We are delighted to announce the long lists for The CAP Awards 2025. Congratulations to all who have been successful and to those who participated, as the standard continues to rise each year.
The Short Lists will be announced in mid-August, and the winners will be announced at The Carousel Awards for Irish Independent Authors in Chapters Book Shop on the 10th of October 2025.
FICTION
Oasis By Millie Blackwood
Leaf Light Moon By Monica Corish
Of Land and Greed By Denis Cronin
The Roads That Lead Us Home By Lynne Kennedy
Red White and Green By Joseph Lane
Barren By Byddi Lee
Love Lost By Mary Minnock
I Will Find You By Lorraine O’ Byrne
The Cards That Changed my Life By Joanne Ryan Curran
Pool of Darkness By Tom Sigafoos
Country Girl at Heart By Lorna Sixsmith
Silent Tears of Sin By Sharon Stevens
A Thread of Secrets By Tatiana Tierney
NON-FICTION
The Breath of Consolation By Josephine Brady
Cold Porridge, Broken Promises and a Missing Dog By Tony Carroll
Becoming Invisible By Emilie Delahunt
Desert Bonds By Denis Dwyer
A Special Sibling By Jane Feighery
The Life and Times of Bernard Dillon By Stephen Fernane
One Last Bend By Vincent Henry
You’ll Never Walk Alone By Ian Hooper
Pain and the Survival Brain By Kieran Mc Nally
Things Went T*ts Up By Dearbhaile O’ Hare
Words Christmas Gave Us By Grace Tierney
Threatening Women By Belinda Vigors
ANTHOLOGIES
Peace of Mind, Poems of Praise By Katharine Begley
Snappin Twine By Ursula Kane Cafferty
Where We Belong By D7 Women’s Shed
Home is Where the Heart is By Catríona Dillon
Seashells By Ann Donegan
Leave Taking By Paddy Donoghuf
In Bed I Cut Words By Corina Duyn
Missed Opportunities By Matthew Flavin
Leave the Pen in the Car By John Flynn
Between the Lines By Marie Lyons
My World is Built By Dominic Matrix
Floating in Circles By Alice Mc Loughlin
Middleton Golden Miscellany By Middleton Writers’ Group
Tales From Derry By Pat J Mullan
I’m a Big Boy Now By Eamon O’ Leary
Shine On By Mary Sheehy 1
Life in the Dark Lane By Donal Smyth
A Farmer’s Poetry: Fields of Verse By James Tait
CHILDREN JUNIOR
My Irish Adventure By Eoghan & Carol Corrigan
The Tale of the Forever Tooth Fairies By Emma Duffy
The Secret of the Little Binkles By Conor Gallagher
I’ll Be There By Fiona Gill 1
Noah’s Galway Adventure By Nadine Hughes Cambell
Colourful Foods and Activities for my Body and Mind By Christina Hardy
Sally Sunshine and the Terrible Tantrum By Elayne Heaney
The Girl and the Dog By Deborah Maguire
Ruairí’s Dancing Rainbows By Ruth Mc Donnell
Cá Bhfuil Samhain, Puicín agus Boo? By Eithne Nic Dhonnchadha
Ollen the Oak Tree By Anne Printer
The Gollogans in Summer By Helen O’ Sullivan
Mrs Books Saves the Library By Martina Smith
Children Senior
Galway Fairytales By Martha Begley
Mystery Behind the Bookshelf By Róisín Coyne
Shadow By Carina Dunne
Dream Beasts By Louise Flanagan
An Incredibly Daring Heist By James Hannon
The Boogie Series-The Odd Storm By CM Neary
Pimlicat and the Midnight Explorers By Ann Marie O’ Sullivan
The Animal in Amy and Jamie ByJoe Richardson
