Category — prizes

The winner of the Margaret Stilwell Prize, given each year to one of Providence’s young book collectors, is being announced right now at the Athenaeum.  I’m reeeeeeeally sorry I’m so far behind with the posting. (There’s also an organizational meeting for a new Friends of Washington Park Library that started fifteen minutes ago.  Which, again, sorry.)

There’s been a lot of action going on with the library; it seems as though the PPL may be ready to cede the city’s nine branches to the non-profit Providence Community Library, though the city’s not saying for sure yet which one it’s going to give the money to.  There have been lots of press releases floating around, but still no decision from the city.

In branch news, the brand-new Friends of the South Providence Library have a new blog, with a list of stuff they’d like donated.

And in other local book news:

The New Plays Festival started at Brown last night and runs through Sunday.

There’s a Publicly Complex reading at Ada this Saturday: Deborah Poe, Jon Woodward and Dobby Gibson.

There Will Still Be Light: A Freedom To Write Literary Festival hits Brown next week, with the literature of Burma being celebrated.  There’s a Burmese film festival happening (although it’s at four in the afternoon, for some reason.)  Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, and Amitow Ghosh will all be reading during the week, too.  The whole schedule’s here.

And a week from Saturday there’s a book/bake sale to benefit the Friends of the Smith Hill Library.

I’m sorry, but I really don’t think 912 pages of anything could be a better read than The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.

I’ve now officially lost interest in this year’s Tournament of Books.

Margaret B. Stillwell Prize 2009
*FOR UNDERGRADUATES*

MONETARY PRIZES
First $750 / Second $500 / Third $250, as well as gift certificates will be awarded.

In order to stimulate the interest of students in books and printing, and in all the bibliographical concerns which motivate its members, the John Russell Bartlett Society has established this annual prize competition, open to undergraduates at any Rhode Island college or university. In so doing, the Society honors the memory of Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Brown University Class of 1909, the University’s first woman Professor of Bibliography and a renowned scholar of early printing, with the intent of encouraging students to share her lifelong pleasure in reading and book collecting.

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