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 NEW genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Due to an unprecedented number of 2020 Journey Book Awards, we split off the entries that we found Heartwarming, Inspirational, Heartening, Humorous, and Happiness and developed the HEARTEN Book Awards. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
We also are now offering the following CIBA Non-Fiction Divisions:
The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
The Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Mindfulness and Well-being
The Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Long Form Journalism
The I & I Book Awards for Insight and Instruction for How-To, Guide Books, Self-Help, Cook Books, etc.
The Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business, Finance, and Enterprise
The Hearten Book Awards for Inspiration and Happiness
New in Non-fiction Book Awards in 2021 will be the Military Veterans Non-Fiction works.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 HEARTEN Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS. The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions.
The following works have advanced in the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction
Terry A. Repak – What You Learn By Living Elsewhere
Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey
Mendek Rubin & Myra Goodman – Quest for Eternal Sunshine
Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps and Lessons Learned
Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic
Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
Cindy Rasicot – Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand
Nan Sanders Pokerwinski – Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta
Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy
Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison
Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
T.D. Arkenberg – Trials & Truffles: Expats in Brussels
Frank Ball – Ball of Yarns
Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
Michael M. Van Ness – GENERAL IN COMMAND: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II
Jennifer B. Monahan – Where To? How I Shed My Baggage and Learned to Live Free
Betty Theiler – Beyond Borders
Julie Tate Libby –The Good Way, a Himalayan Journey
Miguel A. Aguilo – Pencils in the Hand of God: Two Heavenly Adoption Stories
These titles are in the running for the First Prize Winners of the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Appreciating International Women’s Day and looking at Women’s Fiction
The theme for 2021’s international Women’s Day is Choose to Challenge. We thought an excellent challenge to offer to our wonderful Chanticleerians would be to read more women’s fiction. To read more about International Women’s Day, click here. To jump into it though, we first want to define the genre.
While one might the that the Chatelaine Awards would be the location of Women’s Fiction, especially with the image of Jane Morris being used when her story could be written as an excellent example of women’s fiction. If you’re interested in entering the Chatelaine Awards you can click here, and if you want to read more about our most recent Spotlight for the Awards, click here.
Jane Morris’ life is often said to be the inspiration for Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s My Fair Lady. Morris trained herself into being a lady, learning French and Italian while reading anything she could get her hands on. She was a renowned embroiderer, even running an embroidery company that did quite well. She was also the muse of pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Rossetti (the model for our Rossetti Awards). By the end of her life, she even managed to purchase the home she lived in so that her daughters would have an inheritance to support them after her death.
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle
While Morris could be a great subject for a book of women’s fiction, her story is often peppered with romantic narratives, even in fictional retellings like My Fair Lady. It’s true that her husband and Rossetti all rented an apartment together, which allowed for Morris and Rossetti to have an affair while her husband was in Iceland, presumably with her husband’s knowledge as the painter and the subject were considered an open secret, though it seems a painful one for William Morris.
Surrounded by so much romance and intrigue, we couldn’t help but have Jane Morris’ portrait by her lover be the representation of the Chatelaine Awards, which leads us to the use of William Somerset Maugham as the representative of the Somerset Awards.
The Somerset Awards focuses on:
Contemporary Theme
Adventure/Suspense
Literary
Women’s Fiction + Family Themes
Satire/Allegorical
Magic Realism
Action/Adventure
Connections
Social/Psychological Themes
To read more or to enter the Somerset Awards, click here.
Of course, here we want to focus on the women’s fiction portion of that, though there is overlap. Somerset’s first novel that won him critical acclaim was Liza of Lambeth, (1897) which propelled him to become one of the highest paid authors of the turn of the century. He was inspired to write this novel while he was working as an obstetric clerk and medical student at a hospital in a working-class district of London. Somerset is known for his “shrewd understanding of human nature.Britannica
In the novel, Liza, like many women in novels of this era, has her life dictated by the men who surround her, unable to break free of the desires and expectations that surround her, ultimately leading to her death. This examination of consent and the harmfulness of denying women agency can be seen reflected in the urgency of the suffrage movement.
With his story of Liza, Somerset focuses on the hardships women face, especially concerning domestic violence and abuse. He highlights the lack of consequences men face for treating women like animals, and the ways in which people ignore clear signs of abuse as something that isn’t their problem or maybe even deserved. The novel Somerset writes is a critique of the time in which he lives, but is it women’s fiction?
