Wi14: More Bookseller Scholarship Recipients Named

Several more bookseller scholarship winners have been announced for the American Booksellers Association's 2019 Winter Institute, joining the 72 publisher-sponsored scholarships previously awarded, Bookselling This Week reported. The additional winning booksellers include:

  • Deon Stonehouse of Sunriver Books & Music in Sunriver, Ore., whose business card was pulled at random from among booksellers who submitted cards at the fall regional trade shows
  • Tina Ferguson of Face in a Book in El Dorado Hills, Calif., whose Winter Institute scholarship was awarded for participating in ABA's ABACUS-17 survey
  • Sami Thomason of Square Books Jr. in Oxford, Miss., who won the CHIRP scholarship, which is awarded by Candlewick Press
  • Vanessa Diaz of the Book Catapult in San Diego, who won the Glenn Goldman scholarship, given by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association

Earlier this week, Kelsey Nolan of Skylight Books in Los Angeles was awarded the Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists, which includes funds to cover Wi14 expenses.

In addition, Booksellers New Zealand is sending two booksellers to Winter Institute: Pene Whitty of University Book Shop at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch; and Ruth Bruhin of Poppies New Plymouth in New Plymouth.

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