DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 16, 2020) — The Davenport Public Library needs your help in preserving real-time reflections about life in the Quad Cities during the COVID-19 era.

Submit a 200-500-word writing piece about how you're coping. For example, adults may submit essays, short stories, or other creative-writing pieces. Kids and students may want to send in diary entries.

Writing prompts include: What am I grateful for? Who have I come to admire? How have I changed?

Digital subscriptions to writing magazines, online gifts, and writing tools will be awarded in every category.

Entries due May 15, 2020. Submit entries and questions to specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com.

This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit www.davenportlibrary.com or call the library at (563) 326-7832.

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