This is a writing competition for young writers or America between the grades of five and eight. Only six girls and six boys from the entire country are admitted, and the winners are given a complete scholarship (including airfare) to visit Mark Twain's boyhood town in Hannibal, Missouri for the last week in June.
I won last year and it was an AWESOME experience! Even if you don't think you're going to win, though, there's no harm in entering!!
People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear. — John Patrick, The Curious Savage