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.  

 

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State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book Announces 2008-2009 Letters About Literature Competition

Columbia, SC – 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 the students’ way of thinking about the world or themselves.  State winners will be honored at a spring awards ceremony at the State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book in Columbia with checks from the South Carolina State Library Foundation for $25 (3rd place), $50 (2nd place), and $100 (1st place).  Additionally, all state 1st place winners will receive a $50 Target GiftCard.  National Winners receive a $500 Target GiftCard and a $10,000 LAL Reading Promotion Grant for their School or Community Library.  National Winners are also honored at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.

Last year, the South Carolina Center for the Book was pleased to recognize nine students from across the state:

Level I Winners
•    1st place     Lindsay Pollard     Clemson Elementary School
•    2nd place     Will Anderson         North Elementary School
•    3rd place    Alysa Chirillo         West Oak Middle School

Level II Winners
•    1st place     Sinead Rose-Innes     Riverside Middle School
•    2nd place     D. J. Lee         Dent Middle School
•    3rd place     Kiana Knowlin         Rosemary Middle School

Level III Winners
•    1st place     Rhett Ricard             Mid-Carolina High School
•    2nd place     Katherine McCollough        Academy for the Arts, Science & Technology
•    3rd place     Danielle Lester            Mid-Carolina High School

For participation guidelines and entry coupon, please visit http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters/ or contact one of the South Carolina coordinators:

Dr. Curtis R. Rogers, Director, SC Center for the Book, SC State Library, POB 11469, Columbia, SC 29211. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 803-734-8928.

Susanna Brailsford, Program Coordinator, SC Literary Arts Partnership, POB 5287, Columbia, SC 29250. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 803-771-2477.