Rules and submissions process for entering the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize.
Submissions for the International Booker Prize 2023 are now open.
Please note, only publishers can submit entries to the prizes; authors and agents are not permitted to enter the prizes directly.
Submissions for the Booker Prize are now closed.
Submissions for the International Booker Prize 2023 are now open.
The International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English is awarded annually to the author and translator of the best (in the opinion of the judges) eligible novel or collection of short stories.
The work must be published in the UK or Ireland between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023.
The deadline for entry forms is Friday 30 September 2022.
The deadline for finished works is:
To submit entries, please fill in our online form here.
For queries, please contact Four Culture via [email protected] or +44 (0)20 3920 0555.
Translator Daisy Rockwell and author Geetanjali Shree, winners of the 2022 International Booker Prize for the novel Tomb of Sand
© David Parry/PAThe Booker Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best (in the opinion of the judges) eligible work of long-form fiction. The work must be published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022. Authors are not permitted to enter their own works.
Submissions for the 2022 prize opened on Tuesday, 11 January and closed on 4 April 2022.
For queries please contact Four Culture via [email protected] or +44 (0)20 3920 0555.
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