SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA, April 25, 2017 – The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the home of the Minnesota Center for the Book, is pleased to announce the state-level winners of the 2017 Letters About Literature Essay Contest, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English and Common Good Books. More than…
Read MoreApril 10, 2017, SAINT PAUL, MN – The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 29th annual Minnesota Book Awards. In addition to winners in nine categories, The Friends presented the Book Artist and the Kay Sexton Awards to previously announced honorees—respectively, Steven McCarthy and Lou Bellamy.…
Read MoreEach day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Genre Fiction finalist: Rise of the Spring Tide by James Stitt Self-published Category Sponsor: Macalester College Shikha lives a lonely life, but not quite solitary. Inside…
Read MoreEach day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Young Adult Literature finalist:  Original Fake by Kirstin Cronn-Mills, art by E. Eero Johnson Published by: G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House Category Sponsor: Brainfuse Introvert Frankie…
Read MoreEach day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Poetry finalist:  Yes Thorn by Amy Munson Published by: Tupelo Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management, Inc. Yes Thorn abides with mysteries—mortality, spirituality, sexuality, nature, divinity, love—and interrogates…
Read MoreEach day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Novel & Short Story finalist:  Wintering by Peter Geye Published by: Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House Category Sponsor: Fitzgerald in Saint Paul Wintering spans thirty-some years…
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