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The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Short List 2021
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 in the judging rounds from the 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Long List to the 2021 Clue Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

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

Congratulations to the 2021 CLUE Book Awards Short Listers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Tom Galvin – The Auction
- Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry – The Family Tree
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
- Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
- Tony Ollivier – The Amsterdam Deception
- J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
- Jane Rosenthal – Del Rio
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
- James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
- John Stafford – Call of Vengeance Series, Book 4: A Hand of Vengeance
- T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
- Ernesto H Lee – Flawed Beauty
- Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
- Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
- Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
- Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
- D. J. Adamson – Into The Storm
- Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
- Mary Keliikoa – Denied
- Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
- Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
- Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
- Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times 2
- Shelley Nolden – The Vines
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love

Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspense/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 11, 2022
The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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, 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. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

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

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

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

These titles are in the running for the Semi-FInalists of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
- Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
- Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
- B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
- M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
- Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
- Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
- Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
- E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
- Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
- Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
- Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
- Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
- Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
- Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
- Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
- Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
- Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
- Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
- Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
- John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
- L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
- Shay Siegel – Fractured
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is Dallas Woodburn for The Best Week That Never Happened

Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:
- The Gertrude Warner Awards for Middle Grade Fiction
- The Little Peeps Awards for Children’s Literature
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Journey Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

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

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

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

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
- Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
- Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
- Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
- Marilyn Mascaro – When the Rivers Flowed
- Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
- William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
- Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
- Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
- Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
- George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoire
- Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
- Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
- Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
- Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
- Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
- Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
- George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
- Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
- Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
- Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
- Krista Nerestant – Indestructible:The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
- Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
- Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
- Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
- C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
- Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
- Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
- Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
- Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
- Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
- Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil

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

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

Please click here for more information.

See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

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

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
The 2021 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Book 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 space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction.

Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, 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 in the judging rounds from all 2021 CYGNUS Science Fiction Long List to the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 Cygnus Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The 2021 CYGNUS FINALISTS will be selected from the CYGNUS Semi-Finalists.

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

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

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALS of the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Sarah Lahey – Nostalgia Is Heartless, Book Two
- Joe Butler – Of All Possibilities
- Michael Hicks Thompson – Clouds Above
- Spaulding Taylor – Last Star Standing
- Dale Renton – DART
- S. W. Lawrence, MD – Earth Dragon
- Max Mason – Novastrom: Adventures from the Zrax Wars
- Mark D. Owen – Impact
- Steven Seril – The Destroyer of Worlds: ‘An Answer to Every Question’
- Akosua Sankofa – Monmouth Deep
- John Teton – The Book of Geezer
- Gary Clark – The Given
- Rhett C. Bruno – Vicarious
- Timothy S. Johnston – Fatal Depth
- Peter Greene – Light of Ganymede
- Kristie Clark – Dragon Gold
- Dimple Patel Desai – The Lambda Factor
- John J Spearman – Pike’s Potential
- Charlene Newcomb – Echoes of the Storm
- D.H. Ford – Cosmic Swap
- William M. Hayes – Save Him
- William X. Adams – Alien Dream Machine
- Michael J Metroke – The Masada Affair
- PA Vasey – Trinity Evolution
- Daniel C. McWhorter – Revival: The Gaia Origin, Book Two
- Robert C Littlewood – Deviance
- Jenn Lees – Restoring Time: Community Chronicles Book 4
- Bernie Koenig – B.R.A.I.N.
- Daniele Kasper – Cut Her Out In Little Stars
- William X. Adams – Alien Panic
- Elizabeth Crowens – A War in Too Many Worlds
- Sandra J. Jackson – Catching Butterflies
- Dana Claire – The Connection
- Gina Detwiler – Forgiven
- Sam Stea – The Edge of Elsewhere
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CYGNUS Awards is Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle for The Luna Missile Crisis

Click here to see the 2020 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 CYGNUS Awards writing competition.

Please click here for more information.

