Chennai, Amazon India today launched the fifth edition of its
annual Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) flagship event, Pen to Publish Contest.
With this contest, Amazon invites writers to submit their original and previously
unpublished entries in English, Hindi and Tamil languages.
An eminent judging panel will analyse the submitted entries including Naga
Chokkan for Tamil entries, Sudeep Nagarkar and Sudha Nair for English
entries and Satya Vyas and Vijay Kakwani for Hindi entries.
Interested budding authors can enroll themselves in the contest by self-publishing
their eBook with 5,000 words or more using the KDP service, a release from Amazon
said.
Participants can submit their entries which will be judged on a number of criteria
including originality, creativity, quality of writing, and customer feedback, from
July 10 to September 10, 2022.
Unlike the previous editions, this year the top 10 entries in each language will win
cash prizes. The winning entry will receive a cash prize of Rs1 lakh, while the first
runners up will be awarded Rs 50,000 and second runners up Rs 30,000. The other
seven participants from the top 10 will be granted an amount of Rs 10,000 each.
to Publish Contest fifth edition.
