Tag: CIBAs

  • The 2024 Shorts Award Short List for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

    The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Stories. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. 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 SHORTS LONG LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Shorts Award Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Long Form Content, Novellas, and Collections. The short form Shorts (100 pages or less) Short List will be posted separately.

    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 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi – Something About Lizzy
    • E.M. Schorb – Resurgius, a Sex Comedy
    • Cindy Ellen Hill – Leeds Point
    • Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury
    • Susan L Rae – Teaching Treason: A Gabby Baxter Mystery
    • Paper Lantern Writers – Beneath a Midwinter Moon
    • Peter Dingus – Worlds in Transition
    • J.R. Rice – Broken Pencils
    • Cynthia Geouge Davis – Catfish Corner
    • Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold
    • Deborah L. Staunton – Untethered
    • Jennifer Saviano – Joy Ride
    • Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box and Other Stories
    • Anne B. Barriault – Tales from Naples and Sorrentine Stories
    • Derek Wachter – Solipsism
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
    • Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

    Shelter In A Hostile World

    By Mack Little

    Blue and Gold Badge Recognizing Shelter in a Hostile World by Mack Little for winning the 2023 Shorts- Collections and Novellas Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections!

    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!

  • The 2024 Clue Short List for Suspense/Thriller Fiction

    The 2024 Clue Short List for Suspense/Thriller Fiction

    Thriller Suspense Fiction AwardThe Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 CLUE LONG LIST to the 2024 Clue 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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMIFINALISTS of the 2024 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Suspense and Thriller!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Pamela Beason – If Only
    • Jeff Nania – Musky Run
    • John DeDakis – Enemies Domestic
    • Charlotte Stuart & Don Stuart – Midnight for Justice
    • Hannah D Sharpe – Between Lies and Revenge
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Tree Pose
    • Meredith Forde – The Protectee
    • M.K. Tod – That Was Then
    • Cathi Stoler – Out of Time: A Nick Donahue Adventure
    • Lisa Towles – Codex
    • M.M. Cochran – The Button Collector
    • Peter Berk – First Line of Defense
    • Charlotte Stuart – Raven’s Legacy
    • Lisa Malice – Lest She Forget
    • Corey Lynn Fayman – The Esmeralda Goodbye
    • Marie Still – My Darlings
    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
    • Jeannee Sacken – The Rule of Thirds
    • Steven Walker – Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown
    • Patrick Greenwood – Shores of Okinawa
    • Chad Boudreaux – Homecoming Queen: A Small Town Political Thriller
    • J T Owens – The Fisherman Returns
    • Ron Singerton – Ruptured
    • Michael Grigsby – Forecasting Error
    • Jeffrey Jay Levin – Deep Cover, The Unknowing Agent
    • Dr. Sandra Tanner – Spirited Unraveling
    • Saralyn Richard – Murder Outside the Box
    • Sean Hagerty – Jones Point
    • Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
    • Nannette Potter – Pierce the Darkness
    • TJ Stecker – The Moth
    • Mike Van Horn – The Fireteam
    • Dana J. Summers – Hell’s Heart
    • AG Flitcher – Black Rose Cocoon
    • Dave Lager – Revelations
    • Carl Vonderau – Saving Myles
    • Chris Chan – She Ruined Our Lives
    • Ray Collins – The General’s Briefcase
    • Lo Monaco – Fallen In A Dark Uneven Way
    • Lisa Towles – Terror Bay
    • Colleen Coyne – Bewept
    • Shanessa Gluhm – A River of Crows
    • Miriam Verbeek – The Forest
    • Michael Pronko – Shitamachi Scam
    • Wendy Bayne – Dark Entity
    • Steve Lazarus – Call Me Sonny
    • Sharon Lynn – IoT Gaslight

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Clue Grand Prize Winner

    The Other Murder

    By Kevin G. Chapman

    The Other Murder Cover

     

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Other Murder by Kevin G Chapman for winning the 2023 Clue grand prize

     

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Clue Book Awards for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

    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!

     

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Short List for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. The Hearten Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Wendy B. Correa – My Pretty Baby: A Memoir of Seeking Truth and Finding Healing
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Jia Apple – The Tell
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
    • Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Laura Hall – Affliction: Growing Up With A Closeted Gay Dad
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Louise Privette and Tristan Peigné – Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
    • Ben LeBoutillier – Practical Advice for a Better World
    • Kathleen Watt – REARRANGED: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

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

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative 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!

    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!

