San Diego Book Awards Association
Call for Entries
The Eighteenth Annual San Diego Book & Writing Awards
New - cash prizes!
Unpublished Novel & Unpublished Memoir = $150
Short Story & Poetry Chapbook = $100
Geisel Award (Published Books) = $150
KIDS WRITE - GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Welcome to the online home of the San Diego Book Awards Association (SDBAA), a volunteer organization dedicated to enriching the large, diverse, and vibrant literary community of the nation’s third largest county.
Founded in 1994, the SDBAA honors the best published books and unpublished manuscripts by San Diego County residents each year. Winning authors report that receiving a San Diego Book Award boosts sales of their books, and several winners of our unpublished novel, memoir, and poetry chapbook competitions have said that receiving a San Diego Book Award played an instrumental role in their later securing a publisher for their work.
A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the SDBAA promotes literacy in San Diego County schools through the Read-4-Fun program. Specially designed for fifth graders—the grade in which reading for pleasure dramatically declines—Read-4-Fun gives away approximately 2,500 books a year to student readers. For many of these children, the books they receive through Read-4-Fun are the first books they have ever owned.
The SDBAA welcomes volunteers, donors, and participants in our competitions.