National Military Appreciation Month

The South Carolina Academy of Authors is very pleased to announce Susan Laughter Meyers is the 2013 winner of the Nickens Fellowship in poetry, as chosen by this year's judge, Nick Lantz, author of award winning poetry books and the recipient of a number of poetry prizes.

Meyers’ poetry was selected out of 43 submissions. In selecting her work, Lantz stated, “The author’s lines move like one of the rivers that figure so prominently in the poems: twisting, slowing, pooling, speeding off, they savor the precise textures of the world, from pluff mud to laughter like ‘a bale of loose hay’.”

Do you know individuals or groups that have had a statewide impact on literacy?  Nominate them for the South Carolina Annual Literacy Leader (ALL) awards for 2013.

The ALL awards are presented by the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina in the fall of each year to up to three individuals and/or groups that have had a statewide impact on literacy in South Carolina.

The 2013 South Carolina Book Award Winners were recently announced to attendees at the 38th Annual South Carolina Association of School Librarians conference held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

The students of South Carolina have chosen:
• Picture Book Award: Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse by Rebecca Janni
• Children’s Book Award: The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn
• Junior Book Award: Hero by Mike Lupica
• Young Adult Book Award: Matched by Ally Condie