2023 New England Illustration Prize

CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS. Best wishes to all our 2023 entrants!
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, on the theme of ‘Dreaming is a Super Power’. 

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.
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Bookmark your diary and start imagining!
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.
FIRST PRIZE
A cash prize of $350 and a one-on-one publishing advice consultation (via Zoom) with Dr Sophie Masson AM, award winning author, President Small Press Network, Chair New England Writers' Centre.
SECOND PRIZE
A cash prize of $250 and a portfolio assessment by the team at Little Pink Dog Books, independent publishers of picture story books for children.
Proudly sponsored by  Little Pink Dog Books
THIRD PRIZE
A cash prize of $150 and 1 year's membership of the New England Writers' Centre, with discounts on all 2024 workshops. 
Proudly sponsored by the New England Writers' Centre 
Submission Guidelines
Please read these carefully!
  • Entrants must be Australian residents over the age of 18.
  • Email your submission to: newcompetitions@gmail.com 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:
Your name; full contact details (email address, preferred phone number, postal address); and your Trybooking receipt number or bank acknowledgement of EFT.
  • 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: Dreaming is a Super Power!
Competition opens: 10 July 2023
Closes: 22 September 2023, 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 2022
Illustration Prize 2021
​Illustration Prize 2020