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The Laramie 2024 Book Awards Winners for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Eileen Charbonneau on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the LARAMIE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LARAMIE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Laramie Book Awards for Americana, Western, and First Nation Fiction, a division of the 2024 CIBAs.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
- Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 LARAMIE Awards is:

Sarita

by Natalie Musgrave Dossett

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Laramie Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

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 May. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
April 16, 2025
The Little Peeps 2024 Book Awards Winners for Early Readers and Children’s Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Jonna Laster on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the LITTLE PEEPS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LITTLE PEEPS Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Children’s Picture Books, a division of the 2024 CIBAs.
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
- Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
- Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
- Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to The Scrapyard!
- Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Island Moon

by Ruth Amanda

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Little Peeps Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in May. 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.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
April 16, 2025
The Global Thriller 2024 Book Awards Winners for High Stakes Suspense
The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction.

The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Isaac Fozard on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of

the GLOBAL THRILLER BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners

and

the GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the GLOBAL THRILLER BOOK AWARDS for High Stakes Fiction and Lab Lit, a division of the 2024 CIBAs.
- T.O. Paine – The Delusion
- Charlie Robinson – Heavy Hysteria: A Novel of Corporate Intrigue Involving the Minerals of this Sacred Earth
- Tony Ollivier – The Tokyo Diversion
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
- Ron Singerton – Ruptured
- Sheri T. Joseph – Edge of the Known World
- Carla Seyler – A Place Unmade
- Randall Krzak – Frozen Conquest
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

A Blanket of Steel

By Timothy S. Johnston

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Global Thriller Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in May. 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.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
April 15, 2025
The 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards Winners for Business & Finance
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.

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Damien Fozard on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2024 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
- 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 Kārkliņa Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
- Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
- Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
The Grand Prize Winner for

the CIBA 2024 HARVEY CHUTE Awards is:

Stop Worrying about Money

By Jacqui Clarke

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Harvey Chute Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

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

Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

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

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.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Again, thank you so much for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
April 15, 2025
The 2024 CYGNUS Book Awards Winners for Science Fiction
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative 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 space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division.

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Rick Steinke on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2025 LIST of the CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in celebrating our First Place Category Winners

in the 2024 CYGNUS Book Awards, a division of the CIBAs!
- Timothy S. Johnston – A Blanket of Steel
- Peter Dingus – Deep Time
- A. R. Black – No Man’s Land
- Thomas Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
- Shami Stovall – The Half-Life Empire
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 CYGNUS Awards for Science Fiction is:

Ares

By Jayson Adams

You can see all of our amazing 2024 Cygnus Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners & Finalists: 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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

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.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer

Any questions? Please email us at info@ChantiReviews.com We will try our best to reply within 3 business days Pacific Standard Time.
April 14, 2025
The 2024 Short Story Awards 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 SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be 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) 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 Bellingham Yacht Club hosted by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- 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
- J.J. Clarke – Deadly Ambition
- Susan Lynn Solomon – A Circle of Sabbaths
- Glen Dahlgren – The Dice of Chaos
- 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
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 17, 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
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 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 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!

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 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.

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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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 14, 2025