Submissions are closed for the 2022 contest. Good luck to all the entrants!
🏆 The annual 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. All submissions must be written in English.
- 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.
- Please read the F.A.Q. and Terms before entering.
- Note: This is the BIBA® literary contest; we do NOT need or judge the cover image. (For Covers, see the Cover Design Award.)
