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The SCBWI presents five types of annual awards:
the Golden Kite Awards, the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, the Magazine
Merit Awards, the Sue Alexander
Most Promising New Work Award, and the Portfolio Award. The Golden
Kite Award, first given in 1973, is the only major children's
book award presented by one's
peers,
and,
therefore,
is one
of the most
respected and coveted honors in the field. The Sid Fleischman
Humor Award is presented to authors
whose work exemplifies the excellence of writing in the genre of humor. Magazine
Merit Awards are
presented for outstanding original magazine work for young people published
during
that year. The Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award,
named for author and SCBWI Board Member Sue Alexander, is presented
to the
best manuscript
submitted
for individual
critique at the Los Angeles Annual Conference. Also presented at the
Los Angeles Annual Conference, the Portfolio Award is
presented to the best art portfolio on view at the Juried Portfolio
Display. All SCBWI
Awards are given to works that exhibit excellence in writing or
illustration,
and
genuinely
appeal to the interests and concerns of children. |
To
encourage continuing excellence in the creation of children’s literature,
the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators has instituted
grant programs. An important function of the SCBWI is providing assistance
and support to those working in the children’s book field; therefore,
we are pleased to be able to offer the following grants to our membership:
The General
Work-In-Progress Grant is funded by the SCBWI and Dorothy Francis. The
Work-In-Progress Grant for a Contemporary Novel for Young People is
funded by the SCBWI and Judy Blume. The
Work-In-Progress Nonfiction Research Grant is funded by
the SCBWI and James Cross Giblin, in memory of his mother, Anna Cross Giblin. The
Work-In-Progress Grant for
a Work Whose Author Has Never Had a Book Published is
funded entirely by the SCBWI. The Don Freeman
Memorial Grant-In-Aid, the
Barbara
Karlin Grant, the Martha
Weston Grant, and the Kimberly
Colen Memorial Grant are funded by the SCBWI and outside donations.
Please note:
members may apply for only one grant per calendar year. The
principal recipient of any SCBWI grant will no longer be eligible
to apply for any current or future SCBWI grants. For
more information about a specific grant, choose from the menu to
the
left.
Click here
for a list of previous Grant Winners and Runners-up.
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