Top Shelf Book Cover Awards celebrate 10 years with changes to 2022 program

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Top Shelf Book Cover Awards celebrate 10 years with changes to 2022 program A tenth anniversary of anything marks a very good time to reflect, to remember, to look ahead and, at times, to “re-package” the gift we’ve received over the prior decade. ECPA is doing just that for the 10th Annual Top Shelf Book Cover Awards, recognizing excellence in book design. For this year’s 10th anniversary, ECPA is making two key changes to the submission and judging process – emphasizing industry involvement…

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Top Shelf Book Cover Award nomination deadline is August 15

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Top Shelf Book Cover Award nomination deadline is August 15 ECPA members are invited to nominate their top book & Bible designs for a 2022 Top Shelf Book Cover Award in four new categories.  In recognition of the award’s 10-year anniversary, this year’s program has two new features:  Winners will be presented in four categories and each submitting publisher can register their designer or art director to serve on the judge panel. The submission period is open until August 15….

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Top Shelf Book Cover Award submissions now open

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Top Shelf Book Cover Award submissions now open ECPA has opened the nomination period for the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards, developed to celebrate the year’s best book designs in Christian publishing.  In celebration of the program’s 10-year anniversary in 2022, awards will be presented in four categories:  Non-Fiction, Fiction, Children’s, Bibles.  Plus, each submitting publisher can nominate a designer to help with the judging. (As in previous years, judges will not score their houses’ own designs.)  The submission period…

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IVP Creative Director honored with eight 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards

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IVP Creative Director honored with eight 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards WESTMONT, IL— InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to congratulate creative director, David Fassett, for his work on eight designs that were chosen for the 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). “The creative talent represented in the covers that won this year is impressive,” said Lorraine Caulton, IVP’s director of creativity and customer engagement. “IVP is honored to be a recipient, many…

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It’s time to present the best book and Bible cover designs in Christian publishing

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It’s time to present the best book and Bible cover designs in Christian publishing The industry is invited to attend a live webcast announcing the winners of the 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards on Friday, November 12th at 2:30pm CST. The webcast will feature comments about the winners from the judges and presentation by Justin Ahrens of Rule29, and ECPA president Jeff Crosby. Free registration  |  View program details If you are attending PubU Online, you already have access to this webcast as…

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Last week to submit your best book and Bible designs for Top Shelf Award

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Last week to submit your best book and Bible designs for Top Shelf Award This is the last week to submit Top Shelf Book Cover Award nominations for books and Bibles published June 2019 to August 2020.  The deadline is August 15. Winners will be announced during the closing session of ECPA PubU Online on October 1st via webcast. Submission and program information is available at TopShelfAward.org.

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Industry Award Submissions

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Two more weeks: submissions accepted for the industry’s best book and Bible designs The Top Shelf Book Cover Award nomination period is open until August 15 for books and Bibles published June 2019 to August 2020.  Winners will be announced during the closing session of ECPA PubU Online on October 1st via webcast. Submission and program information available at TopShelfAward.org. CAN opens Crown Awards entry period for excellence in Christian media and marketing The Christian Authors Network (CAN) has developed tangible, measurable marketing standards of…

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Tyndale House Publishers’ “Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey” awarded Top Shelf Award for design from ECPA

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Tyndale House Publishers’ “Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey” awarded Top Shelf Award for design from ECPA CAROL STREAM, ILL (November 9, 2018) – The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has recognized the reimagining of Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey by Hannah Hurnard as a recipient of the 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award. ECPA announced the winners of the 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award earlier this week at Lipscomb University during the opening session of ECPA PubU.  ECPA’s Stan Jantz and Pete Peterson, of…

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ECPA Announces the Best Book Designs of 2018

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ECPA ANNOUNCES THE BEST BOOK DESIGNS OF 2018 21 titles awarded the Top Shelf Award for design excellence Winning designs include Bibles, Academic, Biography, Childrens, Classic devotional, Nonfiction, Reference, and Seasonal November 6, 2018, Nashville, Tenn. –  ECPA announced the winners of the 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award today at Lipscomb University during the opening session of ECPA PubU.  ECPA’s Stan Jantz and Pete Peterson, of Nashville-based The Rabbit Room, announced the winning covers among 225 Christian publishing professionals gathered for the event…

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ECPA Announces the Best Book Designs of the Year

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ECPA ANNOUNCES THE BEST BOOK DESIGNS OF THE YEAR Eighteen titles awarded the Top Shelf Book Cover Design Award Media contact:  Stan Jantz, Executive Director, ECPA, 480-966-3998  sjantz@ecpa.org November 7, 2017, Nashville, Tenn. – ECPA announced the winners of the 2017 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards today at Lipscomb University during the opening session of ECPA PubU.  PubU keynote speaker GABE LYONS announced the winning covers among the nearly 250 Christian publishing professionals gathered for the event.  Renown Nashville-based letterpress…

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Abingdon Press Christmas Book, All I Really Want, Named An ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Winner

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Abingdon Press Christmas Book, All I Really Want, Named An ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Winner Contact: Brenda Smotherman Associate Publicity Manager Abingdon Press E: bsmotherman@abingdonpress.com P: 615-749-6290 Nashville, Tenn.— Abingdon Press would like to congratulate minister and author Quinn G. Caldwell and the design work of David Carlson at Studio Gearbox for the book All I Really Want: Readings for a Modern Christmas having been selected by ECPA’s Top Shelf Book Cover Award program as one of 11 titles designated as the top…

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Two Baker Publishing Group Titles Win Top Shelf Book Cover Awards

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Two Baker Publishing Group Titles Win Top Shelf Book Cover Awards Contact: Lynnae Lubbers (616)676-9185 x193 llubbers@bakerpublishinggroup. com  Ada, Mich. (October 26, 2015)—The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) selected two Baker Publishing Group titles as winners of the 2015 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards—Simply Tuesday by Emily Freeman and The Hiding Place Young Reader’s Edition by Corrie ten Boom, with Elizabeth and John Sherrill. The Top Shelf Book Cover Awards were given out by ECPA at the opening session of Publishing University at Wheaton College…

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Call for Submissions for Industry’s Top Design Award

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ONGOING SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR 2015 PROGRAM OPEN NOW UNTIL AUG 14, 2015 Program Overview  |  Criteria  |  Judges  |  2015 Submission Form ECPA created the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards to celebrate the year’s best book designs in Christian publishing.  Covers are judged by top designers in the industry for their merits in: appropriateness for the market level of conceptual thinking quality of execution Judges are not bound by number of covers to choose as they have the freedom to truly choose the BEST designs of the year….

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