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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Tuesday, August 6, 2002 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs 2002 Christy Award Winners Announced The winners of the third annual Christy Awards, which celebrate excellence in Christian fiction, have been announced. Christian publisher Bethany House dominated this year's awards winning five of the eight award given. This year's winners were announced at the third annual Christy Award Celebration of the Story on July 12, 2002 in Anaheim, CA. The Christy Awards were established in the spring of 1999, when nearly a dozen Christian publishers confirmed the need for establishing a Christian fiction award to recognize novelists and novels of excellence in half a dozen genres of Christian fiction. By late summer, ideas and planning had come together to launch The Christy Award, named in honor of Catherine Marshall’s popular novel, Christy. 2002 Christy Award Winners Contemporary: A Garden to Keep by Jamie Langston Turner (Bethany) Futuristic: Oxygen by Randall Ingermanson and John Olson (Bethany) International Historical: While Mortals Sleep by Jack Cavanaugh (Bethany) North American Historical: Hidden Places by Lynn Austin (Bethany) Romance: The Guardian by Dee Henderson (Multnomah Publishers) Suspense: Drummer in the Dark by T. Davis Bunn (WaterBrook Press) Western: The Long Trail Home by Stephen Bly (Broadman & Holman Publishers) First Novel: Ezekiel’s Shadow by David Ryan Long (Bethany) Related Links: · Christy Awards · Past Christy Award Winners Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly edition. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.