Letters About Literature
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Contact Information and State Centers for the Book Links
To link directly to your state center for the book, please scroll down. The participating states and/or state LAL sponsors are listed alphabetically below.
To contact the national office of LAL, please email: [email protected]; (202) 707-5221
- Catherine Gourley, National Program Director
- Barbara Williamson, LAL Contest Manager
- Debra Todd, LAL Assessment Associate
LAL's mailing address is: Letters About Literature, Post Office Box 5308, Woodbridge, VA 22194
Participating State Centers for the Book Contacts
LAL awards both state and national prizes. Each participating state center for the book holds a state competition. All entries come to the LAL Central office in Woodbridge, VA. The exception is for the states of Indiana, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, which are self-managing states. All letters from these three states should go directly to them at the addresses indicated below.
Letters that advance through the first two rounds of assessment are then forwarded to the state centers. Each state center has a panel of judges who selects their state winners.
Contact your state center directly to learn more about the state prizes. Contact information below will take you to the state center's homepage and from there you should navigate to Letters About Literature. Not all of these links are "hot links." Please copy and past the address in your browser.
- Alabama | http://alabamacenterforthebook.lib.ua.edu (external link)
- Alaska | http://www.alaskacenterforthebook.org (external link)
- Arizona - Arkansas | http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/ACFB/Centerforthebook09.htm (external link)
- California | http://www.calbook.org (external link)
- Colorado | http://www.coloradohumanities.org (external link)
- Connecticut | Non-participating for 2012-2013 school year.
- Delaware | http://www.state.lib.de.us/Center_For_The_Book (external link)
- District of Columbia | http://www.dclibrary.org/dccb (external link)
- Florida | http://www.broward.org/Library/MyLibraryOnline/FCFTB/Pages/Default.aspx (external link)
- Georgia | http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org (external link)
- Hawaii | http://hawaii.sdp.sirsi.net/custom/web/ (external link)
- Idaho | http://libraries.idaho.gov/lal (external link)
- Illinois | http://www.illinoiscenterforthebook.org/ (external link)
- Indiana | http://www.in.gov/library/lal.htm (external link)
- Iowa | http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/letters (external link)
- Kentucky | Contact Cindy Parker at the Kentucky Department of Education [email protected] (external link)
- Maine | http://www.mainehumanities.org (external link)
- Maryland | http://www.mdhc.org/programs/maryland-center-for-the-book/letters-about-literature (external link)
- Massachusetts | http://www.massbook.org (external link)
- Michigan | http://www.michigan.gov/youthlibraryservices (external link)
- Minnesota | http://www.thefriends.org (external link)
- Mississippi | Contact [email protected] (external link)
- Missouri | http://books.missouri.org (external link)
- Montana | http://www.humanitiesmontana.org (external link)
- Nebraska | http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/programs/LAL.html (external link)
- Nevada | [email protected] (external link)
- New Hampshire | http://LAL.nhbookcenter.org (external link)
- New Mexico | http://www.nmstatelibrary.org (external link)
- New York | http://empirestatebook.org/?page_id=79 (external link)
- North Carolina | http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/nccftb/cftb.html (external link)
- Ohio | http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org (external link)
- Oklahoma | http://www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb (external link)
- Oregon | http://cms.oregon.gov/osl/ld/pages/youthsvcs/aboutlit.aspx (external link)
- Pennsylvania | http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu (external link)
- Rhode Island | http://www.rihumanities.org/ribook (external link)
- South Carolina | http://www.readsc.org (external link)
- Tennessee | http://www.humanitiestennessee.org/programs/young-readers-and-writers-programs/letters-about-literature (external link)
- Texas | http://www.dallaslibrary.org/tcbintro.htm (external link)
- Utah | http://www.utahhumanities.org/UCBLettersAboutLiterature.htm (external link)
- Virginia | http://www.virginiafoundation.org/bookcenter (external link)
- Washington | http://www.sos.wa.gov/library (external link)
- West Virginia | http://www.wvcenterforthebook.org (external link)
- Wisconsin | http://www.wcb.uwm.edu (external link)
- Wyoming | http://wyominglibraries.org (external link)