Deadline: 30 September 2012
The Literary Award Committee of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) will be reviewing titles for the upcoming Asian/ Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) to be announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington in 2013. This award honors and recognizes individual works related to Asian/Pacific American experiences (either historical or contemporary) or Asian/Pacific American cultures. All entries must be received by September 30, 2012.
Please note that we have made several changes to the 2012-2013 Award guidelines and that the submission deadline is now moved up to September 30, 2012. If you would like to submit an entry for consideration, please carefully follow the guidelines and directions on the next two pages. We appreciate if you submit your entries to the appropriate committee as early as possible in order to allow adequate time to read and reflect on each submission. The Awards committee looks forward to reviewing your submissions.
GOAL: The goal is to honor and recognize individual works related to Asian/Pacific American experiences (either historical or contemporary) or Asian/Pacific American cultures.
AWARD: The awards will be announced at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Winners of the APALA Literature Award will be given the award seal during the 2013 ALA Annual APALA Literature Award Ceremony. The winner of each category will receive a plaque during the 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. A press release will be sent to various national publications. The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature is now an annual event.
ELIGIBLE WORKS:
PICTURE BOOKS
For queries: Dora Ho, Jury Co-chair or Ven Basco, Jury Co-chair of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association – Literature Awards Committee, at dorah2005@gmail.com or Buenaventura.basco@ucf.edu
For submissions: see list of co-chairs and contact persons above
Website: http://www.apalaweb.org
The Literary Award Committee of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) will be reviewing titles for the upcoming Asian/ Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) to be announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington in 2013. This award honors and recognizes individual works related to Asian/Pacific American experiences (either historical or contemporary) or Asian/Pacific American cultures. All entries must be received by September 30, 2012.
Please note that we have made several changes to the 2012-2013 Award guidelines and that the submission deadline is now moved up to September 30, 2012. If you would like to submit an entry for consideration, please carefully follow the guidelines and directions on the next two pages. We appreciate if you submit your entries to the appropriate committee as early as possible in order to allow adequate time to read and reflect on each submission. The Awards committee looks forward to reviewing your submissions.
GOAL: The goal is to honor and recognize individual works related to Asian/Pacific American experiences (either historical or contemporary) or Asian/Pacific American cultures.
AWARD: The awards will be announced at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Winners of the APALA Literature Award will be given the award seal during the 2013 ALA Annual APALA Literature Award Ceremony. The winner of each category will receive a plaque during the 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. A press release will be sent to various national publications. The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature is now an annual event.
ELIGIBLE WORKS:
- Works eligible must have had premier publication in 2011 and 2012 and must have been published for general commercial release in the U.S.
- Works should be related to Asian/Pacific American experiences (either historical or contemporary) or Asian/Pacific American cultures. Works should be written or illustrated by an Asian/Pacific American. The author or illustrator should have resident status in the United States or Canada.. The five award categories are: a. Adult fiction, b. Adult nonfiction, c. Youth Category (Children’s Literature, Young Adult Literature), and d. Picture Books.
- Works must have been published in the United States or one of its territories or Canada.
- Self-published works and exclusive Internet publications are not eligible.
- For fiction titles, anthologies or books containing the work of more than one author are not eligible.
- Works must be originally written in English.
- Works that have previously won other prizes or recognition are eligible.
- If no books are found to meet the selection criteria, no award will be given.
- Poetry and Graphic Novels will be eligible for consideration in either Adult or Youth categories: please determine which committee is appropriate for any Graphic Novel you wish to submit".
- Nominated titles should be submitted to appropriate Award Committee before October 1, 2012 via the online entry form on the APALA website (www.apalaweb.org). Entries may be submitted by an author, publisher, agent, publicist or individual. All entries received after October 1, 2012 will not be considered for the 2013 award. This is due to a procedure change by the committee.
- The Literary Award Committee is not responsible for lost submissions.
- An author, publisher, publicist or agent may submit more than one entry per author, but no more than one entry per work.
- If possible, publishers should send a review copy to each of the committee members of the appropriate category.
PICTURE BOOKS
- Chair: Susan Minobe, 2488 Corinth Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90064, sminobe@library.ucla.edu
- M. A. Ambray Gonzales, 4903 Crest Oak Rd, Austin, Texas, 78744, Ambray.Gonzales@ci.austin.tx.us
- Katrina Nye, 1469 Mercer Court Santa Maria, CA 93455, ationgirl@gmail.com
- Cindy Wee 907 E. Homestead Rd., Sunnyvale, CA 94087-4901, snit_wee@yahoo.com
- Chair: Sarah Park, 2004 Randolph Ave. #4125, St. Paul, MN 55105, spark@stkate.edu
- Michael Habata, 535 W. Duarte Road, Unit 37 Arcadia, CA 91007, mhabata@gmail.com
- Denise Geier 22 Pheasant Drive, Marlboro, NJ 07746, dbgeier@gmail.com
- Sandy Wee, Branch Manager, Millbrae Library, San Mateo County Library, 1 Library Avenue, Millbrae, CA 94030, wee@smcl.org
- Chair: Jerry Dear, Librarian/Information Strategist, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, Magazines & Newspapers Center - 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 jdear01@gmail.com
- HarukoYamuchi, ArtsConnection, 520 8th Ave. Suite 321, New York, NY 10018, gahaya@gmail.com
- Karla Lucht, LIS Building, 501 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL 6120, klucht@illinois.edu
- Dorcas Wong, SFPL, West Portal Branch, 190 Lenox Way, San Francisco, CA 94127, dwong@sfpl.org
- Chair: Holly Cole Okuhara, Weber County Library 475 E 2600 N Ogden, UT 84414, holly.cole@yahoo.com
- Karen Fernandez, Reference Librarian, Highline Community College Library, M/S 25-2B PO Box 98000, 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, Washington 98198, kfernand@highline.edu
- Tina Chan, 119 Arcadia Avenue, Oswego, NY 13126, tina.s.chan@gmail.com
- Miriam Tuliao, Assistant Director, Central Collection Development Collections, Strategy New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10018-2788, Miriam_Tuliao@nypl.org
- Chair: Janet Clarke, Stony Brook University Libraries 114 Cedar Hill Rd. Rocky Point, NY 11778 janet.clarke@stonybrook.edu
- Allan Cho, 158 East 44th Avenue, Vancouver BC, V5W 1V6 Canada, allan.cho@ubc.ca
- Samanthi Hewakapuge, Consumer Health Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, Library of the Health Sciences - UIC, 1750 W. Polk St. (M/C 763), Chicago, IL 60612-4330, samanthi@uic.edu
- Janet Tom, San Francisco Public Library, BST Department, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco CA 94102, jtom@sfpl.org
For queries: Dora Ho, Jury Co-chair or Ven Basco, Jury Co-chair of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association – Literature Awards Committee, at dorah2005@gmail.com or Buenaventura.basco@ucf.edu
For submissions: see list of co-chairs and contact persons above
Website: http://www.apalaweb.org
