Book Awards

The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards are regarded as one of the highest national honors in independent publishing.

The Goody Business Book Awards are presented by Goody PR to “Uplift Author Voices” – who are making a difference with Words!

The Non-Obvious Book Awards are curated, judged and created for people who love books. Especially non-fiction books.

The Reader Views Literary Awards program helps level the playing field for self-published authors, allowing readers to recognize the most creative and exciting new books in the industry.

Adult and Children’s Books Honest and In Depth Judging Comprehensive Feedback Run by Authors

Discovering Today’s Best Books with Editorial Reviews and International Book Awards

Every year, New Zealanders are invited to nominate their choice of an outstanding writer who has made a significant contribution to New Zealand literature

Premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders

A curated guide to the very best books on management.

The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards – the MAIAs – celebrate the increasingly important work being done to help people understand money better, and benefit from the financial system

The largest NOT-FOR-PROFIT book awards program for independent publishers and self-published authors.

Since 2007, the Porchlight Business Book Awards have recognized the best books in the business genre every year, and all the people who help bring them to life.

Designed to bring increased recognition to the year's very best lifestyle books and their creators.

Celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.

A prize for writers from a migrant background.

Designed with the sole purpose of helping an undiscovered writer with talent and ambition to tell a story.

Recognises the best Australian book of the year that deals with any aspect of Australian life.

Showcase outstanding authors from across Australia, celebrating emerging and established authors across a range of genres.

Established to promote and extend the tradition of story telling, both factual and fictional, that is so much part of Australian life.

The prize is biennial and is awarded to an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author aged between 18 and 35 for a work of adult fiction, narrative non-fiction or young adult fiction.

Island welcomes submissions and prize entries from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and Australians living abroad.

Established in 2008 with the aim of creating a unique award recognising and rewarding the best Australian writing as chosen by Australian independent booksellers.

The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, valued at $20,000, supports Australian writers working on biography projects.

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers.

The Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay and it is now worth a total of $7,500.

Conducted annually, the Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year's best independently published titles from around the world.

The Society of Authors' Awards are run for authors and judged by authors, annually recognising the best and most promising voices of the year.

Aims to identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics.

The Royal Society of Arts Oceania contributes by supporting high-quality career development books through a Fellow-led event – The Australian Career Book Award.

Celebrates the work of authors who have shared their industry or market knowledge, experience and expertise in published book form.

Core mission is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living & green values, high-level wellness, positive social change & social justice, and spiritual growth.

The competition is looking to recognise books that deliver a compelling, enjoyable, insightful read on an issue, or issues, directly related to the changing backdrop against which management and leadership exists and operates.

The Axiom Business Book Awards are the largest and most respected critical guidepost for business books in today's new world of publishing.

The Australian Book Design Awards celebrate the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year.

The Nonfiction Book Awards accepts year-round submissions for traditionally published and self-published books and ebooks.

The Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards recognise entrepreneurs, businesspeople and business owners who have written and published a book demonstrating their skill, knowledge and experience in their industry or area of expertise.

Page Turner Awards is an inclusive writing and book awards with one goal – to change the lives of as many writers as possible.

The Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Established in 2016 to recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing, the Whistler Independent Book Awards offers prizes in two categories: fiction and non-fiction.

The Stella Prize is open to books authored by women – cis, trans, and non-binary inclusive.

An international literary contest recognizing outstanding achievements by indie authors.

An international contest open to all authors with 45 fiction and non-fiction categories.

Your self-published book can win up to $8,000 plus expert marketing services.

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) celebrate the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers.

Open to all books, published in the English language with an ISBN and currently available for sale online to global consumers.

One of Australia's richest and the most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five.

This self-published competition spotlights today’s self-published works and honors self-published authors.

The competition is open to all authors writing original works in English.

Respected book award content whose contestants range from first-time authors to New York Times bestsellers and celebrities.

The British Book Awards represent the absolute best of the book trade, showcasing the books, bookshops, agents and publishers who make this industry shine.

Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award is for prose works including short fiction collections, novellas as well as any hybrid prose forms up to 30,000 words in length.

The awards support, develop and recognise excellence in Western Australian writing.

Australia’s richest prize for biographical writing and memoir

The IR Discovery Awards seek to find the best of the best. Every book is read by an IR Pro reviewer and judged on its own merit.

An annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works.

Granted annually to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge during the last two years.

A prestigious international book award seeking the best books by indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses, judged by reputable judges.

Open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-size independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors.