Local Authors & Music

Listen Up STL

Celebrate and help promote the musical creativity of the St. Louis community with Listen Up STL which gives local musicians the opportunity to make their music available to a wider audience.

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Celebrating Poetry Collection

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we asked you to submit original poems for inclusion in the St. Louis County Library poetry compilation available in the eMedia collection of the Indie Author Project. The collection is divided in Kids, Teens, and Adults groups.

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Inspired by Jamaica Kincaid

In honor of this year’s St. Louis Literary Award recipient Jamaica Kincaid, we wanted you to share with us work you have created based on Jamaica Kincaid’s influential and enduring work, "Girl". We accepted submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction or memoir under 500 words for inclusion in our eMedia collection.

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Indie Author Project

The Indie Author Project (IAP) allows local authors to upload their work for inclusion into the Indie Missouri collection, available to all participating Missouri libraries. Submissions will also be considered for the IAP Select collection. Titles chosen for the IAP Select collection are available to participating libraries nationwide.

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Inspired by Neil Gaiman

Stories, poems, essays and images by library patrons to celebrate 2023 St. Louis Literary Award recipient Neil Gaiman.

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