Awards

• 2023 California Ethnic Media Awards 

  • Outstanding Feature Writing ("Interview: Fr Anthony "Amde" Hamilton, Creole poet and rap founder turned Oriental Orthodox priest")

• 2023 Catholic Press Awards

  • 2nd place, Best Feature Writing; 3rd place, Best Analysis, Background, or Round-Up News Writing (“Ahead of two Jazz Masses Sunday in Detroit, an explainer on America’s most unique Catholic liturgical form”)

  • Honorable mention, Best Personality Profile (“Kirk Whalum on Catholic conversion, gospel jazz, and finding identity in God—on sax”)

• 2022 Catholic Press Awards

  • Third place, Best Feature Article: Professional and Special-Interest, Including Clergy and Religious ("What attracted me to religious life")