For the first time in the six-year history of the Palmetto Book Award, the nomination process is being opened to the public. Presented annually by the South Carolina Center for the Book, the Palmetto Book Award honors a South Carolina individual or organization that works to promote the literary arts and to foster a creative atmosphere in South Carolina.
The 2007 award will be presented at the South Carolina Book Festival in February, and the deadline for nominations is January 15th, 2007. Nomination forms and guidelines are available at http://sccenterforthebook.org/docs/pba_form.pdf.
Previous winners of the Palmetto Book Award are the South Carolina Young Writers Conference in 2006, the Hub City Writers Project in 2005, the Beaufort County Library in 2004, Tom Johnson of the South Caroliniana Library in 2003, and Sara Breibart of the Charleston County Public Library in 2002. From 2002-2006, the award was selected by the SC Center for the Book’s advisory committee. The 2007 Palmetto Book Award will be the first one selected by a nomination process open to the public.
The SC Center for the Book is the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book in Washington, DC and is a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities CouncilSC. Formerly known as the Palmetto Book Alliance, the SC Center for the Book changed its name in 2006 to align with the 49 other Centers for the Book across the country. The Center’s mission is to celebrate South Carolina’s rich literary heritage and bring public attention to the importance of books, writers, and reading. The Palmetto Book Award is just one of the ongoing projects of the SC Center for the Book.
For more information about the Palmetto Book Award or the South Carolina Center for the Book, please contact Theresa J. Wallace at 803-771-2477.
