Celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas – One Day at a Time
“But Jiminy Crickets, it is the 28th of December! Is it not too late for the 12 Days of Christmas?” you say.
Not to fear, Chanticleerians! The 12 Days of Christmas begins on December 26th! And it continues to the 6th of January – Three Kings Day. The four weeks leading up to Christmas is known as the Advent.
Some say that December 25th is the first day of Christmas, but we are going with the medieval date of the 26th because revelry could not take place on the 25th as it was a holy day. And the Twelve Days of Christmas is about revelry!
So if you haven’t finished wrapping presents, sending out those cards, and baking cookies—don’t worry—you’ve got an extra seven days!
Happy Holidays to You from the Chanticleer Team!
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French hens (Chanticleer’s favorite #justsaying)
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree
Not one ring to bind them in this case.
Of course, there is another age-old interpretation of the Five Golden Rings is that they refer to five ring-necked birds such as Ring-necked Pheasants or the European Goldfinches in keeping with the bird theme of the song.
International Christmas Traditions – Portugal
A Portuguese Christmas tradition is that small groups of people will go door to door in their neighborhoods singing songs. Usually the singers are accompanied by instruments. Sometimes they are in traditional dress, sometimes not. They typically open with a song to ask the resident for food and/or drink, and then continue about the birth of Jesus, good wishes for a happy new year, and for drinks and treats. If a resident doesn’t treat the singers well or refuses to open his door, they may sing songs jokingly mocking them. If the singers are treated well, they will sing about how handsome and beautiful the hosts are and how generous and nice they are.
The troubadouring does not take place until after Christmas Day and continues on to Three Kings Day also known as Epiphany.
On the Fifth Day of Christmas, Chanticleer brings to me…
Five First Place Blue Ribbons!
Generally, we only offer 5 of our coveted First Place Blue Ribbons per division, with one person going on to win the Overall Grand Prize.
There are 25 Book Award Divisions offered at Chanticleer, with genre divisions for Fiction and Non-Fiction as well as Series Awards and Shorts Awards. All our Divisions are soon to be open for 2023! Submit today!
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.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
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Celebrating the Art of the Short but Spectacular Writing
“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” ― David Sedaris
The Short Story Book Awards is a new and fast-growing Chanticleer Book Award Division. Featuring any of our 23 Fiction or Non-Fiction genres, these Awards are different from our other programs in that they have two tracks: One that features Individual Works and another that features Collected Works.
Generally, we announce 5 First Place Winners and 1 Grand Prize Winner for Individual Works and the same for Collected Works. This lets each type of work shine. You can see the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists of our 2020 inaugural Short Story Awards here and the 2021 Winners here for collected works and here for individual works.
Short Stories and Essays stand well apart from their 50,000+ word counterparts in both Fiction and Non-Fiction. N.K. Jemisin, three-time Hugo Award Winner for her brilliant Broken Earth Trilogy, credits writing short stories as the method by which she learned how to create tightly written stories with no fluff. Her talent shines in her collection How Long ’til Black Future Month?
In working with a shorter format, a writer must commit to only putting in what matters to their story. This is true of longer formats, but readers are much less forgiving when a short story or essay feels trivial.
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
The Shorts Hall of Fame from Chanticleer
We’re honored to have received so many excellent submissions in the past. Is your story the next one we’ll discover? Check out these Best Books from Chanticleer.
A Week at Surf Side Beach By Pierce Koslosky Jr. 2020 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Collections
Vacationers from all walks of life converge on Portofino II-317C, South Carolina, a quaint blue beach house, in Pierce Koslosky Jr.’s short story collection, A Week at Surfside Beach.
From May 30th-December 26th each group of people comes to stay one week at a time, to forget their cares of the big city, to work, to celebrate, or to simply get away. Surfside Beach has much to show them, including temperamental weather.
The small town itself offers a charming supermarket where fishing supplies, whoopie pies, and local southern favorites can be found. The Christmas vacationers, the final of the thirteen beach house renters, struggle to find a tree in time; a real tree simply wouldn’t allow enough space for the family to sleep, and the fake tree would cost too much. But they find arts and crafts supplies in town, to fashion a paper Christmas tree during a day of rainy weather.
Savonne, not Vonny By Robin Lee Lovelace 2020 Shorts Grand Prize for Novellas
Robin Lee Lovelace evokes a world in which the mystical intertwines with the everyday in Savonne, Not Vonny, a coming-of-age story set in rural Louisiana.
Nine-year-old Savonne lives in a small room at the back of Mama Gwen’s whorehouse, in Indianapolis in the ’60s. Her mama is one of the working girls, and her father is Mama Gwen’s own son. Savonne’s daddy dotes on her, and Mama Gwen loves Savonne like the daughter she never had; the two of them together make a loving home for Savonne, in the midst of their raucous brothel.
