"Big Read" Reads Willa; Looks for Local Partners

From the Wyoming State Library’s Outrider newsletter: In response to a decline in literary reading, the National Endowment for the Arts has established its Big Read grant program, designed as a community-wide reading and discussion of a single classic novel. The Wyoming Center for the Book in Cheyenne is putting together a grant proposal in April 2007 for a Big Read of Willa Cather's My Antonia to kick off at September's Wyoming Book Festival. The Center is seeking local partners interested in participating. If the application is successful, the Center will provide grant administration, promotion, programming support and materials, and free or reduced-price copies of the book. Local partners are asked to hold book discussions, promote the Big Read locally, report back to the Center on local activities, provide non-federal cash and/or in-kind match, and provide a letter of support stating that commitment. FMI: Susan Vittitow, WCFB coordinator, 307-777-5915.

Labels: book discussion, libraries, Wyoming Center for the Book

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