2015 Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award Call for Applications

During its long history, the journal Children’s Literature in Education has often benefited from the refreshing ideas and original approaches of young and new scholars in the field of children’s literature. In the current academic climate, the Humanities are under financial pressure in various countries. The competition for (post)doctoral scholarships is keen and tenured positions are becoming rare. CLE, with the support of its publisher, Springer, therefore launched the Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award (CLEESA) in 2013, which will run annually.

We are pleased to announce that the 2014 Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award has been presented to Meagan Lacy, an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Information Literacy Services & Instruction at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, a CUNY school in New York, New York, for her essay “Portraits of Children of Alcoholics: Stories that Add Hope to Hope,” which will be published in the December 2015 issue of CLE.

Each year, the prestigious winner receives a prize of $500 and their article is published exclusively in Children’s Literature in Education, with an appropriate acknowledgement of its award-winning status. Excellent essays that do not win the award will still be considered for publication in CLE.

Applicants must submit an essay of 6-8,000 words to the Children’s Literature in Education website before 31 December 2015 (http://www.editorialmanager.com/clid/). For anyone unfamiliar with the journal, details and a preview can be found there, together with a PDF guide to the journal’s house style: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10583?detailsPage=pltci_1060388. All submitted articles must conform to this house style.

Submissions must be original works that have not been published previously (including in conference proceedings) and that are not currently under consideration with another journal or edited collection.

For the purpose of eligibility for this award, an Emerging Scholar is defined as someone who meets the following criteria:

• has not defended a Ph.D. before 31 December 2012
• has not published books, chapters or peer-reviewed articles on children's literature before 31 December 2010

Submissions should be accompanied by a brief note indicating that the article is to be considered for the Emerging Scholar Award, and affirming that the author meets these criteria.