CLAIRVOYANTS 2024 International Competition For Illustrated Children’s Book Project

CLAIRVOYANTS 2024 International Competition For Illustrated Children’s Book Project now is over!

CLAIRVOYANTS 2024 International Competition For Illustrated Children’s Book Project: The CLAIRVOYANTS 2024 International Competition For Illustrated Children’s Book Project has been recently opened for submission with aim to launch the process of creating beautiful and valuable books for children and to discover talented artists and give them chance to become known on the Polish and international book market.

➜ Short description

Dwie Siostry Publishing House (Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry) announces the fifth edition of CLAIRVOYANTS, its international competition for an illustrated children’s book project 2024.

The purpose of the competition is to prepare a draft project of an illustrated children’s book in Polish or English.

The competition aims to inspire the creation of new, valuable children’s books and to provide talented designers, illustrators, and writers with opportunities to break into the publishing market. The organizers encourage the development of thoughtful, well-crafted book projects for young readers and offer a real chance for these books to be published.

Participants should demonstrate creativity, skillfulness, sensitivity and understanding of the children’s world.

CLAIRVOYANTS is aimed primarily at book designers, students of art schools, illustrators and authors, but the organizers invite everyone to try their hand.

The fourth, pandemic edition of the competition was conducted entirely online and resulted in a record number of submissions: 1,063 projects from 76 countries were received. For the fifth edition, the organizers have decided to continue with the digital format developed during that time. Once again, competition entries are only accepted in digital form.

➜ Submission requirements:

The purpose of the competition is to prepare a project (draft) of an illustrated children’s book in Polish or in English language. Submission should include a storyboard or a script of the whole book, together with 3 finished double spreads and a summary in English (obligatory) and in Polish (only if the whole project is in Polish).

➜ Who may enter?

Organiser invites debutants and experienced artists from Poland and abroad to participate in the competition, performing individually or as a team. Participants must be at least 18 years old.

➜ Prize:

Competitors may be awarded with 3 categories of prizes:

➜ The main prize of EUR 2,500 and two honourable mentions;
➜ Book publication – by the Dwie Siostry Publishing House jury;
➜ Admission in the post-competition exhibition.