Write. Read. Feel. with Mychal Threets — Exploring Your Emotions on the Page

Описание: We are thrilled to partner with everyone's favorite librarian and literacy ambassador Mychal Threets to announce our 2025 student anthology: "Write. Read. Feel. Exploring Your Emotions on the Page."

STUDENTS: You belong in books, and your stories matter! 826 National is currently accepting submissions for our 2025 anthology of student writing. Students ages 6-18 are encouraged to submit their work using one of the links below.

EDUCATORS: See the full lesson plan, including prompt options, handouts, and more materials to support your young writers explore their feelings through writing:

Submissions will be accepted via one of the following links, through November 15, 2024:

Submission link in English: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

Submission link in Spanish:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

ABOUT THE PROMPT:
In this prompt, we invite you to use writing to explore your feelings. It’s all about reflecting on the power and possibility of your emotions—your highs, your lows, and everything in between. This is an invitation to explore those emotions through writing and to share what you're feeling inside on the page. There’s no wrong way to do it—just be you.

All emotions are welcome here—joy, overwhelm, love, loneliness, etc. And, whatever you choose, writing about your emotions can be a powerful form of self-care. It’s a way to honor where you’re at, and it can even be a way to write your way forward. We invite you to put pen to paper and make space for how you're feeling on the page.

Your mission is to write about your feelings, your way. It can be a poem, a reflection, a story—you name it. No matter what you decide, we encourage you to bring your full self to the writing process.

ABOUT MYCHAL THREETS:
Mychal Threets got his first library job as a library shelver at the library he grew up in and worked his way up to become Supervising Librarian of that very same library. He talks about mental health in hopes that it’ll help others in their mental health journey. He is a recipient of the 2024 “I Love My Librarian” award from the American Library Association, is one of School Library Journal’s 2024 Movers and Shakers, and one of TIME Magazine’s 2024 Next Generation Leaders.