Banned Book Quote of the Day Contest

Sept. 18, 2014 - PRLog -- The San Diego Writers, Ink (SDWI) is celebrating Banned Books Week, September 21 to 27 by hosting a daily prize giveaway where contestants can win a prize for stating the best banned book quote of the day.

Each day SDWI will post a new award participants can win.  Prize giveaways will include free classes, anthologies, and raffle items.  The fun starts on Sunday, September 21.  Go to https://www.facebook.com/SDWritersInk each day of the Banned Books Week for your chance to win.

Each day a winner will be chosen from the previous day's theme by the staff of SDWI and announced on social media.

For a list of banned books go to the Banned Books Week website www.bannedbooksweek.org.

Banned Books Week is held yearly during the last week of September.  It was created to make people aware of the value of free and open information. The entire book community from “librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers” come together to support the freedom to seek and to express ideas of all types.

The main focus of Banned Books Week is to ”draw national attention to the harms of censorship.” Even though many of the banned books have been censored most of them are continually made available to the public. Banned Books Week started in 1982 out of a response from a wide number of books being challenged in schools, bookstores and libraries.  Since 1982, more than 11,300 books have been challenged.

For more information about this and other San Diego Writers, Ink’s events go to:  sandiegowriters.org