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WORK-IN-PROGRESS GRANT WINNERS NAMED
Nearly
400 entries were received for the 2006 Work-In-Progress (WIP)
Grants. Winning grants are for $1,500. Runner-up grants are
for $500.
Author and Board Member Linda Sue Park, author Kay Kudlinski
along with Harcourt editor Samantha McFerrin judged the
Grant for a Previously Unpublished Writer. This year’s
winner is
Tami Lewis Brown
of Washington, DC, for her fiction novel, “Roadrunner.”
Runner-up award went to
Sarah S. Brannen
of Sudbury, MA.
Judges for the General WIP Grant were Board member Frank
Sloan and author Claudia Mills along with HarperCollins
editor, Steve Geck. They selected
Miriam Glassman of Framingham,
MA, for her story cycle, “Kumbaya.” This year’s runner-up
grant, funded by Dorothy Francis, goes to
Debby Dahl Edwardson of Barrow,
AK.
The SCBWI/Anna Cross Giblin Nonfiction Research Grant,
funded by James Cross Giblin, was awarded this year to
Anne F. Scott
of Des Moines, IA, for her proposed book, “Once,” a story of
David Fishel’s life before WWII, his time in a concentration
camp, and his attempt to receive recognition for that
suffering since the war. Runner-up grant in Nonfiction has
been presented to
Ann Malaspina
of Ridgewood, NJ. This year’s judges were Board member and
writer James Cross Giblin, author Jim Murphy, and Boyds
Mills editor Carolyn Yoder.
The Contemporary Novel Grant goes to
Amy Kathleen Ryan of Brooklyn,
NY, for her novel, “Trials of a Telepathic Teen.”
Holly Alayne Cupala of Seattle,
WA, is the recipient of the runner-up grant. The
Contemporary Novel Grant judges for this year were Board
member and author Walter Dean Myers, author Todd Strasser,
and Dutton editor Mark McVeigh.
The SCBWI also acknowledged eleven entrants in the WIP
competition with Letters of Merit:
Janeen Adil,
Quakertown, PA
Vijaya Khisty Bodach,
Redmond, WA
Marnie Brooks,
Cary, NC
Terri DeGezelle, Mankato, MN
Mary Cooper Feliz,
Los Altos, CA
Susi Gregg Fowler,
Juneau, AK
Marilyn McCabe,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Marilyn Taylor McDowell,
North Chittenden, VT
Jill Schatz Sayre,
Austin, TX
Julie A. Swanson,
Charlottesville, VA
Margaret Speaker Yuan,
San Rafael, CA
This year’s recipients plan to use their money for a variety
of purposes from continuing their education via classes and
workshops, to research travel and child care to free up
writing time.
Our congratulations to all the winners and our thanks to
first readers Nancy Antle Caroline Arnold, Jeri Ferris, and
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, to the judges, to Sue Alexander for
invaluable assistance, and especially to Coordinator Sue
Burgess for all the work that went into making these grants
possible.
Applications for the 2007 WIP Grants will be available for
download after October 1st in the
Awards & Grants section of the website. All SCBWI
Members, except for past winners, are eligible to apply.
(September 14, 2006) |
