Center For the Book
The Center for the Book's vision is that every Virginian will have access to books and reading and to the power that books and reading provide to shape and inform personal and civic life.
The Center for the Book promotes books, reading, literacy, and the literary life of Virginia through the programs listed below.
As an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the VFH Center for the Book works within a network of 50 state-center affiliates.
Festival of the Book:
a five-day festival held annually in March
The Big Read:
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
The VFH is not sponsoring a statewide Big Read this year. To find out which Virginia communities are participating, visit neabigread.org.
Arts of the Book Center:
community programs and a working studio for the support of traditional and experimental work in book arts, printmaking, and graphic media
VABooks!:
monthly book recommendation column
Letters About Literature:
A writing competition for students in grades 4-12, with teacher guide.
