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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
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The Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the South Carolina Center for the Book and the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores, is a national reading and writing promotion contest. To enter, readers write personal letters to an author, living or dead, from any genre, explaining how that author's work changed their way of thinking about the world or themselves. |
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
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Letters About Literature is a national reading-writing contest sponsored by the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book. The contest is open to readers in grades 4 through 12 and is sponsored in South Carolina by the South Carolina Center for the Book.
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
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2009 Winners Announced The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book proudly announces the recipients of the 2009 South Carolina Center for the Book Awards for Writing, Teaching and Literary Arts Advocacy. This year’s award winners are noted South Carolina author Leonard Todd, for Writing (Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter, Dave); Libby Collins of Dent Middle School in Columbia, for Teaching; and the Free Times, for Literary Arts Advocacy. The SC Center for the Book Awards were formerly a single award known as the Palmetto Book Award. In 2008, the Palmetto Book Award has expanded to honor excellence in: - Writing: SC writer of any genre whose work has been published in the last year.
- Teaching: SC teacher of the literary or language arts (at any level or type of school)
- Advocacy: SC person or organization that works to promote the literary arts and to foster a creative atmosphere in the state
The criteria for nominees are: - The nominee must be a living South Carolina resident or an active South Carolina organization.
- The nominee must be a published writer, a current teacher, or an active promoter of the literary arts in South Carolina, as described in a one page nomination letter.
Past recipients include: |
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