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The RAW NaNoWriMO 2014 Award Winners Official Posting
The RAW NaNoWriMo Writing Contest 2014 Award Winners

Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the Official Awards Winners of the RAW NaNoWriMo 2014 Writing Contest, a division of Chanticleer Writing Competitions.

The RAW NaNoWriMo Awards recognize emerging new talent and notable works that were created during the 2014 National November Writing Month.

Congratulations to Richard Gower for Death Comes Full Circle. He has won Chanticleer Manuscript Overview ($395 value).

Congratulations to the Runner-ups:
- Sean Curley for Over
- R.E. Steedman for The Phantasmagorical Theatre of Crespin Varlot
- Kenneth Stokes for Return to Villa Serena
Each of the 2014 RAW NaMoWriMo Runner-ups have won a entry fee gift certificate ($55 value) for the work submitted into the work’s genre novel writing competition.

We will begin accepting entries into the 2015 RAW NaNoWriMo Writing Competition beginning on Dec. 1, 2015.

Image courtesy of National Novel Writing Month. Please click here to be taken to the OFFICIAL NaNoWriMo organization’s website.

NaNoWriMo Facts and Stats

National Novel Writing Month was established in 1999. It is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes stories matter.
July 28, 2015
The M&M Awards for Mystery & Mayhem Novels 2014 First Place Category Winners
Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the M&M Awards 2014 for Mystery & Mayhem Cozy Novels, a division of Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Writing Competitions.

The M&M Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of cozy mysteries novels. The First Place Category Winners will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala held in late September 2015.

The M&M FIRST PLACE 2014 Award Winners are:
- Amateur Sleuth: Wendy Delaney for SEX, LIES, and SNICKERDOODLES
- Romance: Janet Shawgo for FIND ME AGAIN
- Animals: Pamela Beason for THE ONLY CLUE
- Blended Genre: Winslow Elliott for SATI and the RIDER
- Classic Cozy: Stephen Kaminski for DON’T CRY OVER KILLED MILK
- Female Sleuth: Julie Mulhern for The DEEP END
- Humorous: Ann Philipp for GRAND THEFT DEATH
- American Mystery: Amy Beth Arkawy for DEAD SILENT
- Classic British Cozy: Marni Graff for GREEN REMAINS
- Y/A/New Adult: Julie Moffett for NO PLACE LIKE ROME
- Senior Sleuths: Mark Reutlinger for MRS. KAPLAN and the MATZOH BALL of DEATH
- Legal/Medical/Lab: Ken Malovos for CONTEMPT of COURT
CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to all of the 2014 M&M Finalists Short List! This is a highly competitive writing competition and many of the calls were close. We invite you to enter your new works into the M&M 2016 Awards.

Congratulations to those whose works were selected for First Place Category positions. Good Luck to the M&M First Place Category Winners as they compete for the M&M AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position!

The 1st Place Category Winners compete for the M&M AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position. The 2014 M&M category winner was announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala in September 2015. See the Grand Prize Winners.
- The deadline for entries for the M&M Awards 2014 was March 31, 2014.
- The deadline for entries for the M&M Awards 2015 was March 31, 2015.
- The deadline for entries for the M&M Awards 2016 is March 31, 2016.
GRAND PRIZE Overall M&M Awards 2013 Winner was:

Berndatte Pajer, for Fatal Induction

To view the 2013 M&M Award Winners, please click here.

To compete in the 2016 M&M Awards or for more information, please click here.

CBR’s rigorous writing competition standards are the reason literary agencies seek out our winning manuscripts and self-published novels. Our high standards are also another reason our reviews are trusted among booksellers and book distributors.Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media, L.L.C. retains the right to not declare “default winners.” Winning works are decided upon merit only. Please visit our Contest Details page for more information about our writing contest guidelines.

Please do not hesitate to contact Info@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions about CBR writing competitions. Your input and suggestions are important to us.

Thank you for your interest in Chanticleer Book Reviews international writing competitions.
July 25, 2015
The CHAUCER AWARDS for HISTORICAL FICTION First Place Category 2014 WINNERS
Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the CHAUCER AWARDS 2014 for Historical Fiction, a division of Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Writing Competitions.

The Chaucer Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of historical fiction. The First Place Category Winners will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala held in late September 2015.

Chanticleer Reviews is proud to be a literary affiliate of the Historical Novel Society.

