Contests and Awards

The 13th Annual Ventura County Writers Club Short Story Contest opens September 1, 2012, and closes on October 15. New youth category added to contest. The top three adult winners…

The 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards Are Now Open For Submissions! To enter, please send one copy of your book per category entered. Books with publication dates of 2009, 2010,…

The Beverly Hills Book Awards is now accepting submissions for the 2013 contest. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2013 and winners and finalists will be announced in March, 2013.…

The 2012 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography, how-to, compilations/anthologies, photography/art, children’s, cookbooks, poetry, spiritual, young adult, business/technology, unpublished…

The 2012 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. Deadline submissions in each category must…

The Los Angeles Book Festival will consider entries in general non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, young adult, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, business, wild card (anything goes!), compilations/anthologies, sequels (for books…

The 2013 Great Southwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries, published and non-published: fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography, how-to, compilations/anthologies, photography/art, children’s, cookbooks, poetry, spiritual, young adult, business/technology, unpublished manuscripts,…

The Stars and Flags Book Awards program is the only national contest devoted entirely to books published within the last five years with content related to the military. They accept…

The 2012 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its competition and will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography, how-to, compilations/anthologies, photography/art, children’s,…

ForeWord Reviews is now accepting title entries for the 2012 Book of the Year Awards! New in 2012: ForeWord amended its genre categories to address specific literary trends. Additions include…