Entering the Booker Prizes

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1 Information on submissions for the Booker Prize 2025
2 Submit to the Booker Prize 2025
3 Information on submissions for the International Booker Prize 2025

Rules and submissions process for entering the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize

Submissions for the Booker Prize 2025 and International Booker Prize 2025 are open. 

Please note, only publishers can submit entries to the prizes; authors, translators and agents are not permitted to enter the prizes directly. 

Submissions for the Booker Prize 2025

Submissions for the Booker Prize 2025 opened to UK and Irish publishers on Tuesday, 10 December 2024.  

The Booker Prize is awarded annually by the Booker Prize Foundation to 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.

For 2025, eligible works are those published between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.  

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 

Automatic entries

For any books published by previously shortlisted authors that are already available, please send physical copies, PDFs and additional assets to the Booker Prize Foundation by Monday, 16 December 2024. Submission forms can be completed after, as per the following deadlines.

For works published between 1 October 2024 and 30 April 2025 

All submission forms, physical copies, PDFs and additional assets must be submitted by Monday, 27 January 2025.

For works published between 1 May 2025 and 30 September 2025 

All submission forms, physical copies, PDFs and additional assets must be submitted by Monday, 31 March 2025. If physical copies and PDFs are not available in time for this final deadline, please contact [email protected].

Call-in nominations 

All call-in nomination forms, justification letters, first chapters and full PDFs must be submitted by Monday, 3 March 2025. If no text is available at the time of call-in, it should be sent as soon as it is available.

Final assets

This year we will not be pre-notifying publishers if their authors have been longlisted. Please ensure that you have supplied final versions of your print and digital assets for all of your titles by Friday, 27 June as these will be utilised for the public announcement in July.

Publisher queries 

Please contact the Booker Prize Foundation:  

[email protected]