Submissions are now open for the world’s longest running children’s nature book award, the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for Children’s Literature.
Environment Award for Children’s Literature
Celebrating its 30th year, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature celebrates Australian books written for children that promote a love of and care for nature and recognises the important role that authors and illustrators’ creativity has played in inspiring future generations across the categories of picture fiction, non-fiction and fiction.
Karajia Award for Children’s Literature
The Karajia Award for Children’s Literature, established in 2022, sits alongside the Environment Award for Children’s Literature and is awarded to a book that celebrates a connection to Country and stories exploring land, community, culture and language by a First Nations author or illustrator.
Full terms and conditions are available here.
Submissions close 1 March 2024
For more information and to enter visit the Wilderness Society’s website.