Amazon Kindle Storyteller Contest 2023
The Kindle Storyteller Award is a £20,000 literary prize recognising outstanding writing. It is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing. Readers play a significant role in selecting the winner, helped by a panel of judges including various book industry experts.
The 2023 Kindle Storyteller Award is open for entries between 1st May and 31st August 2023. Details of the competition can be found on this page as well as reminders of our previous winners.
Eligibility
• Entrants must be aged 18 or over. The Competition is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing (see further below under HOW TO ENTER).
• The Competition and these Terms & Conditions are void in Mexico, Brazil, Tasmania, Quebec and where otherwise prohibited by law, and are subject to all applicable laws. Entrants may not be a national or legal permanent resident of any of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Region of Crimea. Entrants may not be members of any guild, union or other organisation that may prohibit them from participating in this Competition and that would restrict, require due payment or otherwise have the right to oppose such entrant’s participation in this Competition. The Competition is not open to employees or independent contractors, or immediate family members (spouses, domestic partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, and grandchildren) or those living in the same household of employees or independent contractors, of Amazon or any other person involved in any aspect of the Competition (including funding, judging or administration), and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advisors.
How To Enter Amazon Kindle Storyteller Contest 2023
• Competition entry period begins at 00:00:01 (BST) on 1st May 2023 until 23:59:59 (BST) on 31st August 2023 (“Entry Period”).
• To enter, during the Entry Period you must go to the Kindle Direct Publishing (“KDP”) [sign-in-page] (https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/) (you may select the language for your region in the upper right corner of the page) and follow the instructions to upload and publish to KDP an original, previously unpublished, English-language book authored by you (the “Book” or the “Entry”), and include the exact phrase “StorytellerUK2023” (without quotation marks) in the “keywords” metadata field in order for us to identify your Entry.
• Entry into the Competition requires that you have an Amazon account and a completed KDP account (to sign up, visit the KDP sign-in page at https://kdp.amazon.com and follow the instructions).
• All Entries must be received in the Entry Period. Amazon’s servers and clock shall be deemed the official clock for all phases of the Competition, and an entrant’s proof of a submission does not constitute proof of receipt by Amazon.
• There is no limit to the number of separate Entries that each entrant can submit.
• Amazon is not responsible for (i) lost, misdirected, late, incomplete, or unintelligible Entries or for inaccurate Entry information, whether caused by entrant or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the Competition, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of Entries; or (ii) any printing, production, human or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Competition.
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Conditions Of Entry
• Each entrant must follow and meet the following requirements when submitting an Entry.
• Entrant must be the author of the Book. The Book may have up to a maximum of two co-authors, provided the two co-authors enter the Competition together in a single Entry. For the avoidance of doubt, both co-authors agree to be bound by and are responsible for compliance with these Terms & Conditions and any reference in these Terms & Conditions to "entrant" means both co-authors.
• Entrants agree to comply with KDP Terms & Conditions and the KDP Content Guidelines both as amended from time to time and meet other reasonable community standards as determined by Amazon in its sole discretion.
• The Book must be previously unpublished, meaning it is not currently or has not previously been the subject of a publishing agreement or option with any publisher or been previously published in any format (including KDP) or in any other language.
• Entrant must make the Book available for sale in both digital and print versions through KDP. Entries that are submitted in one format only will not meet these conditions of entry.
• Entrant must enrol the digital version of the Book in KDP Select throughout the Competition, making it exclusively available through Amazon from the date of submission of the Entry until the announcement of the Finalists and, if selected as a Finalist, until the Grand Prize Winner is announced (see further below under JUDGING).
• Each Book must be no less than 24 pages when in paper/print format.
• Entrant must be able and willing to negotiate in good faith with Amazon to enter into an exclusive, worldwide publishing agreement for your Book in all languages, and must not be under any existing obligation that would inhibit or prevent entrant from entering such publishing agreements (see further below under GRANT OF RIGHTS).
• Each entrant, by entering this Competition and accepting these Terms & Conditions, represents and warrants that (i) he/she is the sole author and the legal and beneficial owner of all rights in the Book and its content, including all copyright and rights in the nature of copyright, patents, trade marks, service marks, moral rights, trade secrets and all other intellectual property or proprietary rights in any part of the world to which the entrant is, or may become entitled; (ii) the Book is the entrant's original work and is not copied wholly or substantially from any other work or material or any other source; (iii) the entrant has not assigned or licensed any rights in the Book and no previous version of the Book has previously been published anywhere in the world in any language; (iv) the Book is not defamatory, libellous, obscene, or otherwise unlawful; (v) the exploitation of the rights granted by these Terms & Conditions has not infringed, and will not infringe, the rights of any third party.
• Amazon may disqualify any entrant whose Entry Amazon determines, in its sole discretion, at any time does not to comply with any requirement described in these Terms & Conditions or the foregoing representations and warranties.
• Amazon reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to disqualify at any time any Entry containing obscene, offensive, pornographic or sexually explicit material, or libellous, disparaging, infringing or other inappropriate content or subject matter (as determined by Amazon in its sole discretion).
• If an entrant appears or is identifiable in his/her Entry, such entrant consents, by virtue of submitting his/her Entry to the Competition, to Amazon’s use of the entrant’s name, likeness, photograph or image, whether in writing, audio, and/or video, for any purpose, in any media, without compensation or additional consideration to entrant.
• The entrant shall indemnify and hold Amazon harmless against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including but not limited to any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs (calculated on a full indemnity basis) and all other professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by Amazon arising out of or in connection with any breach of the representation and warranties above. At the request of Amazon and at the entrant's own expense, it shall provide all reasonable assistance to enable Amazon to resist any claim, action or proceedings brought against Amazon as a consequence of that breach.
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