For the last three years SCBWI Australia East have held the Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards. Judged by some of the publishing world’s best, they gather to pour over submissions from incredibly talented SCBWI illustrators to choose the winning entries.

First prize is $8,000 to assist with the creation of a new picture book or graphic novel. Second prize is $3,000 and third $1,000. In addition, there can be up to two Highly Commended prizes of $500 each.

The 2023 awards opened on May 1. So if you’d like your chance to have your work seen by Australian and international publishing professionals, click on this link to find out how.

To help you prepare your application, we have a special afternoon where you can hear from last year’s incredibly talented winners, who will talk about their winning projects, give tips and hints on entering and you’ll have the chance to ask them how they did it.

The winners are Serena Geddes, Max Hamilton, Ross Morgan, Kylie Howarth, Sandra Fay and Peter Cheong.

This Event will be recorded and the link will be availble until July 1.

PROGRAM

1pm-1:10pm
Welcome by Susanne Gervay and Deborah Abela who will talk about the award, how it works and how you can enter.

1:10-2:40pm
Let’s hear from the winners. Each illustrator will reveal their winning project and explain how the grant helped them to develop it even further.

2:40-3pm
Susanne Gervay will update you on exciting SCBWI events coming up, including the highly anticipated return of the SCBWI retreat from Oct 6-8 in western Sydney.

TICKETS

This will be a FREE EVENT but you will need to register so we can send you the link. CLICK HERE to register on Trybooking.

The SCBWI AustEast Team