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2019 Praiseworthy Award Winners

Multimedia Publications

Honorable Mention

Mormon Insights

Mormon Insights Staff/ Leslie Owusu, Hannah Charlesworth (Managing Editor), Jessie Bruner (Assistant Managing Editor), Tori Hamilton (Assistant Managing Editor), Brittany Passmore (Assistant Managing Editor), and Kjanela Fawcett (PR Team), Matt Baker (faculty advisor), Hailey Garcia (PR Director)

Audio Visual Publications

Winner

LDS Living Podcast – This is the Gospel – episode 4: Love Notes from God

KaRyn Lay – host, Erin Hallstrom (executive producer), Derek Campbell (sound designer),  Danielle Wagner (story Editor)

Honorable Mention

LDS Living Podcast – All In, Episode 7: Cameron Wright: Finding God’s Plan for Your Life

Morgan Jones (host and producer), Erin Hallstrom (executive producer), Derek Campbell (sound designer) KaRyn Lay (developing producer).

Text Publications

Fiction—Picture Book

Winner

Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon by Annette Bay Pimentel

Annette Bay Pimentel author and Micha Archer illustrator, Nancy Paulsen, Cecilia Yung

Fiction—MG / YA

Winner

Where the Watermelons Grow

Cindy Baldwin author

Honorable Mention

Squint

Authors Chad Morris and Shelly Brown

Other contributors Derk Koldewyn (editor), Heather Ward and Richard Erickson (designers), Rachael Ward (typesetter), Heidi Taylor Gordon (Product Manager), Chris Schoebinger (Product Director)

Fiction—Romance

Winner

Scarlet

Jen Geigle Johnson author

Contributors: Jen Geigle Johnson, Kami Hancock, Hannah Bischoff, Aimee Robbins, Rebecca Maxfield, Amy Kendall, Jillyn Shoemaker, McKinley Griffin, Kimberly Vanderhorst

Honorable Mention

Ashes on the Moor

Sarah Eden

Sarah M. Eden, Lisa Mangum (editor), Heather Ward and Richard Erickson (designers), Rachael Ward (typesetter), Heidi Taylor Gordon (Product Manager), Chris Schoebinger (Product Director)

Fiction—General

Winner

Hermana

Becca McCulloch

Becca McCulloch (author), Amanda Walker (designer), Cassie Mae (interior design), Jo Perry (editor)

Honorable Mention

One Candle

Gale Sears

Gale Sears (author), Derk Koldewyn (editor), Heather Ward (Designer), Richard Erickson (Designer), Rachael Ward (Typesetter), Carly Springer (Product Manager), Elizabeth Wagner Alley (Product Director)

Non-Fiction

History / Biography

Saints: The History of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Matthew Grow, Scott Hales, Richard E. Turley, Steven C. Harper, et al.

Women of the Blue and Gray

Marianne Monson

Lisa Mangum (editor), Heather Ward and Richard Erickson (designers), Malina Grigg (typesetter), Heidi Taylor Gordon (Product Manager), Chris Schoebinger (Product Director)

RESOURCE/HOW-TO/SELF-HELP

Winner

Silent Souls Weeping

Jane Clayson Johnson (author), Emily Watts (editor), Richard Erickson (designer), Rachael Ward (Typesetter), Michelle Lippold (Product Manager), Elizabeth Wagner Alley (Product Director)

Honorable Mention

The Zookeeper’s Secret: Finding Your Calling in Life

J. Stuart Bunderson and Jeffery A. Thompson (authors), Shannon Moore, Kami Hancock, Michelle Fryer, Rebecca Maxfield, Kim Reid (proofreader), Ashley Smith Gebert, AmyLyn Reynolds

Memoir

Winner

Unshattered: Overcoming Tragedy and Choosing a Beautiful Life

Carol J. Decker and Stacey L. Nash (authors)

Tracy Keck (editor), Shauna Gibby and Richard Erickson (designers), Rachael Ward (typesetter), Heidi Taylor Gordon (Product Manager), Chris Schoebinger (Product Director)

Honorable Mention

My Dear Sister: Letters Between Joseph F. Smith and his Sister Martha Ann Smith Harris

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and David M. Whitchurch (editors), Kelly Nield/Hales Creative (designer), Don Brugger (copy editor), Devan Jensen (copy editor), Brent Nordgren (production manager)Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and David M. Whitchurch

Religious Books

Winner

An Early Ressurection

Adam S. Miller (author), Shirley Ricks (editor), Heather Ward (Designer), Richard Erickson (Designer), Malina Grigg (Typesetter), Lisa Roper (Product Director), Spencer Fluhman, Blair Hodges

Honorable Mention

Faith is Not Blind

Bruce C. Hafen (author), Marie K. Hafen (author), Emily Watts (Editor), Shauna Gibby (Designer), Malina Grigg (Typesetter), Michelle Lippold (Product Manager), Lisa Roper (Product Director)

Non-fiction Short Form

Winner

Angels in Every Storm

Rachelle Pace Castor (author); Samantha Millburn (editor); Michelle Pipitone-Fryer (designer)

Honorable Mention

BYU Studies: Jewel

Michelle Forstrom-Author, Roger Terry-Editor

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