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Kansas Authors Club Annual Book Awards
— Published Book Awards • Eight Categories • Cash Awards —
For the 2025 Award Year
Eligible books: published between June 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024
Submissions Accepted: Upon publication of guidelines through
March 1, 2025 (encouraged), June 15 (final)
You must read the guidelines on our website before entering this contest:
Writing from the Center, the zine of Kansas Authors Club is an opportunity for members and non-members of Kansas Authors Club to share their creativity with the world. The expected publication date of Volume 3 is fall 2025 with the zine to be launched at the 2025 Writing Retreat.
Open for Submissions: March 1 - April 30, 2025
2025 Theme: Balance
We are accepting
- Poetry (up to 6 poems)
- Fiction (1 entry, up to 3500 words)
- Creative Nonfiction (1 entry, up to 3500 words)
- Visual Art (up to 3 pieces)
Please submit each individual piece on a separate document with the title of the piece as the name of the file. If you submit poetry, please put each piece on its own document. Please submit written work using a DOC or DOCX file. The author’s name or any identifying text should not appear anywhere in the document. Please submit visual art as a JPG file.
Please include a biography of 50-100 words, written in 3rd person. There will be a space on the submission form to type this or paste it.
We will not be accepting previous KAC winners through Submittable.
Eligible Writers/Artists: Any current member of Kansas Authors Club may submit at no cost. Students enrolled in secondary or post-secondary schools in Kansas may also submit at no cost. Non-members who are not students must pay a $5 reading fee for their work to be considered.
By entering, you grant Writing from the Center permission to print in the next edition. You attest that your entry is your original work. Unpublished work is preferred. By submitting previously published work, you are signifying that you can assign Writing from the Center permission to print. Please disclose the publication status when submitting.
Note that work submitted to the zine in 2025 is also eligible for the 2025 Kansas Authors Club writing contest, as the zine will not be publicly available until the organization’s fall event. It is also true that pieces published in the zine in 2025, would not be eligible for the contest in 2026.