Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Submission Information
Submission deadline: January 15, 2025
You are required to complete an online title submission form for each title being submitted. Upon completion of the form(s), please email PDFs of your title(s) to meghan@bookcentre.ca. The Bilson Award requires five (5) physical copies of each title. Please send these to:
CCBC Book Awards 2025
c/o Tinlids Inc.
130 Martin Ross Avenue
Toronto, ON M3J 2L4
Please be advised that Tinlids' warehouse will be closed for the holidays between December 20 and January 2. We kindly ask that you avoid delivering your shipment(s) within this timeframe.
Note to US publishers, foreign publishers and self-published authors using printers in the US
When you are sending your submissions, please make sure that all mailing/courier charges, including duty, are billed to the sender. The CCBC nor Tinlids cannot incur these costs. Packages flagged as COD will be refused.
Submission fees can be paid online at bookcentre.ca/submissionfees. If you are paying the submission fee(s) by cheque, please complete a submission fee form and either enclose it with your shipment of books or mail it to the address at the bottom of the form.
Accessible Formats
The title submission form includes a question about accessible formats. While these formats are not a requirement for submitting to the awards program, we would very much appreciate it if you could let us know if the title(s) is available in an accessible format and if so, which format(s).