DEADLINE: Amsterdam Book Festival

The 2016 Amsterdam Book Festival will consider major publisher, independent publisher and self-published works in non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, cookbooks, compilations/anthologies; young adult, how-to, photography/art, unpublished stories, business/technology, poetry, spiritual/religious, travel, history and the wild card (anything goes!).

Entries can be in Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German or Portuguese and can be published, self-published or issued by an independent publishing house. There is no date of publication restriction. Deadline to enter: April 25, 2016.

Our grand prize for the 2016 Amsterdam Book Festival is a $1000 appearance fee and a flight to our awards ceremony in Amsterdam, to be held in June 2016.

Submitted works will be judged by a panel of publishing industry experts using the following criteria:

1) General excellence and the author's passion for telling a good story.
2) The potential of the work to gain a wider audience in the worldwide market.