PEN New England Children's Discovery for 2008
Each year, the PEN New England Children’s Book Caucus honors emerging writers and writer-illustrators with its Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. Winners will present their work to the public at the PEN New England Children’s Book Discovery Evening in April 2008, and winning manuscripts will be read by editors from Candlewick; Houghton Mifflin; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; or Little, Brown.
Entrants must be residents of New England who have not been published in any genre (with the exception of magazines or self-publishing), and neither the submitted work nor another work by the author can be under contract to a book publisher. The Caucus judges are able to accept only one entry per person, in one of the following four categories: picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction.
The postmark deadline for submissions is Friday, February 1, 2008. For all the rules on submitting work for the Discovery Award, please visit PEN New England's webpage.
Illustration from a series of Little Red Riding Hood paintings