Nominations are Now Open for the 2011 SC Center for the Book Awards Program
The State Library’s Center for the Book is pleased to announce the request for nominations for its awards program, which honors excellence in writing, teaching, and advocacy of the literary arts. This year, the Center seeks nominations in these three categories:
- Writing: SC writer of any genre whose work has been published in the last year (2010)
- Teaching: SC teacher of the literary or language arts (at any level or type of school)
- Advocacy: SC person or organization that works to promote the literary arts and to foster a creative atmosphere in the state
The criteria for nominees are:
- The nominee must be a living South Carolina resident or an active South Carolina organization.
- The nominee must be a published writer, a current teacher, or an active promoter of the literary arts in South Carolina, as described in a one page nomination letter.
The 2011 award nomination form should be accompanied by a letter (one page or shorter) to the SCCFTB Awards Committee explaining why the nominee should receive the award. Nomination deadline is June 30, 2011. Mail, fax, or email completed form and letter to the Committee, C/O South Carolina Center for the Book, P.O. Box 11469, Columbia, SC 29211, 803-734-8676, crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov.
Previous winners:
2010 (photos)
Literary Arts Advocacy: Irvin Department of Rare Book and Special Collections at USC;
Teaching: Dr. Tom Mack of USC-Aiken;
Writing: Batt Humphreys.
Additional Award for State Library Partnership & Collaboration: Helen Fellers, Coordinator of the USC School of Library and Information Science’s South Carolina Center for Children’s Books and Literacy
2009
Literary Arts Advocacy: Free Times;
Teaching: Libby Collins, Dent Middle School;
Writing: Leonard Todd
2008
Literary Arts Advocacy: Beaufort County Arts Council;
Teaching: Eileen Bergreen, Hilton Head Island Middle School;
Writing: Mary Alice Monroe
The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book 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. The Center is located at the South Carolina State Library at 1430 Senate Street in Columbia.
Letters About Literature Award Ceremony
The LAL Award Ceremony was a great success! Winning students read their letters and received their award checks and plaques. For more information and additional photos, visit the SC State Library’s flickr album. You can also read the winning letters from the award ceremony program.
Join in the FUN with StoryFest SC 2011
Visit the State Museum in Columbia, SC, for the 2011 StoryFest SC summer reading kick off!
Letters About Literature Award Winners Announced
State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book
Announces 2010-2011 Letters About Literature Competition Award Winners
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 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 June 2 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 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 One: Grades 4 – 6
First Place – Ellie Fuller, Hammond Hill Elementary School, North Augusta, SC
Second Place – Sam Gee, Sterling School, Greenville, SC
Third Place – Kathryn Simmons, Sterling School, Greenville, SC
Level Two: Grades 7 – 8
First Place – Dan Freeman, Riverside Middle School, Greer, SC
Second Place – Page Lemmon, League Academy, Greenville, SC
Third Place – April Song, Riverside Middle School, Greer, SC
Level Three: Grades 9 – 12
First Place – Creighton Boggs, Dreher High School, Columbia, SC
Second Place – Stephanie Collins, Pickens High School, Pickens, SC
Third Place – Laura Bright, Walhalla High School, Walhalla, SC
For more information about the Letters About Literature competition, visit http://www.lettersaboutliterature.org/.
SC Academy of Authors 2011 Induction Ceremony
South Carolina Academy of Authors 2011 Induction Ceremony from SC Center for the Book on Vimeo.
SC Academy of Authors 2011 Poetry Brunch
SC Academy of Authors 2011 Poetry Brunch from SC Center for the Book on Vimeo.
Join us for Brunching with Authors at the SC Book Festival!
The SCBook Festival in partnership with the South Carolina Center for the Book is happy to announce that tickets are now available for Brunching with Authors! The fifth annual Brunching with Authors is a special ticketed literary event that will feature a moveable feast of authors from the SCBook Festival at a gourmet brunch.
When: Sunday, May 15, 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Where: Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center (Ballroom C), 1101 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Directions to Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
What: A moveable feast of authors and gourmet brunch
Author guests at Brunching with Authors come from a wide variety of genres. This year’s guest list includes: Mario Acevedo, C.J. Box, Eleanor Brown, Nan K. Chase, Robert Dugoni, Warner M. Montgomery, Patricia Moore-Pastides, Lisa Patton, Martha Southgate, Susan Vreeland, Kathryn R. Wall, Karen White, and more!
Tickets are $35 per person or $210 for a table of seven (one free ticket when you purchase a table).
Payment: Buy your tickets online through secure online payment or send a check to the
SCBook Festival, P.O. Box 5287, Columbia, SC 29250. (**Please be sure to indicate the names of your guests.)
Click here to buy your tickets via secure online payment!
We hope you will join us for this exciting event!
Speaker @ the Center – William W. Starr
Speaker @ the Center – William W. Starr from SC Center for the Book on Vimeo.
Bill Starr discusses his book, Whiskey, Kilts and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson. http://sc.edu/uscpress/books/2010/3948.html
Speaker @ the Center – James R. Cothran
Watch James Cothran’s presentation about his USC Press book, Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs.
Speaker @ the Center – James R. Cothran from SC Center for the Book on Vimeo.