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The OZMA 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Fantasy Fiction
The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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.

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Laurel Anne Hill on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the OZMA BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the OZMA Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- C. D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
- Linnea Tanner – Skull’s Vengeance
- Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
- K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
- J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
- K.C. Cowan – Raeka’s Story
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 OZMA Awards is:

Soar a Burning Sky

By Steven Michael Beck

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

The Chanticleer Team
May 8, 2023
The LARAMIE 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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.

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by David Beaumier on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the LARAMIE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LARAMIE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Laramie Book Awards for Americana, Western, and First Nation Fiction, a division of the 2022 CIBAs.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!
- Eileen Charbonneau – Ursula’s Inheritance
- T.K. Conklin – Guarded Hearts
- E. Alan Fleischauer – J.T.’s World
- Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
- Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions
- Daniel Greene – Northern Blood
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 LARAMIE Awards is:

Guarded Hearts

by T.K. Conklin

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
May 5, 2023
The LITTLE PEEPS 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Early Readers and Children’s Fiction
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Civillia Winslow Hill on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the LITTLE PEEPS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LITTLE PEEPS Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Children’s Picture Books, a division of the 2022 CIBAs.
- Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
- Valerie Ramer – Alastair McAllister Goes to School
- Peggy Sullivan – Montana Cats
- Maggie Bates – Ravens Roost
- David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale
- Susan Conrad – Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz
- Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Ravens Roost

by Maggie Bates

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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

Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!
May 4, 2023
The 2022 SHORTS CIBAs Finalists for Collections and Novellas
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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 in the judging rounds from the 2022 Short List to the Shorts Book Awards Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

NOTE: We are posting the Short Stories and Essays in a different post.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Novellas!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me
- Kelly Evans – Stubborn: A Greek Comedy
- Susan Lehmann – Southern Lies and Homicides, Tales of Betrayal and Murder
- Susannah Dawn – I Am Who I’ve Always Been: Journey Excerpts
- Dale L. Roberts – Infestate
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – A Colossal Injustice: A Griffin Knight Corporate Murder Mystery
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – Do Nothing: A Griffin Knight Murder Mystery Thriller
- Chris Bennett – Advent – A Road to the Breaking Short Story
- Sara Connell – Ghost House
- Don Daglow – The Last One on the Run
- Barry Robbins – The Trump Diaries 2024
- Linnea Tanner – Two Faces of Janus
- Tessa Floreano – Slain Over Spumoni
- Jacek Waliszewski – Air Boat – Love is an Adventure
- W.A. Pepper – DoGoodR: A Tanto Thriller
- Pat Wahler – The Christmas Keepsake
- Britt Lind – A Fate Worse Than Death
- Arthur Herbert – Lockdown: A Collection of Dark Tales
- Mohan Ranga Rao – Geetha Essay – Domestic Work
- Endy Wright – The Garden Plot Diaries
- S A Melia – Aliens in Windsor
- Tamar Anolic – The Lonely Spirit
- Mekiya Walters – Cassandra Says
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Elizabeth Crowens for
New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst

Click here to see the 2021 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Shorts Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

Don’t Miss out! April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!
March 27, 2023
USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Evelina to publish her first ever biography | Grand Prize Nellie Bly Winner America’s Forgotten Suffragists

When your mission is to Discover Today’s Best Books, you can’t help but crow about it when good news comes for your authors!

Nicole Evelina’s book America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor took home the Grand Prize for Longform Journalistic Non-Fiction, and that book is now available to be shared widely with the world at large!

A USA Today Bestselling author, this is Evelina’s first ever biography, and we know it’s going to be huge!

After being forgotten for nearly 130 years, the “Mother of Suffrage in Missouri” and her husband are finally taking their rightful place in history.

