Childrens Book Awards and Literary Prizes
Adult Awards
- BookerSpot Major Award and Genre Listings
http://www.bookspot.com/awards/ - Bookwire Index of International book awards and prizes
http://www.bookwire.com/otherbooks/book-awards.html - National Book Awards National Book Honoring Association
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html - Readers Read Book awards for all genres
http://www.readersread.com/awards/ - Pulitzer Prizes Honoring excellence in journalism and the arts
http://www.pulitzer.org/ - Wikipedia Comprehensive list of literary awards from around the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_awards - Literary Awards International Book Awards
http://www.literaryawards.com.au/ - Book Trust UK site for international literary awards
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/Prizes-and-awards
Children Literature Awards and Contests
- Children´s Book Awards A comprehensive guide to English-language children’s book awards
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dKbrown/awards.html - Yahoo! Directory of Children´s literary Award List
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/literature/genres/children_s/book_awards/ - Writing Contests
http://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/contests.htm - Writer´s Digest Writing Competitions
http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions - The Alliance for Young Artists &Writers
http://www.artandwriting.org - Dawcl Database of Award-winning Children´s Literature Awards
http://www.dawcl.com/calendar.asp - Dolly Gray Award Award for Children´s Lit in Developmental Disabilities
http://www.dddcec.org/secondarypages/dollygray/Dolly_Gray_Children%27s_Literature_Award.html - PNLA Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers Choice Awards
http://www.pnla.org/yrca/index.htm - School Library Journal Awards for young writers & poets
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/community/Awards/47053.html - International Reading Association More than 40 Awards and Grants
http://www.reading.org/Resources/AwardsandGrants.aspx - American Booksellers Association Book Industry Awards
http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards - The Horn Book Awards for children and young adults
http://www.hbook.com/bghb/default.asp - SCBWI Society of Children´s book Writers & Illustrators
http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Golden-Kite-Award - Powell´s Books Index of national awards in every literary field
http://www.powells.com/prizes/prizes.html - NCTE National Council of Teachers of English book award program
http://www.ncte.org/books - CLCD The Children Literature Comprehensive Database
http://www.childrenslit.com/ - Tulsa Library kids awards
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/ - Gentle Wind Awards for children´s songs
http://www.gentlewind.com/awards.htm
Best Sellers List
- NY Times Best Sellers
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller - Amazon The most popular books on Amazon. Updated hourly
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books - Wikipedia List of best selling single volume books and book series to date and in any language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books - Washington Post Best Sellers List and Critics picks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/books/bestsellers-list/ - Random House 100 Best Novels of all time
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/novels.html - Book Spot 100 Best American Authors of the 20th Century
http://www.bookspot.com/listhungry100.htm
Lifetime Achievements Awards
- MIT Lemelson MIT Awards for Inventive Contributions to Society
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-lifetime.html - AFI Awards American Film institute
http://www.afi.com/default.aspx - Grammy Awards
http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards/ - Romance Writers of America National contests and awards
http://www.rwanational.org/cs/contests_and_awards/lifetime_achievement - Native Writers Circle of the Americas
http://www.karenstrom.org/storytellers/awards/lifetime.html
Audiovisual Materials Awards
- AVA awards Recognizing Excellence in Audio/Visual Production
http://www.avaawards.com/ - Key Arts Awards Recognizing artists of film industry art process
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/awards_festivals/key_art/index.jsp - The Children´s Group Video and audio awards
http://www.childrensgroup.com/product.php?mode=cat&action=awards&cid=classic_eng
Multicultural Literature Awards
- Amelia Bloomer List Feminist Ideals Books
http://libr.org/ftf/bloomer.html - Latin American Studies Americas Awards for English and Spanish language works of fiction, poetry, folklore, non-fiction
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dea22/multaward.htm - Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Awards for children´s, young adult, and adult literature with Asian American themes
http://www.apalaweb.org/awards/awards.htm - Coretta Scott King Award Awards for authors and illustrators of African decent
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/corettascottkingbookawards/corettascott.cfm - Dolly Gray Award recognizing children´s fiction with positive portrayals of individuals with developmental disabilities
http://www.geocities.com/marissajohnstun/dollygrayaward.html - Sydney Taylor Book Awards Awards for children´s books with positive Jewish content
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/index.htm - Tomas Rivera Mexican American Award Award for books that reflect the lives and experiences of Mexican Americans
http://www.education.txstate.edu/departments/Tomas-Rivera-Book-Award-Project-Link.html
Awards for New Writers
- Orange Award for new writers of fiction
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/Award-for-New-Writers - Book Reporter Barnes & Nobles New Writers Award
http://www.bookreporter.com/features/bn-discover-awards.asp - Plus Magazine New writers award of math and science
http://plus.maths.org/competition/ - Angle Theater Stage script awards for new writers
http://www.angletheatre.co.uk/newwritersawards.htm - RNA Romantic Novel Award for New Writers
http://www.rna-uk.org/index.php?page=nws_award
Non-Fiction Awards
- Book Spot Non-Fiction Awards
http://www.bookspot.com/awards/nonfiction.htm - Powell´s Book National awards for Non-fiction
http://www.powells.com/prizes/national_nonfiction.html - BBC Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction
http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/ - British Columbia Achievement Foundation Largest Non-Fiction Book Prize in Canada
http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/info.php - British Book Awards Popular Non-Fiction Award
http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/prize_cat_nonfiction.asp - YALSA Award for Non-fiction in Young Adults
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/nonfiction/nonfiction.cfm
Poetry Awards
- Kingsley Tufts Award One of the world’s most lucrative poetry awards
http://www.cgu.edu/pages/6056.asp - Poetry Society Awards Sponsors twelve annual poetry awards contests
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards.php - Peace Foundation Peace Poetry Award
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/awards-&-contests/bmk-contest/ - Poetry Foundation Lists of awards and fellowships for poetry
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/awards.html - Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards
http://www.writersdigest.com/poetryawards
Science Writing Awards
- American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
http://www.aip.org/aip/writing/ - The Daily Telegraph Resource for Science Writers and Awards
http://www.science-writer.co.uk/ - MRC Medical Research Council Science Writing Award
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC006092 - ABSW Science Writers ´Awards (UK)
http://www.sciencewritersawards.co.uk/science/index.htm - CFI The Canadian Foundation Science Writing Awards
http://www.innovation.ca/
International Awards
- Writersnet List of writing contests and awards
http://www.writers.net/resources/resources_awards.php - Once Written Global Writing Contests
http://www.oncewritten.com/WritingContests.php - Winning Writers Index of international contests
http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/pci/pc_lists.php
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Published: 2010-01-20
