How to Enter the New York Public Library’s Freedom to Read National Art Contest [Video]

There’s something about the written word that we here at Teen Vogue obviously love. But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why the New York Public Library’s annual Freedom to Read contest is focusing on visual storytelling this time around.

In honor of Books For All, an initiative designed to fight against book banning through efforts like a Teen Banned Book Club and this annual contest, The New York Public Library invites you to enter its Freedom to Read National Art Contest. Inspired by the graphic novels the Banned Book Club enjoyed, you’re encouraged to submit drawings, paintings, photography, mixed media, comic art, and digital art that centers around the topics of reading, libraries, and intellectual freedom.

The goal? To “show or represent what the power of reading or the freedom to read mean to you through visual art,” according to the Library’s website. What might that look like? …