Event listings and opportunities of interest to writers, publishers, artists and illustrators
National Indie Excellence Awards Seek Submissions – Please send one copy of the book per category entered. 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 publication dates are eligible. Be sure to copy the submission form and put it in each book you submit in each category. All titles must have an ISBN and be published books.
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book.
The 2011 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the Spring season and will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, compilations/anthologies, teenage, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, audio/spoken word, history, wild card, gay, photography/art, poetry, unpublished, travel and spiritual works.
The 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival has issued the call for entries to its annual celebration of books deserving more attention from the world publishing community.
Floorboard Review, an online literary journal of poetry and photography, is currently taking submissions for its first issue. See submission guidelines and submit online at www.floorboardreview.com
Talking Writing is an online monthly literary magazine that supports writers and those interested in literature by encouraging creative discussion of the writing process.
Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest deadline is December 1, 2010
Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards Competition deadline is December 15, 2010
Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards Deadline: November 2, 2010. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a trip to the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City, $2,500 cash, $100 worth of Writer’s Digest Books and the 2011 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.
Winners of the Book of the Year Awards will be revealed at the American Library Association conference and written up in ForeWord Reviews. Also, award finalists will be featured on the Web site, in the weekly e-newsletter, and on the Facebook page.
