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At the Teen Writers Workshop you can learn about literature, writing, publishing, and critiquing while sharing your work with your peers. Facilitated by Connor Coyne, author, and director of Flint’s Gothic Funk Press. New writers welcome to join us this Tuesday 4:30-6:00pm!

2023 Is Going To Be A Great Year For YA Novels: Here Are 40 That We Cannot Wait For You To Read Feeling like Gollum as he craves the One Ring while waiting for these books to release.

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Join us this Saturday, October 1st, at 2:00 PM in the Conroy Room at the Library as we craft toys and blankets for the animals at the Humane Society!

Want to see the Book trailers created during Teen Productions at the Library. Here are the links!

https://vimeo.com/736868950

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DOG MAN.mp4 Book Trailer created by Dana and Dominic for Teen Productions

Todays Water Games on the Lawn are being postponed due to incoming Thunderstorms. We are moving the Water Games to this Saturday August 6th after the Finale Show. So please come join us for amazing magician Cameron Zvara at 2:00 pm and Stay for Water Games on the Lawn after around 3 pm or so!

We are carefully watching the weather for tomorrow's Water Games on the Lawn. If the projected thunderstorms are not kind and arrive around program time, please check back for updated date and time for Water Games! Still hoping the weather will cooperate tomorrow!

Join us next Wednesday August 3rd at 4:30pm for Water Games on the front lawn. I have been looking at the forecast and it looks like great weather to launch some water balloons. Hope to see you all then! Make sure to bring a towel to dry off with as we are sure to get a bit wet.

The Flint Public Library and Gothic Funk Press will once again offer the Teen Writers' Intensive, Tues. Aug. 9th - Fri. Aug. 12th, 2-4 pm at the library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.

The intensive offers young writers ages 11 to 17 a safe and welcoming space in which to share their love of reading, practice writing, critique each other's work, and learn about literature and publishing.

For more information or to register, visit: https://www.fpl.info/event/teen-writers-intensive-workshop-2

The links to the amazing videos created by teens at the library during our Green Screen Workshop are here! Enjoy and make sure to keep an eye out for upcoming Teen programs so you can join in the fun!

https://vimeo.com/732555680
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https://vimeo.com/732555841

Best Friends Forever Created by Yukkir Dettloff and Dana Hunter and edited by Mary Coyne in the Green Screen Effects class at Flint Public Library.

Next Wednesday and Thursday we will be creating our very own Book Trailers! Join us from 2-4 pm each day! To Register for this program go here:

Teen Productions - Book Trailers | Flint Public Library Who loves a good movie trailer? Authors also release book trailers to get audiences excited to read their new book. We will be creating our very own book trailers to promote books we have read and enjoyed.

Next Tuesday July 26th at 2:00pm join us for a Pixilation Animation Workshop with Alex Thomas and Friends. You can register for this program here:

Teen Productions - Pixilation Animation Workshop | Flint Public Library Pixilation Animation Workshop: Participants will create a stop-motion, group-animated project where everybody works together to create a live animated video starring the participants. Pixilation is a live action, experimental form of stop-motion animation where the people are the puppets!