Stonewall Book Awards - Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

The Chair or ALA Staff Liasion will notify the winning authors and publishers as soon as the winners have been decided. In addition to the Co-Chairs of the Rainbow Round Table, the Chair will notify the American Library Association of the winners at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, specifically the ALA Communication and Marketing Office and the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services. In collaboration with the ALA Staff Liasion, the Book Awards Chair shall prepare a press release announcing the winners and finalists. Copies of this announcement shall be sent to the editor of the Rainbow Round Table Newsletter, the ALA Communications and Marketing Office, library and bookselling periodicals, and other LGBTQIA+ publishers, booksellers, periodicals, and newspapers. The press release shall also be distributed widely through discussion groups on the Internet. The Chair must request social security numbers from the winning authors. This information is forwarded to the liaison at the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services, who arranges for the award checks. Due to the limited funding for the Book Awards, letters to the winning title's publisher should encourage the publisher to fund the winner's attendance at the ALA Annual Conference.