Almost there…
Probably not by today’s standard.
Women’s fiction is difficult to define. Generally, we think Amy Sue Nathan did a good job in this article here, but our take is a little more personal. First, we do think that for a book to be considered in the genre of women’s fiction, it obviously has to focus on women. The next point is that the plot progresses alongside the narrator’s self, whether that be self-discovery, self-preservation, or even perhaps self-destruction (though storylines with a negative outcome can be difficult to fit into this genre).
Since Somerset’s telling of Liza’s story focuses on the ways in which she is denied agency rather than the ways in which she can focus on the self
The struggle with whether or not a book is women’s fiction resolves around the fact that the protagonist must be the one who, as Nathan says, “saves herself.”
The driving force of women’s fiction is the motivation of the main character to get herself from point A to point B to point C, learning and changing and growing and making mistakes along the way. What makes a women’s fiction main character tick is the methods by which she learns and changes and grows and makes mistakes. – Amy Sue Nathan
Even a little growth
Since the focus of women’s fiction is often growth, unhappy endings don’t always necessarily fit. Of course, endings that aren’t unhappy won’t automatically be happy, and women’s fiction often ends up with a complex ending that leaves the reader thoughtful and reflective on their own growth as they read along with the main character.
Of course a book that is considered women’s fiction can have many other themes, and could even fit into other Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) beyond the Somerset Awards. You can see the different genres in the books below:
HARD CIDER by Barbara Stark-Nemon
Women’s Literature, Literary, Women’s Fiction
Grand Prize Winner in Somerset Awards (2018)
Abbie Rose Stone is a woman determined to follow her newly discovered dream of producing her own craft hard apple cider while navigating the ups and downs of family life with her grown sons and husband.
Abbie Rose knows how to deal with adversity, and dives headfirst into this new chapter of her life with energy and passion. She describes her early adulthood years of infertility struggles and the hardscrabble way she built her young family through invasive medical procedures, a surrogate attempt, and adoption barriers.
FROM LIBERTY to MAGNOLIA: In SEARCH of the AMERICAN DREAMby Janice Ellis, Ph.D.
Black History, Discrimination & Racism, Memoir, Non-Fiction
Grand Prize Winner in Journey Awards (2019)
As a black woman on a cotton farm in Mississippi in the 1960s, Janice Ellis could have resigned herself to a life full of status quo: never speaking up for herself, never speaking out against injustice or racism. Instead, she never let unsettling times define her or hold her back, even as a witness to some of the ugliest racial violence this country has seen. In her candid and thought-provoking memoir, From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream, Ellis vividly depicts her life in the South during the height of the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights movements.
Through fluid and skillful writing, Ellis recounts the battles she encountered due to her skin color or due to her gender: an abusive husband, discouragement to further her education, sexual and racial discrimination in the workplace, a lack of support from friends and family when she runs for election. Despite these mounting obstacles, she goes on to earn her Ph.D., lands leadership roles and furthers her career, and even runs for mayor in a major US city. Her faith in God and her unwavering belief that the American Dream should be accessible and attainable to everyone are what lead her.
WE DID WHAT WE COULD by Nancy H. Wynen
Historical Fiction, WWII Women’s Fiction, Literary Fiction
Nancy Wynen’s We Did What We Could is a well-conceived, smart, character-driven novel set across a grand European landscape. Here a formidable trio of young women groomed for mere social status demonstrates their strength, endurance, and courage as they move beyond the walls of academia to experience careers. The three must also deal with relationships, family expectations, and life issues amidst the often devastating and upending climate of war.
Lady Archer is a widow from the Great War. As Assistant Head Mistress at St. Martin’s School, she feels girls should receive solid educations and prepare for real professions. With her high level of social ties, Archer looks for “future perfect leaders” within each new graduating class, possessing ideal traits of intelligence and creativity. In May of 1936, Archer sets her sights on three such proteges whose memorable antics foretell their potential for more significant life accomplishments.
The SHAPE of the ATMOSPHEREby Jessica Dainty
Literary, Psychology, Women’s Fiction
Jessica Dainty’s, The Shape of the Atmosphere is remarkable for its startling realism, its gritty young heroine, and its hopeful conclusion.
