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Dallas Nicole Woodburn is a 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Write On! Books, a publishing company that focuses on young writers and young readers. She is currently looking for submissions of short stories, essays and poetry written by kids and teens in middle school and high school. Dallas has published two collections of short stories – the latest of which, 3 a.m., is available on Amazon.com and was featured on the nationally syndicated PBS book talk show “Between the Lines.” She is currently a staff writer for GradtoGreat.com, TweenParent.com, and Listen Magazine. Dallas has also been a featured author in the nationally-released books So, You Wanna Be a Writer?, Good Friends Come Along Once in a Lifetime, and seven Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies. She has published articles in a variety of national magazines and newspapers including Family Circle, The Writer, Writer’s Digest, CO-ED, Justine, Motherwords, Encounter, and The Los Angeles Times. For her work as a biweekly opinion columnist for her school newspaper, The Daily Trojan, she was awarded the prestigious Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholar award.

In 2001, Dallas founded a non-profit organization called “Write On!” to encourage kids to read and write. Check out her inspirational writing website, www.writeonbooks.org, which features essay contests, reading lists, writing prompts, author interviews, and more. Through “Write On!” Dallas also holds an annual Holiday Book Drive to benefit underprivileged children in her community. In the past eight years, she has collected and distributed more than 10,000 new books to local kids, many of whom she was told otherwise would not have received anything for Christmas. Dallas also uses proceeds from selling her two books to endow a “Write On! Scholarship” to send deserving youths to summer writing camps in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.

For her initiative, selflessness, and enthusiastic volunteerism, Dallas has been honored with the national Jackie Kennedy-Onassis/Jefferson Award and the Congressional Gold Medal. She was also named CosmoGIRL! magazine’s “Girl of the Month” and her “Write On!” foundation has been featured in Girls’ Life and Writing magazines.

Born three months prematurely, weighing a mere two pounds, six ounces, Dallas considers each day a blessing and tries to – as legendary basketball coach John Wooden is fond of saying – “make each day her masterpiece.”

Dallas Nicole Woodburn is a 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Write On! Books, a publishing company that focuses on young writers and young readers. She is currently looking for submissions of short stories, essays and poetry written by kids and teens in middle school and high school. ... More