Status: Discontinued
The Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award, honoring emerging writers and writer/illustrators, was conferred from 2005 to 2017 by PEN New England and PEN America. This award is no longer being administered by PEN America. Please contact [email protected] for further information.
Previous Winners
2017
Abi Cushman, Snow Day for Goat and Badger
Laurie Warchol, Dragonfly: Waiting for Wings
Kip Wilson, White Rose2016
Adrienne Kisner, Dear Rachel Maddow
Sera Rivers, The Wicked Ones
Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo, Ruby in the Sky
Lisa Rogers, Mr. Marshall’s Red Wheelbarrow
Michelle A. Cusolito, Flying Deep2015
Kristy Acevedo, Consider
Alice Caldwell, Sly as a Sheep
Sheryl DePaolo, The Child Star
2014
Rebecca Roan, Dragons Get Colds Too
Pamela Sonn, Jedediah Buxton, The Human Calculator
Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven, The Shadow Boys are Breaking
2013
Anna Boll, Control. Crush.
Katherine Quimby, Three Minutes Thirty
2012
Heather Demetrios, Streaming
Amitha Knight, Landwalker
2011
Annie Cardi, Queen of the Air
Tara Sullivan, Golden Boy
2010
Bette Anne Rieth, Greetings From the Miracle
Linda Zajac, Ice Birds in a Warming Land
Heather Jessen, I Won a Robot in a Raffle
2009
Maria Gianferrera, Terrific Tongues
Anna Staniszewski, The Tinkerers
J. James Keels, Starving Hysterical Naked
Shelagh Smith, A Mouthful of Straw
2008
Tamara Ellis Smith, A Marble Looks Like Home
Colleen Ellis, The Alphabet Looking Beyond the Letter
Tracy Miller Geary, The Summer of My Movie Star
Jame Richards, Three Rivers Rising
2007
Joanne Perkins, Ice Harvest
Cindy Faughnan, Sheldon
Joe Anastasio, The Mist
Katie Bayerl, Smart Girl
2006
Erin Dionne, Beauty Binge
J.C. Phillips for her Illustrations
Hollis Shore, The Curve of the World
Phoebe Sinclair, The Truth About Liaa2005
Johanna Knowles, Lessons From a Dead Girl
Ammi-Joan Paquette, China Blue
Tara Nickerson, Letting Go
Mike Arena, The Man Who Jumped From Space