Summer Reading Challenge
Pick up a Reading Slip from Youth Services at the library, or download from link below. Submit your completed slip every time you read a book to enter a weekly drawing for a gift card.
Click image to download and print a Reading Slip.
Teen Mosaic Magazine Submissions (Grades 6-12)
Calling all teen artists and writers… Be a published author or artist!
Teen Mosaic is an annual magazine of writing, artwork, poetry, and photography published by the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative. Teen Mosaic highlights the creativity of Pinellas County School students from grades 6-12. Submissions will be accepted from June 1 to September 1, with an anticipated publication date in October.
All submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Entries will be accepted between June 1 – September 1, 2026.
- Participants must be in grades 6–12 for the 2026-27 school year.
- Participants must reside and attend school in Pinellas County.
- All work must be original and created without the use of generative AI.
- Work must be submitted on 8.5” x 11” paper.
- Up to three entries accepted, and each entry must include a registration form.
- Writing submissions may be of any genre (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.) and must be limited to less than 1500 words.
- Photography and visual art submissions must be two-dimensional and may be published in black and white.
- Submissions including profanity or offensive material will be excluded.
Submissions can be made online at pplc.us/mosaic starting Monday, June 1.