Thanks to the information provided by Assistant Professor Rahele Jomepour Bell, we are pleased to announce that there are multiple competitions for our Illustration students to take part in for this upcoming fall semester. Both of the competitions are listed below. Check it out!
SILENT BOOK CONTEST 2024 - GIANNI DE CONNO AWARD
INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS
Illustration by Gianni De Conno
The Silent Book Contest will give a prize money and publication to an original illustrated and unpublished book project that has been created and produced exclusively through narration by illustrated images. Given that the illustrated book and the visual language of illustrations and pictures is in no way secondary to written language, with a universal power and potential that supersedes any barrier of language or genre, the Silent Book Contest competition invites authors and illustrators to think up and design a book conceived exclusively for the telling of a story through illustrated images, on any subject and intended for a wide and diverse section of the reading public, regardless of genre or age. Among the books sent to the competition, an International Jury will select the finalists to be announced and exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and at the Salone Internazionale del Libro of Turin. The author of the book project selected as the winner by the International Jury will receive a monetary prize of Euro 4,000 as advance for copyright with publishing agreement. The winning book project will be published by Carthusia Edizioni.
For more information visit their website here: https://silentbookcontest.com/about/
Narrative Art Award For The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
The 2022 SCBWI competition winner Annie Herzig
Each year, a rotating panel of judges will provide an assignment and will judge the submissions. The theme and specific assignment will change year to year, but the general goal will be to show sequence and narrative. The prize is an all-expense-paid trip to the SCBWI New York Winter Conference. The winning illustrations will be displayed during the New York Portfolio Showcase (in conjunction with the conference). We will also have an online gallery displaying the submissions to the award for any member who submitted to the award and wants to participate.
Submissions for 2023 will reopen from October 1 through October 31, 2023. The prompt will be announced soon.
Student Membership for SCBWI is $25 a year.
For more information, visit their website, here: https://www.scbwi.org/awards-and-grants/for-illustrators/narrative-art-award