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The SHORTS 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Novellas, Collections, and Anthologies
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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.

NOTE: We are posting the Short Stories and Essays in a different post. This Official Announcement is for Novellas and Collections.

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the SHORTS BOOK AWARDS for Collections and Anthologies First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- W.A. Pepper – DoGoodR: A Tanto Thriller
- Britt Lind – A Fate Worse Than Death
- Pat Wahler – The Christmas Keepsake
- Linnea Tanner – Two Faces of Janus
- Tessa Floreano – Slain Over Spumoni
- Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me
- Tamar Anolic – The Lonely Spirit
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 SHORTS Awards is:

God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

by Lori Lee Peters

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer
May 10, 2023
The PARANORMAL 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Supernatural Fiction
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, magical systems and elements.

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the PARANORMAL BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the PARANORMAL Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold As Hell
- Kaylin McFarren – Requiem For A Queen
- Jenny Allen – Blood Lily
- Nola Nash – Crescent City Sin
- Novella Jean – The Bell Lady of Blairmont Manor
- Rebecca Kightlinger – The Lady of the Cliffs: Book Two of The Bury Down Chronicle
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 PARANORMAL Awards is:

COLD AS HELL

By Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 9, 2023
The Humor and Satire 2022 CIBA WINNERS
The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Humor and Satire. The Humor and Satire Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the Humor and Satire BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the Humor and Satire Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Daniel Eric Finkel – Mr. Taffle’s Pants of Insanity
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- Steven Mayfield – Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.
- Mike Murphey – The Outlaw Gillis Kerg … Physics, Lust and Greed Series
- Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Sushing Prize
- Karla Huebner – In Search of the Magic Theater
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Humor and Satire Awards is:

DELPHIC ORACLE, USA

by Steven Mayfield

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 9, 2023
The CHATELAINE Book Awards 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Romance Fiction
The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romance 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.

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Gail Noble-Sanderson on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the CHATELAINE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!
- Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom
- KC Cowan – The Bennets: Providence & Perception
- Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey
- Carol Van Den Hende – Orchid Blooming
- Wendy Rich Stetson – Hometown
- Kelly Miller – Captive Hearts
- Marie Jones – Those We Trust
the Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CHATELAINE Book Awards is:

Operation Mom:

My plan to get my Mom a life and a man

by Reenita Malhotra Hora

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 8, 2023
The OZMA 2022 CIBA WINNERS 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.

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the OZMA BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the OZMA Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- C. D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
- Linnea Tanner – Skull’s Vengeance
- Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
- K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
- J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
- K.C. Cowan – Raeka’s Story
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 OZMA Awards is:

Soar a Burning Sky

By Steven Michael Beck

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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

Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 8, 2023
The SHORTS Book Awards 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Short Stories and Essays
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, and Novellas. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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.

NOTE: We are posting the Novellas and Collected Works in a different post. These are Short Stories and Essays

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the SHORTS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of Individual Short Stories, Novellas, and Essays Awards, a division of the 2022 CIBAs.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!
- Mike Murphey – Old Man Baseball
- J.L. Oakley – Sons and Streams
- Leslie Wibberley – The Poison Garden
- Miriam Polli – Agathos
- Ray Dionne – Harvest Day
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Short Story Awards is:

Old Man Baseball

by Mike Murphey

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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

Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
May 5, 2023
The HARVEY CHUTE 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Business & Finance Non-Fiction
The HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-fiction. The Harvey Chute Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The 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. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Harvey Chute Book Awards?

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the HARVEY CHUTE BOOK AWARDS

First Place Category Winners and the HARVEY CHUTE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the HARVEY CHUTE BOOK AWARDS for Business and Enterprise, a division of the 2022 CIBAs.
- J.W. Huebner – The Irrelevant Old Brand: A Business Fable About Taking Your Brand from Mediocre to Must-Have
- Melina Palmer – What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You
- Joanne Griffin & Declan Foster – Humology
- Morag Barrett – You, Me, We: Why we all need a friend at work (and how to show up as one!)
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Reconfigurement
- Jeff Kavanaugh and Corey Glickman – Practical Sustainability: Circular Commerce, Smarter Spaces and Happier Humans
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 HARVEY CHUTE Awards is:

Reconfigurement

by

E. Alan Fleischauer

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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

Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting inJune. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 4, 2023
The Chaucer 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Early Historical Fiction
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 for 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.

