DESCRIPTION

The Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grants are available to undergraduate and graduate students with interest in children's literature. The grants help defray registration costs for the NCTE conference. They are awarded yearly dependent on available funding.
In 2018, the CLA Board approved the funding of Student Travel grants aiming to support the travel of undergraduate and graduate student members of the Children's Literature Assembly to the Annual NCTE Convention and the CLA Breakfast. For the virtual NCTE Conventions of 2020 and 2021, the grants were converted to Student Conference Grants and help defray registration costs for the NCTE conference. In 2021, the grant was renamed to The Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grant, in honor of the late co-editor of the Journal of Children's Literature, Dr. Vivian Yenika Agbaw. The student grants are awarded yearly dependent on available funding.

The Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grants are available to undergraduate and graduate students who have interest in children's literature. In 2023, two $300 grants were awarded. Grants help fund registration and travel expenses for the NCTE annual convention and CLA breakfast.
Eligibility Criteria:
Applications for the Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Student Conference Grant will undergo masked review by CLA Board and/or Student Committee members. To be considered for the Grant, the applicant must:
  • be an undergraduate or graduate student (at the time of NCTE 2024), and
  • be a current CLA member. 
Student memberships are $20/year [Join CLA].
 
Preference will be given to applicants presenting on a topic related to children’s literature in an accepted session; those presenting on other topics or without an accepted session are also welcome to apply.
 
If Awarded:
By completing and submitting this application, the applicant agrees to the following if awarded:
  • attend the CLA Breakfast on Sunday, November 24, 2024 and
  • volunteer for a minimum of two hours at the CLA booth in the Exhibit Hall.
For information only.
The application deadline has elapsed.
Questions?

Email JenniferSlagus
CLA Student Committee Chair

Congratulations to the 2023 Grant Recipients!

Jennifer’s doctoral research focuses on representations of neurodivergence in twenty-first century middle grade fiction.
Callie’s doctoral research foci are twofold:
  1. How English Language Arts teachers access historical knowledge when teaching literature that involves the Holocaust, and
  2. Using critical content analysis to analyze and understand representations of the Holocaust, and specifically Anne Frank, in children’s picturebooks.