Writers' League of Texas
2014 Book Awards Contest
Deadline: Friday, April 25
AT A GLANCE:

Open To: 
Texas authors of books published during the 2013 calendar year. Authors are required to show proof of TX residency (past or current) but are NOT required to be members of the WLT. This contest is open to self-published authors and traditionally-published authors. Books must be printed; e-books are not eligible for submission.

Deadline: 

April 25, 2014    

      
Prizes:
Winners in each category receive a $750 cash prize, a commemorative award, and public recognition at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. 
  
Entry Fee:   

$45 per title for WLT members / $55 non-members / $65 for publishers submitting on behalf of an author 

 

Categories: 

* Fiction
* Nonfiction
* Poetry
* Picture Books
* Middle Grade & Young Adult  

 

Click HERE for our entry form!
5 days left to enter the 2014 WLT Book Awards Contest! All materials must be postmarked by Friday, April 25th.

Did you publish a book in 2013? Are you a current or past resident of the state of Texas? If your answer to both these questions is yes, we invite you to enter the annual Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Contest. (This includes you, self-published authors!) Previously known as the Violet Crown Book Awards (founded in 1991) and the Teddy Children's Book Awards (founded in 1996), this longstanding contest recognizes outstanding published books in the following categories:

 

  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry & Literary Prose
  • Picture Books
  • Middle Grade & Young Adult Books

 

This contest is open to self-published authors as well as traditionally-published authors. Publishers may submit on behalf of authors or authors may submit their own books. Winners in each category receive a $750 cash prize, a commemorative award, and public recognition at the 2014 Texas  Book Festival in Austin, Texas.  


Last year's competition drew more than 200 entries, both self-published and traditionally published, spread across five categories. Winners of the 2013 Book AwardsContest included Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge (Putnam); The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin (Razorbill); Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion by WK Stratton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Strange Light by Derrick C. Brown (Write Bloody Publishing); One Day I went Rambling by Kelly Bennett (Bright Sky Press).

 For more details, including our online entry form, click  HERE. 

Questions about the contest? Email [email protected]