"Read All About It: The Minnesota Book Awards"

Minnesota is home to one of the longest-running and best reputed state-level literary recognition initiatives anywhere in the country. Most readers familiar with the Minnesota Book Awards know this program best for its spring announcements and ceremony celebrating the best writing from the preceding year. However, that signature event is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The Minnesota Book Awards is not just an annual but a year-long celebration of writers and their readers.

MALF’s next webinar will spotlight the Minnesota Book Awards and its many points of intersection with Friends of the Library. Join us at 12:00 p.m. Central on Wednesday, March 26 for “Read All About It: The Minnesota Book Awards.”

Discussion will be led by Alayne Hopkins and David Katz from The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, the long-time organizational stewards of this important program.

Our speakers will kick off with an overview of the multi-stage book entry and judge application processes. The latter routinely involves (and compensates) Friends of the Library, among other Minnesota residents from all walks of life.

And that’s just a start...

Programmatic tie-ins – both before and after the spring ceremony – bring MNBA finalist authors to libraries across our state. Many such events are coordinated by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library in that organization’s capacity as the Library of Congress- designated Minnesota Center for the Book. Further events are made possible through the local sponsorship of other Friends groups. Hopkins and Katz will profile the Minnesota Writers Directory and other tools available to libraries (and fellow Friends) to facilitate author panels and other programs in your own community.

Whether you’re already a devotee of the MNBAs or coming in altogether new to the program, we guarantee you will come out of this webinar knowing something you didn’t before – and hopefully, something with direct applicability to your own library and Friends group! Click here to reserve your seat and pre-submit questions for our speakers.