| Alberta Literary Awards | Writers Guild of Canada | Canada | May |
| Alberta Readers Choice Award | Edmonton Public Library | Canada | May |
| Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel | Amazon Canada | Canada | April |
| Ambassador Book Award | The English-Speaking Union of the United States | United States | September |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | American Academy of Arts and Letters | United States | |
| American Book Award | The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation | United States | December |
| Anisfield-Wolf BookAward | The Cleveland Foundation | United States | Spring |
| Arkansas—The Porter Prize | | United States | |
| Atlantic Book Awards | Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia | Canada | April |
| Audies | Audio Publishers Association | | May |
| Audiofile Earphone Award | AudioFile Magazine | | January |
| Australian Book Industry Awards | Australian Publishers Association | Australia | |
| Australian Capital Territory Awards | artsACT | Australia | |
| Australian Indie Award | Leading Edge Books | Australia | |
| Australian Literature Society Awards | Association for the Study of Australian Literature | Australia | |
| Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards | Australian Government | Australia | Novemeber |
| Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Allen & Unwin Publishers | Australia | |
| Authors Club First Novel Award | | United Kingdom | |
| Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Prize for Scottish Fiction | Glasgow's Book Festival | United Kingdom | |
| Banff Mountain Book Competition | Banff Centre | Canada | |
| Barbara Jefferis Award | | Australia | |
| Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for FictionEach season and every year since 1990, a volunteer group of Barnes & Noble
booksellers names the best new books of great literary merit written by
“debuting and underappreciated writers” to be promoted through Barnes
& Noble book stores and online at www.bn.com in the Discover Great New
Writers™ program. In the spring of each year, a panel of distinguished literary
judges chooses two outstanding authors (one fiction and one nonfiction) to
receive the Discover Great New Writers™ Award. | Barnes & Noble | United States | Spring |
| BBC National Short Story Award | Book Trust | United Kingdom | |
| Bellwether Prize for FictionThe Bellwether is unlike any other prize: it seeks to “advocate serious literary
fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture
and politics on human relationships.” | Barbara Kingsolver | United States | May |
| Benjamin Franklin Awards | Independent Book Publishers Association | United States | May |
| Best Translated Book Award | Rochester College | United States | March |
| Betty Trask AwardBegun in 1983, the prize and awards are given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom for best first novels by a Commonwealth citizen under the age of 35. | Society of Authors | United Kingdom | |
| Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardsThe Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA ) presents three $500 awards in adult fiction, nonfiction, and first novel. These awards honor outstanding achievement in presenting “cultural, historical and sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora” and to “encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience.” Eligible books must (1) portray some aspect of the African American experience past, present, or future; (2) be written by an African American; (3) be published in the United States in the year preceding presentation of the award; and (4) be an original work. | BCALA | United States | June |
| Borders Original Voices Award for FictionThe annual Original Voices Awards, presented by Borders Group, Inc., recognizes
“fresh, compelling, and ambitious works from… new and emerging
talents.” Books chosen for the Original Voices program may be “innovative
and inspiring new books from first-time authors” or “works that represent a
new direction for established authors.” | Borders Books and Music | United States | December |
| Boston Review/Fisk Fiction PrizeEstablished in 1994 to recognize the finest literary fiction. | | United States | |
| British Columbia Book Prizes | | Canada | |
| Cabell First Novelist Award | | United States | |
| Caine Prize for African WritingNamed in memory of the late Sir Michael Caine, former chairman of the
Booker Prize management committee, the Caine Prize for African Writing
is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English,
whether in Africa or elsewhere. | Various Organizations | International | |
| CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature | | Australia | |
| California Book Awards | | United States | |
| California—Joseph Henry Jackson Award | | United States | |
| Camber Press Fiction Chapbook Award The winning fiction writer will receive $1,000 and have his or her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc. | Camber Press | United States | |
| Canadian Authors Association Awards | | Canada | |
| Canadian Booksellers Association LIbris Award for FictionThe Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) Libris Awards honor outstanding
achievement by authors and editors, sales reps and distributors,
booksellers, and publishers in delivering excellent books to Canadian readers.
