South African Independent Publishers Awards 2015

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Booktown Richmond is proud to announce another first: awards that recognise excellence in the burgeoning field of self-published books in South Africa.

In Booktown Richmond we pride ourselves on finding the best self-published books to invite to BookBedonnerd, our literary festival held every October. Thus when I met writers such as Grant Leversha, author of Within an African Eden, which I consider to be the greatest book I have ever seen as far as craftsmanship is concerned, and Maritza Breytenbach, author of The Cookie Book, both of whom have won awards in overseas competitions for best self-published book, I realised it was time to launch such an award in South Africa.

However, it took another surprise visit from Grant Leversha at this year’s BookBedonnerd, and the comments of another participant, Dawn Garisch, who praised us for the number of self-published books at this year’s festival, to motivate me to "just do it".

It therefore gives us great pleasure to call on all self-published authors to enter their books in the inaugural 2015 South African Independent Publishers Awards.

Self-published books in both English and Afrikaans are eligible for entry.

The closing date for all entries is 15 March 2015.

As with all the overseas awards for self-published books, there will be no prize money. These awards are meant to be about recognition.

And with recognition come, hopefully, more sales.

However, I would like to assure all finalists that the commissioned sculptures you will receive will enjoy pride of place on your mantelpiece.

Please note that for this inaugural awards event, books published in the years 2010–2014 will be considered in the following categories. (From 2016, only books published in the preceding year will be eligible for consideration.)

  1. Biography/Autobiography
  2. Fiction
  3. Fine Art
  4. Photography / Coffee Table Books
  5. Architecture
  6. Short Stories
  7. Children’s Literature
  8. Animals/Pets
  9. Cookery
10. Environment
11. Health/Medicine
12. Humour/Cartoon
13. History
14. Home + Garden
15. Poetry
16. Travel
17. Best IndependentBook/Author/Publisher Website
18. Award-winning Independent Bookstore.

The awards ceremony will be held at the JM Coetzee/Athol Fugard Festival which we host in the last full weekend of May 2015 in Booktown Richmond. All shortlisted authors will be invited to the festival. Judges will be announced at the end of February 2015.

For further enquiries, and for details on how to enter, kindly contact:

Darryl David – davidd@ukzn.ac.za or 081 391 8689
Peter Baker – pcbaker@mweb.co.za or 011 447 2517.
 

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