Description
Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson (The Real McCoys) gave honorary remarks to kick off this celebration of Virginia students who were selected as winners and honorable mentions in the state-wide 2018 Letters About Literature competition. Select students were invited to read from their notable entries. Letters About Literature is a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12. Students are asked to read a book, poem or speech and write to the author (living or dead) about how the book affected them personally. Letters are judged on state and national levels. In Virginia, the competition is coordinated by the Virginia Center for the Book, a program of the Virginia Humanities. Nationally, Letters About Literature is coordinated by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. This event was held at the Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Virginia.
