Entering the Booker Prizes

Submissions for the International Booker Prize 2025 opened to UK and Irish publishers on 10 July 2024.  

The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the author and translator of the best (in the opinion of the judges) eligible work of long-form fiction or collection of short stories written by an author of any nationality and translated into English, and published in the UK and/or Ireland. 

For 2025, eligible works are those published between 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025.  

The rules and deadlines have changed this year so please read them carefully. The Booker Prize Foundation is introducing a submissions quota, along with a call-in system for the prize, which is explained on page three of the rules. 

Download the rules here

Summary of the deadlines

To assist the judges with the volume of reading required, please send submissions to the Booker Prize Foundation as soon as they are available and do not wait until the deadlines. 

Submissions 

For works published between 1 May and 31 December 2024 

All submission forms, physical copies and PDFs must be submitted at the latest by Friday, 6 September 2024. 

For works published between 31 December 2024 and 30 April 2025 

All submission forms, physical copies and PDFs must be submitted by Friday, 13 December 2024. Supporting assets (e.g. images) for all submissions must also be received by this date. 

Call-in nominations 

Any imprints that have more than six books to submit to the prize, may nominate the additional titles as call ins. All call-in nomination forms, justification letters, first chapters and full PDFs must be submitted by Friday, 1 November 2024. If no text is available at the time of call-in, it should be sent as soon as it is available. 

Announcement dates 

• Longlist announcement: Tuesday, 25 February 2025 
• Shortlist announcement: Tuesday, 8 April 2025  
• Winner announcement and ceremony: Tuesday, 20 May 2025 at Tate Modern 

Publisher queries 

Please contact the Booker Prize Foundation:  [email protected]

Submissions are now closed to UK and Irish publishers.  

The Booker Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best (in the opinion of the judges) eligible work of long-form fiction, written originally in English by an author of any nationality, and published in the UK and/or Ireland.  

The 2024 prize is for a work published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024.  

Download the rules here 

Announcement dates  

• Longlist announcement: Tuesday, 30 July 
• Shortlist announcement and event: Monday, 16 September at Somerset House’s Portico Rooms, London 
• Winner announcement and ceremony: Tuesday, 12 November at Old Billingsgate, London

Publisher queries 

Please contact the Booker Prize Foundation: 

[email protected]