🏆 Welcome to the 12th Annual Best Indie Book Award Contest🏆
$2000 Book Of The Year Grand Prize
(The 2024 BIBA Book of the Year Cash Prize has now risen to $2,000.00 U. S. dollars.)
When you enter the Best Indie Book Award contest, if you win in any category, your book will automatically be entered into the BIBA Book of the Year competition. 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: 12 Noon (EST), August 15th. (Deadline has been extended to August 25.) (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 F.A.Q. 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.)
