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The 2024 Military and Front Line Awards Finalists for Narrative Non-Fiction
The Military and Front line Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir exploring the lives of those who serve their country and others. The Military and Front Line 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 the 2024 Military and Front Line Non-Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Military and Front Line Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Military and Front Line Book Awards novel competition for Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating these authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.
- David Huntley – The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: a WWII Final Honor
- Patrick Hogan – Coincidence, You Say?
- Shari Biery – It’s Your Turn How To Rediscover Yourself Prioritize Your Well-Being Thrive with Purpose
- Max Lauker & Antonio Garcia – Number 788: My Experiences in Swedish Special Operations – Preparing for NATO and the War on Terror
- Roderick S. Haynes – Unauthorized Disclosures a Navy Memoir of the 1980s
- Lorda Dabresil – Solutions to Nursing Shortage in New York
- Kim Sloan – Memoirs from the Frontlines: Four states, Two years, One pandemic
- Ben Powers – Never A Dull Moment: The 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in World II
- Bibi LeBlanc – Wings of Freedom – The Story of the Berlin Airlift | Flugel der Freiheit – Die Geschichte der Berliner Luftbrucke
- Josh McConkey – Be the Weight Behind the Spear
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 2023 Military and Front Line Awards is:

Chasing The Daylight

By Joanna Rakowski

See the full list of 2023 First Place Military and Front Line Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Military and Front Line Book Awards for Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 16, 2025
The 2024 Harvey Chute Awards Semi-Finalists for Business and Enterprise
The Harvey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books to the test and choose the best among them.
See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction Short List to the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Harvey Chute Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating these authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.
- Ben Peterson – Engage Your Destiny
- Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
- Richard Weylman – 100 Proven Ways To Acquire And Keep Clients For Life
- Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
- Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities
- Anastasia Karklina Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
- Zontee Hou – Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
- Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World
- Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
- Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
- Steve Waddell, MBA, PMP – Valuepreneuers: The New Rules for Building Products, Growing Your Business, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
- Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
- Nick Barter & Christopher Fleming – Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of
- Jacqui Clarke – Stop Worrying About Money
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 2023 Harvey Chute Awards is:

Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

By Nancy Harhut

See the full list of 2023 First Place Harvey Chute Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 16, 2025
The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Finalist for Early Readers and Children’s Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Early Readers and Picture Books. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 Finalist List for the 2024 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
- Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
- Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
- Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
- Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
- Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
- Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
- Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
- Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
- Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
- Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
- Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
- Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
- Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
- Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
- Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
- Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
- Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 15, 2025
The 2024 I&I Instruction and Insight Awards Short List for Non-Fiction Guides
The Instruction and Insight Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Guides and Self- Help Non-Fiction. The I&I 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 HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2024 I&I Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 I&I 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 (CAC25).