When Gertie’s father and sister are killed in an accident on Gertie’s sixteenth birthday in 1957, she is left with one cherished memory: viewing the heavens with her father on the night of the world-changing Sputnik flight.
After the funerals, Gertie wounds herself as a way of coping with her inner anguish, after which her alcohol-addicted mother commits her to an insane asylum. Such institutions were considered modern and scientifically advanced for their time, but as author Jessica Dainty frankly depicts, Gertie’s new home is a combination prison and torture chamber. The naïve but intelligent girl soon becomes acquainted with such therapies as immersion in icy cold water and electroshock (both designed to calm the inmates), as she gradually gets to know her fellow patients, the women on Ward 2.
DISOWNED – The RED-HEELED REBELSSeries Novel One by Tikiri
Women’s Adventure, Thriller/Suspense, International Crime
Spanning three continents and taking on crucial issues of child marriage and human trafficking, Disowned features a brave teen heroine struggling against international criminality with nothing but her wits and grit.
Asha, born in Tanzania, is still a child when her parents are tragically killed while on a family safari in Kenya. Within a short period of time she is transported to Goa, India, to live with relatives she has never met. Her grandmother is an angry, culture-bound crone, her aunt and cousin living, as Asha now must, under the old woman’s seemingly heartless sway.
PECCADILLO at the PALACE: An Annie Oakley Mystery by Kari Bovée
Historical Thrillers, Women’s Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction
Grand Prize Winner in Goethe Awards (2019)
Kari Boveé’s Peccadillo at the Palace, the second book in the Annie Oakley Mystery series, is a historical, mystery thriller extraordinaire. Fans of both genres will thrill at Boveé’s complex plot that keeps us guessing from its action-packed beginning to the satisfying reveal at the end.
The book opens with the Honorable Colonel Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show to England on a voyage to perform for Queen Victoria. They are not on the high seas long, when Annie’s beloved horse, Buck, jumps overboard. Her husband and the Queen’s loyal servant, Mr. Bhakta, jump in to save the horse, or was Mr. Bhakta already dead before he reached the water? Thus, begins the mystery of who killed Mr. Bhakta, leaving all to wonder, is the Queen safe?
We appreciate you spending time with us in celebration of International Women’s Day!
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The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre. The M & M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, not-so-cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards, and for international intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)
Congratulations to the M&M 2020 Shortlisters!
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
Chris Karlsen –A Venomous Love
Susan McCormick –The Fog Ladies
Patrick M. Garry –The Discovery
Sigrid Vansandt –A Ghost’s Tale
Lori Roberts Herbst –Suitable for Framing
Cindy Sample –Dying for a Double
Christine A Brady –Don’t leave, Miss Riley
Sharon Clark –The Murder Cat
Elaine Orr –Demise of a Devious Suspect
D.R. Ransdell –Substitute Soloist
CB Wilson –Cavaliered to Death
P.K. Adams –Silent Water
Kari Bovee –Bones of the Redeemed
Kate Vale –Unanswered Questions
Michelle Cox –A Child Lost
Maria Ostrowski –Yet From Those Flames No Light
Prudence Ambergast –The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
Ana T. Drew –The Murderous Macaron
Pat Camalliere –The Mystery at Mount Forest Island
Lina Hansen –In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery
J.L. Anderson –Secrets of Willow Lane
Chuck Morgan –Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel
Traci Andrighetti –Galliano Gold
Elizabeth Crowens –Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
Arlene McFarlane –Murder, Curlers & Kegs
Rita M Boehm –Missing on Maple Street
Mark Daniel Seiler –Shave Ice Paradise
Nellie H. Steele –The Secret of Dunhaven Castle
Nicole Asselin –Murder at First Pitch
Perry Miller –Lethal Injection
Mary Alice Kressler –Not So Silent Night
Elizabeth Crowens –Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
Lucinda Brant –Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
Nancy Good –Killer Calories, A Melanie Deming Manhattan Mystery
Carl and Jane Bock –The White Heron
Molly Flewharty –Short Line to Death
Betty Jean Craige –Saxxons in Witherston
Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 M&M Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery Novels.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
The MARK TWAIN Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humor and Satire Fiction. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards is the first year that this division is offered as a book awards competition division in 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. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. (For contemporary and literary fiction see our Somerset Book Awards.)
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together”. Mark Twain
Twain’s prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, (Twain’s mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet’s closest approach to Earth.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards the 2020 SHORTLIST. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Finalists positions.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction
Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green
J.P. Kenna – Toward A Terrible Freedom
Wayne Edmiston – UNfatally Dead: to thaw or not to thaw?
Haris Orkin – You Only Live Once
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
Alex J. Tremari – Dragoncast
Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – The Billionaire’s Daughter
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
St John Karp – Quake City
Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Chorduroys and Too Many Boys?)
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
Erik Segall – Not Yet
Lenore Rowntree – Cluck
K.N. Salustro – Cause of Death: ???
Conon Parks – Some Kind of Ending
Beth Wareham and Jason Davis –Hair Club Burning
Steven Mayfield –Treasure of the Blue Whale
Anastasia Fox – Trout Fishing in the Cretaceous
Adam Cliff – Exposure
David B. Seaburn – Gavin Goode
Lou Dischler – Too Pretty for a Hit Man
Good Luck to All!
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
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. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. Looking for Satire? Keep an eye out for our Mark Twain Long List.
The following literary and contemporary fiction works have advanced from all of the entries to the Long List of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards:
Susan Dobson – Bomerang
Sara Stamey – Pause
R Barber Anderson – Jumeau
Gregory Erich Phillips – A Season in Lights
Candi Sary – Magdalena
Kathleen Reid – Sunrise in Florence
Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Chorduroys and Too Many Boys?)
George M. Taylor – Careful by the Railing
Amy L Cleven – Look Up
Kasie Whitener – After December
T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
Patrick M. Garry – The Donor
Katherine Johnson – Grit & Granite
Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
Catherine Hamilton – Victoria’s War
Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
Lauren J. Sharkey – Inconvenient Daughter
Pierce Koslosky Jr. – A Week at Surfside Beach
Victor Acquista – Serpent Rising
John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
B. K. Stubblefield – Scars of the Past
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
Dan V. Jackson – Rainbow Bridge
Kathleen M. Rodgers – The Flying Cutterbucks
Abbe Rolnick – Founding Stones
Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
Alice Early – The Moon Always Rising
Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane
Erik Segall – Not Yet
Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
Good Luck to ALL!
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction?
Congratulations to Donna LeClair whose manuscript The Proprietor of Theatre Lifetook home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Somerset Book Awards.
The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine Book Awards is a genre division of 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). The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These works have survived the infamous slush pile (all entries) and are now competing to advance to the Chatelaine 2020 Long List
Sara Stamey – Pause
Mike Owens – Bernie & Bertie (Serial Killers Need Love Too)
Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
Tabetha Waite – Behind a Moonlit Veil
Lindy Miller – The Magic Ingredient
Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
Mary Ting – When the Wind Chimes
Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
Betty Codd – Abigail
Patricia A. Williams – We’ll Always Have Paris
Laura O’Hare – Frangipani Escape
F. E. Greene – Some Place Like Home
L.A. Liechty – Winter Mountain
Ramcy Diek – Eagles in Flight
Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
Rebekah N. Bryan – Jenna with the Red Pen
Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – Romeo and Juliet Are Alive and Well in California
R.Harrington – Veronica
Kelly Miller – Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley
R.A.R. Clouston – Cry Savage Tears
James G. Skinner – When a Conscience Knocks
Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
Tammy Mannersly – Drawn to Him
Beverly Allie – Where the Monarchs Dance
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
Bat Maxwell – The Color of Honey
Harper McDavid – Zapata
Carol VanDenHende – Goodbye, Orchid: To Love Her, He Had to Leave Her
Mona Sedrak – Gravity
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
Lindsey Cowherd – My Texas Streak
Holly Brandon – Life in the Chastity Zone
Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
Ursula Sinclair & Kassanna – Defiant
Rachela Marie Lavita – Within the Stars
Betsy Dudak – Wanna Bet
Charlene Johnson – Homecoming, Sterling Wood Series, Book 1
Roxanne Kelly – If I Should Stay
M.M. Routson – Jealousy Burning
Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
J M Liner – Big Easy Passion
Good luck to all!
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction?
Congratulations to Gail Avery Halverson whose work The Skeptical Physicktook home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards.
