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Since 1999, The Christy Awards® have honored Christian novels of excellence, imagination, and creativity.

The Christy Award® is designed to nurture and encourage creativity and quality in the writing and publishing of fiction written from a Christian worldview and showcase the diversity of genres.

The Award is named for Catherine Marshall’s enduring bestselling novel, Christy, published in 1967 and inspiring a continuing book series and a CBS television series starring Kellie Martin. The novel was released in 2017 in a 50th anniversary legacy edition by Gilead Publishing in partnership with Kregel Publications.

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Catherine Marshall and her other books


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Christy is now available as an ebook for the first time in history!


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