Call for Papers:
Phoenix Award Session
Deadline: October 1, 2017
45th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by Texas State University in San Antonio
June 28-30, 2018
The Phoenix Award Committee and the Phoenix Picture Book Award Committee of the Children’s Literature Association are planning a joint session at the 45th Children’s Literature Association Conference, held in San Antonio from June 28 to 30, 2018, and hosted by Texas State University. The Phoenix Awards recognize exceptional books published twenty years previously that did not win a major award at the time, but that the committees have determined to be of lasting value.
The 1998/2018 Phoenix Award goes to Elizabeth Partridge for Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking, 1998).
The 1998/2018 Phoenix Picture Book Award goes to Robert D. San Souci (author), posthumously, and Brian Pinkney (illustrator) for Centrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella (Simon and Schuster, 1998).
The Picture Book Honor goes to Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman (author) and Robin Preiss Glasser (illustrator) for You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum (Dial, 1998).
Foremost, the panel organizers seek paper proposals that focus scholarly attention on the winning and honor books. Papers on other books by the awarded authors and illustrators are also welcome.
Proposals are due by October 1, 2017 to one of the two chairs: Phoenix Committee Chair Lois Rauch Gibson (loisgibson@aol.com ) or Phoenix Picture Book Committee Chair Alisa Clapp-Itnyre (aclappit@indiana.edu).
Authors will be notified by October 10, 2017, if their papers have been selected as part of the panel. If not selected for the panel, the authors may elect to submit their papers to the general conference. The call deadline for the 2018 ChLA conference is October 15, 2017.