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

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
NIGHT JASMINE TREE by Debu Majumdar – Asian American Literature, Multi-Cultural and Interracial, Multi-Cultural Romance

Shankar, a recently retired professor of physics, and his wife, Durga, have left Michigan to resettle on Long Island with their son’s family in Debu Majumdar’s award-winning novel, Night Jasmine Tree.

While the migration from the Midwest to the East Coast is a small one, considering both characters moved from India decades before, the move spurs Shankar to ponder the life he left behind and to reassess his relationship with his sisters and parents.

In India, there are many different cultures, the main sprouting from the Hindu faith and political structure, the caste system.

In the West, we may be familiar with this caste system, we mostly are all aware of the ‘untouchables.’ However, what we may not understand, is how rigid the caste systems truly are. Durga and Shankar are not from the same caste. Shankar is Brahmin, his wife is of a lower caste. This difference is enough for Shankar’s family to reject her outright and disown him.

The pain he sustains by their rigid beliefs hurts him deeply, and that pain sustained years of estrangement. Now, however, a letter from his sister causes him to reassess his own role in the dissolution of his family even as he enjoys spending time with his son, daughter-in-law, and young grandchildren.

Carefully organized, the novel is arranged into five parts with the chapters designating a time and place.

Since the plot occurs on two continents, this framework is helpful to the reader. The author adroitly dovetails the past and present by having Shankar share stories of his own childhood with his grandchildren. And what stories they are! Sweet and funny, often involving animals, and the children are riveted by their grandfather’s tales of a childhood spent in India. Shankar was a good student but not above getting into mischief or naively causing trouble. India comes alive for the children as they hear about an encounter with a tiger, the annual celebration involving kite fights, and a haunting but hilarious ghost story. The reader turns the pages as eagerly as the children beg to hear another story.

Consideration of Shankar’s past also involves his having grown up in a household in which the ancient traditions of Hinduism are sacred duties, and any failure to adhere to them is a moral failing.

It is difficult for Shankar to come of age wanting to do what makes him happy but feeling tremendous fear that he won’t live up to his father’s exacting standards. Will he become a “tejya putra,” a son who is rejected by his own father? There’s no worse fate for a Brahmin male. And, yet, shouldn’t his father love him simply because children deserve love, and not because Shankar will one day perform the essential funeral rites for his parents?

Regardless of how affectionate and attentive Shankar’s mother is toward him, he knows that she will always defer to her husband. She will let him dictate the terms of his sisters’ marriages, and she will never allow Shankar to disobey his father. The classic tension between duty and desire is artfully and affectingly rendered. All readers will be able to relate to the hold the past has on us. And like us, until Shankar resolves old animosities with his family, he’ll never indeed be free.

The author is a master craftsman of descriptive writing, especially when contemplating natural settings.

Debu Majumdar deepens characterization by connecting Shankar’s interior and exterior worlds. While contemplating existence through his main character’s eyes, the author gives us a work of lush and searing beauty, wondrously told with compassion, empathy, and truth. Night Jasmine Tree is a highly recommended reading for all.

Night Jasmine Tree won 1st Place in the 2018 CIBAs in the Somerset Awards for Literary Fiction.

December 20, 2021
The 2021 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction entries to the 2021 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Somerset Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

