The MARK TWAIN Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humor and Satire Fiction. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards is the first year that this division is offered as a book awards competition division in the CIBAs.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. (For contemporary and literary fiction see our Somerset Book Awards.)
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together”. Mark Twain
Twain’s prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, (Twain’s mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet’s closest approach to Earth.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards the 2020 SHORTLIST. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Finalists positions.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction
- Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
- Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green
- J.P. Kenna – Toward A Terrible Freedom
- Wayne Edmiston – UNfatally Dead: to thaw or not to thaw?
- Haris Orkin – You Only Live Once
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
- Alex J. Tremari – Dragoncast
- Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – The Billionaire’s Daughter
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- St John Karp – Quake City
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Chorduroys and Too Many Boys?)
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- Erik Segall – Not Yet
- Lenore Rowntree – Cluck
- K.N. Salustro – Cause of Death: ???
- Conon Parks – Some Kind of Ending
- Beth Wareham and Jason Davis – Hair Club Burning
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- Anastasia Fox – Trout Fishing in the Cretaceous
- Adam Cliff – Exposure
- David B. Seaburn – Gavin Goode
- Lou Dischler – Too Pretty for a Hit Man
Good Luck to All!
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
Don’t Delay! Enter Today!
Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!
We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
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Hope you’re catching your breath after the conference. I know it is a ton of work, but from my side of the screen, it was terrific. I just loved it.
The GOETHE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
