Prizes
One Grand Prize winner will receive:
- $5,000 in cash
- A feature article about you and your book for the May/June 2017 issue of Writer’s Digest
- Winner’s name on the cover of Writer’s Digest magazine (subscriber issues)
- A paid trip to the ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference!
- 30-minute platform & marketing consultation with Chuck Sambuchino, author of Create Your Writer Platform
- $200 worth of Writer’s Digest books
- One year Subscription (new or renewal) to Writer’s Digest magazine
One First Prize winner in each category will receive:
- $1,000 in cash
- Promotion in the May/June 2017 issue of Writer’s Digest
- $100 worth of Writer’s Digest books
- One year Subscription (new or renewal) to Writer’s Digest magazine
Honorable Mention Winners will receive $50 worth of Writer’s Digest Books and promotion on the website.
All entrants will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges.
Categories
- Mainstream/Literary Fiction
- Genre Fiction (Includes all sub-genres such as Romance, Horror, Science Fiction, Humor, etc.)
- Nonfiction (General, Cookbooks, Reference, Guidebooks, Textbooks)
- Inspirational (Spiritual, New Age)
- Life Stories (Biographies, Autobiographies, Family Histories, Memoirs)
- Children’s Picture books
- Middle-Grade/Young Adult
- Poetry
How to Enter
- You must register and submit your ebook online. You may enter more than one book and/or more than one category; however, you must submit each book separately and pay the additional fee for each entry. We accept check, money order or credit card payment for the required judging fee. All checks will be cashed within 60 days of the competition final deadline. Entry fees are non-refundable.
- The competition is open to all English-language self-published ebooks for which the authors have paid the full cost of publication, or the cost has been paid for by a grant or as part of a prize. Entries will be evaluated on content, writing quality and overall quality of production and appearance. All ebooks published between 2011 and 2016 are eligible. (Writer’s Digest may demand proof of eligibility of semifinalists.)
- Due to U.S. Government restrictions we are unable to accept entries from Syria, Iran, North Korea, or Sudan.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
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