Founded in 2008, the mission of the New England Book Festival is to honor the best books of each holiday season, as determined by the festival’s panel of publishing industry-culled judges. The festival considers non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, young adult, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, photography/art, poetry, gay literature, regional literature, spiritual, business books, wild card (anything goes,) unpublished stories and compilations/anthologies. All entries are in English.