- Amy McNulty (Patchwork Press)
- Cale Dietrich (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
- Christina June (Blink/HarperCollins)
- Brigid Kemmerer (Bloomsbury USA Childrens)
- Rosalyn Eves (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House)
- Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan)
- Erin Beaty (Imprint/Macmillan)
- Andrew Shvarts (Hyperion/Disney Publishing Worldwide)
- Chelsea Bobulski (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
- K. Ancrum (Imprint/Macmillan)
- Margaret Rogerson (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
- Amanda Hocking (Wednesday Books/Macmillan)
- B.T. Gottfred (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)/Macmillan)
- June Hur (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
- Amanda Sellet (HMH Teen/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)