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Get the Recognition Your Book Deserves

Entering the IPPY Book Awards provides a unique opportunity to gain recognition for your exceptional work across over 100 diverse categories. Whether your book excels in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or ebook formats, there’s a category that fits your work. Benefits include increased visibility, potential accolades, and enhanced credibility in the independent publishing community. Be sure to follow the submission guidelines for entry, and choose to submit your book online or by mail. We encourage you to take advantage of this chance to showcase your talent.

Benefits

  • Increased Visibility
  • Increased Credibility
  • Legacy Building

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Explore award-winning titles and join us in recognizing the authors, editors, publishers, illustrators, and photographers who have made a lasting impact with their inspiring work. These creators push the boundaries of storytelling and design, leaving a lasting legacy in publishing.

GUIDELINES

With entries open to books published from 2023-2025, submissions are judged on quality, originality, and design. Winners are awarded gold, silver, or bronze medals and enjoy year-long recognition and promotion. Keep reading for more details on eligibility, fees, and deadlines.

CATEGORIES

With over 100 categories, the IPPY Awards honor excellence in general, regional, and e-book publishing. Authors and publishers can enter works in genres like fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoirs, and specialty areas such as children's books, cookbooks, and graphic novels.

Winning the silver award last year (Useppa, a Passage in Time, 2007) improved our ability to market the book in a multitude of ways. It gave us credentials that we used in our public relations and marketing; it made a real difference in our ability to get book signings and presentation opportunities; it enabled us to get radio and TV interviews; and often people selected to purchase the book because of the silver award medallion sticker. We actually had a couple of people return the book because their book did not have the medallion sticker. It also made the author and the artist feel appreciated and honored, and gave us a reason to celebrate their success!

Chris Ludwig

Passages Press

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