Entries for the FutureBook Awards 2025 are now open!

In a time of unprecedented challenge and change, the book industry needs fresh perspectives, radical ideas and decisive moves more than ever before.  We urgently need to identify and support the most exciting leaders and aspiring leaders who are striving to shift the status quo — and that’s why the FutureBook Awards are getting a major glow-up. 

The 2025 awards categories are:

• Future Leader of the Year
• Leader of the Year
• Start-up of the Year
• FutureBook Excellence Award
• Freelancer of the Year
• Sales Professional(s) of the Year
• Production Professional(s) of the Year

For 2025, we’re going big and bold, creating a dedicated ceremony after the FutureBook Conference which will offer our nominees a rare chance to properly celebrate, collaborate and network.

This is our moment to celebrate the pioneers and the game-changers, the outsiders and the allies, the wave-makers and the dissenters and the champions of wild but potentially brilliant ideas. There’ll be cocktails. There’ll be cheering. There’ll probably be some controversy. And who knows, there might just be conversations that change the course of the book industry for years to come.

Aspiring leaders, assemble. This one’s for you.

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