The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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.
These titles have moved forward from the 2025 Chaucer Long List to the 2025 Chaucer Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Chaucer Award Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2026Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Adam Alexander Haviaras – A Dragon Among the Eagles: a Novel of the Roman Empire
Anne M. Beggs – By Arrow and Sword: Book Two Dahlquin Series
Barbara Stark-Nemon – Isabela’s Way: a Novel
Bryce Gibby – Esta
Chuck Locklear – The Pines Know
Elizabeth Clifford Murphy – The Faithful Harlot
Erryn Lee – What Remains
Fawn Brokaw Doyle – Salt People of the Cloud Houses: the Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan
Gregory Michael Nixon – Diomedes in Kyprios
Gregory Michael Nixon – The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire
Helena P. Schrader – The Tale of the English Templar
J. M. Elliott – Of Wind and Wolves
J. Susanne Wilson – The Death and Life of Iphigenia
J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s Reputation: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy
Janet Wertman – Nothing Proved
Jean K. Dudek – The Scent of Bright Light
K.M. Butler – The Raven and the Dove
Keira Morgan – The Importance of Wives
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Caterina by Moonlight
Lisa Llamrei – Quest for Ma’at
Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Be Worthy in Honor: Book II of the Epic of Hotspur
Logan D. Irons – City of Wolves
Marcia Maxwell – I, Christine: a Novel
Michael J. Cooper – The Rabbi’s Knight
Michaela Riley – Labyrinth of Shadows: the Witch’s Rebirth Part I
Nina Wachsman – The Courtesan’s Pirate
Rachel Elwiss Joyce – Lady of Lincoln
Richard G Nixon – The Legend of Fingerless Will Nixon: the Scottish Borderlands 1508-1509
Sarah V. Barnes – She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe Book One
Sarah V. Barnes – A Clan Chief’s Daughter: She Who Rides Horses Book Two
Sonya Van De Graaff – The Painter From Seville
Congratulations once more to the 2024 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner for Historical Fiction
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The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. The Hearten 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 2025 Hearten Non-Fiction Long List to the 2025 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2025 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC26).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 28 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 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!
Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2025 CIBAs.
Alia Luria – Geri O Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin
Andy Becker – Grandy Let’s Play: Reflections on the Joy Blessings and Wonder of Grandparenting
Barb Drummond – I Finally Have the Smoking Hot Body I Have Always Wanted Having Been Cremated
Brent Larsen – You Make My Heart Giggle Dad-isms the Wisdom and Wit of Dad
Candace Macphie – Finding Color
Cerridwen Fallingstar – Rocket in My Pocket: Defying Gravity with Levity, From the Frontiers of Space… To the Frontiers of Consciousness
Charlene Pell – In This Altered Body: A Survivor’s Story of Resilience and Love
Christine Amoroso – Bare Naked in Public: A Memoir
Cynthia Waine Brandt – Song of the Cardinal: A True Story of Miracles and Magic After Heartbreaking Loss
Doug Cameron – My Tarzan Tree and Other Farm Boy Memories
Dr. Deb Miller – Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness
Jeff Richards – Nothing Left To Lose: Or How Not To Start a Commune
Jennifer Celeste Briggs – Watching Sarah Rise: a Journey of Thriving with Autism
Julie Ryan Mcgue – Twice the Family: a Memoir of Love Loss and Sisterhood
Kate Grant – No Woman Left Behind: a Journey of Hope To Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth
Kathy Sechrist – Sara’s Redemption: a Journey of Courage Resilience and Hope
Kay Brooks – Behind the White Beard Dale Ballew’s Story
Kee Kee Buckley – Seeking Shama: Me, My Dog, and the Road To Inner Peace
Maggie Enriquez – The Rebirth of a Phoenix
Margie Crowe Wildblood – Because He Loved Me
Marti Tote – Up Grief Creek Without a Paddle
Patricia Eagle – Dog Love Stories the Canines Who Changed Me
Rabei A. Wazzeh – The Masterpiece of Nature
Rhona Morrison – From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships: Navigating life’s troubled waters with resilience and hope
Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi – The Mango Chronicle
Robert Macauley – Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul
Stacey Hettes – Dispatches From the Couch
Sue Vana – Shaken by God’s Love From Fear To Favor in Grief’s Upside-Down World
Tammy Dietz – Falling From Disgrace
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
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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 all 2025 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2025 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the I&I Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC26).
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 18th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Guiding and How-to Non-Fiction!
Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2025 CIBAs.
