Books may be submitted into competition by authors, publishers, literary agents, or any member of the public. Individuals may submit a book into more than one competition, but they are required to submit an entry form, an entry fee, and the requisite number of review copies for each competition entered. Jury members listed for each category and members of the Florida Book Awards Advisory Committee will be unable to help anyone uncertain about which category (e.g., children's or young adult) best fits the book being nominated.
A completed entry form, an entry fee of $50.00 per title, and the submission of four copies of each book entered into competition, are required. Entrants are responsible for all shipping charges. Publishers submitting more than five titles will be required to pay a maximum entry fee of $250.00. Any titles over five submitted by publishers will not require additional entry fees. Entry fees are made necessary to offset the cost of the Florida Book Awards program, which receives no outside funding.
To be considered for a book award you need to complete the following tasks:
(1.) Fill out and submit a completed entry form.
(2.) Provide an entry fee of $50.00 per title (make checks payable to: Friends of FSU Libraries)
(3.) Four Copies of each title:
- One copy of the book and a check for $50 per book should be sent to:
FLORIDA BOOK AWARD ENTRY
116 Honors Way, Ste. 314
Tallahassee FL 32306
- The remaining three copies of each entry should be sent to jury members of each category named on the website. Jury members must receive their copies by December 1, 2011. None of the four copies will be returned to the author or publisher. (Please clearly mark the packages you send to jurors "FLORIDA BOOK AWARD ENTRY", authors and publishers are nonetheless encouraged to mail their books "return receipt requested" to jurors and Florida State University.) Please do not send any correspondence, notes, or inscriptions to jurors.
(4.) Materials must be received by December 1, 2011.
(5.) Except for the Florida Nonfiction Book Award, all work submitted must be written by a current full-time Florida resident. Where questions pertaining to eligibility arise, the Florida Book Awards Advisory Committee will make final determinations.
(6.) Books submitted into competition must have an original publication date between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011, must be professionally published and must be assigned an ISBN.
(7.) Books may be submitted by anyone (e.g., publisher, author, or literary agent) who pays the entry fee, fills out an entry form, and provides the number of copies requested.
(8.) New editions of previously published work are not eligible unless at least one-half the content has changed from the previous edition.
(9.) Translations are not eligible for consideration. Translations of FBA medal winners in the Spanish Language Category will not be eligible.
(10.) Although a book may be submitted into more than one category of competition if eligible (e.g., General Fiction and Popular Fiction; Children's Literature and Poetry), a separate fee and the requisite number of review copies will be required for each category submission.
(11.) Except for the categories Children's Literature, Visual Arts, and relevant Young Adult Literature, all books submitted into competition will be judged solely for their writing and not for their design or illustration.
(12.) Coauthored books are eligible if all authors are full-time Florida residents (Florida Nonfiction authors excepted).
(13.) Books by members of the Florida Book Awards Executive Board, Advisory Committee or the members of any jury are precluded from consideration.
(14.) Medal winners are expected to donate one lecture, presentation, or reading at the request of any one of The Florida Book Award's partners (partners will pay travel costs) within eighteen months of receiving the medal.
(15.) E-books are eligible for competition, but applicants must submit four paper copies of the book (one to Florida Book Awards Competition, the remaining three to jurors).
(16.) For books copyrighted in 2011 but not physically published before the December 1 deadline, authors may submit paper copy page proofs. Once the book has been officially published authors must submit four copies of the book (one to Florida Book Awards Competition, the remaining three to jurors).
(17.) By Submitting to the Florida Book Awards. authors or publishers agree to incur the travel costs when attending the awards banquet and to send two copies of their winning books to be included in public displays, one in Florida State University's Strozier Library and one in the Florida Governor's mansion.
