IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award

The IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award is given every three years to a promising new poet of children’s poetry (for children and young adults up to grade 12) who has published no more than two books of children’s poetry. A book-length single poem may be submitted. The award is for published works only. Poetry in any language may be submitted; non-English poetry must be accompanied by an English translation. The next award will be for poetry copyrighted from 2007 to 2009. Applications will be available in May 2009.

For additional information, please contact the Executive Office.

Award Recipients

2007
Joyce Lee Wong
Seeing Emily (Amulet)

2004
Lindsay Lee Johnson
Soul Moon Soup (Front Street)

2001
Craig Crist-Evans
Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy’s Civil War Journal (Houghton Mifflin)

1998
Kristine O’Connell George
The Great Frog Race and Other Poems (Clarion)

1995
Deborah Chandra
Rich Lizard and Other Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)