The 2018 Iowa Literacy Award recognizes an organization that has made an outstanding contribution to increasing literacy in Iowa, along with $2,000 to continue their efforts.
While there were no winners from Iowa this year, Iowa has had five national winners in 14 years of competition.
The Iowa Center for the Book honored 18 student readers from across Iowa as winners and honorable mentions for the 2018 Iowa Letters About Literature awards program at a ceremony on Friday, April 27 at the Urbandale Public Library.
Iowa students submitted 1,750 letters total, a 9 percent increase over the previous year, where they went through two rounds of judging in Washington DC before being sent back to Iowa for a final round of judging.
Recordings are now available from the All Iowa Reads Webinar on Jan. 24 and the All Iowa Kids Read and All Iowa Young Adults Read Webinar on Feb. 21.