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LITERARY societies; CONFERENCES & conventions; CHILDREN'S literature; AWARDS; NELSON, Scott Reynolds; UNIVERSITIES & colleges

The article offers news briefs related to the literary society in the U.S. The annual McConnell Youth Literature Conference will be held at the University of Kentucky in Lexington on February 27-28, 2009. Scott Reynolds Nelson's "Ain's Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry" has won the 2008 Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society (AFS). Northern Illinois University's Children's Literature Conference will take place at DeKalb on March 12-13, 2009.