The Pat Cummings Hero’s Art Journey Scholarship

The Children’s Book Academy is proud and excited to offer merit scholarships for writers and illustrators of color, identifying as LBGQTI, or having a disability, who are currently underrepresented in the children’s publishing industry. In addition, we are offering scholarships for low income folks who might not be able to take this course otherwise as well as to SCBWI Regional Advisers and Illustrator Coordinators who do so much unpaid work to help our field. While our primary goal is to help support increased diversity in the field and help improve cultural representation to reflect the true make-up of the United States, we also want to help as many people as possible take our cutting edge courses! Read more…