The window for submitting your best 2019-2020 young adult fiction for consideration of a 2020 Westchester Fiction Award is OPEN!!!
Please keep the following criteria in mind:
1. All fiction must be published between October of 2018 and December of 2019.
2. There are 17 members on the committee, therefore, it would be ideal to send as many copies as you can of each title you are nominating so that each book may be easily distributed among the members. However, we are unable to consider a title if we don't receive at least Thirteen copies. This is so we can easily ensure that your books are given the attentive consideration they deserve.
3. There is no limit to the number of titles you send at this time as long as you provide at least 13 copies of each title.
4. The deadline for submission of all titles this year is: Monday December 2, 2019.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THE DEADLINE HAS USUALLY BEEN THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH, THE DATE WILL NOW BE THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH TO ALLOW AMPLE TIME TO DISSEMINATE BOOKS TO EACH COMMITTEE MEMBER BEFORE THE WINTER HOLIDAYS!
We will not be able to consider books, most likely, that arrive to us after this date. Please consider shipping time when sending us your nominations and feel free to submit books as they become ready throughout the year.
5. Unfortunately, we cannot accept advanced reader copies (ARCs).
And while we LOVE reading your non-fiction submissions, this award explicitly honors FICTION, so we will not be able to consider any nomination that isn't part of this genre.
6. Please send all nominated submissions to our chairperson:
Suzanne Osman
Van Nuys High School
Library
6535 Cedros Avenue
Van Nuys, CA 91411
***Please be advised that the Westchester Fiction Award office is closed until the middle of August each year, so in order to ensure the safe and timely receipt of all packages, please schedule all shipments to arrive no earlier than the end of August. Emails will be responded to throughout the summer, however, so should you have any questions or issues that need more immediate attention, please feel free to contact Suzanne Osman electronically at sosman@lausd.net.
