Contests and Awards

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards. Organized by the Smart Book Lovers, the Sharp Writ Book Awards are presented annually to recognize excellence in…

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…

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards. Organized by the Smart Book Lovers, the Sharp Writ Book Awards are presented annually to recognize excellence in…

Level Best Books is now accepting submissions for its tenth anthology of short crime fiction from New England writers are residents of the six New England states: Maine, New Hampshire,…

The 2012 Beach Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program. Grand prize for the 2012 Beach Book Festival is $1500 cash and a flight to…

The Ventura County Writers Club Poetry Contest deadline for submissions is February 15, 2012. www.venturacountywriters.com for more details.

The three top winners of the 12th Annual Ventura County Writers Club Short Story Contest will be presented and afforded with the opportunity to read their winning entries at the…

The Grand Prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will be three honorable mentions. There are no restrictions on content, style, genre, or length. All five finalists will…

ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord…

The 2012 Beach Book Festival has issued a call for entries—self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, teenage, how-to, science fiction, romance, comics, poetry, spiritual, compilations/anthologies, history, business…