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2021 Praiseworthy Award Winners

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Praiseworthy Awards

Fiction—Picture Book

Winner:

Ming’s Christmas Wishes

Susan L. Gong: Author

Masahiro Tateishi: Illustrator

Honorable Mention:

Pirates Love Pajamas

Sarah Hadsell: Author

Wes Wheeler: Illustrator

Fiction—Middle Grade

Winner:

Willa and the Whale

Chad Morris: Author

Shelly Brown: Author

Honorable Mention:

The Lost Wonderland Diaries

J. Scott Savage: Author

Fiction—Young Adult

Winner:

Shielded

KayLynn Flanders: Author

Fiction—General Fiction

Winner:

Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon, Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator

Marianne Monson: Author

Fiction––Romance

Winner:

Suits and Spark Plugs

Aspen Hadley: Author

Honorable Mention:

Lakeshire Park

Megan Walker: Author

Nonfiction—Picture Book

Winner:

Pillar of Light

Andrew Knaupp: Author

Sal Velluto: Illustrator

Honorable Mention:

Standout Saints: Church History Heroes From Around the World

Sierra Wilson: Author

Emily Shay Tueller: Illustrator

Nonfiction—History/Biography

Winner:

Forty Years: The Saga of Building the Salt Lake Temple

Mark Henshaw: Author

Nonfiction—Gospel Topic

Winner:

The Second Coming of the Lord

Gerald Lund: Author

Honorable Mention:

50 Relics of the Restoration

Casey Paul Griffeths: Author

Mary Jane Woodger: Author

Nonfiction—Memoir

Winner:

Without the Mask:
Coming Out and Coming Into God’s Light

Charlie Bird: Author

Name: Role

Honorable Mention:

The Milkman’s Son

Randy Lindsay: Author

Nonfiction—Self Help/Resource

Winner:

The Founder of Our Peace:
Christ-Centered Patterns for Easing Worry, Stress, and Fear

John Hilton III: Author

Honorable Mention:

Grace Where You Are

Emily Belle Freeman: Author

Nonfiction—Lifestyle, Families

Winner:

Turning Little Hearts

Charlotte Barnes: Author

Nonfiction—Lifestyle, Adults

Winner:

The Gathering Home: Creating a Refuge of Goodness and Joy

Emily Belle Freeman: Author

Jessica Kettle: Author

Katie Wilson Hughes: Author

Nonfiction—Short Form

Winner:

Are We Not All Beggars?

Michelle Forstrom: Author

Honorable Mention:

A Divine Indigenous Heritage: How One Latter-day Saint Family Combines Cree and Gospel Teachings

Lindsey Williams: Author

Audiovisual—Podcast Episode

Winner:

This is the Gospel:
A Storytelling Podcast
Episode 57: Fitting In

KaRyn Lay: Host

Jaylynne Geddes and Suzanne Fisher: Guests

Honorable Mention:

Real Talk with Friends Special, with Brad Wilcox

Scott Sorensen and Ganel-Lyn Condie: Co-hosts

Brad Wilcox: Guest

Audiovisual—Audiobook

Winner:

Without the Mask:
Coming Out and Coming
Into God’s Light

Charlie Bird: Author

Audiovisual—Recorded Music

Winner:

I Saw a Pillar of Light

Laura Madsen: Composer

CJ Madsen: Arranger and Conductor

Honorable Mention:

Placentero Nos Es Trabajar

CJ Madsen: Arranger and Conductor

Audiovisual—Feature Film

Winner:

The Santa Box

Dustin “Spanky” Ward: Writer and Director

Audiovisual—Film Trailer

Winner:

The Santa Box

Ron Brough: Producer

Covenant Communications: Producer

Audiovisual—Documentary

Winner:

Remembering Heaven

Thomas Laughlin: Producer

Sarah Hinze: Producer

Honorable Mention:

Stripling

Thomas Laughin: Producer, Director, Editor

Multimedia—Website

Winner:

Baking with Blondie

Mandy Merriman: Author

Cedar Fort: Producer

Multimedia—E-Book

Winner:

Repicturing the Restoration

Anthony Seat: Author

Honorable Mention:

175 Temple Symbols and Their Meanings

Donald W. Parry: Author

Beacon Awards

Nonfiction—History/Biography

Winner:

Saints, Vol. 2: No Unhallowed Hand

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Publisher

With significant contributions from Matt Grow, Lisa Olsen Tait, Jed Woodworth, Scott Hales, Matt McBride, Ben Godfrey, David C. Nielsen, Angela Hallstrom, Dallin T. Morrow, JamesGoldberg, R. Eric Smith, Leslie Sherman Edgington, Kathryn Tanner Burnside, Nathan N. Waite, Stephanie Steed, Alison Palmer, Alison Kitchen Gainer, Steven Harper, david Golding, Ryan Saltzgiver, Jenny Reeder, Patric Gerber

Audiovisual—Audiobook

Winner:

Saints, Vol. 2: No Unhallowed Hand

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Publisher

Kirby Heyborn: Narrator

With significant contributions from David Morris, Matt Grow, Lisa Olsen Tait, Jed Woodworth, Scott Hales, Matt McBride, Ben Godfrey, David C. Nielsen, Angela Hallstrom, Dallin T. Morrow, JamesGoldberg, R. Eric Smith, Leslie Sherman Edgington, Kathryn Tanner Burnside, Nathan N. Waite, Stephanie Steed, Alison Palmer, Alison Kitchen Gainer, Steven Harper, david Golding, Ryan Saltzgiver, Jenny Reeder, Patric Gerber

Audiovisual—Podcast

Winner:

The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast Episode 6: “I Had Seen a Vision”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Producer

Ben Godfrey: Executive Producer

Curt Dahl: Producer

Spencer McBride: Host

Multimedia—Website

Winner:

The Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells

Church Historian’s Press: Publisher

With significant contributions from Cherry Silver, Sheree Bench, Kate Holbrook, Jay Parry, Naomi White, Kaytee Johnson, Eric Smith, Ben Godfrey, Ben Wood, Nicholas Shrum, Julie Russell, Paddy Spilsbury, Brenda Homer

Winner:

The Discourses of Eliza R. Snow

Church Historian’s Press: Publisher

With significant contributions from Jenny Reeder, Elizabeth A. Kuen, Julie A. Russell, Jenny Rollins, Naomi White, Kaytee Johnson, Eric Smith, Ben Godfrey, Ben Wood, Susan Yungfleisch, David Bolingbroke, Chere Clark


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