Albert Jung – What’s Your Name
Alejandra Acuña – Stones, Flowers, and Lessons Learned
Ana María López Jimeno – Vademecum of English: a Complete Reference Guide for Teachers and Learners
Andrew Cooper – The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience To Shape the Future of Business
Ashlee Piper – No New Things
Darryl Arrington, PhD – Epilogue: Now We Rise Above the Trafficking Experience
Dawn Madelon Barclay – Vacations Can Be Murder: a True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide To New England
Evan M. Butterfield – Copyright for Creatives: a Practical Guide To Copyright Law for Creative People Who Make Stuff
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Mba Jd – Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement Retention Satisfaction
Holly Thorton – The Hardest Help: Supporting a Loved One Through Addiction
Jack Wolf – Critical Thinking for Go-Getters
Jerome Puryear – The Art of Thinking: Critically with Clarity for Optimal Health Your Longevity Is Determined by How You Think
Judy Taylor – Magpie Times Marshmallow World
Kathleen Lockyer – Wild Inside: How Nature Protects Your Child’s Mental Health and Restores Yours
Leslie Bains – Birds, Monarch Butterflies, and Short Hikes in the Santa Barbara Area
Luella Goethals – Resonance Chakra Balance and the Law of Attraction
Léonie Rosenstiel – They’re Coming for Your Elders and Your Inheritance: Ways To Protect Your Family Mitigate the Damage and Change the System
Stephen Rue – Must: Becoming the Person You Are Meant To Be
Tak Salmastyan – The Life’s Theater: Book One: Echoes That Suffocate, Art and Essays
Tissa Richards – Rethinking Resilience: Fueling Your Competitive Advantage
Tony Jeton Selimi – Climb Greater Heights
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. 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 Long List for the 2023 CIBAs.(For Young Adult Fiction see ourDante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see ourGertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2025 LITTLE PEEPS entries to the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Little Peeps 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, CAC26.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Alison Frenz – I Bet I Can Make You Yawn
Amy B. Mccoy – Katie Finds Her Voice: A Story About Autism
Andrew Woolnough – Nuts About Dinosaurs
Andy M Riley – Finding Hanna’s Happy Place
Angelina Natale – Peanut and Butter: A Sky View Farm Adventure
Ann P. Borrmann – You Little Monkey
Ann P. Borrmann – Never Take a Pirate’s Pearls
Anna Gerrodette – Wild Rides with Pedal and Blaze
Anne Polli – Mason the Magnificent
Antonia Blackmore & illustrated by Sarah P Sharpe – Figgles & Flo the Elephant in the Room
Ben St. James – Cowboy Cooper and the Ghost Town
Brandon Moore – Bridget Kimble Learns Self Control
Bridgetta Tomarchio – Monsters Don’t Say Meep Even the Tiniest Roar Can Make the Biggest Difference
Brittany Petish- Sally the Brave
Cal Lopez & Natalia Ulloa – Humans Are Awesome: A Kid’s Guide to Staying Smarter Than AI
Carrie A. Buck – Ivy Learns to Share
Christine Kessides – Tail Tale Too
Corey Turner – Cloudy Days
David Waugh – Benny the Lost Balloon
Deborah L. Staunton – Owls Can’t Sing
Dzvinka Hayda – The Legend of the Dipper
Ellissa Schwartz – This Day I Hold Dear
Everett Livingston – The Story of You
G.R. Foster – The Puppy That Wanted to Be a Flower
Gail Heath – Miracle on the Mountain: An Appalachian Christmas
Glenda Keiper – Clancy McFancy and the Tree with Bright Green Leaves
Gretchen K. Webber – Beanie the Weenie
J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown Visits a Bee Farm
J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown’s Messier Than Messy Room
J.W. Zarek – The Stomp-Clomp-Clump Monster Above the Bed
Jane Xu – Can Pandas Be Koalas Too
Jessica A. Macpherson – The Little Things We Do
Jessica Mcanelly – Birdie’s Picnic Party a Tasty Take on Food Safety
Jomo Jesus Thomas Suriel – The Angry Vacuum
Kate Shooltz – Kate the Earthling
Kelly Curtin and Molly Hallinan – Molly and Potato
Kenneth Brown – Saving Private Brown
Kim P. Chesney – A Mysterious Night at the Library
Kim Sloan – Billy Bob’s Adventures Learning the 50 States
Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The Problem with Science Fairs, Cicadas, and Sewers
Kristy Whilden – Alice’s Colorful New World
Laura Ball – Albert the Donkey Solves a Mystery
Leslie Calimeri – One Day with Dinosaurs
Lisa Mueller – Dot’s Spots
Lolisa Marie Monroe – Dungoolee
Lori Hoffman Penna – Catawampus the Story of a Crooked Cat
Lori Orlinsky – Being Middle
M.D. Mcalister – Phin York and the Giants of Wintercoombe
Mark Anthony King – Trigger the Dog That Thought He Was a Horse
Michele L Sayre – The Long Lazy Summer Wonders of Childhood Beyond
Michelle Mcalister – Carolina Is a Knight
Michelle Mcalister – Gilly Green Will Sing
Michelle Mcalister – Nighttime for Everyone
Michelle Mcalister – Snelliot the Bold
Mike Darcy – Little Joe and the Big City
Mike Stonecypher – There’s a Girebra in the Forest
Miki Taylor – Bentley Finds a Hippopotomonsterous