The CHAUCER FIRST PLACE 2014 Award Winners are:
- Women’s Fiction: J. L. Oakley for Timber Rose
- Legend: Kevin Allen and Emma Rose Millar for Five Guns Blazing
- Legacy: Michael D. McGranahan for Silver Kings and Sons of Bitches
- Pre-History: Mary S. Black for Peyote Fire
- Ancient History: Rebecca Locklann for The Thinara King
- Roman/Grecian Classical: Elisabeth Storrs for The Golden Dice: A Tale of Ancient Rome
- Middle Ages: Helena P. Schrader for St. Louis’ Knight
- Late Middle Ages: Lilian Gafni for The Alhambra Decree: Flower from Castile
- Elizabethan/Tudor: Syril Levin Kline for Shakespeare’s Changeling: A Fault Against the Dead
- 1600’s: Donna Scott for Shame the Devil (manuscript)
- 1700s & 1800s: Karleene Morrow for Destinies
- Turn of the 19th Century: Ruth Hull Chatlien for The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte
- Twentieth Century: David Brendan Hopes for The One with the Beautiful Necklaces (manuscript)
- World Wars: Gregory Erich Phillips for The Love of Unfinished Years (manuscript)
- Young Adult: Sharon Short for My One Square Inch of Alaska
- U. S. History: J. P. Kenna for Beyond the Divide
- World History: Michelle Rene for I Once Knew Vincent
CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to all of the 2014 Chaucer Finalists! Congratulations to those whose works were selected for First Place Category positions. Good Luck to the Chaucer First Place Category Winners as they compete for the CHAUCER AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position!

The 1st Place Category Winners compete for the CHAUCER AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position. The 2014 CHAUCER category winner was announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala in September 2015. See the Grand Prize Winners.
- The deadline for The Chaucer Awards 2014 was June 31, 2014.
- The deadline for The Chaucer Awards 2015 is June 31, 2015.
GRAND PRIZE Overall Chaucer Awards Winner from 2013:

Sean Curley, Propositum

To view the 2013 Chaucer Award Winners, please click here.

To compete in the 2016 CHAUCER Awards or for more information, please click here.
CBR’s rigorous writing competition standards are the reason literary agencies seek out our winning manuscripts and self-published novels. Our high standards are also another reason our reviews are trusted among booksellers and book distributors.Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media, L.L.C. retains the right to not declare “default winners.” Winning works are decided upon merit only. Please visit our Contest Details page for more information about our writing contest guidelines.

Please do not hesitate to contact Info@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions about CBR writing competitions. Your input and suggestions are important to us.

Thank you for your interest in Chanticleer Book Reviews international writing competitions.
July 15, 2015
The LARAMIE Awards Writing Competition for Western Fiction – Official 2014 FINALISTS List
The Laramie Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, Civil War, Prairie, and Pioneer Fiction Novels. The Laramie Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Awards International Writing Competitions.

We are pleased to announce the Laramie Awards Official Finalists List for 2014 Entries, otherwise known as the “Short List.” The Official Finalists Listing is comprised of entries that have passed the first three rounds of judging from the entire field of entrants. To pass the first three rounds of judging, more than sixty pages of the works below have been read and have deemed worthy by the CBR judges of continuing in competition for the LARAMIE FIRST IN CATEGORY positions and their prize packages.

Congratulations to the LARAMIE AWARDS FINALISTS:
- Rebecca Rockwell for The Last Desperado
- Jacqui Nelson for Between Heaven and Hell
- Althea Williams for Walls for the Wind
- Juliette Douglas for Freckled Venom Copperhead
- Jared McVay the Author for Not on My Mountain
- Jacqui Rogers for Much Ado About Miners
- Ken Farmer and Buck Stienke for Nations
- Ken Farmer for Hell Hole
- Lorrie Farrelly for Terms of Surrender
- Peggy L. Henderson for Come Home to Me
- Tammy Hinton for Unbridled and Retribution
- Susan Horsnell for Capturing Charlie
- Robert M. Fells for The Parson of Styx Crossing
- Elisabeth Ward for Wolf Eye’s Silence
- Graham J Flowers for Shadow Trails
- Theo Czuk for Heart Scarred
- Roger W. Peck for Boy Soldier
- Michael J Roueche for A River Divides
- Joe Corso for The Adventures of Lone Jack Kid
- Linell Jeppsen for Deadman’s Lament
- Christi Corbett for Along the Way Home
- Kristen Lynch for Silver
- Paul C Breslin for Our Daily Bread
Good luck to all the Laramie Awards Finalists who made the Short List as they compete for the First In Category Positions!

