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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33); background:white">We are very pleased to announce the New Mexico Letters About Literature competition for the 2022/2023 school year. Please visit the state
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33)">We cordially invite your students to participate in this reading and 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 tenth year the </span><a href="http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:blue">New
Mexico State Library</span></a><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33)"> has sponsored the competition.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; margin:0px; color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br>
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</span><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33)">Please review the </span></b><a href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/submit/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/submit/"><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(189,19,152)">entry
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<b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:black">Please read the </span></b><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(208,92,18)"><a href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/the-rules/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/the-rules/"><span style="color:rgb(222,106,25)">official rules and terms
of participation</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:black">, including how to submit entries carefully before your students begin reading and writing. </span></b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:rgb(33,33,33)">All entries must be submitted<span style="border:1pt none windowtext; margin:0px; padding:0in"> by December 30, 2022.</span></span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br>
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</span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33)">Please visit New Mexico </span><span style="margin:0px; color:black"><a href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:blue">Letters
About Literature</span></a></span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; margin:0px; padding:0in; color:rgb(33,33,33)"> 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
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<span style="border:1pt none windowtext; margin:0px; padding:0in">We look forward to working with you and truly hope you will participate in the New Mexico Letters About Literature contest.</span></span><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p>
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