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The Chaucer 2022 Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction — The CIBAs
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction Short List to the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Chaucer Finalists. All FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. Winners will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on April 29, 2023, at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Patrice Adair – The Viking Girl
- Eric Schumacher Ramirez – The Hummingbird & The Serpent
- Regan Walker – Bound by Honor, Book 2 in The Clan Donald Saga
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- GK Johnson – The Zealots
- Kerry Chaput – Daughter of the King
- Jean Gill – The Ring Breaker
- Patricia Bernstein – A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
- Meredith Allard – Down Salem Way
- Elizabeth R. Andersen – The Scribe
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne and Louis Forever Bound
- Amy Maroney – Island of Gold
- Donna Scott – The Tacksman’s Daughter
- Mary Ann Bernal – Forgiving Nero
- Philip Remus – Collegium, Brotherhood of Rogues
- M.D. House – The Barabbas Legacy
- Rebecca Kightlinger – Megge of Bury Down: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book One
- Susanne Dunlap – Voices in the Mist
- Philip Remus – Gods of Men, Where the Spartans are Made
- Mack Little – Daughter of Hades
- Prue Batten – Reliquary – Book One of The Peregrinus Series
- Anna Belfrage – The Castilian Pomegranate
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CHAUCER Awards is
Too Soon the Night
By James Conroyd Martin

Click here to see the 2021 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here to submit to the 2023 Chaucer Awards

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
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January 12, 2023
The 2022 CIBAs Short List for Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction
The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2022 CIBAs OZMA division.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Long List to the 2022 Ozma Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Linnea Taner – Skull’s Vengeance
- Eva Doherty Gremmert – The Fairy Fort
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- Philip Carlisle – Surviving Eros
- Sarah Morrell – Beauty Within
- Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy (the Chronicles of Chaos book 2)
- KC Cowan – Raeka’s Story
- McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
- J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
- M. K. Wiseman – Magical Intelligence
- D. K. Marley – Kingfisher
- Edward Pontacoloni – The Rookery
- K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
- Stavros Saristavros – Tome of Syyx
- Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
- K.N. Salustro – The Roar of the Lost Horizon
- AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
- Helen Garraway – Sentinals Across Time
- J.L. Delavega – Smoke and Other Storms
- S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
- Amy Wolf – Dragons of Light and Chaos
- Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold as Hell
- C.D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
- Grayson W. Hooper – Shadebringer
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 OZMA Awards is:

Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846

by Laurel Anne Hill

The 2022 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 OZMA Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
January 12, 2023
The 2022 Global Thriller Book Awards Short List for High Stakes Suspense
The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

For other Mystery Divisions see our Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels and our M&M Awards for Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Global Thriller High Stakes Fiction Long List to the 2022 Global Thriller Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Lucien Telford – The Sequence
- Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
- Timothy S. Johnston – An Island of Light
- Kevin Kuhens – Terror’s Sword – A Kyle McEwan Novel
- Lloyd Jeffries – A Portion of Malice (Ages of Malice, Book I)
- R. Barber Anderson – Jumeau
- Charles Ross – The Future is a Memory
- RP Grant – Gray Matter
- David Tunno – Intrepid Spirit
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Major Jake Fortina and the Tier One Threat
- E. A. Smiroldo – The Silent Count
- R. T. Epling – Cocoa Cara Mia
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
- William McGinnis – Slay the Dragon: An Adam Weldon Thriller
- Amy Sommers – Rumors From Shanghai
- Randall Krzak – Revenge
- C. Ross Dutton – The Making of Evil
- Kristie Clark – Dragon Clan
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

The Chameleon

Ron McManus
The 2022 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

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January 11, 2023
The 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Short List for Early Readers & Picture Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2022 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Little Peeps Early Readers Long List to the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
- Philippa Rae – Harold Goes To School
- Sara Tabibzadeh – Two Cherries
- Ghazal Mousavi – I’m Scared Too!
- Masoud Malekyari – Being the Best
- David Rodriguez III – The Many Adventures of Bruiser The Jack Russell Terrier MVP: Most Valuable Pup
- Ruthie Godfrey – God Made It All
- Anthony C. Delauney – Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work
- Cynthia Kern OBrien – Marky the Magnificent Fairy
- Travis D. Peterson – Ada and the Helpers
- Fragile Tossa – Climate Change Team
- Helen M. Waters – A Story About Sprout
- Micai Reigo Nethercott – Buddy and Bailey’s Alaskan Adventure
- Richard Ceasor – Grandma I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale
- Susan Conrad – Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey to the Oceans
- Cynthia C. Huijgens – A Fish Called Andromeda
- C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
- Valerie Ramer – Alastair McAllister Goes to School
- Peggy Sullivan – Montana Cats
- Danielle Diestl – Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues
- Maggie Bates – Ravens Roost
- Cheryl Denise Bannerman – The Gecko Without An Echo
- Anthony C. Delauney – Dash and Nikki and The Jellybean Game
- Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd – Mighty Mara
- S McMichael – Happenstance Farms Catch That Pony
- David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale
- Cindy L. Rodriguez – Three Pockets Full: A story of love, family, and tradition
- Kathy Joy – Will You Hold my Story?
- Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
- Eve Cabanel – Eli and the Mystery of the Hallowshine Dragon
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Victoria and the Big, Brave Breath

by Andrea Vaughan

See the Full List of 2021 Winners here

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
January 11, 2023
The 2022 Short List JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here.

