Banned Books Week 2023 runs from October 1-7 and what better way to show your support for Banned Books Week, NEHS, and the importance of free and open access to information than with limited edition NEHS Banned Books Week T-shirts and stickers.
The limited-edition merchandise can be purchased from ShopNEHS until October 15, 2023.
Banned Books Week provides a range of resources to help teachers and students plan activities to celebrate the right to read, including a Banned Books Week Handbook and Banned Books Week Program Kits.
2023 Banned Books Week Social Media Contest
In celebration of Banned Books Week Sigma Tau Delta and National English Honor Society are teaming up to host the eighth annual Banned Books Week social media contest. For the first year ever, our brand new middle school program, English Language Arts Honor Society, will also be participating. To contribute you must tag us in a post on any of the following social media accounts:
- NEHS Facebook
- NEHS Twitter (@NEHSXpress)
- Sigma Tau Delta Facebook
- Sigma Tau Delta Twitter (@EnglishCon)
- Sigma Tau Delta/NEHS Instagram (@EnglishMatters)
- ELA Honor Society Facebook
- ELA Honor Society Instagram (@elahonorsociety)
- or snap us at englishmatters on Snapchat
What to do in your post:
Books are banned for a variety of reasons. Take your own original photo of your favorite banned book and share with us (on one social media platform) one of the reasons it has been contested. If you wish to post on a second platform, please choose a second banned book to post about.
The contest will run from Sunday, October 1-Saturday, October 7. Everyone who participates during this time frame will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $25 Better World Books gift cards. A $50 Better World Books gift card also will be awarded for the best overall post. Select submissions will be shared across our social media platforms.
Resources
Banned Books Week 2023
Troubling Trends in Book Censorship
Milton and Paradise Reimagined: Book Censorship Today
George Orwell and Recent Censorship
Don’t Burn the Books
How Old is Holden Caulfield?: Censoring a Teenage Narrator in an Adult Book from Teenage Eyes
Why Books Depicting Violence are Important
Banned Books: Stand Up for What Moves You
Banned Books: Symbols of Positive Ideological Shifts
What Intellectual Freedom Is—And Why and How We Ought to Preserve It
More from NEHSXpress: October 3, 2023
Kayte Nunn Common Reader Webinar & Ada Limón Bonus Content
Thank Your English Teacher on World Teachers’ Day 2023
Join the NEHS Advisory Council
Awards and Grants Application Deadlines
