Tag: CIBAs Book Awards

  • The 2021 MARK TWAIN Book Awards for Humor and Satire – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    The Mark Twain Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Humor and Satire.  The Mark Twain Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Mark Twain Humor and Satire Fiction Long List to the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. 

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards novel competition for Humor and Satire!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Linda Stewart Henley – Waterbury Winter
    • Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
    • David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
    • Anne Pfeffer – Binge
    • Chief John J. Mandeville – The Admiral of Bolivia
    • Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
    • Roger Wilson-Crane – Certified
    • Barry Robbins – Oh Daddy Chronicles
    • Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
    • Andy Becker – The Kissing Rabbi: Lust, Betrayal, and a Community Turned Inside Out
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • John Prather – The Jesus Nut
    • Lou Dischler – My Only Sunshine: Getting Straight with the Bomb
    • M. Funk – The Book of True Believer
    • David Perlmutter – Orthicon

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Mark Twain Awards is Charlie Suisman for Arnold Falls

    Cover of Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

    Blue and gold Grand Prize Winner in Mark Twain Awards for Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

    Click here to see the 2020 Mark Twain Book Award Winners for Humor and Satire.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Mark Twain Book Awards for Humor and Satire Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

    Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

    Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

  • The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    Romance Fiction Chatelaine Award

    The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romantic Fiction.  The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Chatelaine Romantic Fiction Long List to the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Jayne Castel – Highlander Deceived
    • Anna Gomez and Kristoffer Polaha – Moments Like This
    • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said — A Novel
    • Lindy Miller – Aloha With Love         
    • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
    • Evie Alexander – Highland Games
    • M. C. Bunn – Where Your Treasure Is  
    • A.D. Brazeau – Love Between the Lines
    • Chera Thompson & NF Johnson – A Time to Wander
    • Brooke Skipstone – Crystal’s House of Queers
    • Bobbi Groover – Inside the Grey 
    • Pierre G. Porter – 49 So Fine
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender the Storm
    • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
    • Kana Wu – No Secrets Allowed
    • Chris Karlsen – The Ack Ack Girl
    • John W. Feist – The Color of Rain
    • Edie Cay – The Boxer and the Blacksmith
    • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
    • Frannie James – The Sylvan Hotel, A Seattle Story     
    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • Adriana Girolami – The Zamindar’s Bride
    • Phillip Vega – Searching for Sarah
    • Emma Lombard – Discerning Grace
    • F. E. Greene – In the Sweet Midwinter
    • Kelle Z. Riley – Read My Lips       

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CHATELAINE Awards is Mary Ting for When the Wind Chimes

          Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

          Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Chatelaine Badge for When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

          Click here to see the 2020 Chatelaine Book Award Winners for Romantic Fiction.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

          The 2021 CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

          A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottom

          The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking for the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

          These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction Long List to the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

          Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane – Olympia: The Birth of the Games
          • B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
          • Alana White – Medici Man: The Hearts of All on Fire
          • Griffin Brady – The Heart of a Hussar
          • Leah Angstman – Out Front the Following Sea
          • James Conroyd Martin – Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora (The Theodora Duology Book 2)
          • Vivienne Brereton – The House of the Red Duke. Book One: A Phoenix Rising
          • Virginia Crow – The Year We Lived
          • David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar: A Prequel to the Adirondack Spirit Series
          • Janet Wertman – The Boy King
          • Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: All Manner of Things
          • Edward Rickford – The Bend of the River: Book Two in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy
          • James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas
          • Tim Schooley – The Wool Translator
          • Patricia Bracewell – The Steel Beneath the Silk
          • Gail Meath – Countess Jacqueline
          • Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Lines Between Us: A Novel
          • Amy Wolf – A Woman of the Road and Sea
          • Toni Kief – Saints, Strangers and Rosehip Tea
          • Kelly Nichols and Alyn Rockwood – Beyond the Dragonhead
          • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CHAUCER Awards is N.L. Holmes for Bird in a Snare

          Cover of Bird in a Snare by N.L. HolmesGold and blue Grand Prize badge for the 2020 Chaucer Awards won by N.L. Holmes' Bird in a Snare
          Click here to see the 2020 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

          The Boxcar Children from the famed series by Gertrude Warner

          The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction.  The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          The Gertrude Warner Book Awards competition is named for Gertrude Chandler Warner, the wonderful author of The Boxcar Children.

