What do you get when you combine books, students, writing and a National contest? You get hope – hope for the future, hope for the country, hope and the knowledge that we are all in good hands with the next generation. Washington state has participated in the Letters About Literature contest (LAL) since 2005 and it impacts everyone who has…
It’s been a busy month for authors in Washington State. Fiction: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah: In 1974 a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move wife, Cora, and daughter, Leni north, to Alaska, where they will live off…