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![]() ![]() One professional review: Copies of or links to 1-3 reviews of the candidate’s novel(s) from professional publications.Cover letter: A 1-2 page letter including a brief (1-3 sentence) summary of the project, a description of how the candidate meets the criteria for the grant, and a list of the candidate’s published novel(s) for children and/or young adults.The online submission form requires the following: Jenkins, Night Road (Harper Teen/Harper Collins, 2008)Ģ004 Deborah Wiles (Available for publication)Ģ003 Franny Billingsley, The Black Mountains (Available for Publication)Ģ002 Lori Aurelia Williams, Broken China (Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster, 2006)Ģ001 Graham McNamee, Sparks (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2002) Putnam’s Sons, 2016)Ģ011 Lucy Frank, Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House, 2014)Ģ010 Pat Schmatz, Bluefish (Candlewick Press, 2011)Ģ009 Carol Lynch Williams, A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand (Published as Glimpse, Simon and Schuster, 2011)Ģ008 Theresa Nelson Julia Delany, The American Version (Published as The Year We Sailed the Sun, Atheneum Books/Simon and Schuster, 2015)Ģ007 Diane Les Becquets, Genesis (Published as Season of Ice, Bloomsbury, 2008)Ģ006 Barbara Shoup, Everything You Want (Flux, 2008)Ģ005 A.M. Ģ018 Vicky Shiefman, Help Me God, Please Pretty PleaseĢ017 Phillippe Diederich, Finding Home at the End of the WorldĢ016 Ash Parsons, A Chemical Distance (Available for Publication)Ģ015 Stephanie Kuehn, The Pragmatist (forthcoming from Dutton)Ģ014 Linda Oatman, One Amazing Elephant (HarperCollins, 2017)Ģ013 Amy Goldman Koss, The Intake Office (Available for Publication)Ģ012 Sarah Dooley, Free Verse (G.P. To request a manuscript excerpt, please contact. ![]() Though not the life he initially imagined, Eli comes to embrace the opportunities this new world provides for Pawpaw, Sam, his new foster family, and most importantly, for himself.” Through powerful imagery and lyrical prose, Mulberry Trees exposes all of Eli’s hurt, confusion and anger, as well as his growing acceptance and eventual love of farm life. Now living with his grandfather, Pawpaw, on a derelict farm in rural Kentucky, Eli struggles with guilt over his broken promise to his brother that they would “always be together.” But as Eli reaches out for help, first to his Pawpaw and then to a therapist, he begins to understand that even in times of grief, there can be moments of beauty and joy. Judges: Samira Ahmed, Varian Johnson, Susan Kuklinįrom the judges’ citation: “ Lois Sepahban’s emotionally charged middle grade novel-in-verse, Mulberry Trees, introduces us to 13-year-old Eli, a boy grappling with a string of recent heartbreaks - including the disappearance of his mother and the subsequent loss of his 7-year-old brother, Sam, to the foster care system. It takes enormous stamina and resolve and optimism to live with our characters for a year or more-and it’s my hope that the grant, modest as it is, will let the authors know that an expert panel of PEN judges has faith in the writers, admires their work, and trusts that they will be able to bring to paper what they see in their heads.”Īpplications for the 2024 cycle will be accepted April 1–June 1, 2023. ![]() Naylor said: “We truly work ‘blind,’ with no assurance whatsoever that anyone will be interested in our final product. The Grant is made possible by a substantial contribution from PEN America Member Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, the prolific author of more than 140 books, including Now I’ll Tell You Everything, the 28th and final book in the acclaimed Alice series, as well as Faith, Hope, and Ivy June and Shiloh, the first novel in a quartet, which won the 1992 Newbery Medal. ![]() The author of the winning manuscript, selected blindly by judges unaware of nominees’ names, will receive an award of $5,000. Previously called the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, the award was developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber and assist a writer at a crucial moment in their career to complete their novel. The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually to an author of children’s or young adult fiction for a novel-in-progress. ![]()
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