Entries are open for this year's Minnesota Author Project contest for independently-published young adult and adult fiction. The contest is also accepting entries for the Communities Create category, which seeks written work by Minnesota organizations and communities.
Submissions in all three categories will be accepted from April 1 to May 31, 2021.
- $1,000 each, provided by the Minnesota Library Foundation and BiblioLabs
- Honors at the 2022 spring Indie Author Project Reception
- Opportunities to promote your book(s) at Minnesota public libraries
- Inclusion in a full-page print spread in Library Journal
- Opportunities to earn royalties through the Indie Author Project Select collection.
If available, print copies of the winning books will be purchased and made available for checkout through Minnesota’s public libraries. Winners and finalists will also be included and promoted in Indie Minnesota, a digital collection of local authors available on BiblioBoard Library. Multiple submissions are welcome.
Each book that is submitted to the contest must be:
- Indie-published
- In an adult fiction or young adult fiction genre
- Written by a Minnesota resident
- Available in either ePUB or PDF file
- $1,000 cash prize provided by the Minnesota Library Foundation and Bibliolabs
- Honors at the 2021 Minnesota Library Conference
- Honorary plaque
- Printing of the winning book
- Opportunity to have the winning book available throughout the state in the Indie Minnesota collection on BiblioBoard Library
- Media promotion throughout Minnesota
Each book that is submitted to the Communities Create contest must be:
- Created by a Minnesota-based organization or group
- A recommended minimum length of 10,000 words or 20 pages
- Available in either ePub or PDF format
For free resources to get started and for a link to the Indie Minnesota Collection, visit MNWritesMNReads.org.