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The New Visions Award page says:

“Established in 2012, the New Visions Award is given biennially to an unpublished writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer for a middle grade or young adult manuscript. The contest will be open this year, 2026, from April 21, 12:01 a.m. to June 30, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Novel and graphic novel manuscripts may be FICTION, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION, or WORKS IN VERSE for middle grade readers ages 8 to 12 and young adult readers ages 12 to 18.”

The awards page also says:

“New Visions Award winners receive a standard publication contract, including Lee & Low Books’s basic royalties and an advance in the amount of $15,000.

Winners are also given close publishing mentorship as they work to develop their book for publication.”

Check the Contest Rules Page for word count and submission information.

Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Ryan O’Rourke (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Snappy rhymes invite young readers to watch workers dig, pour, pound, and bolt a skyscraper into existence. Simple yet satisfying sidebars provide further information about each step in the construction process. Perfect for preschoolers and all those who dig diggers.

When my “building a house” small poem became the Raise the Roof picture book, I thought I was done with construction books, but my architect husband was working on a skyscraper and that made me curious! How did they make tall buildings stand up straight? (The Tower of Pisa is leaning to one side!)

This question led to more and with his expert advice, a new small poem became the picture book Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper! My clever editor wanted the last page of the book to fold up into a completed skyscraper, so the facts aren’t in the back after the poem like so many other books. As you can see, the facts (and lots of labels) written in prose accompany the poem page by page.

I’m very happy to say that this book won the 2017 Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award.

Eureka

Category: nonfiction

2026 New Visions Award

Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper