Irene Te, author of the YA romance novel This Place Is Magic, and grand-prize winner of the 32nd Annual Self-Published Book Awards, challenges the notion that self-publishing is simply a contingency to traditional publishing.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 32nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards! Read an interview with the Grand Prize-winning author Irene Te in the March/April 2025 issue.

Claire Fraise, author of They Stay and grand-prize winner of the 31st Annual WD Self-Published Book Awards, shares how she utilizes curiosity in every aspect of publication.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 31st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards! Read an interview with the grand prize-winning author Claire Fraise in the March/April 2024 issue.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 30th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards! Read an interview with the Grand Prize-winning author Neal Hutcheson in the March/April 2023 issue.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 29th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards! Read an interview with the Grand Prize-winning author Zenda Walker in the March/April 2022 issue.

The winner of the 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards talks about writing picture books that children will cherish.

Congratulations to all the winners of the 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards! Read an interview with the the Grand Prize-winning picture book author Katherine S. Ulshafer in the…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate our 26th annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards winners!

Breaking Vases author and Self-Published Book Awards Winner Dima Ghawi talks about finding the strength to tell her personal story and how she produced the book while building her new business.

An Exaltation of Larks, by Suanne Laqueur, is the grand-prize winning book in the 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

An Exaltation of Larks, by Suanne Laqueur, is the grand-prize winning book in the 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. It bested more than 2,300 entries from 55 countries across eight…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the 44 winners of the 25th Annual Self-Published Book Awards.

Horizon, by Tabitha Lord, is the grand-prize winning book in the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. It bested more than 2,300 entries from 55 countries across nine categories…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the 46 winners of the 24th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. For full coverage of the awards, check out the March/April 2017 issue of Writer’s…

This week is your last chance to enter the premier self-published competition exclusively for self-published books. Writer’s Digest hosts the 24th annual self-published competition–the Annual Self-Published Book Awards. This self-published…

American Boys, by Louise Esola, is the grand-prize winning book in the 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. It bested nearly 5,500 entries across nine categories to take home…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the 46 winners of the 23rd Annual Self-Published Book Awards. For full coverage of the awards, check out the March/April 2016 issue of Writer’s Digest….

Well Fed 2, by Melissa Joulwan, is the grand-prize winning book in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, besting more than 2,800 other entries across nine categories. A…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the 46 winners of the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. For full coverage of the awards, please check out the March/April 2015 issue…

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winners of the 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards! GRAND PRIZEZero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story by Ember Reichgott Junge ($20). Beaver’s…

Thank you the everyone who participated in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Below is a list of the books entered in our Life Stories category. .””Song On My Lips”…

Thank you the everyone who participated in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Below is a list of the books entered in our Inspirational category. 101 Ways to Bliss: Quick…

Thank you the everyone who participated in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Below is a list of the books entered in our Genre Fiction category. A Beautiful Glittering Lie…

Thank you to all the participants in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Please see below for a list of books entered into the Children’s/Picture Book category. “””Eh, Spaghetti You…

Thank you to all the participants in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Please see below for a list of books entered into the Poetry category. A fox peeks out:…

Thank you to all the participants in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Please see below for a list of books entered into the Reference category. “A History of University…

Thank you to all the participants in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Please see below for a list of books entered into the Middle-Grade/Young Adult category. A Cappella Tanya…

Thank you to all the participants in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Please see below for a list of books entered into the Nonfiction category. 48 Hours to Chaos…

Thank you the everyone who participated in our 20th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Below is a list of the books entered in our Mainstream/Literary Fiction category. A Suffering Heart Paula…