Mr. Steve – Fishing Is Fun
Mr. Steve – The B Hive
Nicole Metas – Hemi Bunny Finds a Mommy
Olga Podoprigora – The Banana From Space and Other Stories From Riverstone
Once Upon a Dance – Bellyrina
Paloma Williams – Milo’s Big Beautiful Journey
Pamela Gray Willcox – Tux the Little Emperor
Patty York Raymond – There Was a Tenacious Teacher Who Scarfed Down a Sticker
Payton Lynch – The Journey To You
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – W Is for Winnipeg a Little Architect’s ABC
Robin Currie – How Do You Sleep
Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
Sally Kashner – River Song
Sally Kashner – The Night Has a Secret
Sherry Roberts – Amica Helps Zoe
Sherry Roberts – Just Call Me Pardner
Shlomo Goldman – Ryder the Spider Discovers the Body
Svetlana Kitik – Mother’s Mega Marrow: a Gardening for Kids Nature Storybook About Growing Food, Sharing, and Outdoor Learning
Sydney Roubian – Scarecrow Finds a Heart
Tamara Neal – I Know Why the Red Bird Talked
Thomas Anthony – Walter the Polar Bear
TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island Small Hooves Big Heart Island Adventures Start
Tom Morency – Doris the Dragon
Vassi Rombis – Luna the Little Witch the Magic of Teamwork
Victoria Fletcher – Lovely Locks of Gold
Wanda Carter Roush – The Jellybean Gospel the Born-Again Bunny
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Only 10 days left to submit your books to these CIBA Divisions and embark on a journey to discovery.
The Chanticleer International Book Awards provide ongoing recognition that amplifies authors’ digital footprints through high-traffic website features, social media promotion, newsletter spotlights, and long-tail marketing that continues promoting winners throughout the year and beyond!
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Chatelaine Awards for Romantic Fiction!
Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
Nancy Herkness – Royal Caleva: Luis
George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
Sonja N. Griffing – Chasing Noelle
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day, Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner:
The Key
By Jo Morgan Sloan
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Humor and Satire Awards for Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!
Bill Burkland –The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
Julie L. Brown –No One Will Save Us: A novel
Dan Kopcow –Madcap Serenade
Marco Ocram –The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Humor and Satire Grand Prize Winner:
The Man Who Saw Seconds
By Alexander Boldizar
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Somerset Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction!
Robert Gwaltney –Sing Down the Moon
Ann Bancroft –Almost Family
Christina Boyd –Woman in the Painting
Kay Smith-Blum –Tangles
Anthony Horton –Unpaved
Erika Shepard –Abomination Child
Leslie DeBrock –The Frog-Eyed Gospel, A Texas Exodus
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Somerset and Overall Grand Prize Winner:
Vermilion Harvest- Playtime at the Bagh
By Reenita Malhotra Hora
The CIBAs provide a ladder to success with a range of achievement tiers and expert long tail marketing strategies. From the anticipated Long List to the prestigious Overall Grand Prize Winner, the CIBA lists energize both authors and readers, maximizing your digital footprint and expanding your fan base.
We are always eager to support the Best Books through the CIBAs. Join the ranks of celebrated authors who have already taken this step in their publishing.
Your book deserves to be discovered, celebrated, and shared with the world. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your talent and gain valuable exposure at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (April 17-19, 2025) where Winners from all 28 Book Award Divisions will be announced and honored.
In a world hungry for good books, your story deserves to be heard. Submit now and leave a lasting impression.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. The Deadline for the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards is the end of October.
Looking to learn more about the Humor and Satire Awards? Click here!
Let’s take a look at the Winners of the Humor and Satire Award!
The Man Who Saw Seconds By Alexander Boldizar
Our newest Humor and Satire Grand Prize Winners review is still upcoming. In the meantime, here is what some Goodreads readers have been saying:
“The Man Who Saw Seconds is a tightly-wound but thoughtful thriller written with verve and a commitment to thoroughly explore its intriguing notion. The protagonist, Preble Jefferson, can see five seconds into the future. Boldizar doesn’t just use this as a plot device, he explores the idea and examines the many ways this affects the character and his relationship to the world. While much of the book is awash in edge-of-your-seat energy, we also get a philosophical discussion of the ramifications of this quirky idea. A great read with a truly unique feel.” -E.R.
