SF Bites!

San Francisco Bites! SFPL Teen Vampire Writing Contest, courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library.

We've been writing a lot lately about the SFPL exhibition San Francisco Eats, but a recent addition to the San Francisco History Center stacks makes it clear that some San Franciscans want to sink their teeth into more than what our world-famous restaurants have to offer. Over 30 San Francisco teens fed their hunger for vampires by composing entries for "San Francisco Bites! SFPL 2010 Teen Vampire Writing Contest." Some wrote stories, others wrote poems, but all had to adhere to the contest's rules: entries had to be original and unpublished works, under 2,000 words, and entrants had to be between the ages of 12 and 19.

Twenty-seven of the original submissions have been bound into a book by the San Francisco Public Library's Preservation Department and can be viewed in the SF History Center's reading room. However, if all this talk about vampire stories has got your blood pumping, you can read the three contest-winning stories online at the SFPL Teen Blog site, Dropbox.