For Authors

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Posted: 9/15/2005; 2:45:01 PM
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Kern Reading Association’s Young Authors’ Fair contracts with several authors each year for a week-long series of school visits culminating in a Saturday fair for students held each May. Click on the Young Authors’ Fair button and go to pictures to see some previous events. Our Young Authors’ Fair is considered one of the most prestigious and well-run in the country. Our standards for author selection are very high. No contracts are offered without at least one KRA board member having viewed the author’s presentation, preferably in front of an audience of students. We invite authors to notify us of upcoming presentations they intend to make at conferences such as CRA, IRA, or CSLA. Occasionally KRA allows interested authors a chance for viewing by arranging a free presentation at a local school in the summer. We seek professionally published authors who have a variety of in-print books which will appeal to K-8 audiences and whose presentations are imaginative, engaging and include some information about the writing process. We will arrange for sales opportunities during your visits of up to, but not more than, five different titles per author. We generally make offers between July-October for the following May. All candidates must be approved by the KRA Board.

If you meet the criteria above and would like to be considered, please mail your author packet to the following:

    Kern Reading Association: YAF Committee
    P. O. Box 10837
    Bakersfield, CA 93389-10837


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