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Luann Atkin Koester’s children’s picture book "Gran Kissed the Blarney Stone" was the 2025 winner of the Bloomsday Literary Award sponsored by the Minnesota Irish Network.

J. Claire's inaugural poetry book "Revelry" won two 2025 American Fiction Awards in Nature and Narrative poetry. It was also a finalist in the Contemporary and General poetry categories.

The Literary Titan Book Award has recognized X. Ho Yen for "Space Autistic Author’s Puzzling Innerverse" in its children's books category. Literary Titan describes it as "a wildly original blend of illustrated puzzles, space-faring adventure, internal monologue, and heartfelt autobiography."

"Coal Dust and Dreams" by CAL member M.J. Evans (Margi) is a first place winner in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, The Nautilus Book Awards, and the Chanticleer International Book Awards. (All in the middle-grade fiction category.) It was also awarded first in the Literary Global Children's Book awards for Historical Fiction.

Kathryn Winograd's photo and poetry book, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye (The Humble Essayist Press), has been shortlisted for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize, and awarded an Honorable Mention for the Art Book Category.

The Eric Hoffer Book Award is one of the top literary awards for independent books, involving over 2,500 books, 25 all-inclusive categories, and nearly 200 judges.

DV Chernov’s crime fiction series Nick Severs Mysteries was named a finalist in the Mystery and Suspense 2024 Book Series category of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). The winners of the 16 fiction divisions and 7 non-fiction divisions were announced April 6 in Bellingham, WA. The Nick Severs Mysteries (Severed Echoes, 2002, and Cold Trace, 2024) is a Colorado-based detective series with more twists and turns than a Rocky Mountains highway, taking readers to the dark fringe where crime, psychology, and high-tech collide.

Next Gen Indie Finalists include four CAL members. For cookbooks, Benjamin M. Weilert's, Stop Screaming. For general fiction over 100,000 words and historical fiction (pre-1900s), Falcon in the Dive by Leah Angstman. And for paranormal, Personal Demons by L.R. Braden.