The 2024 winner

The winner of the inaugural Indie Authors Book Jacket Award, April 2024, was Sandy Horsley, UK.

Sandy Horsley graduated with an illustration and graphics BA from Norwich University of the Arts and an MA in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art. Printmaking, illustration, ceramics and artist’s books all feature in her practice, as a way to tell stories. Based in Suffolk, UK, she is inspired by the folk tales of East Anglia, interesting characters and the natural world.

Drawing from observation and imagination is always the starting point. The drawings inform the next stage of her work, be that a lino print, a ceramic sculpture, an illustrated book cover, a children’s picture book or an artist’s book.

She won with a series of three book jackets:

We Three
This Fearful Thing
The Unnamed

Honorable Mentions:

Comics: Kim Hee Sung (South Korea)
Non Fiction; Seiden Douglas (USA)
Fiction: Splho Michal (Slovakia)
Children’ Young adult: Sabin Traqcy ( USA)

The 2024 winner

Honorable Mentions:

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Sandy Horsley