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 SLUSH pile to the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 CHAUCER Shortlist. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 Chaucer Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction.Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas
Patrick E. Craig – The Mennonite Queen
Regan Walker – Summer Warrior
N.L. Holmes – Bird in a Snare
Leah Angstman – Out Front the Following Sea
Bob Atkinson/Thoren Syndergaard – Ripley of Valor
Seven Jane – The Isle of Gold
Edward Rickford – The Bend of the River: Book Two in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy
Helena P. Schrader – The Emperor Strikes Back
B.L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
Catherine Meyrick – The Bridled Tongue
Dave & Steve Curliss – To Give Thanks – Our Pilgrim Ancestors
Dick Rosano – Islands of Fire: The Sicily Chronicles, Part I
Brook Allen – Antonius: Son of Rome
Sherry V. Ostroff – Caledonia
Amy Wolf – A Woman of the Road and Sea
Tony Dietz – Eve 1057
Marilyn Pemberton – Song of the Nightingale: a Tale of Two Castrati
K.M. Butler – The Welsh Dragon
Robert Wright – The Stone Gardner’s Fire, Second Book of the Before They Awaken Trilogy
Jim Fuxa – At War with Mars
Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
Marc Graham – Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun
Indra Zuno – Freedom Dues
Samary K. Birkline – MacGregor Strong
Janet Wertman – The Path to Somerset
Good Luck to All in the Next Rounds!
Congratulations to James Conroyd Martin whose work Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodoratook home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chaucer Book Awards and the overall BEST BOOK Grand Prize for 2019.
The GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Named in honor of the author of the quintessential children’s series The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Warner.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure we will put them to the test and choose the best Middle-Grade Books among them. Looking for Young Adult Fiction? Check out our Dante Rossetti contest! Looking for Early Readers? Check out our Little Peeps Contest!
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2020 Gertrude Warner entries to the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Gertrude Warner for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 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 Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists Level of the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
M.J. Evans – Mr. Figgletoes’ Toy Emporium
Lis Anna-Langston – Gobbledy
Catherine Grangaard – A Fairy’s Tails
Poem Schway – The Infinity Pendant
Jason Burrell – Ricky and the Abnormals
Ruthy Ballard – Frankie and the Gift of Fantasy
Pastel Gwendolyn Schway – Empire of Embers
Laura Gerhardt Schonberg – Joker
Ben Gartner – The Eye of Ra
Gregory Saur – Best Shot Forward
Molly Valentin – Francie is Afoot!
Wendy Leighton-Porter – The Shadow of the Witchfinder
Ian C Douglas – The Particle Beast
Carolina Ugaz-Moran – Aline and the Blue Bottle
Jay Spenser – The Barn Owl Mystery
Jay Spenser –The Phantom Airplane Mystery
Tricia L McDonald – The Sally Squad: Pals to the Rescue
Catherine M. O’Connor – Throwing the World
Alison Rice – Chasing Snow
Frank Saraco – Life in the Grand Pause
Suzanne Lowe – The Pirate Princess and the Golden Locket
Kelly Oliver – Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter
Julie Lavender – Mrs. Amazing and The Seed
Andres Faza – Hishi-mochi in the Sky
Kling – CLI- The Colt
Good luck to all as your works compete in the next rounds.
