ChLA Awards

Information on ChLA awards and grants can be found in the ChLA Policies and Procedures manual.

Award	Description	Deadlines
Anne Devereaux Jordan Award	Recognizes significant contributions in scholarship and/or service to the field of children's literature.	October 10
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
Carol Gay Award	The Children's Literature Association presents the Carol Gay Award annually for outstanding papers on children's literature by undergraduate students.	December 15 - February 1
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
Graduate Student Essay Award	The awards comprise both a Ph.D. level award and a separate master’s level award.	December 15 - February 1
Mentoring Award	The award recognizes excellence in mentoring taking place within the ChLA and extending beyond the boundaries of the mentor's own university.	December 15 - February 1
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.
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 award at the time publication, and which is still worthy of recognition.	On Going
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.	On Going

ChLA Grants

Grant	Description	Deadline
Beiter 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
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
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.	December 15 - February 28
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
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Global Scholarship Grant	The Global Committee actively pursues the internationalization of North American children's literature research by broadening the spectrum of primary and secondary literature discussed at the annual meetings and in the publications of ChLA.	Global Committee Abstract Due Date: September15-30