2024-2025 CANREADS AWARDS
The CANREADS Awards honour excellence across 38 diverse categories, showcasing books that stand out for their quality and impact. Winning this award will elevate your book, capturing the attention of readers and industry professionals alike.
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 new stories.
Categories include:
- Adult General Fiction
- Adult General Non-Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Fantasy
- Speculative Fiction / Sci-Fi
- 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
- 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:
- Entries can be independently published (self-published) or published by a qualifying publisher.
- You must have lived as a resident/citizen in Canada for at least one year to be eligible for submission.
- Independent publishers and authors who have no review can still submit their works for consideration. Review must be purchased separately.
- Books must be written in English.
- Please refer to the list above for accepted categories.
- Book must have a 2015-2025 publication date.
Fees:
- $79 per title
Submission Instructions:
- We accept digital galleys (PDF only, with copyright page included), and physical copies sent to our office (address provided upon request).
- Payments must be made online through our Shop page (linked below).
- Entrees will not be considered until the payment is confirmed and book or manuscript is received.