resulting poem was named a state winner for Young Georgia Authors. "I was ...