The Christy Award® Gala

Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 7pm

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center Chicago/Downers Grove


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This is our year to return in-person together to celebrate and honor the best Christian fiction of the year.

The Christy Award® Gala Dinner will be held outside Chicago on November 14th and will feature a premiere cast of the industry’s authors to announce The Christy Award winners in nine categories, The Christy Book of the Year®, and The Amplify Award for Christian Fiction presented by last year’s winning authors including Sharon HinckAmanda Barratt, Sara Brunsvold, Laura Frantz, Elizabeth Goddard, Kristi Ann Hunter, Anna Rose Johnson,Linda MacKillop, Katie Powner, and Sara Watterson.

Woven throughout the special evening hosted by radio personality and award winning novelist Chris Fabry, will be reflections about the Christian imagination and the impact of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction, with many special guests including poet, scholar, and Anglican priest Malcolm Guite (via pre-recorded segment).

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Chris Fabry

EVENING HOST

Chris Fabry is an award-winning author of more than 80 books, including Saving Grayson and his latest, The Forge, based on the film by the Kendrick Brothers. He’s the winner of the Carol Award and five Christy Awards, and was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame. Chris is also the host of Chris Fabry Live on Moody Radio.

Author

Amanda Barratt

AUTHOR OF THE 2023 CHRISTY BOOK OF THE YEAR

Amanda Barratt is the bestselling author of numerous historical novels and novellas, including The Warsaw Sisters, Within These Walls of Sorrow, and The White Rose Resists. She is the recipient of multiple Christy Awards as well as the Carol Award. Her novel, Within These Walls of Sorrow, won the 2023 Christy Award Book of the Year. Amanda is passionate about illuminating oft-forgotten facets of history through a fictional narrative. She lives in Michigan.

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Sharon Hinck

CHRISTY HALL OF FAME 2024 INDUCTEE

Award-winning author Sharon Hinck writes “stories for the hero in all of us,” about ordinary people on extraordinary faith journeys. She has been honored with four Carol Awards and four Christy Awards for her novels, and also has written for a variety of devotion books. She has experience as a church youth worker, a choreographer and ballet teacher, a church organist, and an adjunct professor for Creative Writing MFA students. One day she’ll figure out what to be when she grows up, but meanwhile she’s pouring her imagination into writing. When she isn’t wrestling with words, Sharon enjoys speaking for conferences, retreats, and church groups.

Author

Malcolm Guite

Poet-Priest Malcolm Guite was Chaplain for 20 years at Girton College, Cambridge and remains Supernumerary Fellow. He lectures widely in England and North America on Theology and Literature and has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism and has worked as a librettist. His books include Sounding the Seasons; Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year (Canterbury 2012) and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hodder and IVP 2017). Malcolm has a particular interest in the imagination as a truth-bearing faculty and continues to reflect deeply on how poetry can stimulate and re-awaken our prayer life. He writes Poet’s Corner, a weekly column for the Church Times. In 2023 Malcolm was awarded the Archbishop Lanfranc Medal for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Malcolm enjoys sailing, walking, old books, live music and all the varieties of the British countryside and weather. He has a YouTube series called ‘A Spell in the Library’ at https://www.youtube.com/c/MalcolmGuitespell www.malcolmguite.com

Author

Lynn Austin

Lynn Austin has sold more than one and a half million copies of her books worldwide. She has won eight Christy Awards for her historical fiction and was one of the first inductees into the Christy Award Hall of Fame. One of her novels, "Hidden Places," was made into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, starring actress Shirley Jones. Lynn and her husband have three grown children and make their home in western Michigan.

Author

Jamie Lapeyrolerie

Jamie Lapeyrolerie is an editor for WaterBrook & Multnomah, imprints of Penguin Random House and a writer. She is actively involved in the publishing industry, including The Christy Award® Advisory Board, and a part of various DEI initiatives. Her own writings have appeared in Christianity Today, Christ + Pop Culture, and Ekstasis Magazine. You can find her bookish and editorial writings here, her C.S. Lewis and Tolkien substack here, and on instagram @musingsofjamie.

Author

Steve Laube

Steve Laube, a literary agent and president of The Steve Laube Agency, has been in the book industry over four decades, first as a bookstore manager where he was awarded the National Store of the Year by CBA. He then spent many years with Bethany House Publishers where he was named Editor of the Year by AWSA. Over twenty ago he became an agent where he and his agency have represented over 2,500 new books and Steve been twice named Agent of the Year by ACFW. He was also inducted into the Grand Canyon University Hall-of-Fame by their College of Theology. In addition, he is the Publisher of Enclave Publishing and serves as president emeritus of The Christian Writers Institute. He is the author of the annual Christian Writers Market Guide, Write Your First Novel (with Gilbert Morris), and The Chosen Presents: A Blended Harmony of the Gospels (with Dallas and Amanda Jenkins). His office is in Phoenix, Arizona.

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