The most popular
form of art among evangelicals may be
the story…stories really do locate us in the human condition, and stories bind our families to each other and to the earth.

—Calvin Miller

2003 Winners & Finalists

Allegory

Arena

by Karen Hancock (Bethany House Publishers)

Covenant Child

byTerri Blackstock (W Publishing Group)

A Sword for the Immerland King

by F. W. Faller (Discipleship Publications International)

Contemporary

All the Way Home

by Ann Tatlock (Bethany House Publishers)

Not a Sparrow Falls

by Linda Nichols (Bethany House Publishers)

Women's Intuition

by Lisa Samson (WaterBrook Press)

Futuristic

Time Lottery

by Nancy Moser (Barbour Publishing)

The Fifth Man

by John B. Olson and Randall Ingermanson (Bethany House Publishers)

Ice

by Shane Johnson (WaterBrook Press)

International Historical

His Watchful Eye

by Jack Cavanaugh (Bethany House Publishers)

Hallelujah

by J. Scott Featherstone (ACW Press)

The Shadow Women

by Angela Elwell Hunt (Warner Faith)

North American Historical

Candle in the Darkness

by Lynn Austin (Bethany House Publishers)

The Tender Vine

by Kristen Heitzmann (Bethany House Publishers)

Virginia Autumn

by Sara Mitchell (WaterBrook Press)  

Romance

True Honor

by Dee Henderson (Multnomah Publishers)

The Healer

by Dee Henderson (Multnomah Publishers)

Summer Shadows

by Gayle Roper (Multnomah Publishers)

 

Suspense

Directed Verdict

by Randy Singer (WaterBrook Press)

Crown of Thorns

by Sigmund Brouwer (Tyndale House Publishers)

They Shall See God

by Athol Dickson (Tyndale House Publishers)

 

Western

Toward a New Beginning

by R. William Rogers (Longwood Communication)

Last of the Texas Camp

by Stephen Bly (Broadman & Holman)

The Outlaw's Twin Sister

by Stephen Bly (Crossway Books)

 

First Novel

A Place Called Wiregrass

by Michael Morris (RiverOak Publishing)

Daughter of China

by C. Hope Flinchbaugh (Bethany House Publishers)

Yucatan Deep

by Tom Morrissey (Zondervan)