Young readers in grades 4-12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author for the Letters about Literature (LAL) contest, a national reading and writing promotion program. The letter can be to any author (living or dead) from any genre (fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic) explaining how that author’s work changed the student’s life or view of the world.
The S.C. Academy of Authors (SCAA) has expanded its annual award competitions to include a separate category for student writers of fiction and poetry and an increase in prize money.
Join us on Wednesday, September 23, from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Speaker @ the Center featuring author, Bernie Schein. Famous All Over Town is published by USC Press Story River Books, an original southern fiction imprint edited by Pat Conroy.
Greenville author Tamara Copenhaver has recently donated 1 copy of each of her books to each South Carolina public library system. Chris Yates, SC State Library's Deputy Director of Library Resources and Services helped coordinate the distribution of books.
The State Centers for the Book linked by US Route 1 which extends from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida are joining together to promote books that illuminate important aspects of their states/commonwealths for readers traveling the major and meandering highway.
The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book is pleased to announce its upcoming author line up for the Speaker @ the Center series.
The Board of Directors of The Humanities CouncilSC announces that the SCBook Festival, a literary fixture in Columbia since 1997, will change its format for 2016.
The annual Book and Author Fair sponsored by the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in Pickens County has been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, August 9, from 2:00 to 5:00, in All Saints Hall at the Pickens Presbyterian Church, 311 West Main Street in downtown Pickens.
The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book has selected Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parrish (HarperCollins Publishers), to represent South Carolina at the 2015 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. The book is the state’s selection for the National Book Festival’s Discover Great Places Through Reading map. Eac
Join us on Wednesday, June 10 from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Speaker @ the Center featuring Kathleen Robbins, Into the Flatland, published by the University of South Carolina Press.
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