2025 Submissions Are Open!
🏆 Welcome to the 13th Annual Best Indie Book Award Contest🏆
Book Of The Year Cash Prize*
The 2024 Book Of The Year Winner Received $2000.00!
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. Click here for more details.
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.
Submission Deadline: Noon (EST), August 1st, 2025.
(Winners are announced by November 30th of each year.)
- The Best Indie Book Award® is a legitimate writing competition. Entries will be judged based on multiple writing skills, which include story-telling ability, author’s ability to engage the reader, transitions, hooks, pacing, movement of the story, 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.)
