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The Louisiana Young Readers' Choice program was founded in 1999 with the first award given in 2000. Participation in this program has climbed from 5,485 votes the first year to over 29,000 students participating in 2009. The purpose of the program is to foster a love of reading in the children of Louisiana by motivating them to participate in the recognition of outstanding books. The lists are well-balanced selections of high-quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Now entering its 22nd year, the program continues to encourage Louisiana’s youth to read for pleasure. The Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award is a reading enrichment program of the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library with additional support from the following sponsors:
To be read by students during the 2021-2021 school year and voted on by March 1, 2022.
To be read by students during the 2021-2021 school year and voted on by March 1, 2022.
Writes of Spring
Writes of Spring
The annual Writes of Spring Writing Contest involves K–12 Grade students residing in Lafayette Parish or the surrounding parishes of Acadia, Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion. These students submit original pieces of short fiction, nonfiction, or poetry in English, French, Spanish, or Mandarin.
Deadline TBA
The contest is open to students in grades K-12 who reside in Lafayette Parish or in the surrounding parishes: St. Landry, Acadia, St. Martin, Vermilion, and Iberia.
Students may submit their own original unpublished work (in English, French, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish) in only one of the following genres:
Poetry (1-3 poems, 100 lines total)
Fiction (K-6 graders: max 750 words; 7-12 graders: max 1500 words)
Non-fiction (K-6 graders: max 750 words; 7-12 graders: max 1500 words)
Students in grades K-6 are encouraged to enter the contest using the online form below. Alternatively, they may submit a paper entry form and a paper copy of their writing entry. These need to be turned in by the deadline of March 19, 2021 to any branch of the Lafayette Public Library System.
All other eligible students (7-12 grade) are required to submit their entries electronically using the online form. This is a Google Docs form, which requires the use of a Gmail account. If you do not have a Gmail account or Google Docs login, or having difficulties with the form please email sarah.durr@lafayettepubliclibrary.org for assistance.
Submissions should be double-spaced with 12-point font.
Personal information must be removed from submitted work including student’s name, teacher’s name and school’s name.
Submission should be renamed to add grade, genre, and title before uploading it. For example: 2ndgrade, Fiction, My Life So Far, or 8thgrade, Poetry, Cars, Cupcakes, and Curls
One entry per person will be accepted. A poetry entry may include 1-3 poems, all submitted as one document.
First, second and third place winners will be notified in late April. All winners will receive a certificate and an anthology of winning entries.
Any files that are uploaded will be shared outside of the organization they belong to.
The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form.
100 Book Club
100 Book Club
Hurry up!!
Make it your New Year’s resolution to read more books in 2021! Better yet, strive to read or listen to 100 books between January 1 and December 31, so you can become a member of the Lafayette Public Library System’s 100 Book Club. Receive cool prizes and recognition, plus the bragging rights to say you accomplished something few others will! Registration begins January 3 in our libraries and January 10 online.
The rules are simple:
1. Club membership is open to readers Ages 6 and up.
2. Members must read or listen to the title themselves. (Children Ages 6 & up cannot count books that have been read to them.)
3. Participants are not excluded from joining any other Lafayette Public Library reading program. In fact, you’re encouraged to join programs such as the Summer Reading Challenge!
4. You can join at any time during the year, but only titles completed by December 31 will be counted.
5. Each title can only be counted once per calendar year, but feel free to read your favorite book multiple times a year, anyway!
6. Paperbacks, hardbacks, large print, graphic novels, eBooks, audiobooks, and eAudiobooks count. Magazines and comic books do not count. We encourage only participants in elementary school to count picture books on their list.
7. Participants who have read 100 books in the calendar year must go to the library to have their log verified and fill out a Prize Claim Form.
8. Prizes will be available at the pick-up location of your choice.
Club Members are members for life. However, prizes will only be awarded in the year in which 100 books have been read. Members are allowed to reach the 100-book goal (and receive prizes) in multiple years.
Patrons can visit any Lafayette Public Library location to sign up in-person and receive a personal reading log. Take the pledge to read 100 books in 2021!
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