SAMPLE CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

The 3-volume, illustrated Encyclopedia of American Children's and Young Adult Literature is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in ____. The editor and advisory board seek writers for remaining unassigned entries.

Candidates must be willing to write entries totaling at least 2000 words. Preference will be given to college professors, published writers, and advanced graduate students, but others qualified to write about American children's and young adult literature will also be considered. Deadline for submissions is ____. The deadline is firm, so please do not respond to this call unless you are confident that you can complete one entry of 2000 words or a group of entries totaling that number by that date. Compensation for accepted entries will be the 3-volume set of the encyclopedia, which will be sent to contributors at publication.

If you are interested in writing for this important reference, please send a short biographical sketch describing your background and interests in American children's/young adult literature and your preferred e-mail _and_ postal address to:

Encyclopedia Editor: xxxx@gmail.com

Qualified candidates will receive a listing of available entries. Prospective contributors will receive an assignment, contributors' guidelines, and sample entries by e-mail followed by a release form postal mailed from the publisher to be signed and returned. Completed entries are subject to the normal editing process required for quality publications and are accepted for publication at the discretion of the editor, advisory board, and publisher.

EDITOR:

Name of scholar
Affiliation
Address
E-mail

ADVISORY BOARD:

List of scholars here