Dear publishers and authors,
Each 12 months, Christianity Today honors a set of outstanding books encompassing a wide range of subjects and genres. The CT Book Awards shall be announced in December at christianitytoday.com. They also shall be featured prominently within the January/February 2025 issue of CT and promoted in several CT newsletters. (In addition, publishers could have the chance to take part in a marketing promotion organized by CT’s marketing team, complete with site banners and paid Facebook promotion.)
Here are this 12 months’s awards categories:
1. Apologetics/Evangelism
2a. Biblical Studies
2b. Bible and Devotional
3a. Children
3b. Young Adults
4. Christian Living/Spiritual Formation
5. The Church/Pastoral Leadership
6. Culture, Poetry, and the Arts
7. Fiction
8. History/Biography
9. Marriage, Family, and Singleness
10. Missions/The Global Church
11. Politics and Public Life
12a. Theology (popular)
12b. Theology (academic)
*In addition, CT shall be naming a Book of the Year, chosen from the whole pool of nominees by a panel of CT editors.
Nominations:
To be eligible for nomination, a book should be published between November 1, 2023 and October 31, 2024. We are in search of scholarly and popular-level works, and every part in between. A various panel of students, pastors, and other informed readers will evaluate the books.
Authors and publishers can nominate as many books as they need, and every nominee will be submitted in multiple categories. For larger publishers (those with 50 or more employees), there may be a $40 entry fee for every nomination (defined as each title submitted in each category). For smaller publishers (those with fewer than 50 employees), the entry fee is $20 per nomination. And for self-published authors, the entry fee is $10 per nomination.
To enter your nominations, click here to access the submission form. Fill out the shape as instructed and email a replica (together with PDF versions of every nominee) to bookawards@christianitytoday.com. (In the box marked “total submissions,” please indicate the variety of nominated books and provides an estimate of the resulting nomination fees, based on the payment scale mentioned above. We will confirm these totals, and start sending payment invoices in early July.)
Finalist books:
If your book is chosen as considered one of the 4 finalists in any category, we are going to contact you and ask that you simply send a replica of the book on to the judges assigned to that category. We will provide mailing addresses for every judge.
Deadline:
The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, July 19, 2024.
Any questions on any aspect of the method? Email us at bookawards@christianitytoday.com.
Thank you!
—Christianity Today editors
