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John Steptoe Award for New Talent
The award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force. These books affirm new talent and offer visibility to excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published book creator. The criteria for eligibility will be the same as those for the Coretta Scott King writing and illustration awards, with the exception that the winner(s)' published works cannot exceed three in number.
For more information see: John Steptoe Award for New Talent
2023 Author & Illustrator Award Winners
Past Author & Illustrator Award Winners
Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D Williams | 2020 Author Award
What Is Given from the Heart
April Harrison | 2020 Illustrator Award
Monday’s Not Coming
Tiffany D Jackson | 2019 Author Award
Thank You, Omu!
Oge Mora | 2019 Illustrator Award
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore | 2018 Author Award
Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
Charly Palmer | 2018 Illustrator Award
Hoodoo
Ronald L Smith | 2016 Author Award
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Ekua Holmes | 2016 Illustrator Award
No Award
| 2014 Author Award
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Theodore Taylor III | 2014 Illustrator Award
No Award
| 2013 Author Award
No Award| 2013 Illustrator Award
Zora and Me
Victoria Bond | 2011 Author Award
Seeds of Change
Sonia Lynn Sadler | 2011 Illustrator Award
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It
Sundee T Frazier | 2008 Author Award
No Award
Missy Violet and Me
Barbara Hathaway | 2005 Author Award
Jazzy Miz Mozetta
The Way a Door Closes
Hope Anita Smith | 2004 Author Award
My Family Plays Music
No Award
| 2001 Author Award
No Award
No Award
| 2000 Author Award
No Award
No Award
| 1998 Author Award
No Award
| 1996 Author Award
