EA Books Publishing Contest

Do you have a poem, story, devotion, or prayer to share? Each year, EA Books offers a publishing contest where you are invited to submit pieces for anthology books. Here’s what we are planning for the current year.

Before we rise, we are formed. Before we shine, we are shaped.

Rooted in the powerful promises of the book of Isaiah, these two anthologies reflect a divine progression where we are formed by the Potter’s hands in Isaiah 64:8 and also called to rise shine in Isaiah 60:1. The Work of His Hands honors the shaping. Rise and Shine – Your Light Has Come celebrates the Shining. We invite you to share your honest, faith-filled voices of how God has molded, refined, and called you.

The Work of His Hands

“But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we are all … The Work of His Hands.”

— Isaiah 64:8

Just as the Little Pot, Tea Pot, Oil Lamp, and Small Jar are vessels created by the Potter for unique roles and purposes, writers gather as living testimonies of the Potter’s faithfulness. Through their own unique writings, each contributor shares how God has molded, reshaped, refined, and restored them.

Together, these pages form a collection of surrendered hearts—evidence that even cracked clay remains valuable in the hands of a loving Creator.

This anthology is an invitation to remember: you are not unfinished. You are being formed.

Deadline: TBA

Rise and Shine

Your Light Has Come

“Rise and Shine, Your Light Has Come, … and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.”

— Isaiah 60:1

Just as The Oil Lamp shines the Potter’s light, the courageous voices attending the 2026 Speak Up Conference declare the calling on their lives. Within these pages, authors share their journeys of overcoming fear, stepping out in faith, and embracing the purpose God placed within them.

These are stories of trembling obedience, holy bravery, and light breaking through doubt. Each poem, devotion, prayer, and story shines with the reminder that God does not call the fearless—He calls the willing.

When we rise, He shines.

Deadline: TBA

Whether new to the publishing world or an old pro, we invite you to submit your words to our 2026 anthology books. Here are the details (and even some professional tips to help you write better):

Contest Goals:

Produce excellent, inspiring books that will bless, motivate, and encourage readers into a closer walk with the Lord.

Give qualified authors a platform to tell their stories.

Provide newer authors the opportunity to learn how to submit materials for publication. You will follow a set format outlined in our guidelines, and because our contest is run by staff members who have worked in and for royalty publishing houses, you will have the opportunity to experience professionalism.

All submissions will be professionally edited, and learning to work with an editor is a valuable part of this publishing process.

EABooks will take on all costs to produce the books. Authors will be able to purchase copies at the authors’ rate. Authors can then resell for the list price, earn some money, and have a publishing credit.

Details:

You may enter the contest for either book as often as you like. But only one submission for each book will be accepted.

If your manuscript is accepted, you will receive one free copy of the book.

All accepted entries will receive a professional edit using track changes.

The Work of His Hands Anthology book has a $25.00 fee per entry. This covers your edit and the cost of mailing your free book.
The Rise and Shine Anthology is FREE but available only to attendees of the Speak Up Conference. (Remember, contest fees are usually tax-deductible for writers).

You may submit personal experience pieces, poetry, as-told-to articles, devotionals, and third-person articles.

Good news! Unlike many contests, we maintain no rights to your manuscript. If your manuscript is selected, we will ask you to sign a simple form allowing us to use your work in this compilation, but you retain ownership of your materials, meaning you can sell them elsewhere with reprint rights.

If you want to submit a piece that’s already been published elsewhere, that is fine. But you must own the materials (so if someone else purchased it for all rights, you don’t own that piece anymore). If you have problems figuring this out, contact us, and we’ll help.

Guidelines:

Submissions may be no more than 1500 words for a single piece. For instance, a single devotional can’t exceed 1500. Likewise, you would not combine several poems to equal 1500 words—those are submitted individually, and each submission cannot be longer than 1500, but can always be shorter.

We only accept Microsoft Word .doc or .docx files in the standard manuscript format—Times New Roman, 12pt font, 1-inch margins, double-spaced.

Submissions will be judged on their alignment with the theme and on their adherence to all guidelines.

You must have full contact information (Name, address, email, phone number) in the upper left-hand of your manuscript. In the right corner, note if you’re offering first rights (it’s never been published before) or reprint rights (it’s been published before and where), the word count, the type of piece (article, devo, poem, story), as well as which book you are submitting to.