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. Funded and organized by The Humanities CouncilSC, the festival will evolve into an exciting new set of literary initiatives that will be available year-round and reach a wide and diverse audience in every corner of South Carolina.
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. Each state selects
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.
Join us for an author talk and book signing on Wednesday May 20, 2015, from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Minnow by James E. McTeer II.
The South Carolina State Library is pleased to sponsor Gail Carson Levine who will be appearing at the South Carolina Book Festival on Sunday May 17, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. at the Columbia Convention Center.
Photos of this year's awards ceremony are now available on our Center’s Facebook page and on the SC State Library’s main Flickr site.
Congratulations to the 2014-2015 Winners!
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 Wednesday, April 29 at 10:30 a.m. Contest judges and South Carolina State Library Foundation members will be on hand to welcome attendees and present aw
Do you know individuals or groups that have had a statewide impact on literacy? Nominate them for the South Carolina Annual Literacy Leader (ALL) awards for 2015.
April is National Poetry Month. Join us at the South Carolina State Library on Wednesday, April 15 at noon to hear South Carolina poet Ray McManus discuss his latest book, Punch. Poems, published by Hub City Press. Punch. is a call for the claw-hammer, a hymn to the steel toe, and a series of lonely missives from truck cabs and office cubicles.
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