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards here and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards here.

          These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Fiction Long List to the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

          Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Didem Saracel – Story of Carbon
          • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
          • Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
          • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
          • B.L. Smith – Serious Business on Albatross Lane
          • K.P. Boardman – The Falling Sisters
          • Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
          • J. B. Spector – The Sunlit Curse, Book 1 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
          • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
          • James Love – Max Voltage: Multiverse Mayhem
          • Ben Gartner – Sol Invictus
          • Ronnie Swire Siegel – Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm
          • Esta Lemon – The Loser Blog
          • KS Mitchell – The Mystery of the Golden Ball: Pen & Quin International Agents of Intrigue
          • McKemie Huston – Return of the Last Prism
          • Emmett J Hall – RUNAWAY
          • Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
          • Raea Gragg – Mup
          • Moira Siobhan – Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe
          • Laurie Calkhoven – Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training
          • Peter Solomon – The Stardust Mystery
          • D. H. Timpko – The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment
          • Susan McCormick – The Antidote
          • Gloria Two-Feathers – Buck Keeper of the Meadow
          • Jay Spencer – The Phantom Airplane Mystery

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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          Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 GERTRUDE WARNER Awards is Kelly Oliver for Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter

          Cover of Kassy O'Roarke Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver

          A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Readers Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver
          Click here to see the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. 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 all 2021 Hearten Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Hearten Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Hearten Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
          • Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
          • Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
          • Lisa Smith Molinari – The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com  
          • Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
          • Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
          • Wendy Sanford – These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
          • Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
          • Jeremy Rhyne – His Name is Cwiz
          • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
          • Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them 
          • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
          • Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
          • Leah Witman Moore – Loving You Big: Embracing the Unexpected
          • Shelby Wagner – Learning to Dance in the Rain II
          • Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee 
          • Rod Baker – Unexpected Treasures – Running a Mental Health Nonprofit
          • Linda Jamsen – Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding 
          • Evelyn LaTorre – Love in Any Language
          • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
          • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Robert E. Lofthouse – Honor Through Sacrifice
          • Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Love
          • Jane Eden – Nail Soup
          • Allison Hong Merrill – Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
          • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
          • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
          • Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
          • Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
          • Kim Fairley – Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
          • George Kohn – Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot
          • Sara Easterly – Searching for Mom: A Memoir
          • Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love 
          • Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home 
          • Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
          • Audrey Stelzig and Norman L. Johnson, MD – Grandpa, Were You Ever a Kid
          • Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
          • Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana #2
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • Colonel Van H. Slayden, USAF, with Patrecia Slayden Hollis – Normandy to Nazi Surrender, Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
          • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
          • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs 
          • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
          • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Three
          • Marcus A. Nannini – Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power  
          • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
          • Gerri Almand – Running from Covid in our RV Cocoon

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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          Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 HEARTEN Awards is Judy Gaman for Love, Life, and Lucille

          Cover of Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

          Blue and Gold Badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Hearten Awards Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

          Click here to see the 2020 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

           

           

        • The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA Badge

          The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight non-fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented.  The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, 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 all 2021 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 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 announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Aaron Taylor – Stretching Your Way to a Pain-Free Life: Illustrated Stretches for Sports, Medical Conditions and Specific Muscle Groups
          • Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
          • Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (co-authors) – Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World
          • Brian Dillon – From Ex To Excellence  
          • David Perlmutter – The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows 
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • Eleanor K. Smith and Margaret Pastor – One School’s Journey – Further Down the Path
          • George Marino, CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
          • Geraldine Clouston and Susan Weintrob – indieBRAG Eat, Read & Dream Cookbook
          • Jennifer George – Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing 
          • Jim & Jessica Braz – Baby Out of Wedlock  
          • Judy Taylor – Breaking the Boundaries: The Rug Hooking Artistry of Sharon Johnston 
          • Kaitlyn Jain – Passports and Pacifiers? Traveling the World, One Tantrum at a Time 
          • Kelly Tan Peterson, Dan Peterson, MD. – KETO BAKED
          • M. J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. – A Handbook for Emerging and Seasoned Authors
          • Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson – Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
          • Phoebe Walker – Freedom Found – Productive and Joyful Living In Spite of Chronic Pain
          • Rob White – The Maestro Monologue
          • Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
          • Sabbithry Persad – What Is Coronavirus? How It Infects, How It Spreads, and How to Stay Safe
          • Stan Bernard, MD, MBa – BRANDS DON’T WIN: How Transcenders Change the Game
          • Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage  
          • Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls   
          • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
          • Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
          • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two 
          • Jan Kaa Kristensen – Splitting Up Without Falling to Pieces
          • Melanie Choukas-Bradley – Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
          • Vindy Teja – YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 I&I Awards is Wendela Whitcomb Marsh for Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success

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          Click here to see the 2020 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

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          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

           

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          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

          Nellie Bly Awards

          The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Long Form Journalistic and Investigative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards  (CIBAs).

