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Submission period for The Christy Awards® now open until end of month

INDUSTRY’S PREMIERE CHRISTIAN FICTION AWARD ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS MARCH 1-31

The Christy Award®Nominations for The Christy Award® are now being accepted through March 31 in nine fiction categories:

General
Contemporary Romance
Historical Romance
Historical
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller
Visionary
First Novel
Young Adult
Short Format

Submissions are open to works of fiction written from a Christian worldview, published traditionally or independently from March 2019 to March 2020. (Submitting publishers do not need to be members of ECPA.)
The finalists will be announced in September, and the winners will be celebrated at the Christy Award Gala in Nashville on November 11.

ECPA works with media outlets, prominent fiction community voices, and retailers to bring awareness to The Christy Award® finalists and winners. Last year, Just Read Tours (@JustCommonly) and Reading is My Superpower conducted campaigns that included book giveaways. Our valued retail partners featured the award finalists and/or winners on their sites and in special programs.  They include Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBook.com, LifeWay, Logos, NetGalley (eblast to 16,600), Parable (eblast to 350,000), and Signature Marketing Network (200+ store websites and email to 200K product buyers).

For more information, visit ChristyAwards.com and click on the SUBMISSIONS tab in the top menu.

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