{"id":179463,"date":"2021-12-01T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=179463"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:33:08","slug":"call-for-submissions-for-the-2022-malka-penn-award-for-human-rights-in-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/12\/call-for-submissions-for-the-2022-malka-penn-award-for-human-rights-in-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions for the 2022 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submissions are now invited for the 2022 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children\u2019s Literature. The prize is awarded annually by Dodd Human Rights Impact, at the University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute, and is presented to the author of an outstanding children\u2019s or young adult book addressing human rights issues or themes such as discrimination, equity, poverty, justice, war, peace, slavery, or freedom. Within these larger themes, the award committee is particularly eager to recognize stories about individuals \u2013 real or fictional, children or adults \u2013 who have been affected by social injustices, and who, by confronting them, have made a difference in their lives or the lives of others.<\/p>\n

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The winning book of the 2022 Malka Penn Award will be announced in spring 2022, and a ceremony will be held in the fall of 2022 at The Dodd Center for Human Rights in Storrs, Connecticut. The award winner will receive a bronze medallion and certificate and will be invited to deliver an address to the university faculty, students, and wider community. The winner of the 2021 Malka Penn Award was Kim Johnson for her book, This Is My America,<\/em> a compelling young adult novel which exposes the unequal treatment of African Americans within the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

Any book for children and young adults originally published in the United States between January 1, 2021 \u2013 December 31, 2021 is eligible for consideration for the 2022 Malka Penn Award. The book may be a work of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir, or biography. Books must be published in a physical, print form\u2014e-books are currently ineligible for consideration.<\/p>\n

The deadline for submission for the 2022 Malka Penn Award is December 31, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To submit a book for consideration, please send ten copies to:<\/p>\n

Malka Penn Award Selection Committee
\nDodd Human Rights Impact
\nHuman Rights Institute
\nUniversity of Connecticut
\n405 Babbidge Road, U-1205
\nStorrs, CT 06269-1205<\/p>\n

For more information visit: https:\/\/humanrights.uconn.edu\/awards\/malka-penn-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prize is awarded annually by Dodd Human Rights Impact at the University of Connecticut and is presented to the author of an outstanding children\u2019s or young adult book addressing human rights issues or themes such as discrimination, equity, poverty, justice, war, peace, slavery, or freedom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":177644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2429,2318,88,2312],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2350],"class_list":["post-179463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-dodd-impact","category-global-affairs","category-hri"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 19:09:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179463"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179581,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179463\/revisions\/179581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/177644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179463"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=179463"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=179463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}