Omega Barnabas and Encouragement Awards open for nominations!

Every second year the CALEB Award includes two extra-special categories of awards designed to encourage and lift up Christian writers - the Barnabas and Encouragement Awards.

These awards are a little different.

For these, there are no books to submit, no manuscripts to polish. These awards are about recognising writers for who they are, their commitment to their craft, and their often selfless input into other writers.

The Barnabas Award

The Barnabas Award is a cash prize award that recognises the input Christian writers make into the lives and work of other writers. It’s about celebrating and giving credit to writers living out the heart of CALEB* by mentoring, encouraging, cheering on, supporting and spurring on others in their writing journey.

(In case you've forgotten, CALEB is Christian Authors Lifting Each other's Books.)

Encouragement Award

The Encouragement Award is a sponsored award that seek to encourage emerging writers who may be struggling but are putting in the hard yards to hone their craft, writers who may not be winning other competitions but who Omega Writers members want to encourage to keep going!

Nominations

If you’re a paid member of Omega Writers, we’d love you to nominate a fellow Christian writer for an Encouragement or Barnabas Award! Writers eligible for nomination for the Barnabas and Encouragement Awards are:

• Christian writers currently living in Australia, New Zealand, or the South Pacific.
• Can be published or unpublished writers in any genre.

Here’s how:

• Think of an eligible writer or writers you’d like to nominate.
• Make sure you are a paid Omega Writers member (but the writer you nominate does not need to be a member).
• Email caleb @ omegawriters.org with the following by 30 June 2023:
  • • Your name and email address
    • The name and email/website address of the author you’d like to nominate (so we can contact them if they win).
    • The Award you are nominating that writer for: Encouragement Award or Barnabas Award
    • Up to 200 words explaining why you believe this writer should receive this prize.

The Barnabas Awards are awarded on the merit of nominations received by the CALEB Committee.