International Compostela Prize For Picture Books
International Compostela Prize For Picture Books now is over!
International Compostela Prize For Picture Books: The Education Department of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela in collaboration with Kalandraka publishers recently has announces 10th edition of annual illustration competition titled International Compostela Prize for Picture Books seeking for the books in which the story is told through illustrations and images.
About Competition
The Education Department of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela, as part of the 17th Reading Promotion Campaign and in collaboration with Kalandraka publishers, announces the call for entries to the 10h edition of illustration competition International Compostela Prize for Picture Books.
The competition is open to all publications included in the picture book category: a book in which the story is told through illustrations and images, with both complementing each other.
Authors competing for the prize must present:
• Five copies of the text
• Three original illustrations and five colour photocopies of each (if digital techniques are used, the authors may send high-resolution prints of the work)
• A finished layout of the whole project
The books may be presented in any of the official languages in the Iberian peninsula (Galician, Catalan, Basque, Castilian Spanish and Portuguese), and must be original and unpublished. Adaptations of originals or books that have already been awarded prizes or mentions in other contests will not be accepted.
The projects may be presented in any size, technique and format, but may not contain any more than 40 inner pages (excluding covers and endpapers).
The jury will be composed of members with recognised prestige in the field of children’s literature and illustration.
There is no entry fee for this competition.
No Entry Fee!
Eligibility
This competition is open to one or more persons, authors of the text and illustrations of any nationality may take part. Winners from other years and employees of Kalandraka are excluded from participating.