The Collections and Anthologies Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Story Collections. The Collections and Anthologies Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Collections and Anthologies Awards discovers the Best New Short Form Collections in Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction, Poetry Collections and Multi-Author Anthologies. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from all of the 2025 Collections and Anthologies entries to the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Award Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Book Awards novel competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

• Aj Watson – False Sight
• Brittany Micka-Foos – It’s No Fun Anymore
• Carol Van Den Hende – Dear Orchid
• Chad Boles – Adrift in Skinny Water
• Charlie Steel – Three Days Under the Sun and Other Tales of the Old West
• Christy Matheson – The Horned Women and Other Stories Contemporary Retellings of Irish Fairy Tales
• David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
• David C. Metz – Nick and Lorraine Were Lovers Stories
• Dreena Collins – Life Lines and Other Stories
• Jalyn Renae Fiske – Side Quest Stories
• Janet K. Shawgo – My Sister’s Quilt
• Jason Colpitts – The Meaning of Beauty and Other Short Stories Anthology
• Jess Anselment – Strong Heart a Story of Coming Home
• John Bukowski – Shadows and Dust
• Jude Berman – Shot a Dictionary of the Lost
• Julia Marie Davis – Catbird
• Kat Farrow – Dark Threads a Gathering of Dark Fantasy Tales Vol. 1
• Lee Orlich Bertram – Insistence Persistence and Resistance
• Linda Lee Keenan – Dancing with Angels True Stories of the Unexpected
• Lisa Clute – Monsters Under the Magnolias
• Maggie Enriquez – The Rebirth of a Phoenix
• Mary Paula Hunter – Can I Have a Hug First
• Nancy Joie Wilkie – The River Keeper and Other Tales
• Natia Khaduri – And You Cannot Tell Me Why I Must Not Love You Anymore
• Olga Podoprigora – The Banana From Space and Other Stories From Riverstone
• Paris Rosemont – Barefoot Poetess
• Radu Guiasu – A Good Day and Other Mostly Humorous Stories and Lists
• Rich Elliott – The Secret History of Famous People
• Stephen C. Pollock – Exits
• Theresa Griffin Kennedy – We Learned To Live in the Castle Stories

Congratulations once more to the 2024 SEA Shorts Grand Prize Winner

Dream Rut

By Dr. Yumiko Shimabakuro

Illustrated by Jieyu Deng

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Collections and Anthologies Book Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction Collections, Poetry Collections, and Anthologies!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!