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Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2013 Edition 2013 NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

NEW YORK, NY/January 25, 2013–The 2013 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual event honoring books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital.

The 2013 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's books, young adult, how-to, poetry, wild card (anything goes!), unpublished stories, science fiction, horror, photography/art, spiritual, business, romance, cookbooks, compilations/anthologies and biography/autobiography works.

Entries can be in English, Spanish, French or Italian and must be published on or after January 1, 2009. Grand prize for the 2013 New York Book Festival Author of the Year is $1,500 and a flight to New York for the awards ceremony June 21 at the Grolier Club in Manhattan.

Additional information and registration forms are available online at www.newyorkbookfestival.com.