Congratulations to Alex Paul whose work The Valley of Death – Arken Freeth Series took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Gertrude Warner Book Awards
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 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.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2020 JOURNEY entries to the 2020 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Journey Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 JOURNEY Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
Terry A. Repak – What You Learn By Living Elsewhere
Marilea C. Rabasa – Stepping Stones: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Transformation
Ashley Conner and Cierra Camper – Memoirs of Michael: The Hurricane Project
Christine Ristaino – All the Silent Spaces
Linda Bledsoe – Rhea and Jeremiah Zeus: An Appalachian Family’s Story of Drugs and Abuse
Leslie Bains – Let’s Take A Hike: 7 Family-Friendly Trails of Nantucket
Susan E Casey – Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief
Patricia Eagle – Being Mean–A Memoir of Sexual Abuse and Survival
Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey
Susan E. Greisen – In Search of Pink Flamingos: A Woman’s Quest for Forgiveness & Unconditional Love
Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
Janice Morgan – Suspended Sentence
Esta G. Bernstein – Changing Horses
Mendek Rubin & Myra Goodman – Quest for Eternal Sunshine
Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps and Lessons Learned
Marianne Ingheim – Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion
Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic
Sharon Dukett – No Rules
Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
Laila Tarraf – Strong Like Water: Lessons Learned from Leading with Love
Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
Patricia Martin Holt – EMPOWER A REFUGEE, Peace of Thread and the Background Humanity Movement
David Crow – The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
Cindy Rasicot – Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand
Christine Nicolette-Gonzalez – My Mother’s Curse: A Journey Beyond Childhood Trauma
Nan Sanders Pokerwinski – Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta
Scott Hunter – And the Monkey Lets Go: Memoirs Through Illusion and Doubt
Mary Charity Kruger Stein – Fatherless, Fearless, Female: A Memoir
Ilene English – Hippie Chick
Barbara Clarke – The Red Kitchen
Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy
Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison
Amy Byer Shainman – Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew
Tamra McAnally Bolton – A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee’s Story
Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
T.D. Arkenberg – Trials & Truffles: Expats in Brussels
Steve Mariotti – Goodbye Homeboy
Steve Rochinski – A Man of His Time: Secrets from a Halfway World
Barbara Clarke – The Red Kitchen
Tiffani Goff – Loving Tiara
Frank Ball – Ball of Yarns
Kathleen Pooler – Just the Way He Walked: A Mother’s Story of Healing and Hope
Julie Tate Libby – The Good Way, a Himalayan Journey
Isaac Alexis M.D. – The Seductive Pink Crystal
Michael M. Van Ness – General In Command: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson, World War II
Lilly A Gwilliam – Generations of Motherhood: A Changing Story
Renee Hodges – Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community
Ted Neill – Two Years of Wonder
Jennifer B. Monahan – Where To? How I Shed My Baggage and Learned to Live Free
Karen Keilt – The Parrot’s Perch
Brant Vickers – Chucky’s in Tucson
Deborah Burns – Saturday’s Child
Betty Theiler – Beyond Borders
Stefanie Naumann – How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival
Jules Hannaford – Fool Me Twice
Lydia Ola Taiwo – A Broken Childhood: How To Overcome Abuse: A Recovery Guide
Miguel A. Aguilo – Pencils in the Hand of God: Two Heavenly Adoption Stories
Who will be awarded the 2020 Journey Book Awards Grand Prize? Stay tuned!
Congratulations to John Hoyte whose work Persistence of Light took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 JOURNEY Book Awards
John Hoyte author of The Persistence of Light, 2019 Journey Grand Prize Winner
“When Gandalf said to Frodo, ‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” (J.R.R. Tolkien), surely John Hoyte was listening. Starting early and without choice, he and his siblings are interned in a Japanese prison camp, afterwards, he follows along Hannibal’s elephant trail over the French Alps. .” – Chanticleer Reviews
In our last Somerset Hall of Fame, we discussed the origin of the contest’s name, and mentioned the success of William Somerset Maugham’s first book Liza of Lambeth, (published 1897) which propelled him to become one of the highest paid authors of his time, but not without first finding himself struggling with poverty after leaving the medical profession as a fully qualified doctor. Somerset wrote the story while working as a medical student and obstetric clerk in working class London.
W. Somerset Maugham (1897 – age 23 years)
In the publication of this book, Somerset joined an extensivebody of work in line with manyfin de siècle authors such as Wilkie Collins, Richard Marsh, Matthew “Monk” Lewis, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens.
In Somerset Maugham’s story, Liza, like many women in novels of this era, has her life dictated by the men who surround her, unable to break free of the desires and expectations that surround her, ultimately leading to her death. This examination of consent and the harmfulness of denying women agency can be seen reflected in the urgency of the suffrage movement, which passed its 100 year anniversary in August 18, 2020.
Women’s Suffragette Movement in the USA – more than 100 years in the making. The 19th Amendment was finally ratified on August 18, 1920 (at the end of WWI – 1914 – 1918)
It bears mentioning that women’s suffrage started out as only being accessible for white women, with Chinese-American women not being able to vote until 1943, native-American women until 1948, Japanese-American women until 1952, and African Americans until 1964—though the 19th Amendment wasn’t even ratified by all states until 1984! To this day, voting and voter suppression remains a contentious issue in the United States.Stories like Somerset’s showed the tension and the injustice taking place at the turn of the century in a way that made it real, accessible, and relevant to the literature published at the time and today.
