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Virginia
The Virginia Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival simultaneously with the publicity for the September 21 Annual Library of Virginia Awards Celebration Honoring Virginia Authors & Friends. To be held at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, the awards event is sponsored by the Virginia Center for the Book, the Library of Virginia, and the Library of Virginia Foundation. This year the literary celebration is being expanded to include additional programming across the state. The publicity infrastructure is already in place; it includes separate mailings to the state's 350 public libraries and all its bookstores, college and university English departments, and book groups. In addition, the National Book Festival will be prominently mentioned in the formal remarks made on Sept. 21 by the host, Nolan T. Yelich, and the presenters of award; the National Book Festival's bookmark will be placed into the programs distributed at the Celebration and mailed to all nominees for the Literary Awards; and the Virginia Center for the Book will sponsor the participation of the recipients of poetry awards at the Virginia table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival.
Contact: John Kneebone, phone: 804-692-3724, fax: 804-692-3724, e-mail: jkneebone@lva.lib.va.us.