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There were many books published in 2017, and it’s time for us to select the best of the best for this prestigious literary award.

The Emma Awards, the #1 multicultural literary award for excellence, is accepting author submissions and reader nominations for romance and women’s fiction books. The Emma literary awards promotes relatable multicultural stories and also helps bring more stories of diversity onto the shelves of reader’s.   In an effort to promote more diversity into the publishing industry, submitted books must feature at least one multicultural protagonist.  If you know someone who writes excellent books with multicultural stories and perspectives, we want to know about it.

There are two levels of Emma Awards: The Reader’s Choice Awards and the Judged Awards categories.

We want your nomination!  Nominate your favorite authors and books with multicultural characters.  We know you read a lot and have a good handle on the authors who are telling the best multicultural stories out there, so nominate either your favorite author or book for a Reader’s Choice Emma Recognition Award today!

Are you a talented author writing books that include at least one multicultural protagonist (hero or heroine)?  Are you a reader wanting to sponsor an authors submission?  Then we want to hear about it and give authors who are writing from multicultural perspectives a chance to be awarded the coveted crystal book Emma Award for literary excellence.  Submit your book before the deadline.

Readers & Authors! We’re looking for romance and/or women’s fiction books published between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2017, that feature at least one protagonist (hero or heroine) who is black, Latino or multicultural (including biracial and multiracial characters).  (No re-released, re-covered or renamed titles will be eligible.)

DEADLINE: April 28, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. (CST) for both the READER and JUDGED categories.  Let’s honor the authors and stories we love.