2009 Karlin Grants Awarded -
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
2009 Karlin Grants Awarded
Brenda Huante of McMinnville, Oregon, is this year’s winner of the $1,500 Barbara Karlin Grant Award for picture book writing. The $500 runner-up grant was awarded to Barbara Lowell of Tulsa, OK.
Additionally, Letters of Commendation have been sent to Pat Zietlow Miller, Marty Graham, Cate Garchinsky, Elizabeth Coburn, Marilou T. Reeder, Anne Marie Pace and Virginia Obrecht Dulworth. They were selected from nearly 200 entries.
Congratulations to the winners and our thanks to the Karlin Coordinator QL Pearce and First Readers Doris Fisher andFrancesca Rusackas, both picture book authors, as well as to our judges, author/editor Samantha McFerrin, illustrator Pat Cantor, and author Erica Silverman.
We are honored to again offer this award in the name of Barbara Karlin, who believed deeply in the importance of picture book text and was generous in sharing her knowledge with others in the field.