Calling All Young Authors and Artists!

(Illustration by Anna Grayson from the Fairy Tales and Fantasy issue)

We are currently looking for more material for our next issue, Oceans. 

We are interested in Adventures on the Sea, Pirates, Undersea Worlds (real or imaginary), Whales, Vikings, The Beach, Sea Creatures and Monsters, Ships and Sailing, Mermaids...  

Can you write an imaginative story about a shipwreck at sea? How about an underwater adventure in a submarine? Or a story about pirates? Do you live near the ocean? Do you like to visit the beach? Have you ever see a whale or a dolphin? 

Write and illustrate a story about your ocean or beach adventures, or a sea monster or other imaginary creature that lives in the ocean. Do you have a favorite animal that lives in the ocean? A giant squid? An octopus? Write and illustrate an article or fictional story about your favorite ocean animal!

 

Preference will be given to material submitted by May 15.

NYC Solo Exhibition by Launch Pad Editorial Board Member

Launch Pad Editorial Board member Nancy Sharon Collins celebrated the opening of her solo exhibition, "History in Small Spaces: a one-woman exhibition of large format, archival pigment prints depicting technology, history and current social myth" in New York City yesterday. The exhibition location is:

Abingdon 12
613 Hudson Street (between Jane and West 12th Streets)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 206-6845

Her exhibition will run until May 23, 2008 and travel to Typecon 2008 in Buffalo, New York, in July.

Visit her blog for more information.

Launch Pad wishes her the best!

Fairy Tales and Fantasy Issue

(Illustration by Brandi Bates from the Fairy Tales and Fantasy issue)

The latest issue of Launch Pad: Where Young Authors and Illustrators Take Off! contains a delightful variety of imaginative stories, poems, and illustrations related to our “Fairy Tales & Fantasy” theme. In this issue, you will meet a genie who loves to work out at the gym, fairies that light up the stars, a few uninvited guests, an evil magician, and two brave fairies on a quest to save their village from the dragon. The writing and artwork is superb, and I invite you to read and enjoy the creative works of these talented young authors and artists.

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