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Writers of Color: Submit Your Manuscript! |
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Our annual New Voices and New Visions writing contests are open for submissions May 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020. If you are a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer who has not previously been published, we encourage you to submit your picture book, middle grade, or young adult manuscript. Winners receive a cash prize and a standard publishing contract with Lee & Low Books.
You can find out more about both contests here. Please spread the word to anyone you know who may be interested! |
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Congratulations to New Visions Award Winner Tracy Occomy Crowder |
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Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key, a middle grade mystery novel about a ten-year-old boy who uses the scientific method to prove everything—in this case, the origins of a mysterious golden key he and his friends find in their back yard.
“I felt like it was important to expand the adventure/mystery genre to include more books with Black boys like my son as protagonists,” says author Tracy Occomy Crowder. “My goal is to write mysteries that involve different periods of Black history and aspects of Black culture...” Occomy Crowder is a community organizer, working on social change work for the past thirty years to improve communities across Illinois. Occomy Crowder will receive a cash prize of $2,000 and a publishing contract with Lee & Low Books. Publication of Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key is planned for fall 2022.
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Announcing the New Voices Award Winner and Honor |
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Alana Tyson of Alexandria, Virginia, is the winner of the company’s twentieth annual New Voices Award. Her picture book manuscript, The Longest Swim, is the biography of William Goines and his journey to becoming the first African American Navy SEAL.
Alana Tyson is a writer and entrepreneur from New York City who enjoys researching and writing stories about lesser-known historical figures. Tyson hopes that The Longest Swim will inspire young readers with its message about the power of persistence and show them that African American history is American history, and that African Americans’ contributions to the United States are plentiful and meaningful. Tyson will receive a prize of $2,000 and a publication contract.
Belen Medina Cabot of San Francisco, California, will receive the New Voices Award Honor for her picture-book manuscript The Seesaws. Inspired by current events, Belen’s story follows two children who live on either side of the United States-Mexico border and the creative solution that allows them to play together.
Belen Medina Cabot is a former lawyer who is passionate about social activism and child literacy. She hopes The Seesaws reminds readers of our common humanity no matter what side of a fence, wall, or border we happen to live on. Belen will receive a prize of $1000. |
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