More than $30,000 dollars in cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer International Blue Ribbon Awards Winners annually.

The Laramie Awards for Western Fiction has ten categories to compete in for First Place Category Positions.

The Laramie First in Category award winners will compete for the Laramie Grand Prize Award for Best Western Book 2014. Grand Prize winners, blue ribbons, and prizes will be announced and awarded on September 29th at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala, Bellingham, Wash.

The First In Category award winners will receive an award package including a complimentary book review, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.

We are proud to announce last year’s award winners and this year’s Laramie finalists at the Historical Novel Society’s 2015 Conference in Denver, Colorado that will take place on June 27, 2015.

We are now accepting entries into the 2015 Laramie Awards. The deadline is June 30, 2015. Click here for more information or to enter.

More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the 2015 Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Ten genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.

Who will take home the $1,000 purse this September at the Chanticleer Awards Gala and Banquet?

Last year’s Chanticleer Grand Prize winner was Michael Hurley for The Prodigal.

Last year’s Laramie Grand Prize winner was Dale B. Jackson for Unbroke Horses.
May 21, 2015
Chaucer Award Winners for Historical Fiction and Laramie Award Winners for Western Fiction to be Recognized at HNS Conference

This News Just In!

The Chaucer Award Winners for Historical Novels and the Laramie Award Winners for Western Fiction, divisions of the Chanticleer International Writing Competitions, will be recognized at the 6th Historical Novels Society Conference.

The award winning authors will be recognized at the HNS Costume and Awards Banquet held on Saturday evening with special guest speaker Diana Galbaldon, the author of the acclaimed Outlander book series as well as the TV series on Starz.

Janet Oakley, who won the Chanticleer Grand Prize for her historical novel Tree Soldier and Sean Curley, the Chaucer Awards grand prize winner for his novel Propositum will be recognized along with other First In Category award winners for these two Chanticleer Writing Competitions divisions.

Attention!

If you are attending HNS and are a First in Category Award Winner or Finalist in the Chaucer or Laramie Awards, please contact Kiffer Brown immediately at: KBrown@Chanticleer Reviews.com. Thank you! We have to prepare!

Previously, winners were to be announced at the Saturday HNS Luncheon, but the HNS Board wonderfully surprised us and moved the announcement to the Saturday evening’s Costume and Awards Banquet.

We are excited to have the Historical Novel Society as an affiliate of Chanticleer Reviews and Writing Competitions. And we are proud to be a Literary Affiliate of the venerable HNS!

Chanticleer Reviews and Writing Competitions is honored to be an Official Literary Affiliate of the Historical Novel Society – North America.

Representatives of the Historical Novel Society will present and have an information table at the Chanticleer Authors Conference 2015 and will recognize the Chaucer Award Winners at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Gala.

Now this is something to crow about! COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!

May 16, 2015
Spring Events and Updates from Chanticleer Reviews

CBR to Attend BEA and BookCon, May 27, 28, 29, & 30!

Book Expo of America NYC – It’s the leading book and author event in the North American publishing industry.

It is the largest gathering of booksellers, publishers, librarians, retailers, and book industry professionals of the year—making it the best place to learn about the latest trends and technologies in the biz.

BookCon is an immersive experience that features interactive, forward thinking content including Q+A’s with the hottest talent, autographing sessions, storytelling podcasts, special screenings, literary quiz shows and so much more.

Kiffer Brown, publisher of Chanticleer Reviews, has been given a BEA press pass and a BookCon Editorial Media Badge. She will report back to the Chanticleer Community of Authors and Writers. Look for her blog posts and tweets! @ChantiReviews and @KifferBrown.

The BEA Expo takes place on May 27, 28, & 29th at the Jacob Javitz Center, NYC. Click on the link for more information about BEA.
BookCon takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 30 & 31, at the Jacob Javitz Center, NYC. Click on the link for more information about BookCon NYC.

Historical Novel Society Affiliation

It’s OFFICIAL — The Historical Novel Society is a sponsor of the Chanticleer Authors Conference 2015 and Chanticleer Reviews is a sponsor of the HNS 2015 North American conference in Denver, Colorado.

The Historical Novel Society conference will take place on June 26, 27, & 28, Denver Colorado. If you are attending HNS, please stop by our exhibit table and say hello.

UPDATED INFORMATION as of May 14th — this just in!