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. 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 all 2021 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Nellie Bly Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS position of the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards  for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

          Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
          • Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
          • Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
          • Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • Jim Lichtman – Trust and Confidence
          • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
          • Martha Bolton with Linda Hope – Dear Bob… Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of WW2
          • Daisy Hernandez – The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
          • Nicole Evelina – America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
          • Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
          • Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Advancing the Good Society:  Real Advocacy Journalism in Action
          • Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee
          • Grover Nicodemus Street RN, Sandra de Abreu Guidry-Street MD, & Ja-ne de Abreu – Chasing the Surge: Life as a Travel Nurse in a Global Pandemic
          • Hafiz Sheriff – History As I see It And Others

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 NELLIE BLY Awards is William “Mecca” Elmore & Susan Simone for Prison from the Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom

          Cover of Prison from the Inside out by William "Mecca" Elmore & Susan Simone

          Blue and Gold Badge for the Nellie Bly 2020 Grand Prize Winner William "Mecca" Elmore  & Susan Simone PRISON FROM the INSIDE OUT

          Click here to see the 2020 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

           

        • The 2021 MIND and SPIRIT Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

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          Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction

          The Mind and Spirit Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Mind and Spirit 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 enlightenment, motivational/self-help, spirituality, mindfulness, well-being, meditation, and energy. 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 all 2021 Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Mind and Spirit Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Mind and Spirit Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Mind and Spirit Book Awards novel competition for Enlightenment, Spirituality, and Mindfulness Non-Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Ramzi Najjar – The Ultimate Human Secrets 
          • Mike Lutz – Jesus Speaking
          • Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability
          • Michael Vincent Moore – Mastering your Emotional Heart-Print
          • Beth Gibbs – Enlighten Up!
          • Rosemary A. Schmidt – The Happy Clam
          • Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
          • Starr Regan DiCiurcio – Divine Sparks: Interfaith Wisdom for a Postmodern World
          • Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
          • Randi Benator – Awaken to Your Calling
          • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
          • George Marino , CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Live 
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
          • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
          • Reagan J. Pasternak – Griffin’s Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies
          • Carlo Pietro Sanfilippo – AfterLIFE, Waking up from My American Dream
          • Dr. BethAnne K.W. – Revelations of The Sky: 133 passages on the alchemy of grief
          • Ramzi Najjar – The YOU beyond you: The knowledge of the willing
          • Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present 
          • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs
          • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
          • Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
          • James Martin – Revelation Through Science

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 Mind and Spirit Awards is Dr. Donna Marks for Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure

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          Blue and Gold badge for the Mind and Spirit 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Dr. Donna Marks' EXIT the MAZE: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure 

          Click here to see the 2020 Mind and Spirit Book Award Winners

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Mind and Spirit Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

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          The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey 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 all 2021 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Journey Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

          If you have entered your works into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see them in the list below, please visit the other Non-Fiction Book Awards listings:  Nellie Bly, Hearten, Mind & Spirit, Instruction and Insight, or perhaps Harvey Chute Book Awards. The Journey Book Awards have morphed into extreme stories of adversity – some of which were overcome; some that were not. Most of these accounts are intense and some should come with trigger warnings. We have moved some entries into the other non-fiction divisions based on the recommendations of the non-fiction judges.

