Authors, especially new authors, need all the help they can get in promoting and marketing their book. After you run the circuit of blogs, book signings, interviews, and drumming up reviews, what are you left with? An often overlooked arena is submitting your book or story to websites that hold contests. We’ve compiled a long list of some of the most popular book contests for you to check out.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards
American Book Awards/Before Columbus Foundation
Arthur C. Clarke Award in Science Fiction Literature
Australian Publishers Association Awards
Benjamin Franklin Awards in Independent Publishing
Book Sense Book of the Year Award
British Science Fiction Association Award
Chesley Science Fiction Awards
Children's Book Council of Australia Award
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award
Crime Writers Association of Dagger Awards
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Frost Foundation Award for Poetry
Gumshoe Awards for Crime Fiction
Hemingway Foundation PEN Award
Historical Society of New Mexico Book Awards
Honoring Alaska's Indigenous Literature Award
Hugo Awards for Science Fiction
Independent Publisher Book Awards
International Latino Book Awards
James Laughlin Award in Poetry
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes for Biography and Fiction
James Tiptree Jr. Award in Science Fiction
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction
John W. Campbell Science Fiction and Fantasy Award
Kate Tufts Discovery Award in Poetry
Lannan Foundation Literary Award
Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award for Fiction
Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Philip K. Dick Award in Science Fiction
Reader Views Annual Literary Book Award
Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Award
Wallace Stevens Award in Poetry
WILLA Award for Women's Stories of the West
Writer's Digest Self-Published Awards