Wells & Squire marching in 1913 For more information, please click here
Anyone who studies the right of women to vote and writing has to come across Virginia Woolf (born January 25, 1882, London England) with her book A Room of One’s Own. (Published September 1929) In this, she talks about where do we, as authors, have space to write. What do our room’s look like, and is there even a writing room in our house? I always think of Stephen King writing in his laundry room when I first think of trying to find a space to write. Naturally, like voting, this becomes more complicated when you overlay things like ender identity, race, and orientation, causing further variation in the kinds of rooms that are allowed to be called one’s own.
In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Woolf blamed women’s absence from history not on their lack of brains and talent but on their poverty. For her 1931 talk “Professions for Women,” Woolf studied the history of women’s education and employment and argued that unequal opportunities for women negatively affect all of society. Click here to read Britannica’s biography of this extraordinary author.
Virginia Woolf, photographed by Gisele Freund, 1933
In the building of literary fiction, we reflect the world as we see it. Woolf, in her book,follows the fictional Judith Shakespeare, sister of the famous William, and his equal in terms of writing and genius. Like Somerset’s Liza, Judith finds herself beset in a world where her agency is constantly overruled by the masculine presences in her life. In the end, Shakespeare’s sister dies by suicide. In both these narratives, the death of the women provides an implicit critique of the way society tries to control them.
Today, that critique and commentary still resonate. In the last ten years we have had the first Black president ever in the United States, and now we are set to inaugurate the first woman vice president who is also the first Black, south Asian, and Caribbean vice president. This doesn’t mean that discrimination and all the problems faced by Somerset’s Liza have vanished from the world, but it does run in cultural tandem with the mood of publishing seen at the end of the 19th century. It is a longstanding tradition that we continue culturally and politically in the stories we tell.
It is with great pride, in the tradition of uplifting and supporting women and the oppressed, that we award Donna LeClair’s manuscript,The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life, The Somerset Book Awards 2019 Grand Prize Award. LeClair is the first author in the Somerset Awards to have a manuscript win the Grand Prize in this highly competitive division. Huge congratulations!
Below is what our editor had to say about The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life by Donna LeClair (manuscript overview)
This is no ordinary book and the word “extraordinary” can’t begin to do it justice. It’s a gift for anyone fortunate enough to read it and libraries around the globe should add it to their collections. It should be available to everyone. Emma is a highly sympathetic character, an everywoman, in need of answers. The reader learns as much as she does about individual and universal struggles on earth, the lessons to be gleaned from suffering, and the value of sharing our stories.
Presenting these lessons in the format of a novel is ingenious; they’ll be accessible to readers who might not have had a clue how to compile, organize, and synthesize so much historical and spiritual scholarship. So many, too many, are suffering from grave, debilitating effects of PTSD; I wish this book could be gifted to them. It is literary balm. – Carrie M. Chanticleer Editorial Team
Journey as Emma does, through multiple eras, continents, and thresholds embracing the authenticity of diverse ethnicities, life conditions, and testimonies. Entrusted intuition guides storylines plaguing the world today. She encounters visionaries of faith who elevate sensibility while gifting their existence to the survival of this illusion that we call home.
Join her on an exploration of the wisdom bestowed by the existence of those who brought humankind closer to understanding one another and the sacredness of our broader story.
Donna LeClair, award-winning author, mother and grandmother, friend to the Dalai Lama, and amazing woman.
We look forward to joining LeClair on her on an exploration of the wisdom bestowed by the existence of those who brought humankind closer to understanding one another and the sacredness of our broader story. This phenomenal story is in the process of seeking representation.
Want more LeClair?
To discover more of Donna LeClair’s award-winning works, please click on the links below that will take you to our reviews:
Immunity,the latest offering by award-winning author Donna LeClair, recounts one woman’s struggles to maintain her sanity during a long nightmarish sojourn among the wealthy and powerful.
LeClair is a prodigious wordsmith who uses the writing craft to good effect. Whether it is a drug-induced temper flare-up, the destruction of a motel room, or a brief erotic interlude, the author weaves a rich tapestry. She has made fiction, it seems, of a painfully recalled set of reminiscences, changing the names to protect the innocent and avoid the wrath of the guilty. She examines the word “immunity” in its many guises: protection from penalty, entitlement of the very wealthy and well-connected, exemption from “an old love,” denial of responsibility, and “declaration protecting honorably truth.”
