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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 18, 2025
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Bailee Juroshek
402-471-4002
800-307-2665
Nominate Books Now for the 2025 Nebraska Book Awards
The 2025 Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB)
and Nebraska Library Commission, will recognize and honor books that are written by Nebraska
authors and illustrators, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska, or relate to Nebraska.
Books published in 2024, as indicated by the copyright date, are eligible for nomination. They must be
professionally published, have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and be bound. Books may be
entered in one or more of the following categories: Nonfiction, Fiction, Children/Young Adult,
Cover/Design/Illustration, and Poetry. Winners in each category will be honored at the November 15th, 2025
Nebraska Celebration of Books Literary Festival in Lincoln.
The Nebraska Center for the Book’s panel of judges will select a winner and an honorable mention per competition
level (Level I for grades 4-6, Level II for grades 7-8, and Level III for grades 9-12) to be honored in a
proclamation-signing ceremony at the state capitol during National Library Week in April 2025. Their winning letters
will be placed in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors at Bennett Martin Public Library in Lincoln.
Nebraska winners and honorable mentions will receive state prizes.
The entry fee is $40 per book and per category entered. Deadline for entries is May 31, 2025. For more information, including
entry forms, see
http://www.centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/awards/nebookawards.html
Books may be entered in one of two ways, either complete the
Online Entry Form and submit payment through PayPal, then mail three copies of the book to the
below address. Or, mail the
Entry Form [pdf], three copies of the book, and the entry fee via a check made out to
the Nebraska Center for the Book to the below address.
NCB Book Awards Competition
c/o Nebraska Library Commission
The Atrium
1200 N Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, NE 68508-2023
The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska Library
Commission and brings together the state’s readers, writers, booksellers,
librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and scholars to build the
community of the book, supporting programs to celebrate and stimulate public
interest in books, reading, and the written word. The Nebraska Center for
the Book is supported by the national Center for the Book in the Library of
Congress and the Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an advocate
for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans. The mission of the
Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and coordination of
library and information services, “bringing together people and
information.”
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The most up-to-date news releases from the Nebraska Library Commission are
always available on the Library Commission website,
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.