At the recent Washington Library Association conference in Yakima, we coordinated our annual “WA Do I Read Next?” panel featuring library folks and authors talking about recent books by Washington authors that they have read and loved. This year’s panel included Newbery and Pura Belpré winning author Donna Barba Higuera, Washington State Book Award winning author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Julie Graham…
We were so proud to be involved with this episode celebrating a few of our state’s incredible authors past and present. We’d like to give endless thanks to the incredible Washington authors who took part in this episode: Frank Abe, Donna Barba Higuera, Timothy Egan, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Nancy Pearl, and Jess Walter.
The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) has selected winners in seven categories for the 2024 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2023. This is the 58th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards. 2024…
Washington Reads Freely is an ongoing effort to celebrate the freedom to read. The effort encourages library patrons and the general public to share their stories of what reading freely means to them. The responses are being collected and shared on an ongoing basis. (Sharing anonymously is an option for participants.) Libraries of Washington, this toolkit will help you share…
Join us on January 17 at the Evergreen s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome for an evening of poetry and conversation with four Indigenous Washington poets. Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee), Rena Priest (Lummi, current Washington State Poet Laureate), Cedar Sigo (Suquamish), and Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) will read selections from their work and speak about poetry and the world…
The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) and The Seattle Public Library have selected 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2021. This is the 56th year of the program, formerly…
The Washington Center for Book has selected one youth book and one adult book by Washington authors to represent the state at the 2022 National Book Festival: “The Last Cuentista” by Donna Barba Higuera and “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. Both titles will be part of the National Center for the…
CIELO, a nonprofit organization in Olympia that provides literacy support and resources to immigrant and refugee communities in the South Sound, recently received a Library of Congress State Literacy Award for their contributions to the promotion of literacy and reading in the state. The organization was nominated by the Washington Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center…