The Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature

Per the Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Website:

Milkweed Editions is an independent, non-profit publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed's goal is to make a positive impact on afficher plus society through the transformative art of literature. Milkweed is sometimes called the largest independent, non-profit literary publisher in the United States.[1] It publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's books.

Milkweed Editions periodically awards two prizes for fiction writing:
The Milkweed National Fiction Prize (for Adult Literature), and
The Milkweed National Fiction Prize for Children’s Literature.

The prizes are awarded for the best general fiction and for the best fiction for middle-grade readers, ages 8 to 13, by a writer not previously published by Milkweed.

MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE The goal of the Prize for Children's Literature is to encourage both writers of children’s literature and writers of books for adults to turn their attention to creating books for this discriminating and important group of readers. At this age, readers are ready for well-written books that range widely in subject matter, from fantasy, to fiction grounded in history, to books about everyday life.

See also on LibraryThing:
The Milkweek National Fiction Prize. afficher moins