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Welcome to the 2024-2025 season of the Minnesota Book Awards!

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About the Minnesota Book Awards

The Minnesota Book Awards is a year-long program that connects readers and writers throughout Minnesota with the stories of our neighbors.

The process begins in the fall with book submissions and continues through winter with two rounds of judging. Winners are announced at the annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony each spring. Woven throughout the season are various activities and events that promote the authors and connect the world of Minnesota books – writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, editors, and more – to readers throughout the state.

Book Awards Season

The Minnesota Book Awards season starts in the summer and culminates with the awards ceremony in the spring of the next year.

Judges

Applications for judging will be accepted August 1 - September 13.

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Submissions

Book submissions will be accepted August 13 - November 15.

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Finalists

Finalists are announced at the end of January each year.

Click here to see finalists.

Winners

Winners will be announced at the 2025 Ceremony, April 22 at the Ordway.

Click here to see past winners.

Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony

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Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, April 22| Ordway Center for Performing Arts
345 Washington Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102

A celebration of the state’s best books at the 37th annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony, sponsored by Education Minnesota. Readers, writers, and booklovers from across Minnesota are invited to gather and celebrate the stories of Minnesotans that inspire and connect us.  

Watch the recording of last year's event here.

In recognition of the Minnesota Book Awards and its other statewide programs and services, the Library of Congress has recognized The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the state’s designated Center for the Book.

Minnesota Center for the Book page >>

Book Submissions

Submissions are open! Please click here to submit a book.

Submission deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024, 5:00 p.m. CST

Watch our MN Book Awards Minute video to learn how submissions work.

Other Submissions

New in 2024: Submissions for the New Anthology Category are open!
Books published in 2023 and 2024 are eligible.
Please click here to submit your nominations.
Submission deadline: Friday, November 15th, 5:00 p.m.

Nominations for the Kay Sexton Award are open!
Please click here to submit your nominations.
Submission deadline: Friday, December 21, 5:00 p.m.

Nominations for the Book Artist Award will next be considered in 2025.
Submission deadline: n/a

Nominations for the Hognander Award will next be considered in 2025.
Submission deadline: n/a

Click on the award name to the right for forms and deadlines.

Apply to Be a Book Awards Judge

Jude applications are closed.

The Minnesota Book Awards is committed to having a broad base of experience on judge panels. Judges are selected from across the state to include a diversity of professional experience, educational background, ethnicity, age, and gender. Previous judges are welcome to apply.

Application deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024, 5:00 p.m. CDT

Lead Sponsor

John and Ruth Huss

Category and Special Award Sponsors

Preface Sponsor

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Outreach Partners

Media Partner

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Program Sponsors

Faegre Drinker

OverDrive

Publisher's Circle

Beaming Books

Penguin Random House

University of Minnesota Press

Reader's Circle

Jack and Cindy Ulrich

Northern Lights Library Network

Public Funding

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The year-round programs of the Minnesota Book Awards are made possible in part through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature to The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the Minnesota Center for the Book.