BOOK WINNERS
Penny Taub won WHERE DO BUTTERFLIES GO AT NIGHT? by Jeanne Balsam
Hannah Roy LaGrone won THE MOON FROM DEHRADUN by Shirin Shamsi
Ashley Sierra won BATTLE OF THE BOOKS by Melanie Ellsworth
Winners please send me your addresses. Thanks!
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KUDOS:
Florida Book Award Gold Medalist Alexandra Alessandri’s HURRICANE PALOMITAS, a bilingual picture book about a girl who channels her fears of an impending hurricane into caring for a pair of abandoned baby pigeons, illustrated by Anastasiya Kanavaliuk, to Andrea Hall at Beaming Books, for publication in spring 2024, by Deborah Warren at East-West Agency for the author, and by Tina Doffing at Astound US for the illustrator (world).
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INDUSTRY CHANGES:
Caitlin Leffel has joined Union Square & Co. as senior editor. She was previously editor at Rizzoli.
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NO FEE CONTEST:
L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest is an opportunity for new writers of science fiction and fantasy to have their work judged by some of the masters in the field and discovered by a wide audience.
No entry fee is required and entrants retain all publication rights.
Entries in the Writers of the Future Contest are adjudicated only by professional writers. Prizes of $1000, $750 and $500 are awarded every three months. From the four quarterly 1st Place winners each year, a panel of judges select one story as the grand prize winner. The writer of the grand-prize-winning story receives the L. Ron Hubbard Golden Pen Award and an additional $5000 cash prize.
