North Street Book Prize: Cash & Publicity for Your Self-Published Book (A FundsforWriters Sponsor)

Published: Thu, 05/11/17

North Street Book Prize:

Cash & Publicity for Your Self-Published Book [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/north-street-book-prize ]



Sponsored by Winning Writers,

one of the Writer's Digest "101 Best Websites for Writers"






The North Street Book Prize Will Award $6,000 to Authors of Self-Published Books [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/north-street-book-prize ]



It's easier than ever to self-publish your book, but how can you stand out? Which services are worthwhile? Who can you trust? We've developed the North Street Book Prize to help.



Now in its third year, our contest will award $1,500 to each of three winners, plus a credit toward the high-quality publishing services at BookBaby, free advertising in the Winning Writers newsletter, and expert marketing advice from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter.
Six honorable mentions will receive $250 each.



Everyone who enters will receive a free electronic copy of Ms. Howard-Johnson's new guide, How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally & Ethically, plus free guides to successful publishing from BookBaby. Submit your book online or by mail with a $60 entry fee. Categories this year are General
Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. Enter by June 30 at winningwriters.com/north [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/north-street-book-prize ]










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Our 2016 Winners



images [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/north-street-book-prize-2016 ]We are thrilled
to announce the winners of our second North Street Book Prize [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/north-street-book-prize-2016 ] competition for self-published books. They are Winfred Cook [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/uncle-otto ] (top left), L.S. Johnson [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/vacui-magia ] (bottom left), and Linda Baer [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/red-blood-yellow-skin ] (bottom right). They each received $1,500, a marketing consultation with Carolyn Howard-Johnson [ http://howtodoitfrugally.com/ ], a $300 credit at BookBaby [ https://www.bookbaby.com/ ], and three free ads in our email newsletter. This year we awarded a special Second Prize of $500 to Mary Ellen Sanger [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/blackbirds-in-the-pomegranate-tree ]. We also commend our six Honorable Mentions—Jordan Cosmo [ https://winningwriters.com
/past-winning-entries/mind-your-head ], Mary J. Koral [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/the-year-the-trees-didnt-die ], Jeff Ingber [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/belas-letters ], Lee Wicks [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/some-measure-of-happiness ], April Kelly [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/winged ], and William Alan Thomas [ https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/return-of-the-convict ], and six Finalists—Michael Pronko, Bette Lee Crosby, Stephen Davenport, Annie Dawid, Delfy Hall, and Kathleen Jowitt. Judges Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche reviewed 473 entries, assisted by Lauren Singer and
Annie Keithline. We awarded $6,500 in all. Please read excerpts from our winners' outstanding books, with critiques by the judges and advice for future contestants. [ https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/north-street-book-prize-2016 ]










Contest Judges



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Jendi Reiter is the author of the poetry collections Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2015) and A Talent for Sadness (Turning Point Books, 2003), and the award-winning poetry chapbooks Swallow (Amsterdam Press, 2009) and Barbie at 50
(Cervena Barva Press, 2010). Her debut novel, Two Natures, was published in 2016 by Saddle Road Press. Awards include the 2016 New Letters Award for Fiction, the 2011 OSA Enizagam Award for Fiction, first prize in the 2010 Anderbo Poetry Prize, second prize in the 2010 Iowa Review Awards for Fiction, first prize in the 2009 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize from Quarter After Eight, first prize for poetry in Alligator Juniper's 2006 National Writing Contest, and two awards from the
Poetry Society of America. Ms. Reiter is assisted by Ellen LaFleche, whose manuscript, Workers' Rites, won the Philbrick Poetry Award from the Providence Athenaeum and was published as a chapbook in 2011. Her other awards include the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and the New Millennium Poetry Prize.