These titles have moved forward in the Long List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the ShortList authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Ian Gregory – On Insanity
- Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
- Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
- Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
- Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
- Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
- Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
- Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
- Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
- Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
- Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
- D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
- Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
- Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
- Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
- Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
- Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
- Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
- Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
- M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
- Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
- Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
- Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
- Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
- Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
- Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
- Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
- Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
- Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
- Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
- Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
- Denise Collins – What Happened to John
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

Andrea Wilson Woods

The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
January 10, 2023
The 2022 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Short List
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Long List to the 2022 Clue Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Clue Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Marie Sutro – Dark Obsessions
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
- D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
- Craig H. Bowlsby – Requiem for a Lotus
- Chris Norbury – Dangerous Straits
- Steve Mullaney – Twisted
- J.J. Clarke – Dared to Dream
- Martin Roy Hill – Upriver
- Kevin Kuhens – Terror’s Sword – A Kyle McEwan Novel
- Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes, a Babs Norman Mystery
- J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
- Lo Monaco – Suddenly Deadly
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Spree, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Gerard Shirar – The China Paradox
- Kevin G. Chapman – Dead Winner
- Michael Stockham – Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
- Michael Pronko – Azabu Getaway
- Saralyn Richard – Bad Blood Sisters
- Bryan Cassiday – Knot of Fear
- Craig W. Fisher – Baker Street Irregular
- Danielle M. Wong – Last Liar Standing
- Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
- Arthur Herbert – The Bones of Amoret
- Britt Lind – Malevolence – A Hollywood Mystery
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Major Jake Fortina and the Tier One Threat
- D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
- Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
- Paul Attaway – Eli’s Redemption
- Paul Attaway – Blood in the Low Country
- Justin M. Kiska – Vice & Virtue
- Paul Alexander Sangillo – The Golden Prison
- Susan Wingate – When You Leave Me
- Jodé Millman – Hooker Avenue
- Charlie Robinson – Hybrid Hysteria – A Novel of Corporate Intrigue Both Holy and Diabolical
- R.U. Randy – Astraphobia
- Carolyn M. Bowen – The Death of Me
- Cathi Stoler – Straight Up A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
- Brian Cuban – The Ambulance Chaser
- Lisa Towles – Ninety-Five
- Alexandrea Weis – Have You Seen Me?
- John J. Valentino, Chief John J. Mandeville – Old Dark and Dangerous
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CLUE Awards was:

The Vines

by Shelley Nolden

See the full list of 2021 winners here!

The 2022 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
January 10, 2023
The 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- PJ Adair – The Viking Girl
- Elizabeth Maddaleni – The Beauty of a Spiral
- Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom – My plan to get my mother a life and a man
- Hermione Lee – Where the Magic Lies
- Anna Finch – Voiceless: A Mermaid’s Tale
- Jacqueline Pretty – Powerless
- Frances Schoonmaker – Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer
- Alan Frost – The Slayer, the Seer, and the Dream Stealer
- Kristina Bak – Cold Mirage
- Frances Howard-Snyder – Sighs of Fire
- Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
- Bird Jones – Blue-Eyed Slave
- Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy
- Stavros Saristavros – The Tome of Syyx
- Rebecca Garner – Why Won’t My Boobs Grow… and Other Annoyances
- Brooke Maddaleni – Next Door
- Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago: Book III the Triumviratus
- Michele Kwasniewski – Rising Star – Book One of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
- Michele Kwasniewski – Burning Bright – Book Two of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
- Tomm A. Boyer – The Deceived
- Jennifer Alsever – Burying Eva Flores
- Endy Wright – Blood for the Fisher King
- J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
- Lenore Borja – The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book I)
- Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
- Jennifer Haskin – Princess of the Blood Mages
- Shina Reynolds – A Light in the Sky
- Marie Sontag – Yosemite Trail Discovered
- W.W. Marplot – Space Story
- M.K. Lever – Surviving the Second Tier
- Anne-Marie Amiel – Crusader’s Way: Book One of the St. Edmundsbury Mysteries
- U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
- Jeanne Roland – Journeys: the Archers of Saint Sebastian
- Avis M. Adams – The Incident
- Tamara Hart Heiner – Year 1: Renegade
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:

TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan

by Blue Spruell

The 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

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January 5, 2023
The 2022 CIBAS Short List CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction
The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romantic Fiction. The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Chatelaine Romantic Fiction Long List to the 2022 Chatelaine Book Awards SHORT LIST. Short Listers below are now in competition for 2022 Chatelaine Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors on the Short List and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom

Valerie Taylor – What’s Not True

Evie Alexander – Kissing Games

Tonya Ulynn Brown – The King’s Inquisitor

Anthony R. Licata – Caesar Obsessed: Passion, Conquest, and Tragedy in Gaul

Jacek Waliszewski – Air Boat

Carol Van Den Hende – Orchid Blooming

Linda Cardillo – A Place of Refuge

KC Cowan – The Bennets: Providence & Perception

M. I. Dugast – Ekstasis – The Return of the Sovereign Heart

Amy Schisler – The Good Wine

Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey

Wendy Rich Stetson – Hometown

Marie Jones – Those We Trust

T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption

Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma

Suzanne Smith – Lilah’s Limit

Cinda K. Swalley – The Golden Hearts Club

Emma Lombard – Grace on the Horizon

Eve M. Riley – The Refusal

S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian

Gail Meath – Agustina de Aragón

Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford

Kelly Miller – Captive Hearts

Mary Kolles and Mary James – Cyber Nothing

Mike Owens – It Had to Be You

J Fremont – Magician of Light

E.F. Dodd – Risky Restoration

Alice McVeigh – Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation

Joy Ross Davis – The Hit Man’s Wife

Cheri Champagne – To Woo A Troublesome Spy

Cheri Champagne – The Charming Spy

Daniela Valenti – Sentinel 10: The Crystal Skull

Anna Casamento Arrigo – The Shadow’s Secrets

E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns

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

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CHATELAINE Awards is:

The Long Desert Road

by Alex Sirotkin

See the full list of Chatelaine 2021 Winners here

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

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January 3, 2023
The 2022 Laramie Book Awards Short List for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Laramie Americana Long List to the 2022 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works!
- Jerry E. Bustin – Outlaws, Renegades, and Prickly Pear Jam
- Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions: The Women of Wyatt Earp
- Shanna Hatfield – Distracting the Deputy
- Bruce Gardner – Seeing Glory: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith, and the American Civil War
- E. Alan Fleischauer – JTs World
- Susan Higginbotham – John Brown’s Women: A Novel
- Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
- T.K. Conklin – Guarded Hearts
- Larry Boucher – Ferris Station
- Larry Boucher – The Scout
- Ed Davis – The Last Professional
- E. Alan Fleischauer – How the West Was Won then Lost …. Decimation
- Sophia Alexander – Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
- Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
- Dena Smallwood – Syrie
- Betty Willis – Texas Quest
- Shanna Hatfield – Holiday Hope
- Susanna Lane – Imperfect Promise
- Eileen Charbonneau – Ursula’s Inheritance
- Harriet Cannon – Exiled South
- Margaret Arross – El Viento
- Daniel Greene – Northern Blood (Northern Wolf Series Book 3)
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 LARAMIE Awards is Tom Sawyer Returns by E.E. Burke

Click here to see the 2021 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Laramie Book Awards for Americana Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

CAC23 – Turn it up to 11! April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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December 29, 2022
The CIBAs Goethe 2022 Short List for Late Historical Fiction
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The other three Historical Fiction Genres are the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction, the Chaucer Awards for Early Historical Fiction, and the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2022 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Goethe Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Jenny Brav – The Unbroken Horizon
- Eric Schumacher Ramirez – Children of Kings
- Jeff Winstead – The Last Battle of the Revolution
- Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey
- Daniel V. Meier, Jr. – Blood Before Dawn
- Pat Benedict Jurgens – Falling Forward: A Woman’s Journey West
- Scott Kauffman – Saving Thomas
- Jody Hadlock – The Lives of Diamond Bessie
- Rita Bozi – When I Was Better
- Judith F. Brenner – The Moments Between Dreams
- Brigitte Goldstein – Court of Miracles
- Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann
- Susanne Dunlap – The Portraitist
- Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
- Lilianne Milgrom – L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece
- Robert W. Smith – Running with Cannibals
- Todd M. Johnson – The Barrister and the Letter of Marque
- Brett Savill – Lie of the Land
- Alice McVeigh – Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
- Jennifer Newbold – The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody
- Tamar Anolic – Tales of the Romanov Empire
- Julieta Almeida Rodrigues, Ph.D. – Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment
- Leslie Johansen Nack – The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies
- James D. Nealon – Confederacy of Fenians
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021Goethe Awards is:

After the Rising & Before the Fall

By Orna Ross

Click here to see the 2021 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

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For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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

Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!
December 27, 2022