Shinpusha Publishing Award
しんぷうしゃしゅっぱんしょう
A publishing award run by Shinpusha from 1996 to 2007, with categories including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual works.
- Established
- 1996
- Organizer
- Shinpusha
- Category
- Publishing Culture and Book Culture
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 2 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Shinpusha Publishing Award was established in 1996 with the aim of breaking through the commercialism-dominated publishing industry and opening the stage of publishing to everyone who wants to publish a book. It featured four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Visual. Held nearly twice a year for a total of 28 times, it ended due to Shinpusha's bankruptcy in January 2008.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of winning works (Shinpusha covers publishing costs)
Related Awards
- Publishing Realization Program
Official Resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20080316130541/http://www.spps.jp/index2.htmlPast Winners
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