Paris _ The 2022 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best of international publishing.

The 2022 Paris Book Festival will consider major publisher, independent publisher and self-published works in the following categories: non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, cookbooks, compilations/anthologies; young adult, how-to, photography/art, unpublished stories, business, poetry, spiritual/religious, travel and the wild card (anything goes!).

Entries can be in French, English, Spanish, German or Portuguese and can be published, self-published or issued by an independent publishing house. There is no date of publication restriction.

Submitted works will be judged by a panel of publishing industry experts using the following criteria:

1. General excellence and the author’s passion for telling a good story.
2. The potential of the work to gain a wider audience in the worldwide market.

Deadline submissions in each category must be received by the close of business on August 25, 2022. Those who place in each category will be notified by e-mail shortly after the final entry deadline and the results will be posted at  www.parisbookfestival.com.

More information here.

Book submissions to the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards are open, now through August 1.

This coming year, we will confer some $380,000 to writers and translators at all stages of their careers. We hope you and your colleagues will help us spread the word and encourage the submission of your favorite books published in the 2022 calendar year.

We are accepting digital submissions for the following book awards:

• The PEN Open Book Award recognizes a book of any genre, written by a writer of color who has, prior to this book, not received wide media attention.
• The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection recognizes an author’s debut book, a collection of short stories, that represents distinguished literary achievement.
• The PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel recognizes an author’s exceptional debut novel, which shows great promise for subsequent works of fiction. Writers may be previously published in other genres.
• The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay preserves the dignity that the essay form imparts to literature by honoring a seasoned writer for a collection that expands their corpus of work.
• The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection recognizes a notable and accomplished collection that will have expanded the scope of American poetry.
• The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award honors literary excellence in communicating complex subjects in the physical or biological sciences to general audiences.
• The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography recognizes a biography of exceptional literary, narrative, and artistic merit, based on scrupulous research.
• The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction honors a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective to illuminate important contemporary issues.
• The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes an outstanding translation of a poetry collection from any language into English.
• The PEN Translation Prize recognizes the high literary caliber of a book-length prose translation from any language into English.

Submissions are accepted from June 1, 2022 through August 1, 2022 and you can learn more about submitting books here.

We are also accepting submissions for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Nominations are now open for the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award and the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing.

As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or our awards team at awards@pen.org with any questions or concerns.

We look forward to celebrating the year’s best writing with you!

Entries are now invited for the Anthology Poetry Award.

Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language. Entries are invited from poets of all nationalities, living anywhere in the world. Poems submitted must be on the theme of ‘Dreams’ and should not exceed 40 lines. There is no limit to entries per person.

It is not a requirement, but is advisable to refer to Anthology magazine or purchase a copy before submitting your work, so that you can see the type of material we publish. Subscriptions and single copies are available to purchase through our online shop.

The winner will receive a €500 cash prize and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology Magazine.

The winner will also receive a one year subscription to Anthology Magazine

Submission Deadline & Entry Fees: 
Early Bird: 31 July 2022 – €10 per poem
Deadline: 31 October 2022 – €15 per poem

For full details: https://anthology-magazine.com/poetry-award/