by Assistant | Sep 3, 2019 | Awards, News
In case you missed it, The Poet X was awarded the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. The Walden Award was established in 2008 to honor YA author Amelia Elizabeth Walden and is given to the young adult title that best demonstrates a positive...
by Assistant | Jun 22, 2019 | Awards, News, Updates
The Carnegie Medal Awards announced on Tuesday, June 19th that Elizabeth Acevedo has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal for The Poet X. Elizabeth is the first writer of color to win this prestigious UK award in it’s 83-year history. The Carnegie Medal is awarded...
by Liz | Apr 2, 2019 | Awards
The Poet X continues has done it again. The book has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult Literature. The 31st Annual Lammys will take place on June 3, 2019. The celebration continues with a New York City Book Award win!!...
by Liz | Mar 18, 2019 | Awards, News
The Poet X has won the Pura Belpré award, presented annually to a Latinx writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latinx cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth; the Michael L. Printz award for excellence in...
by Liz | Nov 15, 2018 | Awards, News
The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Since 1989, they have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its...
by Liz | Nov 5, 2018 | Awards, News
The Poet X has been nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal, the UK’s most prestigious prize for children’s literature!