The Chaucer Awards winners and The Laramie Awards winners will be recognized at the HNS Saturday Awards and Costume Banquet that will feature Special Guest Diana Gabaldon–the author of the acclaimed Outlander book series as well as the TV series on Starz. Janet Oakley, who won the Chanticleer Grand Prize for her historical novel Tree Soldier and Sean Curley, the Chaucer Awards grand prize winner for his novel Propositum will be recognized along with other First In Category award winners for these two Chanticleer Writing Competitions divisions.

If you are attending HNS and are a First in Category Award Winner or Finalist in the Chaucer or Laramie Awards, please contact Kiffer Brown immediately at KBrown@Chanticleer Reviews.com. Thank you!

We are excited to have the Historical Novel Society as an affiliate of Chanticleer Reviews and Writing Competitions. And we are proud to be an affiliate of the venerable HNS!

Chanticleer Reviews is a Supporter Chuckanut Writers Conference.

We are proud to support this local pacific northwest writers conference for four years in a row.

The conference takes place on June 26 & 27 at the Whatcom Community College located in Bellingham, Washington. Chanticleer Reviews will have a table at the Syre Student Center, so please stop by and say hi to Paulina! We will have candy!

Don’t Forget to Register for Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala 2015!

Take advantage of the Early Bird Special! The conference will take place over four days: attend all four days or select the days that fit your schedule.

Saturday, Sept. 26: CAC15 sessions and master workshops will take place at Bellingham Yacht Club. That evening we will kick things off with a BBQ and dancing to live music at the BYC.

Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday, Sept. 27, 28, & 29 will feature sessions, presentations, and panels during the day with daily featured keynote luncheons, “Appy Hours” sponsored by Books I Love, a staffed Book Room open to the public, and evening dinners. The conference culminates on Tuesday evening with the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Gala.

Be sure to visit www.ChanticleerReviews.com for the latest information and the growing list of presenters.

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Thank you for your continued support of Chanticleer Reviews and Writing Competitions!

May 13, 2015
The CHAUCER Awards for Historical Fiction – Official 2014 Finalists List
The CHAUCER Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Historical Fiction Novels. The Chaucer Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

More than $25,000 dollars in cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer International Blue Ribbon Awards Winners annually.

The Chaucer Awards for Historical Fiction has twelve categories to compete in for First Place Category Positions. The Chaucer First in Category award winners will compete for the Chaucer Grand Prize Award for Best Historical Book 2014. Grand Prize winners, blue ribbons, and prizes will be announced and awarded on September 29th at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala, Bellingham, Wash.

We are proud to announce last year’s award winners and this year’s Chaucer finalists at the Historical Novel Society’s 2015 Conference in Denver, Colorado that will take place on June 27, 2015.

The CHAUCER Historical Novel Competition Categories are:
- Women’s Historical Fiction
- Legacy/Legend
- Pre-historic
- Ancient History
- Medieval, Renaissance, Dark Ages
- Elizabethan/Tudor
- 1600s
- Regency, Victorian, 1700s & 1800s
- Turn of the 19th century
- Turn of the 20th century
- World Wars
- Young Adult/New Adult
- World/International History
Congratulations to following CHAUCER 2014 FINALISTS and good luck to all as they compete for the twelve First In Category positions:
- Michael S. Pritchett for Saints and Strangers
- P. Lorraine Buck for By Blood and By Vow
- J.S. Dunn for Bending the Boyne
- Mary S. Black for Peyote Fire
- S. Thomas Bailey for Forest Sentinels: The Gauntlet Runner
- Kerryn Reid for Learning to Waltz
- Sandy James for Runaway
- Michael J. Cooper for The Rabbi’s Knight
- J. P. Kenna for Beyond the Divide
- R.N. Vick for Wings of Fury
- Patricia Averbach for Painting Bridges
- Rebecca Lochlann for The Year-God’s Daughter and The Thinara King
- Jared McVay for The Legend of Joe, Willy, & Red
- Syril Levin Kline for Shakespeare’s Changeling: A Fault Against the Dead
- Emma Rose Milar and Kevin Allen for Five Guns Blazing
- Elizabeth Soloway for The Great Deception
- Anna Angelidakis for The Icon Thief
- T.E. Taylor for Zeus of Ithome
- J.L. Oakley for Timber Rose
- Susanne Petito Egielski for Nelson’s Castle: a Bronte Fairy Tale
- David Brendan Hopes for The One with the Beautiful Necklaces
- Lilian Gafni for The Alhambra Decree: Flower of Castile
- Gloria Javillonar Palileo for The Indios
- William Jarvis for The Partisan
- Helena P. Schrader for St. Louis’ Knight
- Michele Rene for I Once Knew Vincent
- Jodi Lew Smith for The Clever Mill Horse
- Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson for The Lily and The Lion
- Gregory Erich Phillips for The Love of Finished Years
- Chelsea Lemon Fetzer for The River Map
- Ben Sharpton for 7 Sanctuaries
- Jeff Ridenour for The Art Procurer
- Elisabeth Storrs for The Golden Dice: A Tale of Ancient Rome
- Sharon Short for My One Square Inch of Alaska
- Ruth Hull Chatlien for The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte
- Ginger Cucolo for The Knoll and Beyond the Knoll
- Wendy Roberts for Where the Foxes Say Goodnight
- Jeff Braun for The Secret of the Just
- Dr. Evan Mahoney for Nongae of Love and Courage
- Steph A Amey for Holloway 8632
- Jeni Renner for Puritan Witch
- James Zerndt for The Korean Word for Butterfly
- Michael Hugos for Leptis Magna: Emperor’s Dream on the Edge of a Desert
- William Meisheid for The Partisan
- Donna Scott for Shame the Devil
- Karleene Morrow for Destinies
- Gita Simic and G.T. Simm for As for Costanza
- Michael D. McGranahan for Silver Kings and Sons of Bitches
Finalists will continue on to compete for a first place category win in their sub-genre, and then for the overall grand prize of the 2014 Chaucer Awards. The First In Category award winners will receive an award package including a complimentary book review, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.

