Authors and publishers are invited to submit an entry or entries to the 82nd Annual California Book Awards of The Commonwealth Club. Awards are presented to those books with exceptional literary merit.

Each entry must be made on an official form, or facsimile thereof, and must be postmarked no later than midnight December 14, 2012.

Entries are restricted to books bearing a 2012 original publication date.

The author must have been a legal resident of California at the time the manuscript was accepted for publication. To be eligible for an award for Notable Contribution to Publishing, the publisher must be headquartered in California.

We cannot accept books that are self-published.

Awards will consist of 6-8 gold medals and up to 6 silver medals.

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/event ... rds/submission-guidelines

Click on the link above and go to the contest official site