Now through March 19, you can download the Amazon Kindle edition of our latest grand prize book for free. See below for details!
Deadline: July 1
North Street Book Prize
$23,500 in Prizes | Final Judge: Jendi Reiter
Submit your self-published or hybrid-published book to this year's North Street contest from Winning Writers. The grand prize winner will receive $10,000.
Choose from nine categories:
• Mainstream/Literary Fiction
• Genre Fiction
• Creative Nonfiction & Memoir
• Inspirational/Self-Help (new!)
• Poetry
• Children’s Picture Book
• Middle Grade
• Graphic Novel & Memoir
• Art Book
$23,500 in cash will be awarded in all, and the top ten winners will receive additional benefits to help market their books. Books published on all self-publishing and hybrid-publishing platforms are eligible. Any year of publication is eligible. Entry fee: $95 per book, with free gifts for everyone who enters.
All entrants who submit online can choose to receive a brief commentary from one of the judges (5-10 sentences) at no extra charge.
Prefer to enter the North Street competition by mail?
You may mail your entry and $95 fee to Winning Writers, Attn: North Street Book Prize, 351 Pleasant Street Suite B PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060-3998, USA. Please postmark your entry by July 1.
Please note that feedback will only be provided for entries submitted online, and not those entries submitted by mail.
If you would like us to return your book at the conclusion of the contest, please request this at the time of your entry and enclose an extra $10 for postage and handling.
Elise never asked to shepherd her small town through the apocalypse.
Yet here she is, the senior leader of a tiny New England town two years into humanity’s five-year death sentence. Amid dwindling rations and supplies, her job is to lead Middlewich through its last days in relative peace.
But she faces a new menace in the form of political challenger Grant Greene, an authoritarian whose radical new ration distribution proposal threatens to plunge half of Middlewich into early starvation. Adding pressure to the situation is the shocking reemergence of a critical resource.
Middlewich has successfully walled itself off from the outside world, but is it ready to battle the enemy within while saving the human race?
"I felt the scale of this story was exactly right, which elevated it over other speculative fiction in the contest. The worldwide catastrophe affects every aspect of the characters' lives, but the focus remains tightly on this small town that the reader has come to care about. We don't need to see the chaos and suffering outside Middlewich's walls because we feel it pushing in on their fragile boundaries at every turn. The characters are well aware that their choices are a microcosm of the human condition, a final verdict on whether humanity can and should survive. The story's central dilemma is also refreshingly different from most climate apocalypse fiction—not whether but how we choose to die."