CBA’s Fiction Book of the Year award is given to a Canadian work of
fiction published in the previous year that had “an outstanding impact on
the Canadian bookselling industry, created wide media attention, brought
people into bookstores, and had strong sales.” | Canadian Booksellers Association | Canada | |
| CBC Literary Awards | | Canada | |
| Chicago Tribune Literary Award | | | |
| City of Calgary W.O.Mitchell Book Prize | | Canada | |
| City of Vancouver Book Award | | Canada | |
| Colorado Book Awards | | United States | |
| Commonwealth Writer's PrizeThe Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is presented annually in May by the
Commonwealth Foundation, with support from Australia’s Macquarie
Group Foundation, to “promote new voices, reward achievement, encourage
wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation
of different cultures and building understanding between cultures.” The
prize aims to reward “cutting-edge fiction” written in English, by both
established and new writers, across four regions of the Commonwealth
of Nations: Africa; Canada and the Caribbean; Europe; and South Asia,
Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. | Commonwealth Foundation | Various | May |
| Connecticut Book Awards | | United States | |
| Costa Book of the Year for FictionCosta
Awards are granted in six categories; first novel, novel, biography, poetry,
children’s literature, and Book of the Year. | Costa Coffee | United Kingdom | January |
| Danuth Gleed Literary Award (short fiction), | | Canada | |
| Darmouth Awards | | Canada | |
| Desmond Elliot Prize | | United Kingdom | |
| Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers | | International | |
| Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers | | United Kingdom | |
| Eric Hoffer Award | Eric Hoffer Award | United States | May |
| Flannery O’Connor Award | | | |
| Florida Book Awards | | United States | |
| Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Winners for FictionForeWord magazine calls itself “the only literary trade journal devoted
exclusively to reviewing great titles from independent presses.” Its Book
of the Year Awards program seeks to share these titles with booksellers,
librarians, and readers. Winners, selected by a panel of librarians and booksellers,are named in a variety of categories. | Foreword Magazine | United States | May |
| Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award | | | |
| Franz Kafka Prize | | | |
| Galaxy British Book Awards | | United Kingdom | |
| Governor General's Literary AwardsThe Governor General’s Literary Awards are presented by the Governor
General of Canada each November to recognize works of distinction in
a number of academic and artistic fields. | Canada Council for the Arts | Canada | November |
| Grand Prix du Livrede Montreal | | Canada | |
| Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Award for FictionEstablished by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association
(GLIBA) in 1995, these awards seek to “recognize and reward excellence
in the writing and publishing of books that capture the spirit and enhance
awareness of the Great Lakes region,” including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and
Michigan. Books in any category may be considered at the judges’ discretion,
as long as they have been published in the previous year, contain a
Great Lakes theme or setting, or are by authors living in the Great Lakes
region. | Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association | United States | Fall |
| Grub Street Book Prize for FictionGrub Street is a non-profit creative writing center designed to support writers
in all stages of their development. The group is “dedicated to nurturing
writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the
Boston area.” The Grub Street Book Prize for fiction is awarded to an author
who resides outside of New England and who has previously published
(first books are not eligible). | Grub Street | United States | |
| Guardian Fiction PrizeSponsored by the Guardian newspaper, on the recommendation of a panel of five judges. The award winner must be a work of fiction by a British or Commonwealth writer that has been published in the United Kingdom. | | United Kingdomw | |
| Guardian First Novel | | United Kingdom | |
| Hawthornden Prize | | United Kingdom | |
| Hemingway/PEN Foundation Award for FictionMary Hemingway founded the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976
to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize
distinguished first books of fiction. | Ernest Hemingway Foundation | United States | March |
| Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardThe mission of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is to
“discover, develop, and honor Black writers.” | Borders Books and Music | United States | November |
| Independent Publisher Book Award for Fiction | Independent Publisher Online Magazine | United States | May |
| Indies Choice Book Award for FictionMore than 1,200 independent booksellers across the United States nominate
books they most enjoyed recommending to customers during the previous year. Six Indies Choice Book Awards are given annually in May,including adult fiction (listed here), adult nonfiction, children’s literature, illustrated children’s book, rediscovery, and paperback. The winners are voted on by indie booksellers across the country, chosen to reflect the unique titles championed by indies. | IndieBound | United States | May |
| International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardThe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an annual international
prize, open to books written in any language and published in English. | Dublin CIty Public Libraries | International | June |
| Irish Book Awards | | Ireland | |
| James D. Phelan Award | The San Francisco Foundation | United States | |
| James Jones First Novel Fellowship | Wilkes University | United States | Fall |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for FictionThe James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded in biography and fiction, are
the oldest literary awards in the United Kingdom. The two prizes, for fiction
and nonfiction, each now worth £10,000, have been awarded annually
since 1919. They are given out at the prestigious Edinburgh Book Festival in
August. | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | August |
| Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American WomanAwarded annually since 1976, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction
by an American Woman honors the memory of a young editor killed in an
automobile accident just as the promise of her career was unfolding. Her
family, friends, and professional associates created the prize’s endowment
to perpetuate “the literary standards and personal ideals for which she
stood.” | Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies | United States | |
| John Llewellyn Rhys Prize | | United Kingdom | |
| Kiriyama PrizeThe prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding
books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that “encourage greater mutual
understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally
diverse region.”
| Pacific Rim Voices | Various | |
| Lambda Literary Award | | United States | |
| Lannan Literary Award for Fiction | | | |
| Latino Book Awards of the Latino Book and Family FestivalThe Latino Book & Family Festival began in Los Angeles, in 1997, and is currently hosted in several major U.S. Latino markets, with plans to expand.
