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Announcement: Lee & Low's New Voices Awards
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:49:14 -0600
If I had free to read my e-mail closer to the time when it arrived, it would have been posted to the CCBC-Net community in a timely way yesterday. I take responsibility for not being able to send it to you until today. - Ginny
From: Laura Atkins, Editor, Lee & Low Books (212) 779D00 x.28
Lee & Low Books, a small, independent publisher of award-winning multicultural children's books, announces the winners of its first annual New Voices Award and Honor Award. Linda Boyden of Pukalani, Hawaii, has won the New Voices Award for her picture book manuscript, THE BLUE ROSES. Of Cherokee and French Canadian ancestry, Linda has been adopted into the United Lumbee Tribe. She will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a publishing contract for her work.
Lee & Low is also proud to announce two Honor Award winners. They are Stanley Todd Terasaki of Torrence, California, for his Japanese American story, GHOSTS FOR BREAKFAST, and Therese On Louie of Bethesda, Maryland, for her Chinese American story, RAYMOND'S PERFECT PRESENT. They each will receive a cash prize of $500 and will be considered for publication as well.
The New Voices Award was established in 2000 to encourage people of color to write stories for children and submit them to a publisher who strives to change and diversify the face of children's books. The honor prize is intended to encourage promising writers and to help them develop their work so they will soon be published children's book authors as well.
The New Voices Award began accepting submissions at the beginning of 2000 and received almost 200 manuscripts from minority writers who had never before published a children's picture book.
LEE & LOW BOOKS is proud to continue its tradition of publishing new talent and bringing more writers of diverse backgrounds to the children's book field. The company began publishing in 1993, and since then has published numerous award-winning multicultural books. Through 2000, LEE & LOW has published over 50 first time authors and illustrators.
With a small staff of only nine, LEE & LOW BOOKS continues to make a difference in the range of children's books available today. Staying independent and remaining committed to a mission of publishing quality multicultural children's literature continues to be the road the company follows.
For more information about the contest winner, please visit the following link: http://www.leeandlow.com/home/news.html For more information about the New Voices contest, please visit: http://www.leeandlow.com/editorial/voices.html
Received on Fri 02 Feb 2001 04:49:14 PM CST
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:49:14 -0600
If I had free to read my e-mail closer to the time when it arrived, it would have been posted to the CCBC-Net community in a timely way yesterday. I take responsibility for not being able to send it to you until today. - Ginny
From: Laura Atkins, Editor, Lee & Low Books (212) 779D00 x.28
Lee & Low Books, a small, independent publisher of award-winning multicultural children's books, announces the winners of its first annual New Voices Award and Honor Award. Linda Boyden of Pukalani, Hawaii, has won the New Voices Award for her picture book manuscript, THE BLUE ROSES. Of Cherokee and French Canadian ancestry, Linda has been adopted into the United Lumbee Tribe. She will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a publishing contract for her work.
Lee & Low is also proud to announce two Honor Award winners. They are Stanley Todd Terasaki of Torrence, California, for his Japanese American story, GHOSTS FOR BREAKFAST, and Therese On Louie of Bethesda, Maryland, for her Chinese American story, RAYMOND'S PERFECT PRESENT. They each will receive a cash prize of $500 and will be considered for publication as well.
The New Voices Award was established in 2000 to encourage people of color to write stories for children and submit them to a publisher who strives to change and diversify the face of children's books. The honor prize is intended to encourage promising writers and to help them develop their work so they will soon be published children's book authors as well.
The New Voices Award began accepting submissions at the beginning of 2000 and received almost 200 manuscripts from minority writers who had never before published a children's picture book.
LEE & LOW BOOKS is proud to continue its tradition of publishing new talent and bringing more writers of diverse backgrounds to the children's book field. The company began publishing in 1993, and since then has published numerous award-winning multicultural books. Through 2000, LEE & LOW has published over 50 first time authors and illustrators.
With a small staff of only nine, LEE & LOW BOOKS continues to make a difference in the range of children's books available today. Staying independent and remaining committed to a mission of publishing quality multicultural children's literature continues to be the road the company follows.
For more information about the contest winner, please visit the following link: http://www.leeandlow.com/home/news.html For more information about the New Voices contest, please visit: http://www.leeandlow.com/editorial/voices.html
Received on Fri 02 Feb 2001 04:49:14 PM CST
