Young Alberta Book Society

1) Taleblazers: a travel-subsidized month-long provincial literary festival for young people held in-person and online in schools & libraries. 2) Story Avenue: writing workshops for inner city Gr. 5 & 6 students. 3) Allard Win-a-Literary-Artist contest: sponsored in-school visits. 4) Martyn Godfrey Award: juried writing contest for Gr. 4-9 students. 5) Wordpower: Sponsored week-long tours of literary artists through dozens of schools in rural Alberta. 6) Year-round bookings: Facilitation of non-subsidized literary artist visits to schools and libraries throughout the school year (outside of other programs). 7) Seeds of Stories: Bursaries to cover artist fees for visits to Albertan schools and libraries through the Taleblazers or Year Round Bookings programs. 8) FLY!: Fun Lit in YEG: free literary artist visits to children/youth groups around Edmonton. 9) Onwords & Upwords: Literary artist tour to rural Alberta schools and libraries.