“A split-second decision can change a life, but you have never experienced it snowball the way you do in Seconds, a fast-paced speculative novel by Alexander Boldizar. A man who can see seconds into the future has an incident with police that forces him to use his powers to save himself. Once exposed, he becomes public enemy number one and the government kidnaps and threatens his family. Bad idea to escalate a conflict with man who has studied martial arts and chess, with the ability to literally dodge bullets. No novel in recent memory answers the question as convincingly: “Will I risk destroying the world to save the people I love?” Boldizar raises stakes to world-tipping proportions and I literally lost sleep turning pages to discover what happens next. Seconds is a science fiction tour de force.” -Martin
“There is only one remarkable thing about Alexander Boldizar’s latest book—everything! From the very first scene to the closing page, the novel is utterly captivating. It brims with an astonishing array of universal themes, presented in such an unexpected sequence that it transcends any attempt at genre categorization. This, paradoxically, becomes one of its greatest strengths.” -Ivan
Quantum Consequences, the fifth book in the Physics, Lust, and Greed Series by Mike Murphy, mixes conflicts from the past, present, and future as a group of time travelers clash over the fate of multiple worlds.
Marta and Marshall have to protect Baptiste, a child living under the rule of his mother’s abusive boyfriend, Ignace Aguillard. When their friend Cecil is murdered, Baptiste inherits his money and stake in a secret governmental facility beneath the Arizona desert, the Historical Research Initiative Complex. To keep that money out of Aguillard’s hands and confirm whether Aguillard truly killed Cecil, Marta and Marshall take Baptiste to the HRI, revealing its true nature as the hub of interdimensional time travel.
Meanwhile, a team of assassins and former HRI personnel, Gillis, Lexi, and Elvin, are instructed by a future version of Lexi to kill John Dexter– Lexi’s bitter ex and future higher-up in the dystopian Christian Fundamentalist States of America. They break into the HRI, now seemingly abandoned, to figure out whether they should take the job.
The Coen Brothers meet Garrison Keillor in Steven Mayfield’s quirky, offbeat, and often hilarious Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.
One June afternoon in 1925, seventeen-year-old Maggie Westinghouse, out walking alone as was her custom, comes upon a stranger in a railroad switch-house asleep on a pile of gunnysacks. Maggie, who has always stood a little apart from the town, has recently begun to experience visions that come upon her “in a leisurely way,” ending in a swoon and a restless sleep filled with exotic talk of which she later has no memory. No one knows what to make of it, but they soon will. After this afternoon’s chance encounter with July Pennybaker, a charming grifter on the lam, her world will never be the same. Neither will the town of Miagrammesto Station.
Eighty-nine years later, in the days leading up to and following the July 4th weekend, domestic dramas are playing out across Delphic Oracle, Nebraska (nee Miagrammesto Station).
Certified by Roger Wilson-Crane is a multi-award-winning comedy-drama, following one man down three sharp turns in his life trajectory.
Based on real-life events, Certified shows the narrator’s birth, marriage, and death, three of the most significant milestones in human life. The book is divided into three sections.
“One Unexpected Birth” explores his flawed string of relationships until he meets Dawn, the love of his life. However, a woman from the past makes a comeback, threatening to shatter his newly found happiness.
“One Hapless Wedding” careens about his well-planned wedding in Puglia, Italy, which is trampled by Justin Timberlake who wants the same venue. “One Bizarre Death”, on the other hand, follows the loss of the narrator’s loved one and the pain and confusion that surrounds an unexpected death. Certified is full of humor, heart, and unexpected gems that one might find in a trunk of well-lived memories.
Charlie Suisman’s debut novel is a wonderful escape to a small fictional community in upstate New York. Here a melting pot of quirky residents brings Arnold Falls to life, a town with a unique history and charming inhabitants whose lives are intimately intertwined.
Settled in 1803 by the unscrupulous Hezekiah Hesper, the town for unknown reasons was named after Benedict Arnold. Adding to the oddities, the closest waterfall is twenty miles away. The area is known for sudden bursts of crab apple-size hail pelting the landscape without any scientific explanation. Hence the incentive for “Hail Pail Day,” a neighborly tradition surrounding the distribution of galvanized bucket head-coverings.
Suisman engagingly presents Jeebie Walker as the story’s primary narrator. A gay man in his early 40s, he moved north of the city in the hopes of a quieter life with his partner, Miles. Though things didn’t work out, Jeebie has settled into his fixer-upper, Queen Anne-style abode, and now seems a positive fixture in this hamlet.
