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Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024 | $2000+ Cash Prizes

The submissions for the Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024 are currently open. The award is annually made available to children’s picture book.

Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024

The submissions for the Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024 are currently open. The award is annually made available to children’s picture book manuscripts written by new authors from historically marginalized groups with the intention of recognizing and amplifying new and diverse voices with underrepresented perspectives.

Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024


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Eligibility Criteria 

  • The Own Voices, Own Stories Award contest is open to new authors who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+. 
  • Applicants must be United States residents and at least 18 years of age.
  •  Only projects and authors who have not had a previously traditionally published children’s book will be considered. 
  • Projects must be unagented at time of submission.
  • Manuscripts that have been previously submitted to Sleeping Bear Press and/or the Own Voices, Own Stories Award will not be considered. 
  • Authors who have self-published books will be considered, but the submitted story must be original (i.e. not the self-published title).


Submission Guidelines 

  • Submissions are open January 2 through April 30. 
  • Applicants must submit via the award submission form.
  • The form will be linked above when submissions open.
  • Submitted children’s stories should speak to the authentic experiences and perspectives of BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ communities with the purpose of engaging readers in narratives that reflect underrepresented voices and communities.
  • Consistent with our dedication to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, those stories should both inspire and empower readers.
  • Submissions should be for ages four through ten and may be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. 
  • Text must come in at under 1,300 words (not including backmatter or ancillary material).
  • Only stories with human protagonists will be considered.
  • Authors may submit up to two manuscripts per award period. Each manuscript must come via separate submission.
  • Please note that these must be exclusive submissions. Manuscripts cannot be submitted to additional publications, publishers, agents, or contests concurrently.
  • Sleeping Bear Press is not responsible for late, lost, or incorrectly submitted projects.

Prizes

Grand Prize winners will receive a $2,000 cash prize, in addition to a publishing contract with advance and royalties standard for new Sleeping Bear Press authors.

 Honor Award winners will receive a $500 cash prize as well as one consulting session with a Sleeping Bear Press editor. 

Submissions selected for the Sleeping Bear Press Own Voices, Own Stories collection will be offered a publishing contract.


Details

Manuscripts can be submitted from January 2 through April 30. Manuscripts arriving before or after those dates will not be considered.
Winners will be notified and announced in the fall.

At least one Honor Award will be offered each year, but Grand Prize winners and stories selected for the collection will be offered at the discretion of the judging committee. All judgments are final.

In cases where an author has acquired an agent after award submission, and in keeping with the spirit of the award to lend opportunity to underrepresented, unagented writers, Own Voices, Own Stories projects will be executed directly with the award recipient, excluded from new agent purview


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  2. Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award 2024 | $5,000 Cash Prize and Sponsored Residency
  3. Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2024 | $25,000 Cash Prize
  4. Drue Heinz Literature Prize 2024 | $15,000 Cash Prize and Publication 
  5. ABA Journal / Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction 2024 | $5,000 Cash Prize
  6. The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2024 | $3000 Cash Prize 
  7. 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize | $12,500
  8. The Iowa Poetry Prize 2024
  9. 2024 Oversound Chapbook Prize | $1000 and 50 Copies
  10. Poetry International Prize 2024 | $1000 Cash Prize 

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