How to Submit a Book - Main Page

The Saskatchewan Book Awards offers 14 annual or semi-annual awards to celebrate, promote and reward Saskatchewan authors and publishers worthy of recognition.

Award winners are determined through a jury process of the highest integrity, by high-calibre jurors who are recognized as leaders with significant expertise in each award category.

Please click on one of the following links to view individual sections, or scroll down to view all sections:

• Key Requirements
• Official Criteria - 2010 Call for Entries and Deadlines
• List of 2010 Awards
• Fees
• 2010 Awards Announcement & Presentation
• Entry Form and Author/Publisher Declaration
• Submitting Your Entries
• For More Information

Key Requirements

• In order to submit a book for consideration for an award, you must be the author or publisher of the book.
• Authors and publishers nominated for an award must meet the Saskatchewan residency or registration requirements outlined in the official criteria, and submit a declaration of residency or registration.
• Titles must have been published between September 16, 2009 and September 15, 2010. For the Young Adult Literature, First Peoples' Writing and Publishing Award, and Prix du Livre Français titles must have been published between September 16, 2008 and September 15, 2010.

How to Submit a Book - Official Criteria

The 2010 Call for Entries was issued on June 1, 2010. For the entire criteria package please click here.

The deadline for submissions for titles published between September 16, 2009 and July 31, 2010 is Friday, July 31, 2010. Exceptions exist in the Young Adult/Children's Literature, First Peoples' Writing and Publishing, and the Prix du Livre Français award categories, please refer to the official criteria for those awards.

The deadline for titles published after July 31, 2010 is Wednesday, September 15, 2010.

All official criteria for each award category must be met for each submission in that category.

Please note the following criteria changes for 2010:

1) Award for Young Adult Literature/Children's Literature

This award competition now alternates from year to year between titles intended for readers aged 11 and under (Children’s Component) and readers aged 11 to 18 (Young Adult Component). A title may be entered either in the children’s component or in the young adult component, but may not be entered in both.

In 2010, titles for young adults readers (11-18 years) published between September 16, 2008 and September 15, 2010 will be eligible.

For the 2011 competition, titles for children’s readers (aged 11 and under) published between September 16, 2009 and September 15, 2011 will be eligible.

2) First Peoples’ Writing Award

Alternates from year to year between titles intended for readers up to 18 years of age and titles for adult readers.

For the 2010 competition, the First Peoples’ Writing award will target titles for adult readers published between September 16, 2008 and September 15, 2010. In 2011, titles for readers up to age 18 published between September 16, 2009 and September 15, 2011 will be eligible

3) First People’s Publishing Award

In 2010, this award will target titles aimed at 18 years of age and older published between September 16, 2008 and September 15, 2010. In 2011, the First Peoples’ Publishing Award will target 18 year of age and younger published between September 16, 2009 and September 15, 2011.

4) Scholarly Writing Award

Beginning in 2010 translations and critical editions to which the translator or editor has contributed 49 pages or 25,000 words in the form of an introduction, notes and/or commentary will be included in this category.

5) Graphic Novels

Beginning in 2010 the graphic novel format will be included as eligible in all the categories except Poetry and Scholarly.

6) Publishing Awards

Beginning in 2010 a cash award for $2,000 to go toward promotion of the winning book will be presented to the publisher in the First Peoples’ Publishing, the Award for Publishing, and Publishing in Education.

7) ***Readers’ Choice Award is discontinued.

List of 2010 Awards

The complete list of official criteria for all awards can be accessed by clicking here (PDF)

You can also access the criteria for each award individually by clicking on the award below:

Book of the Year in memory of Mary Sutherland (Established: 1993)

First Book Award in memory of Brenda MacDonald Riches (Established: 1993)

Fiction Award (Established: 1995)

Non-Fiction Award (Established: 1994)

Regina Book Award (Established: 1993)

Saskatoon Book Award (Established: 1998)

Poetry Award in memory of Anne Szumigalski (Established: 1995)

Young Adult Literature Award (Established: 1995)

Award For Publishing (Established: 1993)

First Peoples’ Publishing Award (Established: 1997)

First Peoples’ Writing Award (Established: 2009)

Publishing in Education Award (Established: 1996)

Scholarly Writing Award (Established: 1999)

Prix du livre français (Established: 2002)

Please note: SBA’s jurors only select a winner in each award category if there is a high-calibre work which merits the award each year.

To access the 2010 entry form and declaration of residency/registration, please click here.

For more information on how to submit a book, please click here.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Jackie Lay
Executive Director
Saskatchewan Book Awards
Ph: (306) 569-1585
Fax: (306) 569-4187
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Fees

All entries must be accompanied by a cheque or money order for $25 per title, per award category. (e.g. if you are nominating one title in two award categories, you must submit a fee of $50)

2010 Awards Announcement & Presentation

The 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards will be announced and presented at the 2010 Awards Gala, which will take place on November 27, 2010 at 5 p.m., in Regina. For more information on the 2010 Awards Gala, please visit our Events page.

Entry Form and Author/Publisher Declaration

Please click here to access the 2010 entry form and residency/registration declaration.

Submitting Your Entries

Submission Checklist

Have you included:

• a completed entry form for each submission?
  To access an entry form, please click here.
  
• the author or publisher residency/registration declaration?
  To access a declaration of residency/registration form, please click here.
  
• the author’s telephone number, fax, email and address?
• a cheque or money order for $25 per title, per award category?
  (e.g. if you are nominating one title in two award categories, you must submit a fee of $50)
• if applying for only one award category – please submit five copies of the book
• if applying for more than one award category - four copies of each book submitted per award
  (Please note if books will follow by separate shipment.)

Please submit your book entries by the deadline to:

Saskatchewan Book Awards
205B -2314 11th Ave.
Regina, SK
S4P 0K1

If you have any questions, please contact:

Jackie Lay
Executive Director
Saskatchewan Book Awards
Ph: (306) 569-1585
Fax: (306) 569-4187
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