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2025 YAFF Celebration Event [Virtual]

Name: 2025 YAFF Celebration Event [Virtual]
Start: 2025-06-20T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-20T21:00:00+02:00
Location: The American Library in Paris

Fri June 20 @ 18 h 00 - 21 h 00

Join us to celebrate the young authors who submitted a short story for the Young Authors Fiction Festival 2025.

We will celebrate the YAFF 2025 participants and finalists during the Celebration Event at the American Library in Paris on Friday 20 June 2025. On this page, you can register to attend the virtual event, where we will announce the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th places for each grade.

You can connect from 18h00 to see the awards from kindergarten to 5th grade; and from 19h30 to see the awards from 6th grade to 12th grade.

All writers who submitted to YAFF 2025, as well as their families, their teachers, and the volunteer judges are invited to connect virtually to join in the celebration!

Please email yaff@americanlibraryinparis.org with any questions.

We thank our sponsors Association EBN and the British Council for their support!

Association EBN for a Better World honors the life of Emma Burke Newman (June 15, 2000-Jan. 27, 2023). The French-American loved reading, music, cycling, and her work and studies in architecture. The association promotes cycling and road safety, and funds an annual grant to support young talent in architecture and the arts.

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Date:: Fri June 20
Time:: 18 h 00 min - 21 h 00 min
Event Category:: Kids

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: The American Library in Paris

Benefit program for Library supporters

Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.

Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.

Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.

Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.

Planned giving to the Library

A charitable gift from your estate is simple to implement and is easy to change if you should need to access the assets during your lifetime. If you would like to include a gift to the Library in your will, ask your estate planning attorney to add this suggested wording to your will or living trust. Please make sure to use the Library’s correct legal name appears in all final documents as: The American Library in Paris Inc.

Unrestricted Gift: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc, (insert dollar amount) Dollars* to be used for its general purposes.

Residuary Bequest: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc , (insert percentage amount) percent of the residue of my estate to be used for its general purposes.

2025 YAFF Celebration Event [Virtual]

Fri June 20 @ 18 h 00 - 21 h 00

Join us to celebrate the young authors who submitted a short story for the Young Authors Fiction Festival 2025.

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