SCBWI Portfolio Awards, 2018
Portfolio Award Grand Prize Winner: Rahele Jomepour Bell
Portfolio Award Honor winners:
Erin Balzer
Cristina Lalli
Agents' Panel: Tanusri Prasanna
Agents' Panel: Succeeding in 2018 and Beyond: What You Need To Know Tanusri Prasanna is an agent at Foundry Literary + Media representing children's books and adult nonfiction. On the children's side, she represent picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction and nonfiction. As an immigrant herself, with a family filled with people of varied background (including Slytherin), Tanusri is actively seeking diverse voices, protagonist, and settings across genres. "I'm going to tell you something really horrible about myself. I used to be a lawyer...but then my kidlit book group saved my life." Tanusri needs to feel a book and when she does she will champion it on and on. She also says, "I want every book I represent to have element of diversity. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of diversity, but it needs to be there." "I love a middle grade protagonist that makes me want to hug them." The conversation turns to writing outside yo...
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