• First Place:  Saffie Payne, Grade 6, South Orange Middle School, South Orange, NJ 07079 Teacher:  Angela Forero Letter written to Ellen Hopkins, author of Perfect Dear Ellen Hopkins, What is perfect? Do I fit the definition of it? Who is perfect, really? Most of us have all, by now, let these questions invade our minds.  Accept them as thoughts.  Let them take us over read more

  • 10th Anniversary of the New Jersey Center for the Book, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at the Zimmerli Museum on the Rutgers University Campus, New Brunswick, NJ A most fitting way to toast the past decade of the imaginative and innovative dimension that the New Jersey Center for the Book has brought to the literary landscape of New Jersey View photos read more

  • Letters About Literature 2015 – Rutgers University, Cook Student Center, George H. Cook Campus, New Brunswick, May 19, 2015   2015 NJ Letters About Literature Winners The full text of the First Place winning essay for each level may be found by clicking on the URL below.   Monica Gu, Paramus High School, Paramus, NJ. Level Three (Grades 9-12) First read more

  • Letters about Literature 2014 Awards Program and Reception On May 13, 2014 and awards ceremony and reception was held at the beautiful Grounds for Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ 0619 for the 2014 Letters About Literature contest.  All the first and second place winners and all the honorable mentions from New Jersey along with their parents, grandparents, grandparents, teachers, read more