The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th and 21st Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

These titles have moved forward from the 2025 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction Long List to the 2025 Hemingway Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Hemingway Semi-Finalists. 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 sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

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

• Adam Frosh – The Ghetto
• Chris Karlsen & Jennifer Conner – Broken Faces
• Don Jacobson – Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation
• Dorothea N. Buckingham – Code Name Rascal
• Elizabeth Crowens – Round Up the Unusual Suspects
• Florence Chien – Hollow Whispers of the Wind
• Hillary Tiefer – The Secret Ranch
• J.A. Nunn – The Stuff What Actually Is
• Jacek Waliszewski – Code Name Trifecta
• Jane Loeb Rubin – Over There
• Jay A. Cornils – The Cross of Lorraine
• Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Jewels
• John Winn Miller – Rescue Run Capt. Jake Rogers Daring Return To Occupied Europe
• Kate Birkin – Ava and Shalom
• Kim Dempster – The Color of Mourning
• Kit Sergeant – The Doctor of Auschwitz the Powerful True Story of One Woman’s Courage
• Kyle Palmer – The Last Rival a Time of Our Choosing
• Leslie R. Schover – Fission a Novel of Atomic Heartbreak
• M. G. Lamb – The Deserters
• Mike H. Mizrahi – The Weight of Loyalty
• Ralph R. Rick Steinke – Vital Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Love Story
• Sergio Bossi and Paolo Zanardi – Wellington HZ182 When a Little Girl Defused the Bomb
• Sharon Maas – Soldier’s Girl
• Sherry Maysonave – Tatae’s Promise
• Steven Mayfield – Sixty Seconds
• Steven Schindler – Cover for Me
• Tim Rees – The Falklands Engagement
• Travis Davis – War on the Porch: A Doughboy’s Interview
• Wade Monk – The Imperfect Hand of Fate

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

Of White Ashes

By Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto

Click here to see the full list of 2024 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

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.

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