ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. Applicant must identify as coming from a diverse background as noted in the WNDB Definition of Diversity 
2. Applicant must be a United States citizen or a permanent resident.
3. Applicant must have received a paid internship offer from a participating publisher or literary agency. The position must be at least half time (17+ hours per week), and pay minimum wage based on the partner’s state requirements.
4. For publishers, the internship must be exclusively in the children’s division. For literary agencies, the internship must have a focus on children’s publishing (spending at least 50% of the time on children’s books).

PARTNER PUBLISHERS

• ABRAMS Books
• Bloomsbury Publishing
• Candlewick Press
• Hachette Book Group 
• HarperChildren’s
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (summer internships postponed till 2021)
• Lee & Low Books (summer internships postponed till 2021)
• Lerner Publishing Group
• Levine Querido
• Penguin Random House (summer internships postponed till 2021)
• Scholastic
• Simon & Schuster
• Scribe Publishing Company

PARTNER LITERARY AGENCIES

• Andrea Brown Literary Agency
• BookEnds Literary Agency
• Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency
• ICM
• Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency
• Salky Literary Management
• Serendipity Literary Agency

If you are a publisher or literary agency interested in participating, please contact us.

AWARD DETERMINATION

In 2020, we will have a minimum of fifteen $3,000 grants to award.

OBTAINING A GRANT APPLICATION

Please click here to fill out the application.

For more details about our program specifics, please refer to our FAQ. For any questions not covered there, please email internships@wndb.local