2025 Oklahoma Book Awards
Award categories:
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Children/Young Adult
- Book Design/Illustration or Photography
- Poetry
Eligibility criteria:
- Any individual, organization, or company may enter in any appropriate category.
- Books considered for this award must have an Oklahoma-based theme, or entrants (authors, illustrators, photographers, or book designers) must live or have lived in Oklahoma.
- Books must have been published originally between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year.
- Books entered in previous Oklahoma Book Award competitions are not eligible.
The deadline for entries is typically in early January, and the deadline for books published in 2024 has now passed. Finalists for the 2025 Book Awards will be notified in March. Winners will be announced during the awards ceremony on Friday, April 18, 2025 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) has partnered with the non-profit Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book for more than 30 years to co-sponsor the annual Oklahoma Book Awards.
The OCB, located in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, is affiliated with the National Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
The Center’s mission is to: promote Oklahoma authors, celebrate the state’s literary heritage, encourage reading for pleasure by Oklahomans.
Questions? Contact Connie Armstrong, Executive Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Book, by email or call 405-522-3383.
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