New Works

Massachusetts poets with new books in 2009 read at the 2nd Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, Massachusetts. Go to the Webcast.

10th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards

Judges are reading the many wonderful submissions for this year's awards. Updates will be posted to the site in early Spring, and the awards will be announced at the annual Massachusetts Library Association conference on April 28th. Read More About the Awards.

Massachusetts Letters About Literature

A program of the Massachusetts Center for the Book & the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenaeum. More than 4,000 students wrote letters in the program this year! The awards will be celebrated at the State House on May 11th. Awardees will be notified by early April. Read the 2009 award-winning letters.

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin
congratulates the Top Honors award winners in
Mass LAL 2009, from left, Kelly Cormier (Harwich),
Sara Berliner (Hampden), and Dianne Lee (Newton).

National Book Festival 2009

It was a great day in DC on Saturday, September 26, 2009. The National Park Service tells us 130,000 attended the event!

See Photos of the Festival.

The Literary Map of Massachusetts

We are mapping the sites and sounds of books and reading in our commonwealth. Go to the Online Map.