Now that you’re set on your next reads, what are you waiting for? The only way to join this amazing list of Humor and Satire Winners is to submit today!
Those who submit and advance will have the chance to win the Overall Grand Prize of the CIBAs and $1000!
Now is your chance to touch the hearts of readers everywhere. Your Humor or Satire story deserves to be discovered, and you can submit to the 2025 Humor and Satire Awards by the end of the month. Don’t miss this chance to give your book the recognition it deserves.
The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction. The Grand Prize Winner, Alexander Boldizar’s book, The Man Who Saw Seconds, will be promoted for years to come in our annual Hall of Fame article to come, as well as be featured on the Humor and Satire contest page year ’round!
The best part about being a Chanticleer Int’l Book Award Winner is the love and attention you get all year!
On a warm Galilean night, Mary and Joseph get to know each other (in the biblical sense) in a secluded garden in Nazareth. Nine months later, Mary’s pious mother, seeing that her young, unwed daughter is pregnant, enlists the help of a pompous high priest to characterize the pregnancy as divine, of God’s seed. When Mary refuses to go along with her mother’s scheme, she and Joseph enter a battle with her parents over every aspect of the birth and the fate of their baby.
As word of a miraculous virgin birth spreads through Bethlehem, factions form, and allegiances shift among unscrupulous shepherds, dubious Wise Men, an elderly innkeeper, an earnest but malodorous peasant and an aging cat with a penchant for prophecy-all trying to answer the crucial question: Is the baby named Jesus truly the Son of God or merely a mortal born of earthly parents?
Exploring her beloved forest, young Princess Chibuike “Chi” encounters a man unlike any she has seen. His skin is as pale as the moon that watches over the Queendom of Kana, a land where women rule fiercely and freely.
Ten dry seasons later, in 1619, Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the Kanaian army, and preparing for her own future as queen, faces a mystery that threatens the existence of Kana. The once-peaceful queendom is upended when nearby villagers disappear en masse, including their ruling families—and one of Chi’s closest friends. Chi vows to find her missing landspeople and bring them home, no matter where they are. She and the women warriors travel across the ocean to Jamestown, Virginia to face down the pale men who have built a trade in human beings. To change the course of history for her people and herself requires Chi to discover a new kind of bravery and her true destiny.
Julie L. Brown’s No One Will Save Us is a sweeping novel of alternative history that explores what it means to be free and the resilience it takes to keep it.
Eli, a precocious 16-year-old social misfit living on Long Island in August 1979, cons his way into a professional boys’ choir’s Italian and Vatican tour so he can discover his missing father’s legacy.
But when he meets his dream girl, Jane, and finds himself connected to an intricate murder plot involving a legendary drug, he must decide if singing for the Pope is worth losing his family and first love.
Jane, a rebellious 16-year-old American girl, is desperate to get back into favor with her school friends after accidentally calling a narc on them. When she is sent to a Roman convent for smuggling erotic novels, she realizes she must grow up fast if she’s going to escape from the nuns, solve her family’s mystery involving a mythical drug, keep clear of the authorities, and declare her love for Eli.
Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name of The Rose
“IT IS STAN,” screamed the unhinged monk. “STAN HAS COME AMONGST US!”
“Stan?” cried the abbot and I in bewilderment. “Who is Stan?”
I realized my mistake, and retyped the line.
“IT IS SATAN,” screamed the unhinged monk. “SATAN HAS COME AMONST US!”
Mega-selling author, Marco Ocram, is on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and needs complete rest.
Police Chief Como Galahad—Marco’s main character—needs a volunteer to go under-cover at the Abbey, a remote celebrity retreat run as a medieval monastery, where something fishy is afoot.
There’s only one solution—Marco books into the Abbey for a detox, just a few days before a hundred A-listers fly in for a grand gala dinner.
Could anything go wrong? Could Marco write a labyrinth of astounding twists to leave all the world’s top celebrities moments from an awful death? Will you be amazed by the ending? You bet!
Fast, funny, and utterly different. Welcome to the weird world ofThe Awful Truth.
Humor and satire holds up a mirror to society, revealing truths that might be too uncomfortable to face in more serious genres. From clever wordplay that brightens our day to sharp social commentary that challenges our assumptions, these works prove that laughter truly is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for understanding ourselves and our world. The Humor & Satire Awards celebrate authors who master the delicate art of making readers think while they chuckle, crafting stories that entertain, enlighten, and occasionally make us squirm with recognition.
Celebrating Our Grand Prize Winner!
