State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book Announces 2008-2009 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 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.