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Author: lis-anna-langston

  • SPOTLIGHT on DANTE ROSSETTI Awards — Young Adult Fiction

    SPOTLIGHT on DANTE ROSSETTI Awards — Young Adult Fiction

    The Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction are named for the British painter and poet,
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    Do you have a Y/A Fiction manuscript or recently published novel? Enter it today in the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards! Let us decipher the best of the best. 

    If you know anything about Chanticleer International Book Awards, you know that we never stop sharing the good news and accomplishments of our authors! Never!

    What that means is we believe in book promotion, highlighting our winners, standing on our platforms and telling the known world all about YOUR BOOK! 

    Sound good to you? 

    Enter your Y/A Fiction Novel TODAY into the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards. 

     

     

    Chanticleer has chosen Dante Rossetti as the namesake of our young adult fiction awards, because of Rossetti’s strong connection to works of beauty and emotions as swift as the changing seasons. Both aspects embody what it means to be young. We feel that the sentiment expressed by the Pre-Raphaelite movement exemplifies what inspires many authors to pick up their proverbial pens to express their emotions and their observations of the visceral dynamics of living.

    Besides, he was a rock star. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an exclusive group in the mid-nineteenth century which garnered as much fame and attention as equatable to the Game of Thrones cast today.

    The Love Song by Sir Burne-Jones who was mentored and influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    You won’t regret it – Just ask the following authors who did enter, and won!

    The 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards GRAND PRIZE:

    Whispers by Yvonne Moon

    WHISPERS by Lynn Yvonne Moon

     

    2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
    First in Category Winners

    • Climb, Run, Drown by Cheryl G. Bostrom
    • Tookan Attack by Alex Paul
    • Reality Gold by Tiffany Brooks
    • 2nd Gen by Andrea and William Vaughan
    • Change of Chaos by Jacinta Jade
    • Sneaking Out by Chuck Vance
    • Soul Sacrifice by Susan Faw   

    Here’s a little more about our Dante Rossetti … (can we claim him as our own?)

    Rossetti’s paintings, in particular, were characterized by the long and wavy hair of young women. It is this youthful beauty that has been immortalized in his work and captures the immovable spirit of adolescence which is so fraught with changing emotions. These women he painted are often quite romantic. His wife would often model for the paintings or the wives of his friends in the Brotherhood. It was rumored that Rossetti had several lovers…

    Visitors today can view Rossetti’s work at the Louvre or the Met. In addition to painting, he was also a writer. Several of his poems address emotions and feelings in all of their complexity, similar to his painted works.

    La Viuda Romana, 1874 by our fav guy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

     

     

     

    The 2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SLAVE to FORTUNE  by D. J. Munro

     

    2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SEER of SOULS by Susan Faw

     

    2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The GIRL and the CLOCKWORK CAT by Nikki McCormack

     

     

    2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    LEGACY: Biodome Chronicles Book One by Jesikah Sundin

    2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The BOREALIS GENOME by Thomas & Nancy Wise

     

     

     

    2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Dante Rossetti Awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!

     

    Do your works have what it takes to make it through the CIBA judging rounds?  Submit manuscripts and published works into the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs! 

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The last day to submit your work is June 30, 2019. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize at CAC20 on September 5th.

    The deadline for 2019 submissions is June 30, 2020. Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced on September 5th, 2020.

    Any entries received after June 30, 2019, will be entered into the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Young Adult Fiction. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.

     As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your work deserves!  Enter today!

    The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    The winners will be announced at the CIBA  Awards Ceremony on September 5th, 2020, which will take place during the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations! 

     

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

  • Tupelo Honey by Lis Anna Langston – Y/A

    Tupelo Honey by Lis Anna Langston – Y/A

    A stick-to-the-ribs portrait of an extraordinary girl who overcomes the deck stacked against her in the deep South. Tupelo Honey is one of our favorites.

    When you read more than a hundred books per year, it’s exciting to find one that surprises you. Tupelo Honey by Lis Anna Langston is one of those, sneaking up quietly to bust expectations and leaves you thinking about the story long after closing the book.

    Part of the surprise comes from being able to read on multiple levels. On the surface, it’s a sardonic YA adventure through tough modern times. Underneath, a unique and subtle paranormal story grounded in today’s world. At the deep level, a poignant coming-of-age tale about what it’s like to be a neglected child in a twisted family, and how spirit and smarts let one avoid a doom that seems inevitable.

    Tupelo Honey is a preteen girl in Mississippi whose mother is an abusive junkie. Her father is unknown but his place is filled by a compassionate drug dealer; her grandmother can offer only love and shelter; her uncles are both crazy; her best friend is suppressed by severely religious parents. Then there’s Mooshi, her invisible pal—half human, half dog—who comforts and helps through his silent presence. Only Tupelo Honey can see him.

    She accepts his existence (and others’ disbelief) without question, just as she accepts the poverty, insecurity, and frequent illegality of her life. While she’s wise beyond her years, she’s also still a child who craves loving parents and safe routine. There are so many abnormal people in her world that she takes them as normal, so her emotional reactions are low key where more privileged and conventional people would be freaked out.

    This gives the book a sort of creepy, quiet tone from the opening page that seduces the reader onward. Tupelo Honey simply tells her story as she grows through the year that turns her life around.

    The author has mastered the art of showing versus telling, giving just enough information so the reader can figure out what’s going on without having to back up or skip forward. Nothing about Tupelo Honey’s story is familiar enough to guess what’s going to happen next, making it an understated page-turner for youth and adults.

    5 Star Best Book Chanticleer Reviews round silver sticker