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| Jacqueline Woodson | |
The Publishing Triangle is adding the Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Children's/YA Literature, which will honor outstanding works of literature geared toward children and young adults that explore themes related to LGBTQ+ experiences, identities, and issues. The award will highlight books that effectively address LGBTQ+ topics in an age-appropriate and sensitive manner, helping young readers better comprehend the diversity of human identities and relationships. The books may cover a range of subjects, from coming-out stories to LGBTQ+ historical narratives, from queer romances to explorations of gender identity and nonbinary experiences. The winner will be announced at the Publishing Triangle's awards ceremony next spring and will receive $1,000.
Woodson is the author of more than 30 books for young people and adults, including Another Brooklyn, Red at the Bone, and The Day You Begin. She received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2023 E.B. White Award, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award, and was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. Her books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, After Tupac and D Foster, and Each Kindness. In 2018, she founded Baldwin for the Arts, a residency serving writers, composers, interdisciplinary, and visual artists of the Global Majority.