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Youth Involvement

The Rising Artists Cover Entry Program!

"RACE"

SkyWing Press is joining with Educator Laura Browne at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, Ontario to promote youth artistic endeavours through the use of their illustrations as cover designs on our collectible books!

Whenever a manuscript is approved without a cover illustration already chosen, with the poet's agreement, SkyWing Press will provide the student's with the Manucript Name and Title Poem for them to study and create a cover illustration of their own. Student submissions will be reviewed by SkyWing Press and conferred on with the featured poet and one will be chosen for print.

Students get their artwork on a quality publication, their name in the credits and here, on this webpage, registration under the book's ISBN-13 as the cover illustrator, a small monetary honorarium in payment plus one free book and the offer to purchase additional books at a nominal fee.

Although our first publication ~ The Lion and the Golden Calf ~ already has a cover illustration by the poet herself, she has agreed to consider student submissions so this is the first title that art students will be looking at.

Educators: If you are interested in joining this program please email SkyWing Press to obtain a copy of the title poem and deadline date. You must be in the Huron-Bruce area to facilitate the physical transfer of materials for digitization etc.

The SkyWing Student Bursary Program
 
SkyWing Press is accepting donations toward two high school bursaries for graduating students in Huron and Bruce County, Ontario. The students must be entering either an English Major or Fine Arts Major program in a recognized Canadian University or Community College.
 
The amount dispersed per qualifying applicant will be based on the number of such applicants and equal division of the funds donated throughout the fiscal year among them. This will begin for students graduating in 2009 in order to allow SkyWing to build an appropriate fund from interested donors.
 
Educators in the Huron-Bruce region are encouraged to promote this application process among their student populations when and where they deem it appropriate. Students or Educators may email SkyWing for an Application Form beginning in January 2009.
 
Contributors: Please note that if you wish your donation to go to one specific interest (either Literary Venture or Fine Art Venture) you will need to indicate this by private email to SkyWing Press. SkyWing Press does not collect private emails for use in its own marketing endeavours nor does it sell such emails to other interest purchasers. We vehemently dislike SPAM!

Bursary Donations

The RACE is On!
 
The names of our winning youth illustrators and the publication where their artwork will appear will be listed here as results become available.
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