We’re thrilled to celebrate our 2024 Humor & Satire Division Grand Prize Winner, Alexander Boldizar for his thought-provoking novel The Man Who Saw Seconds. This ingenious work follows Preble Jefferson, an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift: he can see exactly five seconds into the future. What begins as a seemingly useful ability becomes a nightmare when Preble dodges a bullet on a New York subway, causing another man to die in his place. Suddenly, government agencies take notice, transforming a simple manhunt into a military operation as they recognize the strategic potential of Preble’s gift.
Boldizar uses this fantastical premise to craft a brilliant satirical commentary on government overreach, surveillance culture, and the way institutions transform individuals into commodities. The novel explores weighty themes about the tension between personal freedom and systemic control, all while maintaining the propulsive energy of a thriller. As Preble fights to protect his family and preserve his humanity, readers are treated to a story that questions the nature of time, free will, and the systems we create to govern ourselves. The result is what the publisher calls “an adrenaline-pumping read that will leave you contemplating love, fear and the abyss.” Boldizar will receive a Chanticleer Editorial Review and be invited to participate in an Author Interview, offering insights into his approach to blending genre elements with satirical wit.
The Humor & Satire Awards celebrate the full spectrum of comedic and satirical literature, honoring works that make us laugh, think, and sometimes do both simultaneously:
Humor features pure comedy that delights in wordplay, absurd situations, and the lighter side of life, proving that sometimes laughter really is the best medicine.
Satire takes aim at society’s foibles and institutions with wit as sharp as a scalpel, using humor to expose hypocrisy, challenge authority, and inspire change through clever critique.
Parody lovingly skewers familiar genres, characters, or cultural phenomena, celebrating what it mocks while offering fresh perspectives on well-worn territory.
Allegory/Fable uses symbolic storytelling and moral lessons wrapped in entertaining packages, proving that the most profound truths often come disguised as simple tales.
Political Ideology tackles the absurdities of governance, power, and social structures, using humor to make complex political concepts accessible and memorable.
Fantasy and Alternative History – Non-SciFi– prove that even imaginary worlds can offer the perfect laboratory for exploring very real human behaviors and social dynamics.
Summer of Haight By George Petersen
In The Summer of Haight, George Petersen opens a doorway into the hallucinatory dreamscape of 1967 San Francisco, where the counterculture’s bright ideals are shadowed by something far more sinister.
Forget the peace signs and flower crowns. This isn’t a nostalgic romp through Haight-Ashbury. It’s a slow-burning gothic mystery where the air smells of something rotting just beneath the incense, and reality unravels one eerie page at a time.
The Summer of Haight centers on Longfellow, a straight-laced, impeccably dressed British lawyer living in San Francisco. He’s logical, loyal, and just rigid enough to feel like he’s constantly one step out of place in the groovy chaos of 1960s counterculture. His best friend, the brilliant and eccentric scientist Dr. Jonathan St. Amour, seems to be riding high—hosting elite parties, building a private laboratory under his Victorian mansion, and showing off his mysterious new pet cat, Zelda, who wears a custom-cut diamond in the shape of a cat’s eye.
Things start to tilt sideways when Jonathan suddenly asks Longfellow to draft a new will—one that leaves everything to a man named Dr. Asmodeus Youngblood.
Cleave the Sparrow by Jonathan Katz blends political satire, existential philosophy, and absurd humor to immerse readers in a complex, surreal dystopian narrative.
Tom is a reluctant political candidate stuck on the blurred line between truth and power. His mentor, Crick—a controversial figure for his political views—has an ultimate goal in mind that pulls Tom into its wake. Believing in the limitation of human perception and the illusory nature of the world, Crick endeavors to destroy a ‘cosmic projector’ that he supposes fabricates this false reality.
Cleave the Sparrow charts a course where Tom, as Crick’s successor, follows his holotapes to carry out this dream, plunging into political and scientific conspiracy and moral dilemmas—opening an unexplored trail to time travel, quantum mechanics, and existential dread.
As Tomorrowville by David Isaak opens, it is in fact yesterday. 2008 to be specific. Toby Simmons, a Gen X programmer/engineer/hacker, is in the midst of something professionally fascinating but personally stupid.
Toby uses a state-of-the-art virtual reality system to surreptitiously peek into the apartment of the woman across the street. But he’s three stories up, and loses track of where his real feet are walking as he’s too busy following his virtual eyeballs, leading him to one of Wile E. Coyote’s famous maneuvers. He discovers that there’s nothing underneath him but air and a three-story drop to the pavement.
But just like that cartoon coyote, Toby comes back from the dead. It only takes a silly prank, a forgotten gin and tonic, and 80 years, as medical science makes great strides in bringing cryogenically frozen bodies back from formerly life-ending spinal destruction. Along with a whopping bill from the U.S. government– nearly five million dollars for all the many, many costs of Toby’s revival.
