The Iowa Center for the Book is now accepting online submissions for the 2019 Letters About Literature program, a statewide student reading and writing competition sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
All Iowa Reads fosters a sense of unity through reading by encouraging Iowans to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same year.
The mentorship and literacy program out of Des Moines, received the 2018 Iowa Literacy Award from the Iowa Center for the Book.
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.