Christy Award

The 2000 Christy Awards

The Christy Awards began in the year 2000 with the goal of publicizing and honoring the very best of the previous year in Christian fiction. Named after the 1967 novel Christy by Catherine Marshall—sometimes considered […]

Christy Award

A New Song – Jan Karon

The inaugural award for contemporary Christian fiction might as well be for the first five of Jan Karon’s Mitford books. Karon began writing her stories of Father Tim, a humorous and easy-going Episcopal priest in […]

Fiction

Rift – Steven James

Sahara O’Saughnessy’s life is in shambles. Her father is dead and she’s the one responsible. Not directly, not directly enough. And the way they left things, the final things she said to him, the things […]

Non-Fiction

Ready As You Are: Discovering a Life of Abundance When You Feel Inadequate, Uncertain, and Disqualified – Brittany Maher and Cassandra Speer

This book encourages Christian women to forge ahead into their God-given callings, even when they are struggling with self-doubt or waiting for someone else to give them an invitation to use their gifts. The authors […]