North Dakota Humanities Council

North Dakota Center for the Book

A partner of the National Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, the North Dakota Center for the Book, newly affiliated with the NDHC, seeks to promote and celebrate books, the literary arts, and North Dakota 's intellectual heritage. The Center hosts a number of programs designed to celebrate the legacy of books and the printed word.

North Dakota Center for the Book

Letters about Literature

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature , a national reading-writing contest. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves.

Letters about Literature Guidelines

Letters About Literature and National Standards

www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters.html

River of Words

Each year, in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of watersheds. The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express, through poetry and art, what they discover.

The contest is open to any child in the world, from 5-19 years of age. Older students must have not yet completed high school. There is no charge to enter.

River of Words Entry Form

River of Words Guidelines

www.riverofwords.org

April is for Authors Sensational Sundays

Each Sunday in April, a different author takes the stage at the North Dakota Heritage Center . There they are invited to read from their works, explain their writing process, offer their perspective on the books they've written, talk about books and authors that have inspired them, and ultimately challenge the audience to see reading in a whole new way.

See our calendar for a complete list of this year's authors.

National Book Festival Pavilion of the States, Washington , D.C .

Each year the National Book Festival hosts the Pavilion of the States where representatives from throughout the nation provide information and answer questions about their state's writers, libraries, book festivals, book awards and reading promotion activities.

National Book Festival

National Center for the Book at the Library of Congress

Advisory Committee
Susan Hammer-Schneider
Andrea Winkjer Collin
Ken Rogers
Kristie Frieze
Paula Crain Grosinger
David Solheim
Carolyn Twingley
Bill Strutz

Now Accepting Applications to Host the 2009 "Lincoln, Land, and Liberty" Chautauqua

The NDHC is now accepting applications to host the 2009 Everett Albers Chautauqua.

Letters About Literature 2009

Letters About Literature (LAL) is a national reading and writing program that asks students in Grades 4 through 12 to write letters to authors whose books have had an impact on the way they think about themselves and the world around them.

Fargo-Moorhead: Hopperstad Replica Stave Church 10th Anniversary Lecture and Concert Series

9/2/2008 6:00 PM
Concert with interpretation by Marla Fogderud, vocal with piano accompanist. This presentation will bring light to lesser known Norwegian classical composers.

Mayville - ND Reads Book Discussion

9/8/2008 7:00 PM
The book Justice by Larry Watson will be discussed at the Catholic Church (donated room) 846 5th St. East. The discussion will be facilitated by Michael Lopez, Graduate Student Instructor at University of North Dakota, English Department.