It’s 2088, and Toby Simmons has unwittingly become Rip Van Winkle. The world has changed while he’s been sleeping– although not, perhaps, nearly as much as it should have.
A Good Day and Other Mostly Humorous Stories and Lists By Radu Guiasu
Through the thirty-six diverse writing efforts ofA Good Day and Other Mostly Humorous Stories and Lists,Radu Guiasu masterfully combines wit, whimsy, satire, and personal contemplation.
These vignettes cover a wide range of topics, styles, and techniques. While they often seem to be typical “slice-of-life” moments, Guiasu clearly has a knack for finding humor in even the most absurd situations.
As a native Romanian now residing and teaching in Canada, Guiasu writes from his own knowledge and experience. He often broaches serious and meaningful topics, such as the world of academia, growing up under a dictatorship, and a love of nature.
The book’s title story, written while the author was a graduate student, follows a central character who cheerfully muses on fellow graduates not pursuing careers connected to their degree. Choosing not to sell out, he furthers his education and teaches high school to troubled students rather than drive a cab. Ultimately, he loses both his job and his girlfriend, thus deciding to celebrate his newfound freedom by writing about it.
These reviews represent just a glimpse of the clever storytelling and sharp insights waiting to be discovered in today’s humor and satirical literature.
See the Chanticleer Difference for Yourself!
We’re excited about all the witty and thought-provoking works we receive every year for both the CIBAs and for our Editorial Reviews. Throughout this year’s Humor & Satire Book Awards, we had the pleasure of promoting numerous entertaining titles as they advanced through our competition tiers. The Chanticleer International Book Awards offers an incredible $30,000 in cash, prizes, and promotion across all divisions!
This is the journey from beginning to end for the CIBAs! Every list you make means more promotion for you and your work as each advancement tier is posted right here on our website, on our social media, and also out in our newsletter! Your book deserves to be discovered.
Don’t Let Your Wit Go Unwitnessed!
The humor and satire market continues to thrive as readers seek both escapist entertainment and intelligent commentary on our increasingly complex world. Whether your work delivers pure comedic gold, biting social satire, clever parody, or thoughtful allegory, the Humor & Satire Awards provide the recognition and promotional platform your wit deserves.
Humor has the unique power to unite people across differences, challenge conventional wisdom, and make even the most serious topics approachable. From lighthearted tales that offer pure joy to satirical works that inspire social change, every skillfully crafted humorous work has the potential to become a reader’s go-to comfort read or their new favorite conversation starter. Don’t let your wit remain hidden in the shadows. Submit to the Humor & Satire Awards today and join the clever authors who’ve found their appreciative audience through Chanticleer!
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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.
These titles have moved forward from all of the 2025 Chaucer entries to the 2025 Chaucer Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Chaucer Award Short List. Short listers compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2026Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Adam Alexander Haviaras – A Dragon Among the Eagles a Novel of the Roman Empire
Albert A. Bell Jr. – Archippos the Trembler a Novel of Ancient Sparta
Anne M. Beggs – By Arrow and Sword Book Two Dahlquin Series
Barbara Stark-Nemon – Isabela’s Way a Novel
Bryce Gibby – Esta
Chuck Locklear – The Pines Know
Elizabeth Clifford Murphy – The Faithful Harlot
Erryn Lee – What Remains
Fawn Brokaw Doyle – Salt People of the Cloud Houses the Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan
Gregory Michael Nixon – Diomedes in Kyprios
Gregory Michael Nixon – The Diomedeia: Diomedes, The Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire
Helena P. Schrader – The Tale of the English Templar
J. M. Elliott – Of Wind and Wolves
J. Susanne Wilson – The Death and Life of Iphigenia
J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s Reputation: Geoffrey Chaucer Reluctant Spy
Jane Bitomsky – A Foundling’s Lot
Janet Wertman – Nothing Proved
Jay A. Cornils – A Litany of Angels
Jean K. Dudek – The Scent of Bright Light
K.M. Butler – The Raven and the Dove
Keira Morgan – The Importance of Wives
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Caterina by Moonlight
Lisa Llamrei – Quest for Ma’at
Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Be Worthy in Honor Book II of the Epic of Hotspur
Lizzie Jenks – Devil in Our Hearts
Logan D. Irons – City of Wolves
Marc Ladewig – The King of the Wood
Marcia Maxwell – I, Christine a Novel
Michael J. Cooper – The Rabbi’s Knight
Michaela Riley – Labyrinth of Shadows the Witch’s Rebirth Part I
Nina Wachsman – The Courtesan’s Pirate
Rachel Elwiss Joyce – Lady of Lincoln
Richard G Nixon – The Legend of Fingerless Will Nixon the Scottish Borderlands 1508-1509
Sarah V. Barnes – She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe Book One
Sarah V. Barnes – A Clan Chief’s Daughter: She Who Rides Horses Book Two
Sonya Van De Graaff – The Painter From Seville
Congratulations once more to the 2024 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner for Historical Fiction
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At the heart of the Mind & Spirit Awards is a celebration of transformation and enlightenment. It embraces the power of words to uplift, inspire, and guide, creating a ripple effect that resonates with readers on a soulful level. This division acknowledges the significance of the mind-spirit connection, delving into the realms of spirituality, mindfulness, well-being, and self-discovery.
