07 Connecticut Book Awards

Call for Entries

The Connecticut Center for the Book at Hartford Public Library will present the sixth annual Connecticut Book Awards to recognize and honor those authors, illustrators, and designers who represent the best books in or about our state.

It is the mission of the Connecticut Center for the Book to celebrate books, writers and readers who engender and sustain the life of the imagination and to highlight authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, and the literary heritage of the State of Connecticut. We are an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

Eligibility

• Author/illustrator/designer must have resided in Connecticut for at least three years or have been born in the state. Alternatively, the work may be set in Connecticut.

• Titles must have been first published between 1 January and 31 December 2006.

• Anthologies are acceptable if all authors are Connecticut-based.

• Authors/illustrators/designers may enter more than one book per year.

• Every genre will have its own judging panel. One judge should come from each of the following categories for each panel: scholar; publisher or bookseller; journalist; librarian or educator; writer.

• Judges may reassign a title to a category deemed more appropriate than that for which it was originally submitted. Judges will defer to the committee chair to determine the winner in the case of a tie vote in any category.

• Awards will not be made if there are insufficient entries in a given category.

• The Connecticut Center for the Book and its Connecticut Book Award judges resolve all questions about eligibility; their decisions are binding.


WE WILL SUPPLY NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF JUDGES WHO NEED TO RECEIVE COPIES OF BOOKS UPON RECEIPT OF NOMINATION AND ENTRY FEE. ENTRY FEES WILL NOT BE RETURNED IF ENTRIES ARE INELIGIBLE.

Timeline

• Nominations must be postmarked by 16 April 2007.

• Finalists will be announced in early August 2007.

• Winners will be announced at an Awards Ceremony on 23 September 2007.

• An award will also be presented for Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community at this ceremony.

Entry Form

This form may also be found at ww2.hplct.org/cfb.htm

Please include one completed entry form and entry fee for each category entered per title. Entry fees are based on initial print run.
2000 or fewer: $25.
2000 – 4999: $35.
5000 – 9999: $50.
10,000 or more: $100.


This entry is eligible for consideration because of the following connection:

___ Author/illustrator/designer has resided in Connecticut for three years
___ Author/illustrator/designer was born in Connecticut
___ The book has a Connecticut setting

Category(ies): please check all that apply

□ Biography or Memoir
□ Children’s Literature – Author
□ Children’s Literature – Illustrator
□ Design: ___Cover only ___Entire book
□ Fiction
□ Nonfiction
□ Poetry


Title of entry: _____________________________________________________

Copyright date of publication:

ISBN:

Nominated by ___author ___publisher ___other (please specify):


BOOKS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT
NOMINEE’S CONTACT INFORMATION!

Author/Illustrator/Designer:

Street address:

City, state, ZIP:

Telephone:

E-mail:

Publisher/publicist:

Mailing address:

City, state, ZIP:

Telephone: Fax:

E-mail:

The Connecticut Center for the Book may use the book cover, excerpts from the text or graphics, and publicity notices for books submitted in any promotion of its Connecticut Book Award.


Send all forms, payment, and other correspondence to:
Connecticut Center for the Book
at Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103

Direct queries to klyons@hplct.org or call 860.695.6320.