Submission Criteria

The Jewish Children’s Book Awards are aimed at talented authors  – and aspiring authors  – living in the UK and Europe. 

As in previous years, the submitted story must be Jewish in content, either inspired or informed by Jewish history, folklore, values, festivals or texts.

The submission should be suitable for readers aged 4-8.

The submission text must be no longer than 1200 words.

All submitted work must be original. It must be written by an individual and must not contain any AI generated text.

The author may have been published; the submitted work, however, must be unpublished in the English language and cannot be on active submission or under contract with an English language publisher before the award is announced.

Submissions are accepted in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian and Yiddish.

Each submission must include a separate note explaining the Jewish content in no more than 200 words. Ideally, this explanatory note should be submitted in English. The note should include your residential address, date of birth and details of how you found out about the awards.

Both the submission text and explanatory note must be in a separate word document. The completed submission should be emailed to awards@greenbeanbooks.com

No hardcopy submissions will be accepted.

Authors must be aged 16 or over.

While submissions are invited from authors living in the UK and Europe, if you have been displaced from your country within the last three years then please contact us directly to see if your submission can be accepted.

Work previously submitted for inclusion in the Jewish Children’s Book Awards in any previous year is not eligible to be resubmitted.

Only one submission per entrant is allowed above the line “Entries must be submitted by 5pm on Wednesday 5th November 2025.

Entries must be submitted by 5pm on Wednesday 5th November 2025.