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

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

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Ben Sharpton – The Awakening of Jim Bishop: This Changes Things
- Adrian Spratt – Caroline
- Linda Stewart Henley – Waterbury Winter
- Daniel Pare – No Matter The Price
- Antonia Gavrihel – Back to One
- M. J. Simms-Maddox – The Mysterious Affair at the Met
- Anne Pfeffer – Binge
- Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said
- C. A. Price – Allison’s Gambit
- E. A. Coe – The Other Side Of Good
- Margaret Ann Spence – Joyous Lies
- Suzanne Kamata – The Baseball Widow
- Vicki Volden – All the After
- Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann, a historical novel
- Susan Speranza – Ice Out
- Gary Lee Miller – Finding Grace
- Ruthie Stevens – You Can’t Blame the Flower
- V.N. Writer – Who Stole My Hula Hoop?
- Mekiya Walters – Ashes, Ashes
- Teng Rong – Brilliant White Peaks
- Natalie Symons – Lies in Bone
- Ruth Hull Chatlien – Katie, Bar the Door
- Patrick Garry – Through the Waves a Steady Path
- Ariane Torres – We are the Kings
- Dan Schorr – Final Table: A Novel
- Karen S. Bennett – Beautiful Horseflesh
- Dawn Newton – The Remnants of Summer
- Douglas Green – A Dog of Many Names
- Jeff Richards – Everyone Worth Knowing
- Robert Gwaltney – The Cicada Tree
- Sarah E Zilkowski – Beasts of War
- Vanessa Carlisle – Take Me With You
- J.B. Liquorish – The Prophecy
- Bob Siqveland – Lines Through a Prism
- Richard C. Brusca – In the Land of the Feathered Serpent
- Natalie Symons – Lies in Bone
- Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
- Joanne Kukanza Easley – Just One Look
- Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
- Tom Glenn – Secretocracy
- Sandra Vasoli – The Masterpiece Pursuit
- Suzanne Simonetti – The Sound of Wings
- John Hansen – Old Water
- Richard Jespers – Wakedale: A Novel
- Robert Steven Goldstein – Cat’s Whisker
- Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
- John Hansen – Badger Creek
- Eric Lotke – Union Made
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
- Sue Phillips – You Oughta Know
- Chera Thompson & NF Johnson – A Time to Wander
- Cara Sue Achterberg – Blind Turn
- K. – Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
- Susan Lynn Solomon – Dancing Backwards
- Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
- Anne Moose – House of Fragile Dreams
- Jane Ward – In the Aftermath
- Linda Rosen – Sisters of the Vine
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Kathy Sechrist – Success Is The Best Revenge
- Rick Lenz – Hello, Rest of My Life
- Malcolm Spicer – Freedom From Privilege
- Cinda K. Swalley – The Golden Hearts Club
- Shan Leah – Thieves, Beasts & Men
- Gene Helfman – Beyond the Human Realm
- Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
- Sarahlyn Bruck – Daytime Drama
- Roberta Seret – Love Odyssey
- Barbara Linn Probst – The Sound Between the Notes
- Lynn McLaughlin – Jackson
- Michael R. Frontani – Dante’s Forge
- Jenn Bouchard – First Course
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Michelle Lynn – Silver Heels
- Susannah Marren – A Palm Beach Scandal
- C. Victorya Grace – Julip Lullabies and Silent Cries
- Jordan Stanford – My Dream
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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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

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

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

Please click here for more information.

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

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
December 16, 2021
Chanticleerians in the News! Toni Ann Johnson Receives University of Georgia Press Award.

When your mission is to Discover Today’s Best Books, you often get to hear wonderful news about authors you love and support!

…and we have great news about Toni Ann Johnson!

Today we wanted to honor and recognize Toni Ann Johnson, actress and novelist, for receiving the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press.

You can read the full article announcing her win here, though we love what Roxane Gay has said about it:

“Toni Ann Johnson’s Light Skin Gone to Waste is one of the most engrossing short story collections I’ve read in recent memory. These interconnected stories about a black family living in a predominantly white suburb of New York City are impeccably written, incisive, often infuriating and unforgettable. At the center of many of these stories is Philip Arrington, a psychologist who tries to reshape the world to his liking as he moves through it, regardless of the ways his actions affect the people in his intimate orbit. With a deft eye for detail, crisp writing, and an uncanny understanding of human frailties, Toni Ann Johnson has created an endlessly interesting American family portrait.”

Johnson’s book Remedy for a Broken Angel, received a 5-star book review from Chanticleer in 2014, and then went on to be nominated for the NAACP Awards.

