Amazon India launches the Fifth Edition Of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Pen To Publish Contest. Amazon is inviting budding authors and writers to submit their original and unpublished pieces of content in English, Hindi and Tamil languages. A panel consisting of distinguished people, including Sudeep Nagarkar, Sudha Nair, Satya Vyas, Vijay Kakwani and Naga Chokkan. This eminent panel will analyse the submitted entries and judge them on various benchmarks, including originality, creativity, quality of writing and customer feedback.

The top 10 entries in each language category stand to win cash prizes. Here are more details about the prize money:

Position:
1.) Winning Entry: ₹1 lakh
2.) First Runners Up: ₹50,000
3.) Second Runners Up: ₹30,000
4.) 4 -10 Position: ₹10,000

Amol Gurwara, Director Kindle Content - India, Amazon, says, “The fourth edition of the Pen to Publish surpassed our expectations and encouraged us to continue with this annual contest. Taking forward our promise to empower writers from all walks of life through self-publishing and help them become ‘authorpreneurs’, we are happy to announce this fifth edition. We aim to encourage enthusiastic writers to turn their passion for writing into a career by self-publishing their work and look forward to receiving more entries this year as well.”

Sudeep Nagarkar, Author and Jury member – English language, KDP Pen to Publish Contest fifth edition, says “KDP has been offering authors an option to publish across languages. The Pen to Publish contest motivates writers to share their untold stories with readers across the world. I am excited to be a part of the contest and look forward to reading some exciting work by up and coming authors.”

“When I participated in the contest last year, it was my first experience in self-publishing, and I was amazed to discover how KDP made the process extremely easy and for my book to gain a large readership. Complete access and control of my work on Amazon Kindle along with an attractive royalty rate of up to 70% was a lucrative offer and winning the contest further motivated me to become a full-time author. Ever since, I have published more than six books with KDP.”says Deepti Mittal, winner of the fourth edition of the Pen to Publish contest.

To participate in the KDP Select program, submit your entries by self-publishing your book on kdp.amazon.com between 10 July 2022 and 10 September 2022. Enrol your book in the KDP Select programme, and remember to include the keyword pentopublish5 in the book’s information. All eBooks that enter the contest will be available on the free Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, PC and Mac, and Kindle E-readers.

To get more information, visit www.amazon.in/pentopublish.