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The 2024 Series Awards Short List for Fiction and Non-Fiction!
The CIBA SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions and 7 Non-Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. The Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of the CIBA Divisions. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Series Award LONG LIST to the 2024 Series Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Series Book Awards competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Antonia Gavrihel – Back To One
- John J. Spearman – Mercenary Navy
- Alan B. Gibson – Magic at Myers Beach
- D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol
- Jule Selbo – Dee Rommel Mystery Series
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Yoga Mat Mysteries
- Evette Davis – The Council Trilogy
- Taryn R. Hutchison – A Cold War Trilogy
- Laurie Buchanan – Sean Mcpherson Novels
- Kari Bovee – The Pryce of Murder
- April Sebree – Through the Woods
- M.K. Dean – The Ginny Reese Mysteries
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Salem Stories
- Valerie Green – The McBride Chronicles
- Jeff Nania – Northern Lakes Mystery series
- J.L. Oakley – The Jossing series
- Mike Murphey – Tales of Physics, Lust and Greed
- Rose Prendeville – Brides of Chattan
- TK Sheffield – The Backyard Model Mysteries
- Eve M Riley – The Techboys series
- Steven Joseph – Snoodles Book Series
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina Series
- Karen Inglis – Secret Lake Mystery Adventures
- Anika Savoy – Ungilded
- Michael J Bowler – The Lance Chronicles
- D.V. Chernov – Nick Severs Mysteries
- McKendree Long – The Superstition Gun
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die Series
- R.w. Meek – The Dream Collector
- Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm
- Glen Dahlgren – The Chronicles of Chaos
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Series Grand Prize Winner

Ghosts Along The Oregon Trail

By David Fitz-Gerald

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Series Book Award Winners.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Series Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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January 14, 2025
The 2024 Gertrude Warner Semi-Finalist for Middle Grade Fiction
The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 from the 2024 GERTRUDE WARNER Middle Grade SHORT LIST to the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Gertrude Warner Finalists. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Brian Starr – The Missing Children of Blackwood
- Valerie Biel – Haven
- Thomas Kuhn – Tommy Rocket and the Goober Patrol
- Norah Lally – Back To Bainbridge
- CK Van Dam – When the Chokecherries Bloom
- Christopher & Christine Kezelos – Intergalactic Jack and the Child of the Prophecy
- Debbie Noble Black – Deetjen’s Closet
- Gregory Saur – Drink the Blood
- M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams
- Elisa Eliot – Zak Vs. Zombies
- Donald Willerton – War Train
- M.C. Dingman – Samantha Smee: A Pirate’s Life
- Maggie Lynch – The Power of S.A.D.
- Sue C. Dugan – Mayday
- Douglas D. Meredith – Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two
- Douglas D. Meredith – Water: Generation Mars, Book Three
- Carolyn Armstrong – No Time To Waste
- Sherry Roberts – The Galaxy According to Cece
- Laura J Peterson – The Totally Tubular Travels of Josie Baker
- Susan Diamond Riley – The Sea Devil’s Demise: A Delta & Jax Mystery
- T. Lynne Jackson – Mr. K’s Sonata – A WWII Novel
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
- Bronwen Butter Newcott – Race to the Great Invention
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Serpent’s Spell
- Aaron Arsenault – The Climate Diaries: Book One: The Academy
- Tamar Anolic – The Tunnel to Darkness and Light
- Sandy Grubb – Just Like Click
- Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Gertrude Warner Grand Prize Winner

EXOSTAR

By Rae Knightly

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025
The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Finalists for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
- Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider
- Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
- R L Pace – Rising Son
- Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
- David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
- Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
- Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
- Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
- Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
- Shanna Hatfield – Molly
- Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
- Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
- Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
- Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
- Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
- Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
- Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
- H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
- Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

The Silver Waterfall

By Kevin Miller

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025
The Global Thriller 2024 Finalists for High Stakes Suspense
The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of High Stakes Thriller and Lab Lit Fiction. The Global Thriller Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward from the Global Thriller Semi-Finalists to the 2024 Global Thriller Book Awards FINALISTS. The FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTs of the 2024 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Thriller Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Timothy S. Johnston – A Blanket of Steel
- T.O. Paine – The Delusion
- Charlie Robinson – Heavy Hysteria
- Erik Foge – Between Methods and Madness
- Benjamin A. Sharpton – The 3rd Option
- Tony Ollivier – The Tokyo Diversion
- D.W. Layton – Otello’s Oil: A Saga of Blood and Oil
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
- David Wickenden – The Origami Deception
- Ron Singerton – Ruptured
- Sheri T. Joseph – Edge of the Known World
- A.J. Landau – Leave No Trace
- Benjamin Spada – The Warmaker: a Black Spear novel
- Carla Seyler – A Place Unmade
- Randall Krzak – Frozen Conquest
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Global Thriller Grand Prize Winner

Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy

By Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Global Thriller Book Award Winners for High Stakes Thriller Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes Thriller Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025
The Humor and Satire Awards 2024 Finalists for Humorous and Allegorical Fiction
The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 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 from the 2024 HUMOR & SATIRE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
- Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
- Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
- Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
- Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
- Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
- DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
- Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
- JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
- Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
- Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
- Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
- Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
- John Young – Getting Huge
- Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
- Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
- Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

Quantum Consequence

By Mike Murphey

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 13, 2025
The 2024 Shelley Book Awards Finalists for Paranormal Fiction!
The Shelley Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Paranormal Fiction. The Shelley Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Shelley Awards were formerly known as the Paranormal Awards. We are delighted to be able to honor the mother of science fiction with this award!

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird other-worldly stories, super humans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them for the 2024 Paranormal Book Awards!

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Shelley Supernatural Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Shelley Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Shelley Book Awards novel competition for Paranormal Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Jennifer Anne Gordon – Pretty Ugly
- Evette Davis – The Gift
- Peter B. Dedek – Possessed
- C.W. James – Mindfield: a Paranormal Thriller for Teens
- Alexander Fernandez – Above the Ashes
- Keith Steinbaum – In Lieu of Flowers
- Tim Facciola – Ghosts of Rheynia
- AA DaSilva – Periphery
- Charles Allen – A Graveyard of Ships
- E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
- Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle – Vein Pursuits
- Evette Davis – The Others
- Dennis D. Skirvin – Nicholas Knocker
- Joy Ross Davis – The Singer Sisters
- Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Paranormal Grand Prize Winner

Becoming Crone

By Lydia M. Hawke

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Paranormal Book Award Winners for Supernatural Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shelley Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 12, 2025
The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Semi-Finalist for Early Readers and Children’s Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2023 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SEMI-FINAL LIST. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
- Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
- Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
- Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
- Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
- Ollie Miller – What is This?
- Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
- Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
- Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
- Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
- Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
- Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
- Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
- Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
- Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
- Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
- Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
- Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
- Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
- Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
- Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
- Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
- Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
- Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
- Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
- Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
- Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 12, 2025
The Laramie Awards 2024 Finalists for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 LARAMIE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
- Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
- Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
- Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
- Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
- Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
- Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
- John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
- Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 12, 2025
The Chaucer 2024 Finalists for Early Historical Fiction
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CHAUCER Semi-Finalists to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club, hosted by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
- Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
- Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
- Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
- Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
- Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
- Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
- C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
- Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
- Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
- Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
- Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
- Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
- M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
- John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
- Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
- Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

The Merchant From Sepharad

By James Hutson-Wiley

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 12, 2025
The Dante Rossetti Awards 2024 Semi-Finalists for Young Adult Fiction
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

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 twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Short List to the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Dante Rossetti Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Pam Binder – Raven Spirit
- Mark Kraver – The Willow
- John Be Lane – The Future Lies a Post-Dystopian Romantic Thriller
- Valerie Biel – Beyond the Cemetery Gate the Secret Keeper’s Daughter
- Miki Mitayn – Heated Earth Aedgar Moves in
- Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Sacrifice (Book 2 of The Witches of Windsor)
- C.H. Brown – The Appearance of Power
- Jeff Hartman – How To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
- Nat Bickel – The Catalyst
- Lenore Borja – The Lost Portal (Mirror Realm Series Book II)
- C.E. Brown – Seeing Gray
- V. Romas Burton – Justified
- Michael J Bowler – Forever Boy
- Glen Dahlgren – The Realm of Gods (The Chronicles of Chaos Book Three)
- Jonathan Floyd – Lost on the Edge of Eternity
- Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pittman – Spectral Evidence
- M. Ch. Landa – Vandella: Resilience
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – Journey’s Travels – Mirrors
- D. K. Yamashiro – Anela’s Club
- J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
- John Middleton – The Pool of Initiation
- E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
- Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
- Felicia Farber – Fake Out
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
- Maggie Hill- Sunday Money
- Maryanne Melloan Woods – Lazarus
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner

Sour Flower

By Maryanne Melloan Woods

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 11, 2025