We are now accepting entries into the 2015 Chaucer Awards. The deadline is May 31, 2015. Click here for more information or to enter.

More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Ten genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.

Who will take home the $1,000 purse this September at the Chanticleer Awards Gala and Banquet?

Last year’s Chanticleer Grand Prize winner was Michael Hurley, for The Prodigal.

You know you want one!
May 5, 2015
Raw NaNoWriMo 2014 Finalists – Official CBR Listing
The CBR Raw NaNoWriMo 2014 writing competition is to discover originality of story concept and raw story-telling ability from unedited manuscript drafts from those who earned a NaNoWriMo certificate for completing at least 50,000 words in November.

The following manuscripts were found compelling and have advanced forward into the Raw NaNoWriMo 2014 Finalist positions:
- Memory Bengesa for The Sameness Life of Nandi Broken
- Kristine E. Brickey for They Said She Was Crazy
- Sean Curley for Over
- Laila Dawning for Caged Inside
- Donna Degna for Donna Degna in Italy
- Laurie Fitzpatrick for Niello
- Parris Garland for My Name Is Not Daisy
- Richard E. Gower for Death Comes Full Circle
- Anja Jones for Love You Like a Brother
- Joshua Nathanial Kaukl for A Here After
- V. Lakshman for Mythborn 2: Bane of the Warforged
- Rebecca Nolen for Token
- Vanessa Russell for The Pure
- Matthew Spangler for Villainous Jupiter
- R. E. Steedman for The Phantasmagorical Theatre of Crespin Varlot
- Kenneth Stokes for Return to Villa Serena
These Finalists will compete for THE BEST NaNoWriMo 2014 Entry and for 1st Place Genre Winner positions upon receiving proof of their NaNoWriMo 2014 certifications.

The Best RAW NaNoWriMo 2014 entry will receive a CBR Manuscript Evaluation ($395).

1st Place Genre Winning entries will receive a complimentary CBR related novel writing contest entry gift certificate ($45 value) along with a Great Beginnings entry gift certificate ($15 value). Certificates are valid until March 2017.

Winners will be announced before May 30, 2015.
- Authors/Publishers maintain all rights to their works submitted to the RAW NaNoWriMo contest. Simple.
RAW NaNoWriMo 2015 Info

We will begin accepting entries for RAW NaNoWriMo 2015 on December 1st, 2015 until January 31st, 2016 or until the limit of entries is met. You will be asked to upload the digital file of your manuscript upon entry.

The RAW NaNoWriMo Writing Competition is a division of Chanticleer Writing Competitions, L.L.C.

Image courtesy of National Novel Writing Month. Please click here to be taken to the OFFICIAL NaNoWriMo organization’s website.

NaNoWriMo Facts and Stats

National Novel Writing Month was established in 1999. It is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes stories matter.
April 6, 2015
Summer Shorts & Novellas 2015 Official Finalists Listing
The Finalist results for the 2015 Spring/Summer Short Stories and Novellas are in!

