Letters About Literature Award Winners Announced

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.  Nine winners will be honored at an awards ceremony at the State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book in Columbia. The ceremony will be held on May 4 from 11:00 am to noon in room 309, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia.  Contest judges and the Director of the State Library will be on hand to present awards.  Winners will be reading their letters and will each will receive a check from the South Carolina State Library Foundation ($100 for first place, $50 for second, and $25 for third).  In addition, first place winners receive a $50 gift card from Target stores.

Level I Winners (grades 4-6)
•    1st place     Lauren Humphrey        North Central Middle School, Kershaw
•    2nd place     Jessica Welch            Walker Gamble Elementary, New Zion
•    3rd place    Shelley Sasser            Individual Entry, Conway

Level II Winners (grades 7-8)
•    1st place     Austin Holder            Sterling School, Greenville
•    2nd place     Jayant Raman            Dent Middle School, Columbia
•    3rd place     Elizabeth Anne Matthews    Dent Middle School, Columbia

Level III Winners (grades 9-12)
•    1st place     John Daniel Costello        Pickens High School
•    2nd place     Beatriz Fernandez Arguelles    Dutch Fork High School, Columbia
•    3rd place     Hannah Robles        Dutch Fork High School, Columbia

For more information about the South Carolina Center for the Book, please visit www.sccenterforthebook.org.