The Kate Dopirak Craft and Community Award provides tuition to the SCBWI Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles to the author of a promising manuscript who is dedicated to honing their craft and expanding their writing community but is experiencing a financial barrier to attending the conference. This award is offered in celebration of Kate Dopirak, a picture book author and beloved SCBWI member who lived her life lighting the way for others.
The KDCC Award will alternate every other year between a picture book winner and a middle grade/young adult winner. The initial 2020 KDCC Award will be given to a picture book manuscript.
In 2020, one picture book writer will be selected by a panel of judges as the recipient of the 2020 Kate Dopirak Craft and Community Award, which includes:
- Full tuition to the 49th Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Annual Summer Conference, July 24-27, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA.
- A 20-minute phone consultation with literary agent Tracey Adams from Adams Literary.
- A 20-minute phone consultation with children’s editor Andrea Welch from Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster.
Note: Award does not include travel, meals, accommodations, or optional conference intensives or critiques.
Submissions will be accepted between 5:00 a.m. PST on September 1 and 8:00 p.m. PST on October 31, 2019.
Click here for more information and a link to the submission form.
Please note this information is copied as a convenience to SCBWI members from the website https://www.katedopirakaward.com/.