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Ave Maria Press authors and designers earned ten awards—including three first-place honors—in the annual book awards sponsored by the Catholic Press Association. Joyce Rupp won first place in spirituality/soft cover books for Boundless Compassion, which earned a second-place award last month from the Association of Catholic Publishers. Rupp also took second place in collections of prayers for Anchors for the Soul from CPA. Br. Paul Quenon, OCSO, placed first in memoir for In Praise of the Useless Life, which also earned second place for cover design. Samantha Watson created the cover for Ave. The Catholic Hipster Handbook, edited by Tommy Tighe, won first place in the “backlist beauty” category. Ave graphic designer Brianna Dombo won two awards—an honorable mention for design and production for the mother-daughter journal Side by Side by Lori and Ava Ubowski. Dombo also earned an honorable mention for the cover design of Gratefulness by Susan Muto. Gratefulness won second place in ACP’s inspirational books category last month. Other winners from Ave Maria Press included: Timothy P. O’Malley, second place in the family life category for Off the Hook Emily Wilson Hussem, honorable mention in books for teens and young adults for Go Bravely Justin McClain, honorable mention in collections of prayers for Called to Pray Meanwhile, CatholicMom.com, a ministry of Holy Cross Family Ministries—an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross—won second place for best blog at the 2019 Gabriel Awards, which were also given out this week during the Catholic Media Conference. Family Theater Productions, an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross, won first place for a teen-specific television documentary of more than sixty minutes for Catholic Central episodes The Mass, Catholic Dating, and Life After Life. The organization also won second place for best internet video of between four and ten minutes for Catholic Central’s The Mass. Book awards were announced Friday night at the Catholic Media Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Gabriel Awards were handed out Thursday night. To see the complete list of book winners, check out the CPA website.

Ave Maria Press is pleased to announce that three authors have won Excellence in Publishing Awards from the Association of Catholic Publishers. Katie Prejean McGrady won first place in the teen books category for Follow: Your Lifelong Adventure with Jesus. In it she shares sometimes embarrassing, often humorous, and always inspiring stories about how she came to know and love Jesus and shows readers can, too, through prayer, scripture, sacraments, and service. Bestselling author Joyce Rupp received a second-place award for Boundless Compassion: Creating a Way of Life in spirituality books. She guides readers to discover compassion from science, medicine, theology, spirituality, sociology, and psychology. She also encourages readers to explore personal and professional expressions of compassion, and to re-energize their ability to offer loving kindness to those around them. In the inspirational category, Susan Muto earned second place for Gratefulness: The Habit of a Grace-Filled Life. The executive director of the Epiphany Association, she reminds readers that gratefulness is a gift from God and reveals that grateful living is not another new fad but has been the way of saints and Christian mystics for centuries. “We are very excited for Katie, Joyce, and Susan,” said Karey Circosta, Ave’s associate publisher and vice president of sales and marketing. “Each of their books has an important message that is much needed in today’s world.” “We are also proud of all of the authors who were named ACP award finalists,” Circosta said. The Association of Catholic Publishers is a membership organization of Catholic publishers.

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