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POSTED: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00 PM

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Saturday, March 24

Young writers take the park!

When you're a little kid, you get told all the good bedtime stories. When you're a big kid, you have the advantage of grammar and a growing vocabulary to start doing the storytelling yourself. This Saturday in Pretzel Park, Manayunk celebrates its young writers. Young-adult author Beth Kephart, in collaboration with The Spiral Bookcase, has asked students from nine area middle and high schools to submit essays, poems and short stories on the theme “something new, something that could change your life.” Finalists will have their work published by Philadelphia Stories and read at Pretzel Park alongside performances by the 7th-grade all-girls rock sensation Melrose Q and the after-school garage band Evan's Orphanage. These kids are sure to remind you that writing doesn't have to be reserved for grownups.

3 p.m., free, Pretzel Park, 4300 Silverwood St., thespiralbookcase.com

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