ChLA Awards

Award	Description	Deadlines/ Submission Dates
Article Award	Awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding articles focusing on a literary, historical, theoretical, or cultural examination of children's texts and/or children's culture.	August 31
Book Award	Awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding book-length contributions to children's literature history, scholarship, and criticism.	August 31
Edited Book Award	Awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize an essay collection that makes a distinct or significant contribution to our understanding of youth literature from a literary, cultural, historical or theoretical perspective.	August 31
Vivian Yenika Agbaw Global Scholarship Grant	To support international children’s literature research, the Global Committee organizes panels at the Association's annual conference and from its submissions selects recipients of ChLA's Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Global Scholarship Grant. Named to honor the work and life of Dr. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, the grant supports presentation at on-site ChLA Global Committee panels.	September 15/30
Anne Deveraux Jordan Award	Recognizes significant contributions in scholarship and/or service to the field of children's literature.	October 10
Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award	Awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding articles of literary criticism by new, never-before-published article authors.	October 10
Mentoring Award	The award recognizes excellence in mentoring taking place within the ChLA and extending beyond the boundaries of the mentor's own university.	Submission Period: December 15 - February 1
Carol Gay Award	The Children's Literature Association presents the Carol Gay Award annually for outstanding papers on children's literature by undergraduate students.	Submission period: December 15 - February 1
Graduate Student Essay Awards	The Graduate Student Essay Awards recognize outstanding papers by graduate students. There are two categories: an award for essays written at the master’s level and one for an essay written at the doctoral level.	Submission period: December 15 - February 1
Phoenix Award	The award, given to a book originally published in the English language, is intended to recognize books of high literary merit, which never won an award at the time of publication, and which is still worthy of recognition.	Ongoing
Phoenix Picture Book Award	Recognizes a picture book published twenty years previously that did not win a major award at that time, but that the committee has determined to be of lasting value.	Ongoing

ChLA Research Grants

Grant	Description	Submission Period
Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Grant	The grants are awarded for proposals of original scholarship with the expectation that the undertaking will lead to publication or a conference presentation and contribute to the field of children's literature criticism.	December 15 - February 1
Faculty Research Grant	The grants are awarded for proposals dealing with criticism or original scholarship with the expectation that the undertaking will lead to publication and make a significant contribution to the field of children's literature in the area of scholarship or criticism.	December 15 - February 1
Diversity Research Grant	Supports research related to children’s and young adult cultural artifacts (including media, culture, and texts) about populations that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized culturally and/or historically.	December 15 - February 1

ChLA Conference Grants

Grant	Description	Due Date
June Cummins Diversity Conference Travel Grant	Named in honor of June Cummins, one of the founding members of ChLA’s Diversity Committee, the grant supports the professional development of students and scholars from minority communities. The award aims to specifically support students, contingent (adjunct/part-time) faculty, and independent scholars from underrepresented groups who are presenting research/papers that focus on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.	February 28
MicKenzie Fasteland Conference Accessibility Grant	The grant, named in honor of MicKenzie Fasteland, one of the founders of the Children Literature Association’s Accessibility Committee, financially supports accessibility at in-person conferences for disabled and/or chronically-ill scholars by covering the costs of staying at the conference hotel for the duration of the event, allowing scholars to more safely and easily access the conference. This grant is only available in years when there is an in-person conference.	February 28
BIPOC Scholar Conference Award	The Association provides conference fee waivers for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) scholars who wish to attend the conference. Students, independent scholars, contingent/adjunct faculty, and tenure-stream professors who identify as BIPOC are eligible to apply for the award.	February 28
Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Mutual Aid Fund	The purpose of the fund is to offset costs for conference attendance for graduate students and contingent faculty who do not have or cannot raise the necessary funding to attend the conference.	February 28