SCBWI Awards $12,500 in Work-in-Progress Grants

SCBWI received more than 500 entries for this year’s Work-in-Progress Grants (which are underwritten by Amazon.com). The judges, who found the batch of entries to be the strongest they'd seen, included SCBWI Board Members Pat Cummings, Jim Giblin, QL Pearce and Linda Sue Park; editor Louise May; and authors Robin Benway, Kathleen Duey, Bruce Hale, Pat Mora, and Susan Rubin. First Readers were Virginia Frances Schwartz, Vicki Berger Erwin, Kim L. Siegelson, and Nancy Antle. SCBWI's Kim Turrisi coordinated.

Winners in five categories received $2000 grants; runners-up received $500. Here are the 2010 WIP Grant recipients:

Multicultural:

• Winner: Rilla Jaggia for SANDALWOOD AND STONE
• Runner Up: Frances Lee Hall for PAPER SUN

General:

• Winner: Kerry McGee for STAND, BOY
• Runner Up: Kathleen Fox for THE DOG

Non-fiction:

• Winner: Alexandra Siy for EPIC TREES: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME WITH THE BRISTLECONE PINE
• Runner Up: Laurie Wallmark for ADA BYRON LOVELACE: NOT A PROPER LADY

Contemporary: 

• Winner: Kristen Lippert-Martin for THE MIRACLE CONSPIRACY
• Runner Up: Ingrid Sundberg for VIRGIN

Unpublished:

• Winner: Elizabeth Gittens for THE BIOGRAPHY OF SUFFRAGIST AND ABOLITIONIST LUCY STONE (Nonfiction)
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Runner Up: Kara Bietz for UNDISCLOSED (Contemporary)

Congratulations to all the winners!

Applications for 2011 WIP Grants are available on scbwi.org. All SCBWI members, with the exception of past winners, may apply.