Welcome to CAP for Indies
Congratulations to the authors who have been shortlisted for The CAP Awards 2023.
SHORTLISTS
Non-Fiction
Lady Mary’s Book of Receipts By Sally Clements
Granny Nancy By Louise Coghlan
The Giant at my Back By Carolyn Donnelly
The Year the World Went Wonky By Marion Rose Horgan
Does my Son Take Sugar? By Eithne Ring
Michael’s Story By Avril Smith
Fiction
Unspoken By A.M. Harris
For Love or Money By Clodagh Murphy
A Class Apart By Susie Murphy
Magpie By Alan Ryan
The View from our Window By LJ Ryan
Anthologies
Where the Fairies Dwell By M R Flora
Freewheeling Up the Hill By Margaret Hawkins
The Last of the Light By Marc Ó Riain
Smokes and Birds By James Simpson
Sins By The3percenters
Connecting to Source By Linda Barry Tuohy
Children
Albert the Dragon By Gareth Chapman & Andrea Rossi
Iron Adam The Time That Was By Dee Daw
Sprout Tales Spookalicious Halloween By Carina Dunne and Barbara Owczarek
Dragonterra By Louise Flanagan. Illustrations Megan Armitage
The Thrilling Adventures of an Extremely Boring Boy By James Hannon. Illustrated by Fiona Moran
The Carousel Aware Prize for Independently Published Authors (The CAP for Indies) aims to provide a platform to showcase the best of Irish Self-Published authors, bringing them to the attention of book shops, distributors, and the media in Ireland and abroad, with all money raised going to the charity Aware. Read more about the awards and the different award categories here.
The award ceremony will take place in early November 2023 and there will be authors shortlisted in each category. Read more about the selection process and our judges and sponsors.
If you would like to contact us directly, please email info@capawards.ie or use our contact form here.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Carolann Copland
CAP Award Founder