Let’s celebrate the Grand Prize Winners of the Mind and Spirit Awards
Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present By Marijke McCandless
Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present offers a playful yet impactful guide for those seeking vitality and inspiration. Through short, refreshing practices, readers explore vulnerability, authenticity, and self-compassion, fostering deeper connections with themselves and others. By committing to just minutes of daily practice, this book cultivates sustainable awareness and self-inquiry, rejuvenating one’s sense of vitality and joy. With an emphasis on mindfulness and emotional intelligence, it provides accessible tools to shift mindsets and embrace the present moment with curiosity and delight.
Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success By Dr. Kelly Rabenstein
Do you often feel that you sabotage your personal and work relationships? In Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success, Dr. Kelly Rabenstein teaches readers exactly what psychological techniques will help them strengthen and maintain their interpersonal connections.
Dr. Rabenstein is a licensed psychologist offering her extensive knowledge of how to make sound, conscious changes in mindset and perspective to help you thrive in relationships across the board. If a person can thrive, then they can be fully authentic to themselves and to those who surround them.
Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success follows the structure of thoughtful explanations and emotional explorations, followed by insightful exercises at the end of each chapter to help readers understand and improve both their workplace culture and personal interactions. These questions reveal where we stand and how to develop a more balanced life.
Dr. Rabenstein lays out the deceptively simple key to emotional success: a combination of awareness, education, and empathy.
“It’s my armor,” Kyomi O’Connor realizes, as she sees herself continuing life as normal after her husband dies of cancer.
Grief brings with it many companions: childhood trauma, memories of difficult seasons of life, triumphant moments of growth, epiphanies, healing, love. In A Sky of Infinite Blue, Japanese immigrant Kyomi O’Connor allows grief to open her heart to the lessons of her past.
In particular, she recognizes emotional armor that since childhood, she has built up, torn down, and built up again. Through her relationship with her husband, her devoted Buddhist practice, and her trust in her “Self,” Kyomi makes meaning of her life and redeems her darkest memories. Readers walk through these memories with her as the book shifts between past and present.
Kyomi is deeply guarded as a child.
She struggles to deal with her family’s dysfunction, gradually learning to distance herself emotionally as a means of protecting herself. She fashions her armor, wearing it for years. But, after immigrating to the US, she finds a reason to begin taking it off.
Beth Gibb’s Enlighten Up! Finding Clarity Contentment and Resilience in A Complicated World is not a simple how-to book, but rather an invitation to begin a journey of self-discovery.
This journey follows the “five-layer method,” based on the Upanishads, a 3,000-year-old East-Indian wisdom tradition. After a quick history lesson on the pursuit of self-awareness, Gibbs walks readers through the five layers of achieving it, for a happy and fulfilling life. Throughout the book, Gibbs includes breaks for mindfulness and grounding exercises to get the most out of each section.
Gibbs writes about the assumption that the goal of enlightenment is to, “suppress or eliminate their emotions, live everlasting bliss, and face every situation with equanimity,” and how that assumption is unrealistic.
Exit The Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Dr. Donna Marks is a welcoming and comprehensive enchiridion of untapped wisdom that offers a step-to-step guide to getting out of any form of addiction.
No one sets out to become an addict; it catches us off guard. An addiction can happen quickly or slowly and can affect anyone regardless of intelligence, social class, ethnic group, or religion. With pitch-perfect prose, Dr. Donna Marks invites readers into the root causes of different forms of addiction, while offering pragmatic and evidence-based solutions that are bound to yield results.
Buoyed by the personal experiences of the author along with numerous case studies, Dr. Marks further offers deep insights into the inadequacies of traditional treatment models. For example, she notes that most rehab centers lack adequate staffing and overstep the limits of their capabilities. Another example is the famous 12 steps of fighting addiction which she believes do help to stop a behavior and develop a solid support system, however, she also sees that the program falls short.
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. The Hearten Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
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).
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
