In total, there will be THREE 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).
2025 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Writing Award ~ for unpublished, completed manuscripts (this now includes our Young Writer Award for writers aged 18 to 25) and includes our Writing Mentorship Award ~ for uncompleted manuscripts to win a writing mentorship.
More Chances To Win With Sub-Categories
Our awards have sub-categories, giving you more chances to win an award.
Find out the sub-categories for the award category you want to enter.
Writing Award Sub-Categories
Writing Award ~ for unpublished, completed manuscripts
Automatic Sub-Categories
Each and every Writing Award submission can be automatically selected for the following sub-categories:
- Golden Writer Award ~ for writers 60+ which was recommended by Paul Michael Glaser himself ~ if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Young Writer Award ~ for writers aged between 18 and 25 if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Culture Award ~ for writers to submit cultural submissions from all cultures and communities.
- Phoenix Award ~ to honour the resilience and passion of writers who have overcome personal challenges, such as writing in a language other than their native tongue, navigating physical or mental challenges, facing traumatic life events, or overcoming minority issues.
- Prolific Writer Award (see below for details)
Extra Sub-Categories include:
- Writing Mentorship Award ~ for writers with an unfinished manuscript who want to win a writing mentorship to help finish the manuscript
- Most Intriguing 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- Best Written Genre ~ for the best genre stories from unpublished writers
- Best True Unpublished Story ~ In this sub-category, we accept True Stories and Based on a True Story. See our notes below for further explanatory information
- Best Illustrated Unpublished Manuscript ~ to showcase the best illustrated children's picture books
- Best Co-Written Manuscript ~ for unpublished submissions co-written by more than one writer.
Please note that Genre Winners will be drawn from Finalists, Longlists and Shortlist. Not all genres will be included if they didn’t qualify on either list. Having said that, most genres will be honoured!
To ensure you get high scores, you may want to grab our Ten Page Turning Techniques Boot Camp and see how it will help you to ensure readers and judges keep turning your pages.
Screenplay Award Sub-Categories
Screenplay Award ~ for screenwriters with a completed script
Each and every Screenplay Award submission can be automatically selected for the following sub-categories:
- Golden Screenwriter Award ~ for screenwriters 60+ which was recommended by Paul Michael Glaser himself ~ if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Young Screenwriter Award ~ for screenwriters aged between 18 and 25 ~ if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Culture Award ~ for writers to submit cultural submissions from all cultures and communities.
- Phoenix Award ~ to honour the resilience and passion of writers who have overcome personal challenges, such as writing in a language other than their native tongue, navigating physical or mental challenges, facing traumatic life events, or overcoming minority issues.
- Prolific Screenwriter Award (see below for details)
Screenplay Award Types include:
- Feature Film ~ for film scripts
- Short Film ~ short film scripts
- TV Series ~ television series
- Animation ~ stories with animated characters
Extra Sub-Categories include:
- Best Logline ~ for screenwriters who have a talent for writing great loglines or for screenwriters who want to improve their logline
- Best Pitch ~ to showcase a great film or TV pitch (if you enter this sub-category, you MUST upload a pitch deck)
- Best Screenplay Genre ~ for the best genre scripts across all Screenplay Award types (shown above)
- 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! You can adapt your book yourself with our Book Adaptation Boot Camp, or you can get one of our screenwriting editors to adapt your book for you.
Book Award Sub-Categories
Book Award ~ for authors with a published book, mainstream or independently published
Each and every Book Award submission can be automatically selected for the following sub-categories:
- Golden Author Award ~ for published authors 60+ which was recommended by Paul Michael Glaser himself ~ if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Young Author Award ~ for published authors aged between 18 and 25 ~ if this is your age bracket, you can select this for each submission.
- Best Book Cover ~ most interesting covers ~ our judges select the covers, you don't need to enter this sub-category because all Book Award submissions get automatically entered.
- Culture Award ~ for writers to submit cultural submissions from all cultures and communities.
- Phoenix Award ~ to honour the resilience and passion of writers who have overcome personal challenges, such as writing in a language other than their native tongue, navigating physical or mental challenges, facing traumatic life events, or overcoming minority issues.
- Prolific Author Award (see below for details).
Extra Sub-Categories include:
- Best Book Genre ~ for published books, mainstream or independently published, and the best genre stories
- 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
- 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 Illustrated Book ~ to showcase the best illustrated children's picture books
- Best Comic Or Graphic Novel ~ for books in a comic book format or a graphic novel format
- Best True Story ~ to showcase the best true stories published, or stories based on a true story
- Most Intriguing Book Title ~ to showcase the most intriguing book titles
- Indie Author Award ~ to showcase the highest scoring Indie Authors.
Please note that Genre Winners will be drawn from Finalists, Longlists and Shortlist. Not all genres will be included if they didn’t qualify on either list. Having said that, most genres will be honoured!
Prolific Author, Prolific Writer, Prolific 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 Prolific Author, Prolific Writer, and Prolific Screenwriter Award!
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 our Ten Page Turning Techniques Boot Camp and see how it will help you to ensure readers and judges keep turning your pages.
Hurry and get your submissions entered under our different award categories.
