The South Carolina Center for the Book is pleased to announce the nine winners in this year's Letters About Literature contest. These outstanding students will be honored at the South Carolina State Library in Columbia at an award ceremony on April 30 at 10:30 a.m. Contest judges and South Carolina State Library Foundation members will be on hand to welcome attendees and present awards. Winners will read their letters and each will receive a monetary award from the South Carolina State Library Foundation ($100 for first place, $50 for second, and $25 for third).
The Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the South Carolina Center for the Book and the Library of Congress 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.
2013-2014 Winners:
Level One -- Elementary
First Place -- Banks Mitchell, Atheneum/Vine & Branches Home Educators, Conway
Second Place -- Kaleb Cintonz, SC Virtual Charter School, Inman
Third Place -- Blair Josephs, Atheneum/Vine & Branches Home Educators, Conway
Level Two -- Middle
First Place -- Surya Korrapati, Meadow Glen Middle School, Lexington
Second Place -- Elizabeth Clapp, Meadow Glen Middle School, Lexington
Third Place -- Muayad Sarhan, Riverside Middle School, Greer
Level Three -- High
First Place -- Joshua P. Brandt, SC Virtual Charter School, Columbia
Second Place -- Brooke Ashlyn Thomas, Pickens High School, Pickens
Third Place -- Samantha Wagner, Pickens High School, Pickens
For more information, please contact Dr. Curtis R. Rogers at 803-734-8928 or crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov.