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
          • Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
          • Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
          • Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
          • Marilyn Mascaro – When the Rivers Flowed
          • Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
          • William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
          • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
          • Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
          • Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoire
          • Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
          • Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
          • Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
          • Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
          • Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
          • Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
          • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
          • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
          • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
          • Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
          • Krista Nerestant – Indestructible:The Hidden Gifts of Trauma 
          • Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
          • Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
          • Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
          • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
          • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
          • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
          • Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
          • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
          • Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability 

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of  Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil 

          The cover for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

          Blue and Gold Journey Grand Prize Winner Badge for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

          Click here to see the 2020 Journey Book Award Winners for Narrative Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

          The 2021 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

          The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset 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 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 in the judging rounds from all 2021 Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction entries to the 2021 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Somerset Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions.  Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

          The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

          We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Literary and Contemporary Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Ben Sharpton – The Awakening of Jim Bishop: This Changes Things
          • Adrian Spratt – Caroline
          • Linda Stewart Henley – Waterbury Winter
          • Daniel Pare – No Matter The Price
          • Antonia Gavrihel – Back to One
          • M. J. Simms-Maddox – The Mysterious Affair at the Met
          • Anne Pfeffer – Binge
          • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said
          • C. A. Price – Allison’s Gambit
          • E. A. Coe – The Other Side Of Good
          • Margaret Ann Spence – Joyous Lies
          • Suzanne Kamata – The Baseball Widow
          • Vicki Volden – All the After
          • Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann, a historical novel
          • Susan Speranza – Ice Out
          • Gary Lee Miller – Finding Grace
          • Ruthie Stevens – You Can’t Blame the Flower
          • V.N. Writer – Who Stole My Hula Hoop?
          • Mekiya Walters – Ashes, Ashes
          • Teng Rong – Brilliant White Peaks
          • Natalie Symons – Lies in Bone
          • Ruth Hull Chatlien – Katie, Bar the Door
          • Patrick Garry – Through the Waves a Steady Path
          • Ariane Torres – We are the Kings
          • Dan Schorr – Final Table: A Novel
          • Karen S. Bennett – Beautiful Horseflesh
          • Dawn Newton – The Remnants of Summer
          • Douglas Green – A Dog of Many Names
          • Jeff Richards – Everyone Worth Knowing
          • Robert Gwaltney – The Cicada Tree
          • Sarah E Zilkowski – Beasts of War
          • Vanessa Carlisle – Take Me With You
          • J.B. Liquorish – The Prophecy
          • Bob Siqveland – Lines Through a Prism
          • Richard C. Brusca – In the Land of the Feathered Serpent
          • Natalie Symons – Lies in Bone
          • Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
          • Joanne Kukanza Easley – Just One Look
          • Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
          • Tom Glenn – Secretocracy
          • Sandra Vasoli – The Masterpiece Pursuit
          • Suzanne Simonetti – The Sound of Wings
          • John Hansen – Old Water
          • Richard Jespers – Wakedale: A Novel
          • Robert Steven Goldstein – Cat’s Whisker
          • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
          • John Hansen – Badger Creek
          • Eric Lotke – Union Made
          • Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
          • Sue Phillips – You Oughta Know
          • Chera Thompson & NF Johnson – A Time to Wander
          • Cara Sue Achterberg – Blind Turn
          • K. – Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
          • Susan Lynn Solomon – Dancing Backwards
          • Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
          • Anne Moose – House of Fragile Dreams
          • Jane Ward – In the Aftermath
          • Linda Rosen – Sisters of the Vine
          • Drema Drudge – Victorine
          • Kathy Sechrist – Success Is The Best Revenge
          • Rick Lenz – Hello, Rest of My Life
          • Malcolm Spicer – Freedom From Privilege
          • Cinda K. Swalley – The Golden Hearts Club
          • Shan Leah – Thieves, Beasts & Men
          • Gene Helfman – Beyond the Human Realm
          • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
          • Sarahlyn Bruck – Daytime Drama
          • Roberta Seret – Love Odyssey
          • Barbara Linn Probst – The Sound Between the Notes
          • Lynn McLaughlin – Jackson
          • Michael R. Frontani – Dante’s Forge
          • Jenn Bouchard – First Course
          • Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
          • Michelle Lynn – Silver Heels
          • Susannah Marren – A Palm Beach Scandal
          • C. Victorya Grace – Julip Lullabies and Silent Cries
          • Jordan Stanford – My Dream

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Somerset Awards is Gregory Erich Phillips for A Season in Lights

          Cover for A Season in Lights by Gregory Erich Phillips

          Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Somerset Winner Badge for A Season in LIghts by Gregory Erich Phillips

          Click here to see the 2020 Somerset Book Award Winners for Literary and Contemporary Fiction.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

          VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

          Seating is Limited. The  esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

          Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.