Eyelands Book Awards

The one and only international books contest based in Greece!

We launch our contest for seventh consecutive year now and we are always seeking for talented writers from all over the world!

Since 2018 Eyelands Book Awards is the one and only international books award based in Greece.

The grand prize for published books is five days holiday in Athens, Greece, where he/she will have the chance to attend awards ceremony and talk about his/her work to Greek readers and meet Greek writers in a special ceremony. This is also a great opportunity to promote his/her work to many readers via social media.

Eyelands Book Awards also gives the opportunity to an unpublished writer to win a contract and see her/his book translated into Greek and published from Strange Days Books. There are also prizes for the winners of six different categories, as well as nominations of five writers per category.
Participants must be 18 years old otherwise parents’ consent needed. Manuscripts must be written in English.

There is no restriction about the form or style of writing.
Files should be uploaded as an MS Word document or PDF.
Five more prizes, one for each category, also win a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards
Certification document for every prize.

AWARD CATEGORIES:

1/Full-length books of fiction (novels or novellas of any genre)

2/Collections of short stories by one author

3/Collected and selected poems

4/Historical fiction – Memoir

5/Children’s and YA books – Graphic Novels

6/ Self – published books

The limit is 250.000 words for every category of published books. The limit for unpublished texts is 150.000 words except for poetry category where there is a specific limit in pages.

Any text/poetry collection (up to 250 pages) written by a single author is eligible

Any text/book written by two or more writers is also eligible. In this case, accommodation in Athens will be shared

Opening: June 20, every year

Closing: October 20, at midnight PST.

Finalists to be announced on November 20

Final results to be announced On December 30, every year

EBA follows the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics.