The 17th edition of the Typhlo & Tactus international competition for creators of tactile illustrated books will take place in Prague (Czech Republic) from October 28 to 30, 2026.
The deadline for submitting competition entries is July 31, 2026.
Authors from all over the world are welcome to participate!
The organiser of T&T 2026 in Prague is a group of seven European countries which are founding members of T&T project: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and United Kingdom. The leader of the organising team for this year is KNIHOVNA HMATOVÝCH KNÍŽEK, in English the TACTILE BOOK LIBRARY, which is provided by the Association of Parents and Friends of Partially Sighted and Blind Children in the Czech Republic.
Contact e-mail: khk.asociace@gmail.com.
NATIONAL SELECTION
The competition begins with a national selection in each competing country.
You can view the list of 2026 competing countries. You can find there contact details of national partners and deadlines for submitting entries to 2026 national selections. We will add other deadlines as they are announced.
If you want to participate in your national selection:
- Look at TIPS, EXAMPLES, RULES,
- contact your national partner,
- create an excellent book,
- register for your national selection.
Maximum of five books from each country can be selected to go up to the international T&T competition.
Good luck to all of you!
INTERNATIONAL T&T COMPETITION
In international communication, each country is represented by a national partner.
National partner in T&T competition:
National partner is an organisation supporting children or adults with vision impairment, for example library, social service, school, organisation already producing or promoting tactile illustrated books, non-profit organisation etc. National partner raises awareness of tactile illustrated books and promotes creation of these books.
National partner:
- supports its country´s authors (consulting the creation, printing text in Braille, uploading REGISTRATION FORM etc.),
- communicates with the organisers of the international competition,
- fills in and uploads the COUNTRY APPLICATION,
- is responsible for sending its country’s entries to the international competition,
- receives its country´s entries back from the organisers after the competition and hands them over to their owners.
Most often, the organiser of the national selection and the national partner are one and the same organisation. However, it is also possible that one organisation holds the national selection and another one the international competition.
Would your country like to join us? Just write to the organisers of this year’s international competition at khk.asociace@gmail.com. We are looking forward to new participating countries!
If your entry is selected to proceed to the international T&T competition:
ASAP after the national selection:
- translate the text of your book to English and French (no need for a professional translation, a translator is sufficient),
- download and fill in (on computer) the form TEXT OF THE BOOK (see example),
- download, fill in (on computer), print, sign and scan the REGISTRATION FORM: choose the form TACTILE ADAPTATION or ORIGINAL CREATION,
- send your entry to your national partner including a paper copy of completed and signed REGISTRATION FORM,
- upload two documents here:
- scan of REGISTRATION FORM in pdf,
- TEXT OF THE BOOK in doc or docx.
Submitting competition entries to the international T&T competition
National partners submit the entries to the competition.
The deadline is July 31, 2026.
Submission of the entries includes:
1. sending a package with the entry to the competition:
Send your country´s competition books to the address:
Asociace rodičů a přátel dětí nevidomých a slabozrakých v ČR
KNIHOVNA HMATOVÝCH KNÍŽEK (TACTILE BOOK LIBRARY)
náměstí Míru 19
Praha 2
120 00
Czech Republic
Include in the parcel:
- competition book,
- a paper copy of author´s REGISTRATION FORM.
It is possible to send more books per country in one parcel, each of them with its REGISTRATION FORM.
2. uploading COUNTRY APPLICATION
- download, fill in (on computer), print, sign and upload COUNTRY APPLICATION (one form per country) in pdf into Google Forms.
Good luck in the competition!
Jury
The international T&T jury is composed of representatives from founding members´ countries. During three days the jury will carefully work to decide which entries will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes and Special Mentions!
After finishing the T&T competition Czech organisers will send books back to national partners.
It is up to each country what to do with their entries after the competition. The national partner can return them to the creators. Authors can also donate their entries to a special organisation supporting the blind people (library etc.) to be available for blind children.