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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-size:12pt">We are very</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-size:12pt"> pleased to inform you
that the New Mexico State Library will continue the New Mexico Letters About Literature competition this school year. We have created a site for the state competition which should tell you everything you want to know about the contest - </span><a href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt; text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,111,201); color:rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,111,201)"><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,111,201)"><strong>https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/</strong></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">We cordially invite your students to participate in this reading and</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> writing contest designed to promote reading and thoughtful
writing by encouraging young readers to read a book and then write a letter to the author explaining how his or her work shaped their perspective on the world or themselves. This is the eighth year the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/">New
Mexico State Library</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> has sponsored the competition.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><strong>Please see the attached
</strong><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(114,50,173); color:rgb(189,19,152)"><span style="color:rgb(189,19,152); text-decoration:none solid rgb(189,19,152)"><strong>entry form</strong></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"> and
the </span></span></strong></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(226,197,1); color:rgb(75,165,36)"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36); text-decoration:none solid rgb(75,165,36)">permission
form</span></span> </span></span></strong></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:blue"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(0,0,0)">for
ages 13 and under as of November 1, 2020</span>.</span></strong></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:blue"><strong><span style="color:windowtext"></span></strong></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue; font-size:12pt"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext">Please read the
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and </span><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(208,92,18); color:rgb(208,92,18)"><span style="color:rgb(208,92,18); text-decoration:none solid rgb(208,92,18)">terms of </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none solid rgb(208,92,18); color:rgb(208,92,18)"><span style="color:rgb(208,92,18); text-decoration:none solid rgb(208,92,18)">participation</span></span>,</span></strong></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue; font-size:12pt"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext"> including
how to submit entries carefully </span></strong></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue; font-size:12pt"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext">before your students begin reading and writing. </span></strong></span><strong style="color:rgb(255,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0); text-decoration:none solid rgb(255,0,0)">THERE
ARE MANY CHANGES!</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<strong style="font-size:12pt">All entries must be submitted</strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"> by January 11, 2021.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Please visit New Mexico <a href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/">Letters About Literature</a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">to learn more about the contest. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply
to this email or call 505-476-9739 or 9717.</span><br style="font-size:12pt">
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<span style="font-size:12pt">We look forward to working with you and truly hope you will participate in the New Mexico Letters About Literature contest.</span><br>
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