     

  • The 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards Short List for Women’s Fiction and Romance

    The 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards Short List for Women’s Fiction and Romance

    book award for Romance Novels The Chatelaine AwardsThe Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction. The Chatelaine Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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  from the 2024 CHATELAINE Romantic Fiction Long List to the 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Chatelaine Semi-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  Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
    • Leslie Wibberley – The Unraveling of Emma Hill
    • Olivia North – Sharp Edges
    • MaryAnn Clarke – Secrets at the Aviary Inn
    • Jenn Bouchard – Considering Us
    • John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
    • Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
    • Davalynn Spencer – Covering Grace
    • Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
    • Nancy Herkness – Royal Caleva: Luis
    • CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
    • Phillip Vega – Fury in her Eyes
    • Jo Morgan Sloan – The Key
    • Laurel Osterkamp – The Side Project
    • Omayra Velez – The General’s Gift
    • Susan Bagby – Home for Love
    • David A. Stone – Spruce Harbor Possibilities
    • George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
    • Sonja N. Griffing – Chasing Noelle
    • Linda Broday – Winning Maura’s Heart
    • Melissa Collings – The False Flat
    • Eve M. Riley – The Secret
    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day, Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • Karen Janowsky – Her Name Was Lola
    • S.G. Blaise – Meddling Mages
    • Karen Janowsky – Dear Prudence
    • CK Van Dam – Lone Tree Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
    • Amanda Sue Creasey – An Expected End
    • Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s: A Love Story

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

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner

    A Sea of Glass

    By Gail Avery Halverson

    blue and gold badge recognizing A Sea of Glass by Gail Avery Halverson for winning the 2023 Chatelaine Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Chatelaine Book Award Winners for Romantic Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic 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!

     

  • The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction

    The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Goethe Semi-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 sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
    • Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
    • Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
    • Jeanne Gehret – Secrets to the Wind
    • Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
    • William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
    • Louis Trubiano – What Once Was Promised
    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
    • Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
    • J.R. Holland – Vigilante Love Song
    • Susan Higginbotham – The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
    • Brook Allen – West of Santillane
    • James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
    • Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
    • Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
    • Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
    • Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
    • Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
    • Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
    • Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
    • Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
    • John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
    • R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
    • Annette Gagliardi – Ponderosa Pines: Days of the – Deadwood Forest Fire
    • Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
    • Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
    • Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
    • M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
    • Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
    • João Cerqueira – Perestroika
    • Adrienne Stevenson – Mirrors & Smoke
    • Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
    • C.M. Huddleston – Esther
    • Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
    • Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent
    • Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s

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

    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 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

    If Someday Comes

    By David Calloway

    If Someday Comes Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing If Someday Comes by David Calloway for winning the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize

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

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late Historical 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!

     

  • The 2024 Ozma Finalists for Fantasy Fiction!

    The 2024 Ozma Finalists for Fantasy Fiction!

    Ozma AwardsThe Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Magic, Steampunk and Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 OZMA Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS to the 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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

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

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • K.N. Salustro – A Whisper from the Edge of the World
    • Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
    • Curt Locklear – Treasure and Murder In Ireland
    • Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
    • Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle – An Unexpected Hero
    • Glen Dahlgren – The Realm of Gods
    • Kolton Fitz-Gerald – Leon Sharp: The Scourge of Night
    • J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
    • Susan Wands – High Priestess and Empress, Book Two, Arcana Oracle Series
    • R. M. Krogman – Liberation
    • James Malone – The Song of Theodore-Return to Rainbow Gardens
    • Ross Hightower & Deb Heim – Desulti
    • Erin Lark Maples – A Circle of Stars
    • Evette Davis – The Others
    • Ryan Schuette – A Seat for the Rabble
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Serpent’s Spell
    • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
    • Prue Batten – The Red Thread
    • S.G. Blaise – Meddling Mages
    • T.E. MacArthur – A Place of Fog and Murder
    • Shami Stovall – Academy Arcanist
    • J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 1)

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

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Ozma Grand Prize Winner and Overall Grand Prize Winner

    A Vengeful Realm

    By Tim Facciola

    Blue and Gold Badge Recognizing A Vengeful Realm: Scales of Balance Book 1 by Tim Facciola for Winning the 2023 Overall Grand Prize Award

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 OZMA Book Award Winners for Fantasy Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy 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!

  • The 2024 JOURNEY Awards Finalists for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2024 JOURNEY Awards Finalists for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe 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 the 2024 Journey Non-Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Finalist authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Tamra McAnally Bolton – His 100th Year
    • Kirsten Throneberry – Guided: Lost Love, Hidden Realms, and the Open Road
    • Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays
    • Jennifer Gasner – My Unexpected Life: Finding Balance Beyond My Diagnosis
    • Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
    • Karen Elizabeth Lee – The Village That Betrayed its Children
    • Anne Gately – Sunburnt – A memoir of sun, surf and skin cancer
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Ernestine Whitman – Countermelodies: A Memoir in Sonata Form
    • Jacqueline Acho – Cancer Culture: Fixing the Landscape by Infusing Empathy
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • E. Adrienne Wilson – I’d Rather Be Dead Than Deaf: A Young Woman’s Journey with Liver Cancer
    • Lindsey Henke – When Skies Are Gray
    • Heidi Beierle – Heidi Across America – One Woman’s Journey on a Bicycle through the Heartland
    • Claudia Marseille – But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World
    • Mary Jumbelic, M.D. – Here, Where Death Delights
    • Tracy Mayo – Childless Mother: A Search for Son and Self
    • Marsha Jacobson – The Wrong Calamity
    • David Vass – Liar, Alleged

    Blue and Gold Badge for the finalists of the Journey non-fiction awards

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Barbed: A Memoir

    By Julie Morrison

    Journey Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction Grand Prize Badge for Barbed by Julie Morrison

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