Very engrossing, well-written, engaging, suspenseful and honest. Waking Reality is recommended reading for anyone looking for an engrossing account of a woman’s courageous story growing up in the 1960s. You will want to see that she emerges through the dark tunnel of abuse.
Through engaging and well-written prose, LeClair relates the 1963 murder trial known as State of Ohio v. Bill Bush, a police sergeant who murdered three members of one family. Bush happened to be her uncle and the family he tore apart, hers. Due to the circumstances of the trial, LeClair and her sisters were in protective custody. Chanticleer Review
Three children, five lives, five stories, five human beings whose lives exploded with a pull of a trigger because of a little black book of secrets, lies, and destructions…
One thing I know for sure, for the safety of your own sanity, you must close the haunting of one chapter before you can open the infinite possibilities of another. –Donna LeClair
Want More Somerset Award Winning Novels?
Congratulations to all our 2019 first place category winners for Somerset. You can see some of the reviews for those books below.
…Rarely does a book about the law take you this close into the mindset of an attorney. Carney isn’t a criminal attorney but his ability to think “legal” demonstrates how a well-trained mind can work even in a foreign territory like criminal law. His familiarity becomes our familiarity. This is not a blockbuster case; no mob bosses will fall; no bombastic courtroom duels await. What is showcased here, however, is good lawyering, legal competence, and a writer’s commitment to sharing his love of the law with his readers. – Chanticleer Reviews
How well do people really know their neighbors? More importantly, or perhaps more sinisterly, how well do those neighbors know each other – and each other’s secrets?…this character-driven story is most definitely a work of exquisite literary fiction that uses the exploration of its characters to drive the narrative.
…Finegan does an excellent job of drawing us inside these seemingly tiny lives, and the deeper we go, the more significant these lives seem, and the greater the impact they have on each other as well as those who have been drawn into their well-written and extremely sticky web. – Chanticleer Reviews
Fantastic magic realism, uncaged and wild, and brilliant in every way! Highly recommended.
In this groundbreaking novel, what is real – and what isn’t – is always the heart of the matter. There are elements of reality in the fantastical, and there are elements of magic realism in the rather ordinary. After Olympus is a novel about characters who don’t just think outside the box; they are outside the box.
Intrigued? You should be. We don’t see novels like this every day, but this one will find its way into the hands of the most discerning readers. – Chanticleer Reviews
A captivating tale of Industrial Greed and Forest Conservation set against a thrilling backdrop of primeval forest, violence, and sex, international intrigue where one misstep may very well cost you your life.
With these award-winning titles, you will understand why the Somerset Book Awards is one of the most competitive divisions in the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Look for the Chanticleer Reviews of these 2019 Somerset Book Awards Blue Ribbon Winners.
Judith Kirscht forEnd of the Race
Claire Fullerton forLittle Tea
Maggie St. Claire forMartha
Jamie Zerndt forJerkwater
But Wait! Where’s Satire?
Introducing the Mark Twain Book Awards for Satirical and Allegorical Fiction, a new (2020) fiction division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
As a well-known humorist, Mark Twain employed satire to gently rib his audience and point out inconsistencies in the world as it appeared then, such as when Huck wonders why he would go to Hell for helping his friend Jim escape slavery.
Due to the huge popularity of the Somerset Awards, we’ve had to break Satirical and Allegorical fiction off into a separate division that titled The Mark Twain Book Awards.Keep an eye out on our website for our upcoming spotlight on this new Awards category and why we chose Twain!
Also, click on the Mark Twain Book Awards for classic works in Satire and Allegorical Fiction.
The last day to submit your work is November 30, 2018. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize at CAC21 in April.
As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your literary novel deserves! Enter today!
The winners will be announced at the CIBA Awards Ceremony on April 19, 2021, that will take place during the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and Finalists will be recognized. The first place winners will be recognized and receive their custom ribbon, and then we will see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of networking and celebration!
CIBA Ribbons!
First Place category winners and Grand Prize winners will each receive an awards package. Whose works will be chosen? The excitement builds for the 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards competitions and now for the Mark Twain Book Awards.
Our Chanticleer Review Writing Contests feature more than $30,000.00 worth of cash and prizes each year!
~$1000 Overall Grand Prize Winner ~$30,000views, prizes, and promotional opportunities awarded to Category Winners
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).
