HEADS UP: If you want to send in a first page this month for critique, the deadline is Friday April 21st. Submissions have been low, so your odds are really good this month.
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BOOK WINNERS
Rajeshwari C won WHATEVER COMES TOMORROW by Rebeca Gardyn Levington
Angie Quantrell won I WANT TO BE BIG by Tiffany Golden
Danielle Hammelef won MY GRANDPA, MY TREE AND ME by Roxanne Troup
Winners please send me your addresses.
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KUDOS:
KID COACH author Rob Justus’s KID COACH AND THE DOG SHOW DISASTER, in which Kid Coach’s valiant struggle to train boy’s best friend leads to humorous canine chaos at the big event, to Kayla Tostevin at Page Street Kids, for publication in spring 2025, by Molly O’Neill at Root Literary.
THE BOY WHO GREW A FOREST author Sophia Gholz’s SWISH! THE WONDERS OF THE WIND, which introduces young readers through lyrical free verse to the wind cycle, wind patterns, and the incredible impact wind has on our climate and planet, illustrated by Frances Ives, to Sunita Apte at Reycraft, at auction, for publication in 2025, by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency for the author, and by Robbin Brosterman at The Bright Group for the illustrator (world).
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OPPORTUNITY:
A. Orr Fantasy Grant
The A. Orr Grant is a new award for middle grade/young adult fantasy and science fiction authors. Sponsor Michele Orr, through her foundation Voice Garden, has been a member of SCBWI for several years and when her sister Alice Orr Sprague passed last year from a short struggle with cancer, Michele wanted to honor her memory. Alice, under the name A. Orr, wrote two fantasy novels, The World In Amber and In the Ice King’s Palace, published by Bluejay Books in 1986 and 1987. It is Michele’s honor and joy to create this award in remembrance of her sister.
The winner of the A. Orr Grant will receive tuition to the SCBWI Summer Conference (August 4-6, 2023), and $600 cash.
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
Apply until April 30, 2023.
ELIGIBILITY
- You must be a current SCBWI member when your work is submitted and when the award is announced.
- You may not have works published, or under contract, with a traditional publishing house. Pre-published and self-published authors are eligible.
- Each member may submit only one manuscript to the A. Orr Grant each year.
- Applicants should submit a completed novel for middle grade or young adult readers, in the speculative fiction genre. The speculative fiction umbrella covers high fantasy as well as sci-fi, magical realism, fabulism, folklore, horror, alternate history, and other related categories.
- Picture books will not be accepted for this award.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
PLEASE FOLLOW THE BELOW INSTRUCTIONS COMPLETELY.
- Please submit your application via email ONLY. Please include all info as ONE PDF ATTACHMENT. We will NOT accept a word document.
- Your PDF attachment must include:
- a cover page that contains your name, manuscript title, and a double-spaced synopsis, max 250 words;
- the first 10 pages (US letter size) of your completed manuscript with page numbers in the bottom corner. You must have a complete draft to submit. Please include your name (First_Last) in the upper corner of your 10 pages.
- Your manuscript sample must be double-spaced and cannot exceed 10 pages. We do not need a separate title page. Your cover page doubles as a title page. Please use 12-point, Times New Roman or Arial font.
- Please label your PDF as First Name_Last Name (e.g., Mary_Ford). (Your submission should total 11 pages: cover page + 10 manuscript pages.)
- Email your completed application to orrgrant@scbwi.org.
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INDUSTRY CHANGES:
BALLANTINE BANTAM DELL
Jenny Chen has been promoted to executive editor
SOURCE BOOKS:
Jessica Thelander has been promoted to associate managing editor.
SANFORD J. GREENBURGER ASSOCIATES:
Zoe Sandler has joined as an agent
KNOPF:
Morgan Hamilton has been promoted to assistant editor.
Izzy Meyers has been promoted to assistant editor.
Sarah Perrin has been promoted to assistant editor.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
Writing and Illustrating 
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