April is School Library Month. In honor of this event, AASL (The American Association of School Librarians), a Division of the American Library Association, and and Figment.com a free online community for teen writing, are offering four teen writing contests. There will be a new contest each week, and the judges will be four great Young Adult authors:  Alyson Noel, Lauren Oliver, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Gayle Forman.

Here’s information from the Figment site: “Each week in April a new contest prompt in a different genre of creative fiction will be announced. Figment users will vote to select the finalists and then that week’s guest author judge will select the winner. Winners of each weekly contest will receive autographed books from that week’s judge and one grand prize winner will receive a Kindle. All finalists and winners will be featured on the Figment and AASL websites.” For week 1, Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay, is the judge. Click here to learn details about this week’s contest, with entries due by April 10. I know it’s spring break, but don’t worry. If you miss this one, there will be three more coming this month.