2024 CANREADS AWARDS
The CANREADS Awards celebrate outstanding books submitted for our reviews and blurbs. We evaluate across 38 categories, encompassing a wide range of submissions from across the nation.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Evaluation & Categories:
Entries will be evaluated by our team on a variety of writing skills and literary merit, including: storytelling ability, author’s ability to engage the reader, transitions and hooks, pacing and movement of the story, author’s skill with voice, character, dialogue, and narrative, grammar, and punctuation. By entering the CANREADS Book Award, you will be competing against other talented authors. We look forward to discovering and celebrating the best in Canadian publishing.
Categories include:
- Adult General Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Fantasy/Sci-Fi
- Speculative Fiction
- Romance
- Historical Fiction
- Thriller/Mystery
- Action/Adventure
- Women's Fiction
- Horror Fiction
- Memoir/Autobiography/Biography
- Self-Help
- Religion/Spirituality
- Finance/Business
- Health/Fitness
- Crafts/Hobbies
- Cooking/ Food/ Wine
- Art/Architecture/Design
- Parenting/Family
- LGBTQ+
- Relationships/ Sex
- Current Events/ Politics
- Travel
- Entertainment (Pop Culture, Music & Movies)
- Technology
- Home/ Garden
- Science/ Animals/ Nature
- Sports/ Games/ Outdoors
- Essays/Journalism
- Racial and Cultural Studies
- True Crime
- Philosophy
- Poetry/ Short Stories
- Fashion/ Beauty
- Children's Fiction
- Children's Non-Fiction
- YA Fiction
- YA Non-Fiction
Please be specific as possible with your category for submissions.
Eligibility:
- Authors and publishers must be Canadian, or must have lived as a resident in Canada for at least one calendar year.
- Entries must be independently published (self-published) or published by a qualifying Canadian publisher.
- Independent publishers and authors who have not purchased a blurb or review can still submit their works for consideration.
- Books must be written in English.
- One submission per author allowed; publishers are welcome to submit up to five different titles by different authors.
- Please refer to the list above for accepted categories.
- Book must have a 2024 publication date.
Fees:
- $100 per title
- Free and automatic entry if blurb or review service is purchased.
Submission Instructions:
- We accept digital galleys (PDF only, with copyright page included), and physical copies sent to our PO box.
- Payments must be made online through our Shop page (linked below).
- Upon purchase with the link below, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page to submit your manuscript for the award. Please note that the award submissions form is different from the materials submission form on our Shop page for the purchase of general blurbs and reviews.
- Entrees will not be considered until the payment is confirmed and the form is filled out and submitted.
DEADLINE FOR 2024 SUBMISSIONS IS JANUARY 15, 2025. WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY JUNE 2025.
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