We are pleased to announce the following authors whose works have made it to the Finalist round and will go on to compete for First Place Summer Shorts Award.

Prize Package for the First Place Summer Shorts Award Winner: A Chanticleer Review Package or a $ 100 purse for Overall First Place for Spring/Summer Reads. The award winner will be recognized at the CBR Awards Banquet 2015.

Congratulations are in order to the following authors and their works:
- Robert Cone for Redcoats!
- Jianna Higgins for Destiny’s Alliance
- Jianna Higgins for Just Waiting
- L.S. Kilroy for Roma
- Charles Kowalski for Let This Cup Pass From Me
- Elaine MacPherson for One Twenty-Nine
- Alix Nichols for Falling for Emma
- Alix Nichols for You’re the One
- YA/New Adult: Natasha Tsakos for Colours
- Annie Wood for Just a Theory: a Quantum Love Adventure
We are now accepting entries into the Winter Shorts 2016 writing competition. Please click here for more information or to enter.
April 1, 2015
The Dante Rossetti Awards 2014 for Young Adult Novels – Official Finalist List
The Dante Rossetti Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult, New Adult, and Tween Novels. The Rossetti Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

More than $25,000.00 dollars worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer Book Reviews 2014 writing competition winners!

The Dante Rossetti Awards FIRST IN CATEGORY nine sub-genres are: Contemporary, Fantasy/Steampunk/SciFi, Romance, Historical, Inspirational, Dystopian/Edgy/Urban, Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Lighthearted/Humorous, New Adult, and Tween.

The Official Listing of Finalists of the Dante Rossetti Awards 2014 Young Adult Novel Competition:
- Song Magick by Elizabeth Hamill
- An Outcast State by Scott Smith
- The Labyrinth Wall by Emilyann Girdner
- Student Bodyguard for Hire by Callie James
- The Black Shadow by Ben Hutchins
- Skin Deep by Kate Pawson Studer
- Just Going by Jianna Higgins
- Crazy Like Mom by Joanna Bowman Woods
- Scargirl by Eliza Mann
- Fruit of Misfortune; Creatura Book 2 by Nely Cab
- A Slow Climb Up the Mountain by Susan Cornfield Dugan
- Project Aquarius by Colleen Jordan
- The ARK Brothers by James B. Hoke
- Odette Speex – Time Traitors by Padgett Lively
- Unearthed by Karen Seymour
- Kerry’s Shattered Heart by Samantha Giles
- Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner
- The Curse of the Crystal Kuatzin by Jan H. Landsberg
- The Obsidian Dagger by Brad A. LaMar
- The Sage Wind Blows Cold by Clint Hollingsworth
- In the Rock by Mark Facciani
- Orbit by Leigh Hellman
- Ambrosia Chronicles, the Discovery by K. C. Simos
- Chrissie’s Run by S. A. Mahan
- Mark of the Remaker by Ian Yamagata
- Elainraigh: The Vow by S. A. Hunter
- The Star Catcher by Stephanie Keyes
- Kharishma by Jenny L. R. Nay
- Riding with Crazy Horse by PJ Martin
- Strega by Karen Monahan Fernandes
- Ruth 66 by Elizabeth Barlo
- The Sage of the Heroine by Bobbie Groth
- The Diamond of Talakmoon by S. E. Burt
- In the Blink of an Eye by Linda L. Creel
- Solomon’s Lake by Jenny Clark
- Scriptors by Shannon Crolly
- The Curse of the Thrax by Mark Murphy
- Discovering Daniel by Nadine Christian
- The Dragon Within by Cindy Lyle
- The Escape of Princess Madeline by Kirstin Pulioff
- The Flying Burgowski by Gretchen K. Wing
- Twist by Roni Teson
- Once Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount
- Scattered Links by M. Weidenbenner
- Sydney West by Rebecca McKinsey
- Legacy, the Biodome Chronicles by Jesikah Sundin
- Project Aquarius by Colleen Jordan
- Orbit by Leigh Hellman
- Mischief and Mayhem by Monte French
- Solomon’s Lake by Jenny Clark
- Dreams of a Red Horizon by Chris Pawlukiewicz
Finalists will continue on to compete for a first place category win in their sub-genre, and then for the overall grand prize of the 2014 Dante Rossetti Awards. First place category winners will receive an award package including a complimentary book review, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.

We are now accepting submissions into the Dante Rossetti Awards 2015 for YA Novels. Deadline is April 30, 2015.

More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Nine genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.
March 6, 2015