International Rubery Book Award

The Rubery International Book Award (founded in 2010 by Heather Painter) is the largest cash award for books published by independent publishers and self published authors in Great Britain.^[1] The London Review of Books described it as "independent publishing's response to the Booktrust and the Orange Prize.^[2] The Alliance of Independent Authors describes the award as: 'holders of the respected Rubery Award [...] should be considered to have a quality endorsement.' ^[3]

Rubery Book Award Rubery Book Award
Awarded for	Best self published or indie book written in the English language.
Website	www.ruberybookaward.com

In 2012, the award attracted submissions from five continents.^[4] In 2015 entries were received from twenty different countries around the world: Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA.

Judges

Current and prior judges include Booker shortlisted author Clare Morrall; publisher of Tindal Street Press Alan Mahar; judge for the international Arthur C. Clarke Award Pauline Morgan; American literature and Creative Writing lecturer, Paul McDonald; Poet and Stand winner Jeff Phelps, Gaynor Arnold who was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize (now the Bailey's); short story writer and novelist, Judith Allnatt; children's authors, Ann Evans and Simon Cheshire; creative writing teacher and previously Birmingham's Poet Laureate, Chris Morgan; William Gallagher, author, dramatist, and lecturer who writes Doctor Who audio dramas, stage plays, and has British journalism experience; and literary agent Laura Longrigg.

Successes

• Jacob M Appel who won First Prize in 2013 has had many short stories published in literary journals. He also won Dundee International Book Prize which published his debut novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up.
• Angela Readman who won Book of the Year 2015 has had much success; winning the Saboteur Awards 2015; the Costa Short Story Award in 2013 and shortlisted for the Edgehill Prize 2016.^[5]
• Melanie Whipman, who won the 2012 short story competition for her story "Peacock Girl", has had stories subsequently read on BBC Radio 4. She has also been listed for the Edgehill Prize for 2017.^[6]

Winners

Year	Author	Title	Category
2011	Sarah James	Into the Yell	Poetry
2011	Lindsay Stanberry–Flynn	Unravelling	Fiction
2011 Winner	Christine Donovan	Jump Derry,[7]	Fiction
2012	Carol Mead and Gareth Davies	Sea Things	Children's Poetry
2012	Ann Victoria Roberts	The Master's Tale	Fiction
2012 Winner	Daniela Murphy	The Restorer	Fiction
2013	Sophie Neville	Funnily Enough	Non-Fiction
2013	T. D. Griggs	Redemption Blues	Fiction
2013 Winner	Jacob M. Appel	The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up	Fiction
2014	Peter Reason	Spindrift	Non-Fiction
2014	JoeAnn Hart	Float	Fiction
2014 Winner	Victor Tapner	Flatlands [8]	Poetry
2015	Diana Kimpton	The Green Sheep	Children's
2015	Jo Riccion	The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store	Fiction
2015	Sasha Harding	A Brush with the Coast	Non Fiction
2015	Diana Whitney	Wanting It	Poetry
Book of the Year 2015	Angela Readman	Don't Try this at Home	Short Stories
2016	Lisa Woollett	Sea Journal	Non Fiction
2016	Annie Dawid	York Ferry	Fiction
2016	Emma Purshouse and Catherine Pascall Moore	I Once Knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat	Children's Poetry
Book of the Year 2016	Laura Tisdall	Echoes	YA
2017	Lena Adishian and Nareg Seferian	Impact of an Ancient Nation	Non Fiction
2017	Melanie Whipman	Llama Sutra	Short stories
2017	Debbie Wise	Rosie and Rufus	Children's
2017	John Toomey	Slipping	Fiction
Book of the Year 2017	Jaq Hazell	My Life as a Bench	YA
2018	Keith Chandler	The Goldsmith's Apprentice	Poetry
2018	Jenny Morris; illustrated by Sara Hayat	The Thing on Mount Spring	Illustrated Children's
2018	R. K. Salters	Butterfly Ranch	Fiction
2018	Wendy Storer	Bring Me Sunshine	YA
Book of the Year 2018	David P Miraldi	The Edge of Innocence	Non Fiction
2019	Jacob M Appel	Amazing Thins are Happening Here	Short Stories
2019	Chad Alan Gibbs	Two Like Me and You	YA
2019	Oz Hardwick	Learning to Have Lost	Poetry
2019	Lisa Anne Novelline; Nicola Hwang	Piccadilly and the Jolly Raindrops	Children's
Book of the Year 2019	Claire Chao and Isabel Sun Chao	Remembering Shanghai	Non Fiction

Short Story Winners

• Sarah Evans "The Tipping Point" (2011)
• Melanie Whipman "Peacock Girl" (2012)
• Gill Blow "On the Bench" (2013)
• Gregory J Wolos "Still Life" (2014)

References

1. Birmingham Post, August 1, 2011
2. London Review of Books, Sept 2012
3. "Open up to Indie Authors Campaign".
4. Birmingham Mail, July 22, 2012
5. "Celebrating Angela Readman's 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize shortlisting « and Other Stories Publishing". Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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7. Downey, Garbhan. "Jump Derry". Culture Northern Ireland. Culture Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
8. "East Anglian poetry collection wins international book award". East Anglian Daily Times. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2020.

External links

• Official website