By contrast, Savonne’s birth mother rarely pays her any mind. A “crazy-ass woman” with a temper “as hot as a Mississippi afternoon,” Coco is not at all opposed to beating the bejesus out of someone. In a fury one night, she does something that cannot be undone, and in her headlong flight out of town, she takes Savonne with her.
Note: Savonne, Not Vonny, is due to be released as part of Lovelace’s collection, A Wild Region. Keep an eye on her website here for the latest updates. The collection is expected to be published on April 28, 2023.
New York, Give Me Your Best or Your Worst By Elizabeth Crowens 2021 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Collections
A strong collection of work and art, powered by inspiration and the beauty of New York.
The Review for New York: Give Me Your Best or YourWorst is still forthcoming, but we featured author Elizabeth Crowens’ accomplishment in putting together this unique anthology here.
Homegoing By Toni Ann Johnson 2021 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Novellas
Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson is an intimate portrait of a middle-aged African-American woman dragging herself hand over hand out of grief and despair.
This story begins with her aching, echoing pain after the one-two punch of a miscarriage and the dissolution of her marriage. Her journey takes her back to the upper-middle-class white suburb where she grew up, through childhood memories that refuse to be denied and to, of all times and places, a funeral.
Something and someone is supposed to be buried. Certainly the deceased. But quite possibly the woman who has held on to her losses and her grudges long enough to poison her own future.
Thank you for celebrating these Shorts Awards Grand Prize Winners with us!
Have a Short piece of Fiction, Non-Fiction, or a Collection? Your work deserves to be discovered. Submit today!
At the End: “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” ― Ray Bradbury
IN-Person Registration for the Chanticleer Authors Conference is Open
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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.
The Paranormal Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books Paranormal books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, and magical systems.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Paranormal Supernatural Fiction entries to the 2022 Paranormal Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Paranormal Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. 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 SHORT LIST of the 2022 Paranormal Book Awards novel competition for Supernatural Fiction!
Join us in cheering on these Long List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Eva Doherty Gremmert – The Fairy Fort
Daniela Valenti – The Ghosts of Evil (Book 3 of the Sentinel 10 series)
Nancy Canyon – Ghost Rocks
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
Jody Hadlock – The Lives of Diamond Bessie
Robert Herold – Totem of Terror
Daniela Valenti – Sentinel 10, The Edge of Destiny
David Fitz-Gerald – Caught in a Trance
J.D. Toepfer – Route 666: Highway to Hell
Novella Jean – The Bell Lady of Blairmont Manor
Xerkado – Planet Jerlexia: The Flamists
Michael J. Grasso – A Dark Age Resurgent
Joe Lyon – Temple of Valor: Astar’s Blade: Part Three
Lloyd Jeffries – A Portion of Malice (Ages of Malice, Book I)
Rebecca Kightlinger – The Lady of the Cliffs: Book Two of The Bury Down Chronicles
Kaylin McFarren – Requiem For A Queen
Florence Tholozan – The Chinese Woman from the Painting
Gina Detwiler – Forbidden
Isaac Thorne – Hell Spring
Sharon Shipley – The Wylder Ghost and Blossom Cherry
D. Lieber – The Assassin’s Legacy
T.K. Conklin – Guarded Hearts
Cass Kay – Legacy Witches
Sharon Sutila – The Stealing
Jenny Allen – Blood Lily
Anika Savoy – The Ghost in Her
Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
Karen S. Bell – Like a Lily Among the Thorns
Stu Jones – S.H.R.E.D. Gorgon Rising
Brenda Stanley – Only in Darkness
Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold As Hell
Nola Nash – Traveler
Nola Nash – Crescent City Sin
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 PARANORMALAwards and OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER of 2021 is:
The Devil Pulls The Strings
By J. W. Zarek
The 2022 PARANORMAL 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 PARANORMAL Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!
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.
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 ourClue Awardsfor Suspense/Thriller Novels and ourM&M Awardsfor Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Global Thriller High Stakes Fiction entries to the 2022 Global Thriller Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Global Thriller Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST 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
AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
Lloyd Jeffries – A Portion of Malice (Ages of Malice, Book I)
Peter Curtis – Saratov Assignment
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 – We Survived
C. Ross Dutton – The Making of Evil
Kristie Clark – Dragon Clan
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021GLOBAL 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 THRILLERBook Awards are open until the end of September.Enter here!
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.
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 ourDante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see ourGertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Little Peeps Early Readers entries to the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Little Peeps Shortlist. 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST 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.