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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Guiding and How-to Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.
- Margaret C Beeler – Tropetails: A Cocktail and Mocktail Book for Bookworms
- Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
- Lorraine Ballato – Success with Hydrangeas a Gardener’s Guide
- Karen Gross – Mending Education Finding Hope Creativity and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma
- Mary Deal – Advanced Self-Hypnosis Techniques Hypno-Scripts Book
- Tania Israel – Facing the Fracture How To Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation
- John M. O’brien Ph.d. – Rudeness Rehab Reclaiming Civility in the Workplace and Your Home Space
- Grace Torres-Hodges – Private Practice Solution Reclaiming Physician Autonomy Restoring the Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Elizabeth Fulgaro – Soul Care-Song Prayers: A Spiritual Practice Toward Resilience and Well-Being
- Dr. Maheshika Halbeisen – The Job Well Done – The Queen’s Way To Successful Leadership
- Katherine Fabrizio – The Good Daughter Syndrome: Help For Empathic Daughters of Narcissistic, Borderline, or Difficult Mothers Trapped in the Role of the Good Daughter
- Martess Amunette Dowling – Is He Ever Going to Leave His Wife?
- Amy L Bernstein – Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration
- Katie Myers – Being Seen
- Kimberly Harms – Are You Ready? How to Build a Legacy to Die For
- Anna Brooke and Vindy Teja – WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within
- Chris Chan with Patricia Meyer Chan – The Autistic Sleuth: Screen Portrayals of Detectives on the Spectrum in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, The Millennium Trilogy, The Bridge, Death Note, … Dog in the Night-Time, and Other Productions
- Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions In A Noisy World
- Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
- Natalie Kohlhaas – Hello Anxiety My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower
- Léonie Rosenstiel – Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp
- Bob Dahms, MBA, CPA, CMA – Let’s Talk About This: 50 Things You Need to Know About Starting and Managing a Small Business
- Douglas A. Burton – The Heroine’s Labyrinth: Archetypal Designs in Heroine-Led Fiction
- Jacqui Clarke – Stop worrying about money
- Angela Lomenzo – Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women
- Lisa Rhyne – Coming Out of the Metaphysical Closet
- Holly Swenson – Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow
- Matthew J. Louis – Hiring Veterans: How To Leverage Military Talent For Organizational Growth
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 2023 I&I Awards is:

Eating Together Being Together

By Julian C.E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers

See the full list of 2023 First Place I&I Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 I&I Book Awards for Guiding and Helpful Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 15, 2025
The 2024 Somerset Awards Semi-Finalists for Literary and Contemporary Fiction
The Somerset Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Contemporary and Literary Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 SOMERSET Contemporary Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Somerset Book Awards SEMI-FINALIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Somerset Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Contemporary and Literary Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Conon Parks – Down and Out in Omaha
- Robert Gwaltney – Sing Down the Moon
- Ann Bancroft – Almost Family
- Christina Boyd – Woman in the Painting
- Lisa Gruwell Spicer – Radio Smokva a Croatian American Story
- Maryann Clarke – Secrets at the Aviary Inn
- Leslie Wibberley – The Unraveling of Emma Hill
- Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
- Neroli Lacey – The Perfumer’s Secret
- Donna Norman-Carbone – Of Lies and Honey
- Julie Weary – Never, Ever, Always
- John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
- Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice, Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
- William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
- Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
- S.M. Stevens – Beautiful and Terrible Things
- Natia Khaduri – A Soldier’s Burden
- Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
- Anthony Horton – Unpaved
- Anne Heinrich – God Bless The Child
- Patricia Averbach – Dreams of Drowning
- John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
- Meredith Walters – This Animal Body
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree: An Extraordinary Saga of Seven Generations
- Cheryl Grey Bostrom – Leaning on Air
- Erika Shepard – Abomination Child
- Leslie DeBrock – The Frog-Eyed Gospel, A Texas Exodus
- Linda A Lavid – Quigley Tree: A Novel
- Jeffrey Blount – Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way
- Mary Elizabeth Gillilan – Confluence
- Holly C LaBarbera – All I Know
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Somerset Grand Prize Winner

You Can’t Fool A Mermaid

By Judy Keeslar Santamaria

Click here to see the full list of 2023 SOMERSET Book Award Winners for Contemporary Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 SOMERSET Book Awards for Contemporary Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 15, 2025
The 2024 Short Story Awards Semi-Finalists for Short Stories and Essays
The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Form Fiction. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Short Form Content, singular short stories, essays and shorter Collections. The Long form Shorts (over 100 pages) Semi-Finalists List will be posted separately.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Susannah Dawn – It’s in the Grey Zone We Find The Colors
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Soldier Jacob
- Trudy Wells-Meyer – Regifting with a Twist
- Burl Harmon – Being 100 Years Old
- KD Sherrinford – Christmas at The Saporis
- Mike Murphey – The Claunch Ness Monster
- Lisa G. Spicer – Letters From Tacoma
- Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
- Deborah L. King – Attention Accepted
- Tessa Floreano – Shadows of the Adriatic
- J.J. Clarke – Deadly Ambition
- Susan Lynn Solomon – A Circle of Sabbaths
- Glen Dahlgren – The Dice of Chaos
- PJ Devlin – Sleeping Out
- PJ Devlin – Running
- Glendall C. Jackson III – Naked Came the Detective
- Carol L. Wright – Apple, Table, Penny… Murder
- Hannah Stone – The Weight of Bone and Feather
- L. Burton Brender – Stories from the War
- Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro – Dream Rut: Navigating Your Path Forward
- Tosca Lee – The Cancun Game
Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

