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Taleblazers bookings now open!

See our Taleblazers page for more information, or go straight to the booking form!

New Martyn Godfrey Award Sponsor

Everyone at YABS would like to express our gratitude to Servus Credit Union, the 2012 sponsor of the Martyn Godfrey Young Writers Award. We're accepting submissions until May 28, 2012. Full rules and prize details can be found here!

Judge A Book

We're pleased to be introducing a new program: Judge A Book. Inspired by this year's Taleblazers theme, we're inviting people to judge our books! See our Judge A Book page for details.

Bookings now open! Taleblazers brings together authors, illustrators, and storytellers withstudents in communities all over Alberta. YABS coordinates presentations, readings, and workshops by Albertan literary artists in schools and libraries throughout the province. Click here for more!

We were proud host two Wordpower tours in spring 2012! Thank you to all of the artists and schools, and we look forward to doing it again next year. To find out more about Wordpower click here!

Hey! Awesome young writers and comedic kids deserve a little recognition! Check out the Servus Credit Union Martyn Godfrey Award here!

Students from the four schools within the City Centre Education Project met at the Centre for Education this February to spend 2 hours each working with 2 different authors, learning their writing secrets. Always a great day! Click here for more!

The Dr. Charles Allard Win-A-Literary-Artist Contest is an annual competition for schools and libraries throughout Alberta, with the prize a half-day presentation by an author, illustrator, poet, playwright or storyteller during TALEBLAZERS.

Teachers, librarians, kids, artists, and readers of all ages are invited to send in short reviews of their favourite works by YABS members which we will post on our Judge A Book page!