New Mexico Book Awards Announcement

Authors, designers, publishers, and publicists from New Mexico (or any book with a creative connection to New Mexico) may now enter the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards.
 
The book awards program, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead it will continue under new management by New Mexico Writers with NMW’s own administrator, Lisa McCoy, in the role of director.
 
The NM Book Awards entry process should feel familiar to previous participants. During this transition year, much will be the same as was created and shaped by Paul Rhetts, co-founder of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
 
Entry eligibility, submission fee/instructions, and categories for the 2025 NM Book Awards can be found on the NMW website at: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awards
 
All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 25, 2025.
 
Finalists will be announced at the end of September. Winners will be announced before mid-November.



Judges needed for the NM Book Awards! 
 
Help us discover great New Mexico books. Sign up here to be a judge in the New Mexico Book Awards.
 
Judges can be booksellers, librarians, teachers, authors, publishers, agents, or avid readers. Judges will typically have about 3 months for reading and scoring their assigned books. The deadline for judging is August 1, 2025.

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