Young Writer Award and Tharon Dunn Scholarship, with Special Guest Ruta Sepetys‍

Please join us for the presentation of the Nantucket Book Foundation’s two student awards: the Young Writer Award, which celebrates and honors the work of our high school students who, through an essay competition, will accept their awards together as One Winner, Four Finalists (inspiration drawn from the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), and the Tharon Dunn Scholarship Award, honoring longtime NBF board member Tharon Dunn by celebrating a graduating Nantucket High School senior passionate about literature and for whom English is not their first language. Internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, Ruta Sepetys, will present.