Ms. Johnson recently contacted us (2015) about the nomination and credited Chanticleer’s review for its helpful role in getting the work noticed and nominated. We are proud and honored to play a small part in her nomination for this coveted award.

Here’s what Chanticleer had to say about Johnson’s book:

Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson is an intense examination of the troubled personal histories of two beautiful and talented women of color.

Their stories are told in alternating chapters which reveal the mother’s and her daughter’s attempts to reclaim and understand their broken pasts. Each chapter is a revelation into the pain and damage caused by unknown family secrets. Both women struggle with a legacy of shame and self-blame for the price they’re paying for never hearing the truth. Each must learn the lessons found in past years of failure to communicate.

Read more here!

Thank you for reading this Chanticleer Spotlight Article on Toni Ann Johnson.

Johnson has submitted work to the 2021 Shorts Awards, which you can still submit to by the end of the year – the competition will be steep!

Have a Book that deserves to be discovered? See our 24 Chanticleer Intl’l Book Awards Divisions here and Editorial Book Reviews here!

The 2020 Overall Grand Prize Winner was Rebecca Dwight Bruff for her book Trouble the Water

When you’re ready, did you know that Chanticleer offers editorial services? We do and have been doing so since 2011.

Our professional editors are top-notch and are experts in the Chicago Manual of Style. They have and are working for the top publishing houses (TOR, McMillian, Thomas Mercer, Penguin Random House, Simon Schuster, etc.).

If you would like more information, we invite you to email Kiffer or Sharon at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com or SAnderson@ChantiReviews.com for more information, testimonials, and fees.

We work with a small number of exclusive clients who want to collaborate with our team of top-editors on an on-going basis. Contact us today!

Chanticleer Editorial Services also offers writing craft sessions and masterclasses. Sign up to find out where, when, and how sessions being held.

A great way to get started is with our manuscript evaluation service, with more information available here.

And we do editorial consultations for $75. Learn more here.

Our 10th Anniversary Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22) will be June 23-26, 2022, where our 2021 CIBA winners will be announced. Space is limited and seats are already filling up, so sign up today! CAC22 and the CIBA Ceremonies will be hosted at the Hotel Bellwether in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. Sign up and see the latest updates here!

December 15, 2021
Chanticleerians in the News! Elizabeth Crowens is Awarded a Grant from NYC Artist Corps
When your mission is to Discover Today’s Best Books, you come across good news regarding authors!

…and we have some great news regarding Elizabeth Crowens.

Congratulations to Elizabeth on the grant she received from the City Artist Corps, a New York City group sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Elizabeth used the proceeds of the grant to publish NEW YORK: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst. The grant recognize the contributions of New York based artists. We couldn’t be happier for her!

You can see some of her Award Winning photography in her book Give Me Your Best or Your Worst: an Anthology and Celebration of the Big Apple, which is currently entered for competition in the Shorts Award (deadline 12/31/21).

Give Me Your Best or Your Worst features photos of and stories and writing from people such as Reed Farrel Coleman, Richie Narvaez, Barbara Krasnoff, Tom Straw, Steven Van Patten, Charles Salzberg, Marco Conelli, Randee Dawn, R.J. Koreto, Triss Stein, and, of course, Elizabeth Crowens. It’s a truly incredible portrait of Crowens’ vision of New York told in photos, fiction, and the perfect amount of poetry. You can find it here.

Crowens with Chanticleer

When not working on art photography books, Crowens writes Hollywood suspense and speculative Fiction, and her book, Silent Meridian, won first place in the Chanticleer Goethe Awards.

You can see her books reviewed by Chanticleer right here:
- The TIME TRAVELER PROFESSOR, Book One: SILENT MERIDIAN
- The TIME TRAVELER PROFESSOR, Book Two: A POCKETFUL of LODESTONES
In addition to being a First Place Winner for the Goethe Awards, Crowens also took home a First Place Blue Ribbon for the 2020 Mark Twain Awards for her book Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead.