Sponsored by Latino Literacy Now, and coproduced by actor and activist
Edward James Olmos, the festival and its associated multi-category book
awards seek to “promote literacy, culture, and education and to provide
people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to celebrate the
diversity of the multicultural communities in the United States in a festival atmosphere.” | Latino Literacy Now | | |
| Lorne Pierce Medal | | Canada | |
| Los Angeles Times Award for FictionSince 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded annual book prizes in nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category
added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989),
and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). The award for fiction
may be given to an author of any nationality. | Los Angeles Times | International | April |
| Louisiana Writer Award | | United States | |
| Man Book Prize for FictionThe Man Booker Prize for fiction is awarded annually in October for the best original full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. | Man Group, PLC | United Kingdom | October |
| Man Booker International Prize | | | |
| Manitoba Book Award Winners | | Canada | |
| Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards | | Canada | |
| Massachusetts Book Awards | | United States | |
| Matt Cohen Prize | | Canada | |
| Mercantile Library Center for Fiction Awards | The Center for Fiction | United States | October |
| Michigan Notables | | United States | |
| Midwest Booksellers Association Book Choice Award for FicitonChoice Awards winners are nominated and eventually chosen by independent
booksellers who are members of the Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA).
All nominated books must be related to the Midwest, either in subject matter
or because the author lives in one of the MBA states: Iowa, Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Winning books will exhibit broad appeal across the region. | Midwest Booksellers Association | United States | August |
| Miles Franklin Literary AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s first and most prestigious
book prize, was established with a bequest from the author Miles Franklin
(My Brilliant Career, 1901) and is given annually in June for a novel “of the highest literary merit” that “presents Australian life in any of its phases.” | Trust | Australia | June |
| Minnesota Book Awards | | United States | |
| Montana Book Awards | | United States | |
| Montana New Zealand Book Awards | | New Zealand | |
| Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Regional Book Award for FictionThe Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association is a nonprofit
group comprised of 250 booksellers in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,
Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. This award, created in 1990, is
given annually to honor books set in the Mountain and Plains regions. | Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association | United States | July |
| National Book Award for FictionThe National Book Awards, including the Award for Fiction and Poetry, are
given annually in November to American authors for books published the prior
year. The purpose of these awards, created in 1950 by a group of publishers,
is “to enhance the public’s awareness of exceptional books... and to increase
the popularity of reading in general.” Award categories have varied over the
years, but now include nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. | National Book Foundation | United States | November |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are given annually in March to the
finest books published in English, in the United States. Winning authors
may be citizens of any country. The NBCC is a nonprofit organization comprised of 700 book reviewers. The award is given to books in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. | National Book Critics Circle | United States | March |
| New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for FictionThe New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) sponsors
its Book of the Year Awards to recognize authors who were born or lived
in the Atlantic region—New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C.,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—and/or books whose story takes
place in that region. There are five categories: fiction, nonfiction, picture
book, children’s literature, and special interest. | New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association | United States | Fall |
| New England Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Fiction | | | |
| New Mexico Book Awards | | United States | |
| New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts | | United States | |
| New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards | | Australia | |
| New York Society Library Book Awards | | United States | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards | | Canada | |
| Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award | Australian Booksellers Association | Australia | |
| Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award | | New Zealand | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | | Australia | |
| Nobel Prize for Literature | | | |
| North Carolina Book Awards | | United States | |
| Northern California Book Awards | | United States | |
| Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for FictionThe annual Book of the Year awards, presented by the Northern California
Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA), honor books published
in the award year and written or illustrated by residents of Northern
California. Independent booksellers, representing 200 stores in the region,
vote for their favorite titles from a list of finalists created by bookseller
committees. NCIBA is dedicated to supporting, nurturing, and promoting
independent retail bookselling in California. | Northern California Independent Booksellers Association | United States | April |
| Northern Territory Literary Awards | | Australia | |
| Ohioana Book Awards | | United States | |
| Oklahoma Book Awards | | United States | |
| Orange Prize for FictionThe Orange Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Broadband Prize) is
given annually in June to a woman from any nationality who publishes, in
England, a book originally written in English. Books of short stories and
