Early each school year, the District Young Authors Council meets to set up the guidelines and planning which culminates with the May celebrations. Each school has a teacher representative who participates in the Young Authors Council Meetings. The District Young Authors Conference always has at least one nationally well known children s author who provides writing workshops for the attendees.
Several schools publish their own literary and art anthologies.
My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter. My Aunt Came Back and Angel Baby. She has been illustrating children's books ever since her graduation from Pratt Institute in the mid-seventies. Ten years later, she began writing them as well when she realized that exposing her younger brother's childhood exploits was an ideal means of revenge. She thinks he secretly loves it.