Currently, she’s on the following Long Lists for the 2021 CIBAs:
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Thank you for reading this Chanticleer Spotlight Article on Elizabeth Crowens.

ALSO — Still time to get YOUR Short Story and/or Short Story Collections into the 2021 CIBAs.

Submission Deadline is December 31, 2021.

Have a Book that deserves to be discovered? See our 24 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards Divisions here and Editorial Book Reviews here!

The 2020 Overall Grand Prize Winner was Rebecca Dwight Bruff for her book Trouble the Water

When you’re ready, did you know that Chanticleer offers editorial services? We do and have been doing so since 2011.

Our professional editors are top-notch and are experts in the Chicago Manual of Style. They have and are working for the top publishing houses (TOR, McMillian, Thomas Mercer, Penguin Random House, Simon Schuster, etc.).

If you would like more information, we invite you to email Kiffer or Sharon at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com or SAnderson@ChantiReviews.com for more information, testimonials, and fees.

We work with a small number of exclusive clients who want to collaborate with our team of top-editors on an on-going basis. Contact us today!

Chanticleer Editorial Services also offers writing craft sessions and masterclasses. Sign up to find out where, when, and how sessions being held.

A great way to get started is with our manuscript evaluation service, with more information available here.

And we do editorial consultations for $75. Learn more here.

Our 10th Anniversary Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22) will be June 23-26, 2022, where our 2021 CIBA winners will be announced. Space is limited and seats are already filling up, so sign up today! CAC22 and the CIBA Ceremonies will be hosted at the Hotel Bellwether in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. Sign up and see the latest updates here!
December 15, 2021
The 2021 MARK TWAIN Book Awards for Humor and Satire – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The Mark Twain Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Humor and Satire. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Mark Twain Humor and Satire Fiction entries to the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Mark Twain Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

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

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

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Lisa Angle – Whiskey and Old Stogies
- Linda Stewart Henley – Waterbury Winter
- Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- Anne Pfeffer – Binge
- Chief John J. Mandeville – The Admiral of Bolivia
- Roy Sparkman – A Pastor’s Pit
- Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
- Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper: A Matter of Time
- Roger Wilson-Crane – Certified
- Barry Robbins – Oh Daddy Chronicles
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
- Andy Becker – The Kissing Rabbi: Lust, Betrayal, and a Community Turned Inside Out
- Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
- John Prather – The Jesus Nut
- Lou Dischler – My Only Sunshine: Getting Straight with the Bomb
- M. Funk – The Book of True Believer
- David Perlmutter – Orthicon
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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

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

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

Please click here for more information.

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

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
December 14, 2021
The 2021 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction entries to the 2021 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Hemingway Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

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

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – The Scepter And The Isle
- John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
- Bruce Graham – Begin The Beguine
- Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Far On The Ringing Plains
- Marian Exall – Daughters of War
- Carrie Kwiatkowski – Out of The Woods
- Shanna Hatfield – Sadie
- W. Hock Hochheim – The China Alamo
- Michael J Cooper – Sins of the Fathers
- Marina Osipova – Too Many Wolves in the Local Woods
- Marina Osipova – Push Me Off the Cliff
- Scott A. Porter – Here They Come
- Chris Karlsen – The Ack Ack Girl
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
- Kathryn Gauci – The Secret of the Grand Hotel du Lac
- Kathryn Gauci – The Blue Dolphin – A WWII Novel
- Alfred Nicols – Lost Love’s Return
- Dave Mason – EO-N
- Richard Alan Schwartz – The Soldier: A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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

Click here to see the 2020 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

The 2020 Grand Prize Winner for the Hemingway Awards is J. L. Oakley for The QUISLING FACTOR

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
December 6, 2021