PLEASE NOTE: The industry standard is to title awards by the year that the results are announced rather than the year that books were entered. Thus, we have changed the name of our 2025 Awards Contest to now be our 2026 Awards Contest.
Complete 2026 Contest Results
We will be announcing the winners of our awards contest later this week.
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OBTAINING BADGES: All authors that place in Indies Today’s Awards Contest may use the appropriate badge on their book cover or in any other promotional/marketing material. To obtain your badge, find your book in the list above and click on the “Download Badge” text beside your book. Winners of the Book of the Year, Best in Genre, and all Runners-Up in Genre also qualify to use our award-winning author badge if they would like. PRESS RELEASES: Many authors that have placed in our contest have also benefitted from utilizing press releases, so be sure to check out our guide to using press releases to publicize your book.
The above results are for our 2026 awards contest. To see results from different year’s contest, click here.
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