By Catherine Brown

A Manuscript

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Collections, Essays, and Novellas.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 14, 2025
The 2024 Shorts Award Semi-Finalists for Novellas, Essays, and Collections
The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Stories. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

Please Note: There are two Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Long Form Content, Novellas, and Collections. The short form Shorts (100 pages or less) Semi-Finalist List will be posted separately.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi – Something About Lizzy
- Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury
- Susan L Rae – Teaching Treason: A Gabby Baxter Mystery
- Paper Lantern Writers – Beneath a Midwinter Moon
- Cynthia Geouge Davis – Catfish Corner
- Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold
- Deborah L. Staunton – Untethered
- Jennifer Saviano – Joy Ride
- Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box and Other Stories
- Anne B. Barriault – Tales from Naples and Sorrentine Stories
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
- Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays
Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

Shelter In A Hostile World

By Mack Little

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 14, 2025
The 2024 Series Awards Short List for Fiction and Non-Fiction!
The CIBA SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions and 7 Non-Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. The Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of the CIBA Divisions. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Series Award LONG LIST to the 2024 Series Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Series Book Awards competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Antonia Gavrihel – Back To One
- John J. Spearman – Mercenary Navy
- Alan B. Gibson – Magic at Myers Beach
- D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol
- Jule Selbo – Dee Rommel Mystery Series
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Yoga Mat Mysteries
- Evette Davis – The Council Trilogy
- Taryn R. Hutchison – A Cold War Trilogy
- Laurie Buchanan – Sean Mcpherson Novels
- Kari Bovee – The Pryce of Murder
- April Sebree – Through the Woods
- M.K. Dean – The Ginny Reese Mysteries
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Salem Stories
- Valerie Green – The McBride Chronicles
- Jeff Nania – Northern Lakes Mystery series
- J.L. Oakley – The Jossing series
- Mike Murphey – Tales of Physics, Lust and Greed
- Rose Prendeville – Brides of Chattan
- TK Sheffield – The Backyard Model Mysteries
- Eve M Riley – The Techboys series
- Steven Joseph – Snoodles Book Series
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina Series
- Karen Inglis – Secret Lake Mystery Adventures
- Anika Savoy – Ungilded
- Michael J Bowler – The Lance Chronicles
- D.V. Chernov – Nick Severs Mysteries
- McKendree Long – The Superstition Gun
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die Series
- R.w. Meek – The Dream Collector
- Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm
- Glen Dahlgren – The Chronicles of Chaos
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Series Grand Prize Winner

Ghosts Along The Oregon Trail

By David Fitz-Gerald

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Series Book Award Winners.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Series Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 14, 2025
The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Finalists for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th 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 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
- Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider
- Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
- R L Pace – Rising Son
- Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
- David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
- Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
- Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
- Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
- Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
- Shanna Hatfield – Molly
- Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
- Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
- Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
- Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
- Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
- Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
- Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
- H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
- Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

The Silver Waterfall

By Kevin Miller

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025
The Humor and Satire Awards 2024 Finalists for Humorous and Allegorical Fiction
The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 HUMOR & SATIRE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
- Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
- Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
- Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
- Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
- Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
- DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
- Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
- JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
- Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
- Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
- Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
- Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
- John Young – Getting Huge
- Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
- Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
- Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

Quantum Consequence

By Mike Murphey

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! 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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025