Annual People’s Choice Awards and Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature.

An independent panel of judges select finalists for the Annual People’s Choice Awards from the books nominated for the annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards.  The winners are chosen by readers voting in public libraries and bookstores, as well as online. The finalists are announced and voting begins in April.  The winners each receive a $3,500 prize and an engraved crystal book.

The books for the Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature are selected by a juried panel from nominated titles by authors whose works focus on literature for children ages four through eight. Readers online and at public libraries and bookstores vote for the winner, who receives $2,500 and an engraved crystal book.

To nominate a book for the 2010 Awards, books published in 2009, please read the competition guidelines and either:
Submit the online form
or
Complete the interactive PDF and mail to:
The Library of Virginia Literary Awards
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000

Past Winners:

7th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2004
People's Choice ( first year award given)
Fiction:  The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Nonfiction:  Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon

8th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2005
Fiction: Hour Game by David Baldacci
Nonfiction: Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King

9th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2006
Fiction: St.Dale by Sharyn McCrumb
Nonfiction: Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument by Allen St. John

10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2007
Fiction: Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Nonfiction: Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
First year Cardozo Award given
Duck & Goose by Tad Hills

11th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2008
Fiction: Puss 'n Cahoots by Rita Mae Brown
Nonfiction: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
Cardozo Award: The Old House by Pamela Duncan Edwards

12th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2009
Fiction: The Legal Limit  by Martin Clark
Nonfiction: The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd
Cardozo Award: Abe's Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport