My collection This Transfigured Chapel of the Threads wins third place (poetry) at the 2024 Catholic Book Awards

I’m surprised and delighted to share that my poetry collection This Transfigured Chapel of the Threads has won third place in the Catholic Media Association 2024 Catholic Book Awards. The winner of this category was the wondrous anthology 100 Great Catholic Poems edited by poet Sally Read, and second place was a new annotated edition of selected poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Holly Ordway. An honourable mention went to Laura Reece Hogan’s beautiful collection Butterfly Nebula, which won the gold medal in this year’s Illumination Book Awards (Transfigured Chapel won the bronze) and the Backwaters prize for poetry. What fabulous company I’m in!

Read the full list of the awards.

More about my collection here and at:

Wipf and Stock

Amazon US

Amazon UK

Double Win at 2024 International Book Awards: Fiction and Poetry Categories

I’m delighted to say that my novel Sketches from a Sunlit Heaven has won the Fiction: Religious category at this year’s International Book Awards… and my latest poetry collection, This Transfigured Chapel of the Threads has also won – in the category of Poetry: Religious.

Read the Press Release Here. Congratulations to all award winners and finalists.

This means the world to me, as the IBAs are internationally respected and honour both indie and mainstream publications. I’m celebrating this double win on what is almost the longest day of the year with several hours of evening sunshine!