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Let your pen flow, keyboard click and creative light shine. The Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries invites local wordsmiths to enter the 32nd Annual Adult Creative Writing Contest for a chance to win cash for their snappy sonnets and enlightening essays.

The Friends group sponsors the annual contest to give published and unpublished authors an outlet for their writing. The contest is open to any person 18 years or older who lives, works, attends school in Tulsa County or has a nonresident TCCL library card. The deadline to submit entries is Jan. 31, 2009.

Submissions are welcomed in these categories:

• Poetry – with a 400-word limit
• Informal Essay – with a 5,000-word limit
• Children’s Fiction – with a 3,000-word limit
• Short Story – with a 5,000-word limit

A $100 cash prize plus a book and certificate are awarded to the best works within each category. Second-place winners receive a $50 cash prize plus a book and a certificate. Certificates are awarded to those receiving honorable mention. Individuals may submit one entry per category. Each entry must have a separate entry form and a $5 entry fee.

Local author and illustrator Kim Doner will present the awards during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on April 5, 2009, at Central Library, Fourth Street and Denver Avenue.

Entry forms are available at all TCCL locations or online at www.tulsalibrary.org/friends. For more information on the Adult Creative Writing Contest, call Gretchen Hannefield, Friends liaison and library volunteer coordinator, 596-7963.