2024 New England Illustration Prize
OPENS FOR SUBMISSIONS 15 JULY 2024
Welcome to the seventh New England Illustration Prize for Children's Picture Book Publishing.
We invite illustrators resident in any part of Australia, and at any stage of their careers, to create a colour illustration suitable for a children’s picture book. This annual, nationally recognised prize garners a great deal of interest from the industry and several of our winners have been awarded contracts with major publishers, and continue to make careers as well known children's book illustrators. |
The theme for 2024 will be announced shortly
You can interpret the theme in any way that you wish — it can be humorous, fantastical, realistic, or any genre that you wish and the illustration can be centre around people, animals, supernatural creatures, robots, monsters, machines, whatever you like!
The New England Writers' Centre supports the creative rights of illustrators, and we ask that you do not submit an AI generated image.
Your image can be created in any medium but must be able to be sent digitally, by email, as a file attachment — see Entry Requirements for the full guidelines.
The New England Writers' Centre supports the creative rights of illustrators, and we ask that you do not submit an AI generated image.
Your image can be created in any medium but must be able to be sent digitally, by email, as a file attachment — see Entry Requirements for the full guidelines.
Submission Guidelines
Please read these carefully!
Please read these carefully!
- Entrants must be Australian residents over the age of 18.
- Email your submission to: [email protected] as a file attachment only (no inline sending please) of no more than 2.5 MB, either in jpeg or TIFF format. Any entries that do not follow this format will be disqualified.
- Please do not put any identifying marks on your illustration, such as signatures, as entrants’ names will not be given to judges. (Illustrations will be allocated a number as they come in and this will be the only form of identification judges will receive.)
- Each entry must be paid for and sent separately.
- The illustration file must be attached to an email whose subject line includes your name and the words ‘Entry for New England Illustration Prize’.
- In the body of your email, please give all the following details:
- Winning illustrations will be displayed on NEWC website and Facebook page. All copyright in illustrations remains with the illustrator.
- Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into about these decisions.
Theme: To Be Announced
Competition opens: 15 July 2024
Closes: 23 September 2024, 11:59 pm AEST
Results announced: early November
Medium: Entries can be in any medium
BE AUTHENTIC. BE FAIR. DO NOT SUBMIT AI GENERATED ART
Open to all Australian residents over 18.
Cost per entry: $10
You can enter as many times as you like, but you must pay for each one and send it separately.
How to enter: Book and pay using the link below or pay by EFT.
Competition opens: 15 July 2024
Closes: 23 September 2024, 11:59 pm AEST
Results announced: early November
Medium: Entries can be in any medium
BE AUTHENTIC. BE FAIR. DO NOT SUBMIT AI GENERATED ART
Open to all Australian residents over 18.
Cost per entry: $10
You can enter as many times as you like, but you must pay for each one and send it separately.
How to enter: Book and pay using the link below or pay by EFT.
Looking for inspiration? Take a look at previous year's winners:
Illustration Prize 2023
Illustration Prize 2022
Illustration Prize 2021
Illustration Prize 2020
Illustration Prize 2023
Illustration Prize 2022
Illustration Prize 2021
Illustration Prize 2020