Dear booksellers,

Voting for the 2025 Southern Book Prize opens on November 1st and will run through February 1, 2025. All readers who love Southern literature and Southern independent bookstores are eligible to vote. The winners, decided by popular vote, will be announced on February 14.

The full list of books on the ballot will be announced publicly on November 1. SIBA Booksellers can see all the finalists here:

• Fiction Finalists
• Nonfiction Finalists
• Young Readers Finalists

Orders placed for any of the finalist titles from Ingram will receive an extra 2% discount, no code required. SIBA has also created a marketing toolkit for bookstores:

SBP toolkit: Includes posters, flyers, shelf talkers, logos, and code stores can use to embed the Southern Book Prize ballot on their own websites, so they can encourage their customers to vote.

What SBP means for bookstores:

• Wide-scale consumer target marketing program: Authors and publishers with books on the ballot will independently ask their readers and followers to vote.
• Ongoing social media and newsletter support from SIBA.
• Voting customers entered into a raffle to receive a selection of the books on the ballot and a $100 gift card to their local indie bookstore.

For more information about The Southern Book Prize and how it can be used for your store, reach out to Nicki Leone at nicki@sibaweb.com .