For Immediate Release: April 29, 2010

Oakland Word, Writing Program at the Oakland Public Library, Announces Student Reading

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( Oakland, CA)—Oakland Word is proud to present “Oakland Speaks!” a free Oakland Word Student Reading to be held Tuesday May 4, 2010, 6–8 pm, at the César Chávez Branch Library, 3301 East 12 th Street, Suite 271, in Oakland.

This is Oakland Word’s second public student reading and will feature participants from the program’s March-April free creative writing classes. Emerging writers representing a wide cross-section of Oakland and East Bay residents will be on the microphone reading their fiction, memoir and poetry.

Oakland Word, a program of the Oakland Public Library, seeks to provoke dialogue and encourage creativity, literacy and self-sufficiency by providing opportunities for underrepresented youth and adults to write, publish and perform works about their lives.

Between February and April 2010 Oakland Word has offered 20 free creative writing workshops, providing a vital community service to over 300 local residents.

For more information, please visit www.oaklandword.org. Or call the Oakland Public Library at (510) 238-3271, or visit www.oaklandlibrary.org . The Oakland Public Library is a department of the City of Oakland.