novellas are not eligible. The prize for the award is £30,000 and a bronze
figurine called the Bessie. Not only is the Orange Prize given to female
authors, it is adjudicated exclusively by female authors. | Orange Prize | International | June |
| Oregon Book Awards | | United States | |
| Ottawa Book Prize | | Canada | |
| Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for FictionThe Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) supports “literacy,
free speech, and independent bookselling” in Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon, and Washington. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association awards
have been given annually since 1965. | Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association | United States | November |
| Patrick White Award | | Australia | |
| Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award | | | |
| PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionThe PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize, given annually in
February, which honors the best published works of fiction by American
citizens. | PEN/Faulkner Foundation | United States | February |
| PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading | | | |
| PEN/O. Henry Award | | | |
| Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts | | Canada | |
| Pulitzer Prize for FictionThe Pulitzer Prizes are awarded each year, to American authors, in 21 categories,
including fiction and poetry. Named after Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born publisher,
the prizes are regarded as the highest U.S. national awards, particularly in
journalism. The prize for fiction honors a distinguished work, preferably one dealing
with American life. | The Pulitzer Prizes | United States | April |
| Pushcart Prize | | United States | |
| Quebec Writer’s Federation Awards | | Canada | |
| Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards | | Australia | |
| Re-Lit Awards | | Canada | |
| Rea Award for the Short Story | | | |
| Red Hen Press Short Story Award | | | |
| Robert Kirsch | Los Angeles Times | United States | May |
| Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize | | Canada | |
| Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Awards | | United States | |
| Saltire Society Scottish Literary Awards | | United Kingdom | |
| Saskatchewan Book | | Canada | |
| Scotabank Giller Prize Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch established the Giller Prize in 1994
to honor his late wife, Doris Giller, a respected literary journalist. In 2005,
Scotiabank joined as a cosponsor, doubling the available cash award. The
Scotiabank Giller Prize celebrates “the best in Canadian fiction” each year
and works to improve marketing so that winning books are “brought to the
attention of all Canadians.” | Scotiabank and The Giller Prize | Canada | November |
| Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Award | | United States | |
| Society of Authors Awards | | United Kingdom | |
| Somerset Maugham Award | | United Kingdom | |
| Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for FictionAny member of the Southern California Independent Booksellers
Association (SCIBA)—including booksellers, book wholesalers, publishers,
and other industry professionals—may nominate a work, author, or illustrator
for a SCIBA Book Award, but only booksellers may vote to determine
the winners. Awards are given in six categories: nonfiction, fiction, mystery,
art and architecture, children’s novel, and children’s picture book. To be
eligible, a book must have been published between July 1 and June 30
of the award year. Works that reflect “the Southern California culture or
experience” are preferred. | Southern California Independent Booksellers Association | United States | October |
| Southern Independent Booksellers Association for FictionThe Book Award was created in 1999 to recognize excellent books of
southern origin, as determined by members of the Southern Independent
Booksellers Association (SIBA), and “to give southern readers an enviable
list of books to enjoy, read, buy, and give as gifts.” Books are nominated in
six categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cooking, young adult,
and children’s. Eligible books must be set in the American South and have
been published within the award year. Only SI BA-member booksellers in
the states of Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana,
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Mississippi can
submit nominations and vote on the selections. | Southern Independent Booksellers Association | United States | July |
| St. Louis Literary Award | | United States | |
| Stonewall Book Awrd | | United States | |
| Tasmanian BookAwards | | Australia | |
| The Age of the Year Awards | | Australia | |
| The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | | United Kingdom | |
| The Story Prize | | | |
| Toronto Book Award | | Canada | |
| Tournament of Books - Rooster AwardThe Morning News, an online literary publication, has put on the Tournament
of Books every year since 2005. With Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon, as
sponsor, the tournament identifies “16 of the most celebrated and highly
touted novels of the year, seed[s] them in a March Madness-type bracket,
conscript[s] them into a ‘Battle Royale of Literary Excellence,’ and…
present[s] the author of the winning book a live rooster.” | Mornging News/Powell's Books | United States | March |
| Trillium Book Award for FictionIn 1987, the government of Ontario established the Trillium Book Award
to “recognize excellence, support marketing, and foster increased public
awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.” | Provincial Government of Canada | Canada | June |
| Utah Book Award | | United States | |
| Victoria Butler Book Prize | | Canada | |
| Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards | | Australia | |
| Virginia—Library of Virginia Literary Awards | | United States | |
| Wales Book of the Year Prize | | United Kingdom | |
| Warwick Prize for Writing | | International | |
| Washington State Book Award | | United States | |
| Waverton Good Read Award | | United Kingdom | |
| Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards | | Australia | |
| Whiting Writers’ Award | | United States | |
| William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition | | United States | |
| Writers’ Trust Awards | | Canada | |
| Writer’s Trust Author Awards | | | |
