Steptoe Award

The John Steptoe New Talent Award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force.

John Steptoe Winners

The Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent affirms new talent and offers visibility for excellence in writing and/or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published African American creator of children's books. List of winners of the John Steptoe New Talent Award.

2024 John Steptoe Award - Illustrator

We Could Fly

Illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu, written by Rhiannon Giddens and published by Candlewick Press.

2024 John Steptoe Award - Author

There Goes the Neighborhood

Written by Jade Adia and published by Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc.

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