Nomination Guidelines
Deadline for 2025 submissions: January 31, 2025.
Nominate a Title Published in 2024
View the complete Américas Award Guidelines
- The book must be published in 2024.
- The title may be for primary or secondary reading levels.
- Language of publication may be English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, or any language indigenous to the Americas.
- The book must be published in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or by a publisher with offices within the U.S.
- Submissions may be fiction, poetry, folklore, or non-fiction.
- A book will only be considered in its first year of publication in the United States. A book originally published in the U.S. in English with a translated edition in a subsequent year will only be eligible the first year of the edition.
Process
To nominate a 2024 copyright title, publishers are invited to submit eleven copies of the nominated book to the Américas Review Committee Members (including the ex-officio member) and the Award Coordinators by January 31, 2025. There is no entry fee. For all questions, please reach out to award coordinators: Katrina Dillon (kedillon@arizona.edu) and Cynthia Garza (cgarza@tulane.edu).
The list of award winners, honor books, and commended titles will be announced in May 2025, recognizing works published in in the previous year.
Please send eleven copies of the nominated book (one each) to the Review Committee Members, the Award Coordinators, and the Ex-officio Member:
REVIEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Julia Byrd
2767 Barry Pl
Oakland, CA 94601
juliabyrd@berkeley.edu
2025-2027
Shane Carter
3121 College Ave, Apt 4.
Berkeley, CA 94705
orias@berkeley.edu
2024-2026
Hassael Cazesuz
4490 West Jeffrey Road
Tucson, Arizona 85746
hassael.cazesuz@pima.gov
2024-2026
Abigail Chase
1233 W 2175 N
Clinton, UT 84015
abigail.chase@slcschools.org
2025-2027
Vicky Lowe
5013 W 3285 S
West Valley City, UT 84120
vlowek@gmail.com
2022-2025
Dr. Cristina Rhodes
253 E Louther St
Carlisle, PA 17013
profa.cristinarhodes@gmail.com
2022-2025
Sergio Vasquez
2223 D’Abadie St
New Orleans, LA 70119
svasquez1@tulane.edu
2023-2025
Dr. Miriam Villanueva
180 Main Street
Andover, MA 01810
mvillanueva@andover.edu
2025-2027
AWARD COORDINATORS
Dr. Katrina Dillon
University of Arizona
Center for Latin American Studies
Marshall Building Suite 280
845 N Park Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721
kedillon@arizona.edu
(520) 626-0189
Cynthia Garza
Tulane University
Stone Center for Latin American Studies
6801 Freret Ave.
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
cgarza@tulane.edu
(504) 862-3143
Ex-officio
Julie Kline
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
NWQ B 2479 2025 Newport Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211
jkline@uwm.edu
The deadline to submit titles with copyright 2024 is January 31, 2025.