In total, there will be four award categories, and you can enter up to fifteen submissions across the different award categories. All Awards accept fiction and non-fiction in all genres. Entrants from anywhere in the world can enter any of our Award Categories or Sub-Categories (shown below).
2023 Award Categories
Book Award ~ for authors with a published book, mainstream or independently published
Screenplay Award ~ for screenwriters with a completed script
Writing Award ~ for unpublished, completed manuscripts
Young Writer Award ~ for writers aged between 18 and 25
Writing Mentorship Award ~ for uncompleted manuscripts
See each award's sub-categories.
Find out who qualifies and how to enter.
More Chances To Win
Several awards have sub-categories, giving you more chances to win an award. Every entry into the Book Award, Writing Award and Screenplay receives entry into that award category, plus ONE sub-category of that particular award. We also have amazing prizes to give away to writers, authors and screenwriters.
Sub-categories
Each award has sub-categories.
Writing Award ~ for unpublished, completed manuscripts
Sub-Categories include:
- Best Story Title ~ the most intriguing titles (You can't select to enter these because all entries are automatically selected)
- Best Written Genre ~ for the best genre stories from unpublished writers
- Golden Writer Award ~ for writers 60+ which was recommended by Paul Michael Glaser himself!
- Best True Story ~ In this sub-category, we accept True Stories and Based on a True Story. See our notes below for further explanatory information.
Book Award ~ for authors with a published book, mainstream or independently published
You must select one sub-category to enter. Sub-Categories include:
- Audiobook Prize ~ for authors who want to win an audiobook production
- Best Book Genre ~ for published books, mainstream or independently published, and the best genre stories
- Best Book Cover ~ most interesting covers
- Best Book Series ~ most intriguing series in any genre (there must be at least 3 books in the series submitted)
- Best Co-Authored Book ~ for books published by co-writing authors, either two or three co-authors
- Golden Author Award ~ for published authors 60+ which was recommended by Paul Michael Glaser himself!
- Best Debut Novel ~ for books published for the first time by an author (this does not include if a novelist is published and publishes a new book under a new pen name, it must be the very first book the author has ever had published)
- Best True Story ~ In this sub-category, we accept True Stories and Based on a True Story. See our notes below for further explanatory information.
Please note that Genre Winners will be drawn from Short and Longlist for both Book and Writing Awards. Not all genres will be included if they didn’t qualify on either list. Having said that, most genres will be honoured!
Screenplay Award ~ for screenwriters with a completed script
You must select one sub-category to enter. Sub-Categories include:
- Feature Film ~ for film scripts
- Short Film ~ short film scripts
- TV Series ~ television series
- Animation ~ stories with animated characters
- Book Adaptation Needed ~ for authors with books needing to be adapted to film. Our judges are looking for captivating stories with the potential to be adapted to film. These can be novels, novellas, true stories and memoirs. This is an opportunity not to be missed!
** For Best True Story ~ we accept True Stories and Based on a True Story. See our notes below for further explanatory information, please add this under the True Story genre for screenplay submissions.
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Best Author, Best Writer, Best Screenwriter
For the past few years many entrants have had three to four books reaching our finals, and we are very likely to see that again this year. These writers with multiple high-scoring submissions have included, Diane E Davies, Junia Wonders, Jason Ruscio, Michael Clifton, Katrina Bart, Carol Sandford, Claire Merchant, Patti Larsen, E A Carter, David Callinan, Finn Burnett… to name but a few!
These writers have inspired us to create a very exciting new award title. So, without further ado, we are delighted to announce the Best Author Award, Best Writer Award, and Best Screenwriter Award!
Notes On True Stories
Where a story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain, a true story is based on facts rather than being invented or imagined and is accurate and reliable.
True Story Versus Based On A True Story
"True Story" is the history of what actually happened, showing a series of complex relationships and conflicted events from which the reader or audience can discover, create, refine, and apply meaning to our lives.
“Based on a true story” is more of an accurate accounting of the story, though there's probably some dramatic licence taken to fictionalize certain parts of the story that are not known to the storyteller.
Who Qualifies & How To Enter
To enter for this prestigious award title, enter at least 3 different submissions into Page Turner Awards, in our Book Award, Writing Award or Screenplay Award.
• There is no sub-category for this award title because every submission in our Book Award, Writing Award or Screenplay Award counts towards this new award.
• The winner will be chosen from ALL the entrants who have at least 3 different submissions reaching the finals (finalist, longlist, shortlist) in our Book Award, Writing Award or Screenplay Award.
• The scores from an author’s, writer's or screenwriter's top 3 submissions will be used to identify and select the overall winner.
• You can enter as many award categories as you wish, but at least 3 different submissions must be within either our Book Award, Writing Award or Screenplay Award.
The benefits to you include:
• A writer who has won this award, and trying to attract a literary agent, will jump the query queues
• A screenwriter winning this award will hook a film producer into reading your scripts
• An author with this accolade can promote it to their readers to earn kudos for their books
To ensure you get high scores, you may want to grab one of the last two places left on our Ten Page Turning Techniques Boot Camp and see how it will help you to ensure readers and judges keep turning your pages.
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