- Work-in-Progress grants offered by SCBWI.writing image by Petro Feketa from Fotolia.com
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is a 22,000-member organization that is a network of writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, and booksellers associated with literature for children and young adults. SCBWI encourages the creation of children's literature through the Work-In-Progress Grants that are funded by Amazon.com.
SCBWI's Barbara Karlin Grant recognizes picture book writers, offering a grant of $2,000 annually, and a runner-up grant of $500, which is funded by a donation from Ann Whitford Paul. The Don Freeman Memorial Grant-In-Aid was established by SCBWI to enable picture-book artists. It gives a grant of $2,000 annually and a runner-up grant of $500. - Grants offer children incentive to read and write.children read book on sofa in the wooden room 2 image by Pavel Losevsky from Fotolia.com
The International Reading Association offers the Children's and Young Adult's Book Awards, intended for newly published authors, and given for fiction and nonfiction in each of three categories: primary, intermediate, and young adult. The association's Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award is given every three years to a new author of children's poetry who has published no more than two books of children's poetry. The Paul A. Witty Outstanding Literature Award is for excellence in original poetry or prose written by elementary and secondary students, and offers at least $25 and a citation of merit. The Paul A. Witty Short Story Award is given to the author of an original short story published for the first time during the year being awarded in a periodical for children, with a $1,000 stipend offered by IRA. - Award for literature for children presenting a positive Jewish life.Jewish holiday: menorah, book and sunshine image by Boguslaw Mazur from Fotolia.com
Sydney Taylor's husband, Ralph Taylor, established the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award to encourage aspiring authors of Jewish children's books. It is a cash award of $1,000 given for the best fiction manuscript appropriate for ages 8 to 11 that is written by an unpublished author. To qualify, it must be a work of fiction written in English with a universal appeal to both Jewish and non-Jewish young people, and it should reveal positive aspects of Jewish life. - The Pen American Center, a global literary community, offers the Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, which gives $5,000 annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. A candidate must be in financial need, and have published at least two novels for children or young adults. Other guidelines are that literary critics should have favored a published work, but it has not generated income to support the author, and it must be published by a U.S. publisher.
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