Novello Festival Press is the nation's only public library-sponsored literary publisher. An imprint of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Novello seeks to enhance awareness of the literary arts and expand opportunities for readers and writers from within the community and beyond it.

Founded in 2000 and named for the library's innovative reading festival, Novello Festival Press has since put nearly 300 writers into print, through anthologies and works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature.

For more information or for publicity purposes or general inquiries, email Amy Rogers or call 704-416-0706. For submission guidelines for the Novello Literary Award, visit http://www.plcmc.org/Novello_Press/sub.asp. Visit the Novello Festival Press Web site at http://www.plcmc.org/novello_press/.