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

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

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the CHAUCER BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CHAUCER Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the CHAUCER BOOK AWARDS for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, a division of the 2022 CIBAs.
- PJ Adair – The Viking Girl
- Mack Little – Daughter of Hades
- Donna Scott – The Tacksman’s Daughter
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne and Louis Forever Bound
- Philip Remus – Gods of Men: Where the Spartans Are Made
- Eric Schumacher Ramirez – The Hummingbird and The Serpent
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CHAUCER Awards is:

Mack Little, author of

Daughter of Hades

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer
May 3, 2023
The 2022 SHORTS CIBAs Finalists for Short Stories and Essays
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Story Collections and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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 in the judging rounds from the 2022 Shorts Book Awards Short List to the 2022 Shorts Book Awards 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.

NOTE: We are posting the Collections and Novellas in a separate post.

These titles are in the running for First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories and Essays!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Louise Lenahan Wallace – Mud on the Range
- Susannah Dawn – The Case To Be Me
- Brian Feutz – Masquerade
- Linda Lee Keenan – The Sentinel
- Mike Murphey – Old Man Baseball
- Lloyd Jeffries – Buried in the Stars
- Alice McVeigh – Capturing Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Short Story
- Miriam Polli – Agathos
- Tom Durwood – Jayani’s Big Gamble
- Ellen Notbohm – What She Thinks About When She Thinks About Shoes
- Robert Phillips – The Dummy
- Mekiya Outini – The Man Who Misspelled God
- J.L. Oakley – Sons and Streams
- Donna LeClair – I Am Human
- George T. Arnold – Those phone calls
- Claudia Carbonell – Hututu
- Ray Dionne – Harvest Day
- Suzanne Smith – Bullets and Bustles
- Suzanne Smith – The Scalp Collector
- Leslie Wibberley – The Poison Garden
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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 Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Toni Ann Johnson for Homegoing

Click here to see the 2021 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Shorts Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

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 attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!
April 4, 2023
The 2022 SHORTS CIBAs Finalists for Collections and Novellas
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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 in the judging rounds from the 2022 Short List to the Shorts Book Awards 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 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

NOTE: We are posting the Short Stories and Essays in a different post.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Novellas!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me
- Kelly Evans – Stubborn: A Greek Comedy
- Susan Lehmann – Southern Lies and Homicides, Tales of Betrayal and Murder
- Susannah Dawn – I Am Who I’ve Always Been: Journey Excerpts
- Dale L. Roberts – Infestate
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – A Colossal Injustice: A Griffin Knight Corporate Murder Mystery
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – Do Nothing: A Griffin Knight Murder Mystery Thriller
- Chris Bennett – Advent – A Road to the Breaking Short Story
- Sara Connell – Ghost House
- Don Daglow – The Last One on the Run
- Barry Robbins – The Trump Diaries 2024
- Linnea Tanner – Two Faces of Janus
- Tessa Floreano – Slain Over Spumoni
- Jacek Waliszewski – Air Boat – Love is an Adventure
- W.A. Pepper – DoGoodR: A Tanto Thriller
- Pat Wahler – The Christmas Keepsake
- Britt Lind – A Fate Worse Than Death
- Arthur Herbert – Lockdown: A Collection of Dark Tales
- Mohan Ranga Rao – Geetha Essay – Domestic Work
- Endy Wright – The Garden Plot Diaries
- S A Melia – Aliens in Windsor
- Tamar Anolic – The Lonely Spirit
- Mekiya Walters – Cassandra Says
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 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Elizabeth Crowens for
New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst

Click here to see the 2021 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Shorts Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

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

Don’t Miss out! 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 10th annual conference and discover why!
March 27, 2023