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Quill Award

{{Short description|Former American literary award}}

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The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years, from 2005 to 2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy".{{cite web |url=http://www.thequills.org/ |website=TheQuills.org (Internet Archive) |title=The Quill Book Awards homepage |archive-date=2013-06-25 |access-date=2013-11-11 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625022935/http://thequills.org/ }}

The Quills Foundation, the organization behind the award, was supported by a number of notable media corporations, including Reed Business Information, then parent of Publishers Weekly, and NBC Universal Television Stations, along with Parade Magazine, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and the American Booksellers Association.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

History

In February 2008, Reed Business Information announced plans to dissolve the awards program and distribute the remaining Foundation funds to non-profit organizations First Book and Literacy Partners.{{cite web|title=Quill Awards Program Suspended |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6534903.html?industryid=47141 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |website=PublishersWeekly.com (Internet Archive) |date=2008-02-25 |archive-date=2009-02-15 |access-date=2013-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215040132/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6534903.html?industryid=47141 }} Reed declined to give reasons for the suspension,{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/news/bc.apfn.books.quills.ap/ |title=Reed drops Quills awards sponsorship |date=2008-02-26 |work=CNN }}{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/arts/27arts-QUILLAWARDSA_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin |title=Quill Awards Are Ended |work=The New York Times |date=2008-02-27 }} but the awards had produced little effect on book sales, and the televised ceremonies were criticized for being too long and poorly planned.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/co-founder-cuts-support-of-quills-book-award-1.770251 |title=Co-founder cuts support of Quills book award |work=CBC News |date=2008-02-26 }}

Selection process

Winners were selected through a two-part process involving nomination by industry experts and final selection by consumer votes. To be eligible for nomination, a book had to be published in English during the previous year and be included in at least one industry or sponsor listing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.quillsliteracy.org/nominatingvoting.html |title=Nominating & Voting |work=Quills Literacy Foundation website |archive-date=2006-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428105856/http://www.quillsliteracy.org/nominatingvoting.html}}

Readers selected the winners from among the five nominees selected by the board for each category. For the 2007 edition, however, the choice by public vote was restricted to book of the year, and winners in other categories were chosen by retailers and librarians.

2007 Quill Award winners

2006 Quill Award winners

2005 Quill Award winners

The foundation awarded a Quills Corporate Literacy Award to Verizon for its support of literacy programs in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-12-2005/0004167091&EDATE= |title=Verizon Wins First Quills Corporate Literacy Award }}

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20130625022935/http://thequills.org/}}
  • {{Cite web |url=http://www.thequills.org/ |title=The Quill Awards : Auction |access-date=July 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430021149/http://www.thequills.org/ |archive-date=April 30, 2008 |url-status=usurped |df=mdy-all }}

Category:Awards established in 2005

Category:Awards disestablished in 2008

Category:American literary awards

Category:2005 establishments in the United States

Category:2008 disestablishments in the United States