This year’s other New Visions Award finalists include Finding Ana Nelson by Beverly James, Changing Planes: A Fred Li Intrigue by Edison Ho, Jinx by Fatou Hymes, and Freedom’s Marching Song by Linda Wright. Publication of Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key is planned for fall 2022. Occomy Crowder will receive a cash prize of $2,000 and a publishing contract with Lee & Low Books.
“My goal is to write mysteries that involve different periods of Black history and aspects of Black culture as the backdrop for characters who experience the funny little occurrences and tensions of everyday life.” Occomy Crowder is a community organizer, working on social change work for the past thirty years to improve communities across Illinois. “I felt like it was important to expand the adventure/mystery genre to include more books with Black boys like my son as protagonists,” says author Tracy Occomy Crowder. Montgomery interviews his neighbors and connects with his community as he solves the mystery, inspired by author Tracy Occomy Crowder’s own upbringing and family history in the Washington Park area of the South Side of Chicago. Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key , this year’s winning manuscript, is a middle grade mystery novel about a ten-year-old boy who uses the scientific method to prove everything-in this case, the origins of a mysterious golden key he and his friends find in their back yard. Previous winners include Ink and Ashes by Valynne Maetani, named one of the Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, and Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar, named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book. Welcome to the Best of Chicago 2019 Pull up a chair or bar stool, sit tight in your CTA seat, or bear down on that ellipticalwe hope you’ll be here a while reading through our biggest issue of. and recently a recipient of the 2019 Illinois Super Lawyer Rising Star honor. Leading Lawyer 2019 Law Bulleting Publishing Company (top 5 of Illinois lawyers named by their peers. Join before or on the last day of the Final Four championship game on April 8 to start enjoying ALL the perks of being part of the Golden Key family Connect with high performing Golden Key members around the globe all in the top 15 of their class and all focused on the future Get involved with amazing events and service projects. Robert began his legal career upon graduating Chicago-Kent College of Law. Winners receive a cash prize and a publishing contract with Lee & Low Books, a children’s book publisher specializing in diversity. Eminent Domain (Chicago Bar Association, 2013). This year, Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key.Įstablished to increase the number of authors of color writing for children and teens, the New Visions Award is given to a middle grade or young adult manuscript by a new author of color or Native author.
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, is thrilled to announce the results of its seventh annual New Visions Award for new authors of color.
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