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SCBWI loves celebrating our members’ successes and noteworthy news, and there are many! Read on to find out who’s got something to shout about. Digital high-fives welcome in the comments!






Dylan’s Dilemma by Kathleen Troy has been chosen as a winner of The Golden Wizard Book Prize—just in time for the new release of the audiobook!

I Am Not Happy! by Caroline L. Perry (illustrated by Sydney Hanson, published by Simon & Schuster) had its official cover reveal! This humorous book about a misunderstood marsupial will hop onto shelves on October 7th.

A Bridge Home by Mona Alvarado Frazier is a co-winner of the 2025 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, a 2025 Southwest Books of the Year–Children and Young Adults, and received a starred Booklist Review.

Eori Tokunaga has been awarded the Trans Women Write Scholarship by Highlights Foundation for 2025! She will be attending the Picture Book Authors and Illustrators: Working Retreat in September alongside many other amazing authors and illustrators.

R.S. Mellette announces the release of Kiya and the Planet of the Fates, Book 2 in his series alongside Kiya and the Morian Treasure. Available NOW!




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Images courtesy of corresponding authors.

“Great News” original photo  by Branden Harvey on  Unsplash. Digitally manipulated by Sarah Parker-Lee.