The Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Foundations contest finalists and winners were presented certificates during the awards ceremony held on the last night of the 2025 Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference. Contest Director, Eva Marie Everson, on behalf of Conference Director & Co-Director Edie Melson and Edwina Perkins respectively,…

On Thursday, May 29, 2025, Eva Marie Everson, on behalf of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Director and Co-Director, Edie Melson and Edwina Perkins, presented The 2025 Selah Awards on the final evening of the conference. The gala event was held in the Spilman Auditorium at the Ridgecrest…

Edwina and I are so excited to announce the FINALISTS for the Directors’ Choice 2023 Awards! Every year we do our best to organize the entries into categories that give equal opportunity to every book. Because we never know how many entries will be sent in a specific category, the…

This year, 2023, we had an unpreceded number of entrants for the industry-wide Selah Awards, sponsored by the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference for the express purpose of creating scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to deserving writers who, otherwise, would not be able to attend this great conference. It…

The Contest is open! New Categories Added In addition to last year’s date changes, we also added new categories. We will continue with those category additions this year. In doing a little research, we discovered that professional writers who write short-form were being slighted. There isn’t a national contest associated…

We are so excited to share the list of the 2020 Selah Award Finalists for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. The competition was tough this year, with many excellent entries. Congratulations to the finalists and especially to all who entered! [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="@BRMCWC #writing #WritingCommunity"]Introducing the 2020…