Deborah Bailey and Stephanie Matolyak – A Farm Animals’ Day at the Fair
Charly Froh – The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Magic of Friendship
Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
Sherrie Cosens – The Trouble With A Flying Mouse
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
Dyanna Morrison – For the Love of Buddy
Travis D. Peterson – Ada and the Helpers
Fragile Tossa – Climate Change Team
Stephan Theo and JL Morin – Tuck-a-tuck Dragon
Helen M. Waters – A Story About Sprout
Lori Croy – The Hole Story
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
Matilde Léon – The Money-Smart Mermaid
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
Kathleen J. Shields – The First Unibear
Anthony C. Delauney – Dash and Nikki and The Jellybean Game
Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd – Mighty Mara
S McMichael – Happenstance Farms Catch That Pony
S McMichael – Happenstance Farms A New Home
Nan Evenson – Good Night (Not Really): Let’s Count Forward AND Backward
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?
Auralee Arkinsly – Roo’s Fine Flapping Day
Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
Eve Cabanel – Eli and the mystery of the Hallowshine dragon
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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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.
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 judging rounds from all 2022 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!
Join us in celebrating the Long List 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
C.J. Hudson – Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street
Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
Carter Obasohan – Notes From Out West
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
Tina Scott – The Forbidden Fruit: A True Story of Sex, Drugs, and the Afterlife
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
Linda Kolsky – Heavenly Hindsights: How One Mother Found Meaning in her Life After the Death of Her Child
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
Lynette Ingram – Flares from a Fallout Shelter
Linda Lee Henderson – Wake Up Mom!
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021JOURNEY 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 2023JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July.Enter here!
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.
The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see ourDante Rossetti Awards hereand for Children’s Literature see ourLittle Peeps Awards here.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Fiction entries to the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Gertrude Warner Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
The 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards Long List
Tanya Volkova – The Enchanted Wind
Joy A. Burke – Surviving Christmas
J. Bruno – The Amazing Flight of Aaron William Hawk
Cicek Bricault – KyRose Takes A Leap
Ketevan Alexander – Two Days with Zio
Sam Hooker & Lindy Ryan – Hemlock N Glitter
S.P. O’Farrell – Simone LaFray and the Red Wolves of London
J.K.Pinsel – KAZI
L.K. Keenan – Seb Artigas Gone Wrong
Barbara Hills – The Sun and the Starlings
Alex Paul – The King’s Armada: Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals, Book 6
John Pliska – The Secret of the Park Street Dragon Warriors
Elizabeth M. Grieco – Paws in Paris: The Adventures of Tenny and Bella
Alan Frost – Time Travelers of the Caribbean
Bo Gannon – Rabbit Tracks – The Trail to Gettysburg
Ana Cortes – Marco, Pablo, & Olivia: Fútbol Tryouts
Anthony Feinman – I’M FAT! A Critters Adventure
Ben Gartner – People of the Sun
Robert Cole – Squirrels Going Nuts
PJ McIlvaine – Violet Yorke, Gilded Girl: Ghosts in the Closet
Jon & Di Nelson – Spooky Stuff – Back Pocket Summer Camp Tales
Charlotte Stuart – Not Me: Speluncaphobia, Secrets & Hidden Treasure
Charlotte Stuart – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
Didem Saracel – Story of Universe
Christian A. Shane – Salmon Survivor
Andres Leopoldo Faza – Pomme’s Wondrous Journey
Jason Colpitts – Corrine and the Underground Province
Ted Neill & Suzi Spooner – Mystery Force Volume 1: Books 1-3 of the Mystery Force Series
Ellen Dee Davidson – WIND
Tamra Andrews – Mirror Child: Book One: The Woolgatherer
U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Marc Remus – The Chocolate clouds
JK Noble – HALE: The Rise of the Griffins
Wilson Whitlow – Mystery of the Khar Chuluu
Didem Saracel – Story of Oxygen
J. B. Spector – The Amethyst Tower, Book 2 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021GERTRUDE WARNER Awards was:
Fishing for Luck
by Murray Richter
The 2023=2 GERTRUDE WARNER 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 2023GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards are open until the end of August.Enter here!
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.
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 entries to the 2022 Ozma Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Ozma Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. 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 SHORT LIST 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.
The 2022 OZMA Long Listers!
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)
Victory Witherkeigh – The Girl
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
Jamie Edmundson – An Inheritance of Ash and Blood
Catherine Raphael – Journey to the Heart Stone
K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
Stavros Saristavros – Tome of Syyx
Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
Kevin Moore – Book of Demons
D.R. Martin – Grim Knights (The Grim Chronicles Book 1)
K.N. Salustro – The Roar of the Lost Horizon
D. Lieber – The Treason of Robyn Hood
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
Robert Cole – The Falcons of Gebtu
Sarah K. Balstrup – The Way of Unity
Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold as Hell
C.D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
Grayson W. Hooper – Shadebringer
T. L. Augury – Who’s Stirring the Brew now?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 OZMAAwards 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 OZMABook Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!
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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