News comes from Janis Joplin biographer Ann Angel that Emily Kokie's debut YA novel Personal Effects is featured on the cover of The ALAN Review summer edition. Thepublication, Ann says, is a journal for the Assembly of Literature for Adolescents, which is an assembly of the National Council for the Teachers of English "and an amazing group of YA writers, teachers and librarians and, I would say, it's one of the more influential academic journals on YA literature." Emily reports that the group has been supportive and enthusiastic about her book and invited her to be on a workshop panel last year where she met a number of teachers and librarians. Since then, Personal Effects has been ordered for school and classroom libraries and is showing up on summer reading and battle of the books lists. The book was reviewed and mentioned in the ALAN Review last year. "If you aren't a member of ALAN, you can learn more about the organization here: http://www.alan-ya.org/," Emily says. "Every year there is a fantastic two-day workshop sponsored by ALAN that follows the NCTE annual conference. It is usually the week before Thanksgiving." Get more news about Wisconsin writers at CWW website at www.wiswriters.org
CWW Award Winner on WUWM Jan. 19
Tomorrow! That’s the date author Ann Angel is scheduled to be on Public Radio WUWM’s “Lake Effect” Thursday, Jan. 19. The program airs on 89.7 FM at 10 a.m., Since “Lake Effect” features more than one interview, Ann will be on sometime between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. The interview is to focus on her award-winning biography, Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, for which she received the 2010 Council for Wisconsin Writers Kingery/Derluth Nonfiction Book Length Award as well as several other prestigious awards. Janis Joplin would have been 69 tomorrow.
Among Ann’s other recent books are Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories, Silent Embrace, Perspective on Birth in Adoption, Such a Pretty Face, Short Stories about Beauty, Amy Tan, Weaver of Asian-American Tales, Robert Cormier, Writer of The Chocolate War.
If you miss the radio broadcast, an archived version will be on WUWM’s website, www.wuwm.com.
Golden Kite Award Deadline
Children’s authors who are members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)probably already know about that organization’s most coveted award, the Golden Kite. So this is just a reminder that the deadline for 2011 entries is Dec. 6, which is less than a month away.
The Golden Kite is awarded in four categories:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book Text, and
- Picture Book Illustration
More information about submitting entries for this award is at http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Submission-Guidelines–Individuals. Guildelines for publishers is at http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Submission-Guidelines–Publishers.
I am constantly amazed at the plethora of children’s writers in Wisconsin and the fantastic number who are so successfully published. (I’m currently reading the winning book in the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2010 Children’s Literature category, author Ann Angel’s “Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing”.)
Best wishes to all who aspire to winning a Golden Kite.