LeafLight Moon has won the 2025 CAP Award for Fiction, and the Golden CAP for best independently published book. CAP Awards patron Paul Lynch announced Monica Corish as the overall winner at the award ceremony in Chapters Bookstore on October 10.

Judge Alan Ryan said of LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland: “One story in particular stayed with me long after I put it down. It was multi-layered yet simple, occasionally quirky yet completely believable. I could easily imagine the events and time it told of happening exactly as written. I’d love to see it as a film. I reckon it would make a stunning Irish version of The Mission.”

LeafLight Moon is available in-store from Chapters Bookstore and Books Upstairs in Dublin, Liber Books in Sligo, A Novel Idea in Ballyshannon, and The Four Masters in Donegal town; online from Lulu Bookstore, Bookshop.org in the US, Waterstones in the UK, and other online outlets; and as an e-book from Amazon UK.

The Carousel Aware Prize for Independently Published Authors (The CAP for Indies) aims to provide a platform to showcase the cream 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.

Watch the awards ceremony here (fiction prize at 1:14:44)