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…

By: Eva Marie Everson, Contest Director The 2022 Selah Awards finalists have been named! This year’s contest has been the most intense with the highest number of entries at the highest level of competition. With 440 entries, the competition was fierce to say the least.  The goal of The Selah…

BY Eva Marie Everson, Contest Director @EvaMarieEverson Established in 2011 on behalf of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference by multiple award-winning author Dr. Alton Gansky, The Selah Awards are an industry-wide contest designed to honor the best in Christian publishing from the previous year. Its proceeds are used toward BRMCWC scholarships, which…

Yes, 2020 is a crazy year.  Because the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference has been postponed from May to November, we must open the 2021 contest season BEFORE awarding the 2020 winners. [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#writingcontest #writing #BRMCWC"]The 2021 Selah Awards Contest is OPEN - @EvaMarieEverson on @BRMCWC[/tweet_box] We…

By Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson BRMCWC Contests Director The pandemic we know as Covid-19 or coronavirus or "that monster" has changed our lives in so many ways, one would be hard-pressed to list them all. For those of us who enjoy Christian Writers Conference Spring Season, we have, for the…

By Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson In the 1960s, Ivory soap produced a number of ads showing mother/daughter duos who looked so similar—or whose hands looked so young—the narrator tried to determine which was the mother and which was the daughter. Despite looking remarkably alike—and youthful—one, indeed was the mom and…