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The 2011 Christy Award Winners

                                         

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The 2011 Christy Awards were given out at the annual dinner held the evening of July 11 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

The awards began just before 7 p.m. local time with Emcee Liz Curtis Higgs welcoming the attendees, after which the nominees were announced, and each of the authors went onstage where they received a medal (the winners received trophies). After the meal Donna Kehoe the executive director of the Christy Awards presented the year in review, followed by the keynote speech by Randall Wallace. Around 9:15 the 2011 Christy Award winners were announced.

The Christy Awards were first awarded in 2000, and honor each year excellent Christian fiction, in a variety of categories. Each year publishers submit books for the categories and the winners are chosen by a board of seven people familiar with the publishing world.

The nominees and winners of this years’ Christy Awards are: (Winners are in Bold)

Contemporary Romance

Blood Ransom by Lisa Harris

Indivisible by Kristin Heitzmann*

Sworn to Protect by DiAnn Mills

Contemporary Series, Sequels, and Novellas

The Reluctant Prophet by Nancy Rue *

The Thorn by Beverly Lewis

The Waiting by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Contemporary Standalone

Almost Heaven by Chris Fabry*

Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner

A Season of Miracles by Rusty Whitener*

First Novels

 Crossing Oceans by Gina Holmes*

Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

A Season of Miracles by Rusty Whitener*

Historical

Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther by Ginger Garrett

For Time & Eternity by Allison Pitman

While We’re Far Apart by Lynn Austin

Historical Romance

The Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen

She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell

Within My Heart by Tamera Alexander

Suspense

The Bishop by Steven James*

The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker

Predator by Terri Blackstock

Visionary

To Darkness Fled by Jill Williamson

Konig’s Fire by Marc Schooley

The Last Christian by David Gregory

Young Adult

The Charlatan’s Boy by Jonathan Rogers

The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson

Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue

Nancy Rue became the first author to win two awards in one year. (All information taken from the Christy Awards Website.)

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Father, please bless those who write for your glory. No award can beat the pleasure of our obedience to you. Thank you for that privilege. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

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3 responses to “The 2011 Christy Award Winners”

  1. Jessica Thomas Avatar
    Jessica Thomas

    “Visionary”? What sort of category is that?
    Thanks for compiling the list. It would be an interesting place to conduct research on the state of Christian fiction.
    Oh, by the way, I think Brayden and I are going to give co-authoring a try. It should be fun and certainly different than anything I’ve ever done.

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  2. Brenda Anderson Avatar
    Brenda Anderson

    Congratulations to all the winners. These are the one book awards I really look forward to each year to find Christian fiction’s best.
    I’m just disappointed that Rusty Whitener didn’t win in either of the categories for which he was nominated. I loved A Season of Miracles.
    And I’m always perplexed at lumping Amish into the contemporary category. Seems to me it should have a category all its own.

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  3. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    Brenda, I’m not always impressed with this Awards or the winners or the categories. Granted that some of the best are selected, but possibly an equal amount are left out altogether. Whether that’s because their publishers didn’t nominate them or not I don’t know. And I agree that the categories are lacking specificity which really hinders some of the valid selections and winners of the group.
    Jess, “Visionary” is the PC title for fantasy in CBA because we all know that “Fantasy” doesn’t sell in the CBA. Yeah, uh-huh. And congratulations for deciding to work with Brayden. He’s an awesome young man with a good head on his shoulders for all of his 15 years of living. ! I’ll be anxious to hear how the work goes. Keep me informed!

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