Eyelands Book Awards 2025

Competition Information

Eyelands Book Awards 2025 is open for submissions.

Entry Categories

  • Full-length books of fiction (novels or novellas of any genre)
  • Collections of short stories by one author
  • Collected and selected poems
  • Historical fiction – Memoir
  • Children’s and YA books – Graphic Novels      
  • LGBTQIA* (texts of any genre with a main theme related to the LGBTQIA+ community)
  • Sci-Fi – Thriller – Horror (Novels or novellas)
  • Self-published books

Submission Guidelines

  • There is no restriction regarding the form or style of writing.
  • Open to writers of any nationality.
  • Submit your book or manuscript online.
  • Manuscripts must be written in English.

Judges: P.H.C. Marchesi (Children’s books/graphic novels), Andriana Minou (Poetry, LGBTQIA+), Barbara Black (Short stories), Ilinda Stefanova (Novels), Gregory Papadoyiannis (Sci-fi-Thriller, Self-published books), Katherine Wiseman (Historical novel)

Entry fee: Early bird submission 30 euros ($ 35) until September 1st, 2025. Then, 40 euros ($45).

Prizes:

  • Grand prize (published books): Five-day stay in Athens
  • Grand prize (writers’ choice): Five-day stay in Athens
  • Grand prize (unpublished books): Translation into Greek and publication from Strange Days Books
  • 14 more prizes, and also win a handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards!
  • Certification document for every prize winner.

Deadline: October 20th, 2025, at midnight PST.

All details, all submissions via their website.

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