🏆 Welcome to the 14th Annual Best Indie Book Award Contest🏆
$500.00 Book Of The Year Cash Prize!
When you enter the Best Indie Book Award® contest, if you win in any category, your book will automatically be entered in the BIBA® Book of the Year competition. Minimum Cash Prize of $500. (Note: As stated in our Terms, the BIBA® Children’s Book of the Year cash prize remains static at $500 and does not increase throughout the contest year.)
Best Indie Book Award® (or BIBA®) is an international literary contest recognizing outstanding achievements by indie authors. Entries are limited to independently (indie) published books, including those from small presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors.
- Submissions open on January 1st of each year.
- Submission deadline is Noon (EST) on August 1st.
- Winners announced by November 30th of each year.
- The Best Indie Book Award® is a legitimate writing competition. We do not allow AI-generated books or illustrations. AI is only permitted for grammar checking. Entries will be judged based on multiple writing skills, which include storytelling ability, the author’s ability to engage the reader, transitions, hooks, pacing, movement of the story, the author’s skill with voice, character, dialogue, narrative, grammar, and punctuation. Note: You are competing against other entrants.
- Entries must be independently published (self-published), or published by a qualifying small press. (Please see our FAQ page for more information.)
- Books that are not accepted: Works that are under a conventional publishing contract with a major publisher. (HarperCollins, Harlequin, etc.)
- *No hardcore erotica.
- Books must be in English and currently available to the public. (We accept all publication dates.)
- Please read the FAQs and Terms before entering.
- Note: This is the BIBA® literary contest; we do NOT judge the cover image. (For Covers, see the Cover Design Award.)
