2025 Cascade Writing Contest Finalists
Article, Column, Nonfiction Short Story
A Little Help from JFK – Becky Alexander
Chinchilla Bingo and the Pretzel Ladder – Cheryl A Cates
The Baby is Stronger than Anyone Knows – Cecil Taylor
The Price of Love – Melissa Stinson
Children’s Chapter Book
Nana Banana Fee Fi Fo Fana – Teresa Harris
Phooey Kerflooey vs The Deep, Deep Dark – Kristen Joy Wilks
Return of the Cave Lion – Phyllis Wheeler
The Mystery at Fox Mansion – Melissa Ruhter
Children’s Picture Book
Gotta Fly! – Debbie Austin
Mama! Mama! You Won’t Believe . . . – Helen Heavirland
Noah Has a Good Day (and a Bad Day) – Robin Currie
The Special Gifts – Jennifer Noel Wilson and Kristin Faith Evans
Contemporary Fiction
A Thread of Faith – Renee L Gentry
Escape of the Innocent – Ginni Kennedy
Faithful Unto Death – Stacsia Crossan
Ribbons of Hope – Renee L Gentry
Devotional
In All Things – Laurie Allred Boyd
Like The Wooden Bear – Lana Usilton
Numbering Our Days – Barbara Culley
Show Me What I Do Not See – Garyanna Stalick
Fiction Short Story
Forever Person – Jackie Melvin
Just A Potter’s Daughter – Rick Taylor
Leftovers – Rick Taylor
Timing Is Everything – Rick Taylor
Historical Fiction
Even As Her Betrayer – Stacsia Crossan
Isobel’s Song: Grace and Mercy in the Fight for Texas – Daryl G Lott
No Good Shepherd Stephanie – Julia Gibson
The Hope of Woodland Hall – Melody Roberts
Memoir
Echoes of Mercy: How God Lovingly Pursued My Heart After Miscarriage – Melissa Stinson
Grief is Labor: A Midwife Describes Grief Recovery – Nancy Beck Irland
Hot Wheels with Jesus: A Life of Intimacy with God – Mark A. Lawton
Stones of Remembrance – Kimberly Bird
Middle Grade
Blossoms in the Wind – Sonja Anderson
Dear Diana – Jenni Enzor
Mind Mirrors: Chronicles of Zo’th – Erica A. Briggs
Mission Danger – Abigail Skelton
Nonfiction Book
Dining With Spiritual Babies – A Guide To Biblical Growth in Ambassadorship – Andreas W. Collings
Mindset: Learning to Live with the Mind of Christ – Kelsey Gjesdal
What Child Is This? A daily chapter, interactive, advent-to-epiphany reading – Shelli D. Owen
Writing Christian Fiction – Mark Wainwright
Poetry*
It is Finished – Beth Davis
My Father’s Whistle – Kathleen R. Ruckman
New Prince, Old Story – Rick Taylor
Sweet Hour – Laquita Dettman
The Day Before Sunday – Ruth Hanna Wood
Speculative Fiction*
Dusk Rafe – Emerson Bellers
Her Phantom Knight – Colleen Hall
The Pride of Belonging in Love Like Jane – Patricia Tiffany Morris
The Treaty of Stars and Earth – Rachael C Geiger
The White Raven – Julia N. White
Young Adult
Adrift – Mark Wainwright
Liberty – Stacsia Crossan
Rochester Road – S.E. Clancy
The Lost Voice – Jil Koller
*Category has 5 finalists because there was a tie for the 4th spot
