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We're an Anthem Awards Gold Winner!

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Anthem Awards
February 27, 2024
Young Authors Publishing is honored to be a Gold Winner in the Awareness & Media Categories (Non Profit) for Education, Art, & Culture for the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards.
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We're Nominated for an Anthem Award

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Anthem Awards
January 8, 2024
We made it as a finalist in the Anthem Awards! The Anthem Awards, presented by The Webby Awards, are the largest social impact awards that celebrate the voices, brands, and projects sparking global change. We're honored that our flagship imprint, Young Authors Publishing, is nominated.
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Businesses Are Partnering Together To Open Up A World Of Reading For Children

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11 Alive
October 17, 2023
A literacy event at the Home Depot Backyard. Hoping to bring books to life for kids in the area, the immersive event gave children the opportunity to literally see themselves inside the stories.
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An Action-Packed Day At The Home Depot Backyard

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CW 69 Now News at 10
October 17, 2023
Young Authors Publishing sponsored the Read With Me Event, to promote the love of literacy. About 100 kids participated...
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Home Depot Backyard and its partners want to remind young people about the importance of literacy

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Good Day Atlanta
October 17, 2023
Yesterday, organizers gave kids a chance to take part in several reading events. each activation area is based on children's books that were presented at the event. now the goal is to close the literacy gap for minority minority children by sharing more stories.
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Young Authors Publishing Receives $10,000 Grant from Ingram Content Group During COVID-19

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Ingram Content Group
October 17, 2023
The $10,000 grant from Ingram allows Young Authors Publishing to publish their remaining books that will be available for purchase in March 2021. Ingram’s new printing model also allows YAP to publish titles in a way that both benefits the young authors, and the organization by preparing them for the 2021 publishing year.
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Young Authors Publishing: Leah Hernandez

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Courier Media
October 17, 2023
Young Authors develops a sales and marketing strategy so that books can be sold nationally and globally. Royalties from the young authors’ book sales are deposited into a secured savings account for them to access at the age of 18 to use towards their post-secondary plans.
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PW Star Watch 2020 Honorees Named

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Publisher's Weekly
October 17, 2023
"Innovation in publishing, while most of us have been working from home, has been a challenge since the pandemic," said Milliot. "Imagination and creativity become even more important when face-to-face communication is filtered through the screen of videoconferences"
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Meet Leah Hernandez founder of Young Authors Publishing & impacting the Westside

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Voyage ATL
October 17, 2023
The eight-week experience program teaches our young authors how to write their children’s books and the fundamentals of financial literacy. After the program, their children’s books are published with distribution across Barnes & Noble Amazon and various bookstores and libraries throughout the city.
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Publisher Leah Hernandez Helping Young Writers Market Their Talent

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Rolling Out
October 17, 2023
Hernandez cares deeply about her Atlanta community, Vine City, and recently started a new youth program, the Young Authors Program, which gives middle school students the necessary tools to write their first book.
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