Submission Process For The UK Selfies Book Awards
The 2025 Selfies Book Awards are now open for submissions; the closing date is Friday, 3rd January 2025.
Submissions for the Selfies Book Awards are accepted from UK authors who have self-published (ie they have acted as both author and publisher) an adult fiction book, a children’s book or a general non-fiction book between January and December in 2024 (in English).
To sign up to the Awards, please go to www.bookbrunch.co.uk, and click on the subscribe button. Select the 6 month subscription box, and when you are prompted to do so, use the code SELFIES2024. The cost of entry is £34.50, which gives you a six month subscription to BookBrunch (normal price £69). Please remember to sign up here to ensure that you get the BookBrunch daily newsletter, which carries information about the Selfies Book Awards and the book industry generally, sent to your pc or mobile.
Once you have registered, a link will be sent to you to access the online submission form to enter the Awards. Please check your spam if you do not receive this immediately.
Please note that the submission form will ask for: your name, contact details, biographical note, book title, date of publication, short blurb, details of the sales & marketing campaign, a synopsis and a digital copy of the book being submitted, plus estimates of sales, marketing budget and revenue generated. Please include the book’s cover separately if the digital copy (which can be a pdf) does not have one.
A preliminary judging panel will review all submissions and draw up a shortlist for the expert judging panels. Shortlists will be announced in February 2025 via BookBrunch and supporting partners. Winners will be announced at a special ceremony at the London Book Fair in March 2025.
All shortlisted authors will receive free entry to the 2025 London Book Fair and membership of Author HQ club at the Fair, while the winning authors in each category will receive £750 cash, an author profile and advertising in BookBrunch plus other benefits, including a local author pr campaign.