St. Louisans Virginia and Francis Minor forever changed the direction of women’s rights by taking the issue to the Supreme Court for the first and only time in 1875, a feat never eclipsed even by their better-known peers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Yet despite a myriad of accomplishments and gaining notoriety in their own time, the Minors’ names have largely faded from memory. In 1867, Virginia founded the nation’s first organization solely dedicated to women’s suffrage—two years before Anthony formed the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA). Virginia and Francis were also the brains behind the groundbreaking idea that women were given the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, a philosophy the NWSA adopted for nearly a decade.

And their story doesn’t end there. After the court case, Francis went on to become a prolific writer on women’s rights and one of the first and strongest male allies of the suffrage movement. Virginia instigated tax revolts across the country and campaigned side-by-side with Anthony for women’s rights in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor is the first biography of these suffrage celebrities who were unique for their time in being jointly dedicated to the cause of female enfranchisement. This book follows their lives from slave-holding Virginians through their highly-lauded civilian work during the Civil War, and into the height of the early suffrage movement to show how two ordinary people of like mind, dedicated to a cause, can change the course of history.

Nicole Evelina is…

A USA Today bestselling author from St. Louis. Her specialties are historical fiction, non-fiction (biography, history and pop culture), and women’s fiction, with some poetry thrown in. Her books have won more than 50 awards, including four Book of the Year designations.

She’s represented by Amy Collins of Talcott-Notch Literary Services. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Independent Journal, Curve Magazine and numerous historical publications.

When not writing, you can find her reading, playing with her spoiled twin Burmese cats or at her day job as an internal communications (PR) manager. But that just pays the bills. To her core, she is a writer.

America’s Forgotten Suffragists is available now wherever books are sold! Village Books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.

Got your own Journalistic Non-Fiction? Submit to the Nellie Bly Awards today! See our full list of Book Award Programs here.

March 1, 2023
The 2022 Ozma CIBAs FINALISTS for Fantasy Fiction
The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2022 CIBAs OZMA division.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Ozma Book Awards FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Linnea Tanner – Skull’s Vengeance
- Eva Doherty Gremmert – The Fairy Fort
- Philip Carlisle – Surviving Eros
- Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy (the Chronicles of Chaos book 2)
- KC Cowan – Raeka’s Story
- J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
- M. K. Wiseman – Magical Intelligence
- K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
- Stavros Saristavros – Tome of Styx
- Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
- AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
- Helen Garraway – Sentinals Across Time
- J.L. Delavega – Smoke and Other Storms
- S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
- Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold as Hell
- C.D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
- Grayson W. Hooper – Shadebringer
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Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 OZMA Awards is:

Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846

by Laurel Anne Hill

The 2022 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 OZMA Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
February 24, 2023
The 2022 LITTLE PEEPS CIBAs Finalists for Early Readers & Picture Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 2022 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Little Peeps Early Readers Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
- Sara Tabibzadeh – Two Cherries
- Anthony C. Delauney – Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work
- Travis D. Peterson – Ada and the Helpers
- Helen M. Waters – A Story About Sprout
- Richard Ceasor – Grandma I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale
- Susan Conrad – Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey to the Oceans
- Cynthia C. Huijgens – A Fish Called Andromeda
- C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
- Valerie Ramer – Alastair McAllister Goes to School
- Peggy Sullivan – Montana Cats
- Danielle Diestl – Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues
- Maggie Bates – Ravens Roost
- Cheryl Denise Bannerman – The Gecko Without An Echo
- Anthony C. Delauney – Dash and Nikki and The Jellybean Game
- David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale
- Cindy L. Rodriguez – Three Pockets Full: A story of love, family, and tradition
- Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
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Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Victoria and the Big, Brave Breath

by Andrea Vaughan

See the Full List of 2021 Winners here

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

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
February 24, 2023
The 2022 JOURNEY CIBAs Finalists for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction
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 Semi-Finalist Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23). 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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
- Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
- Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
- Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
- Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
- Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
- Roselle Madrone – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
- D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
- Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
- Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
- Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
- Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
- Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
- M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
- Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
- Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
- Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
- Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
- Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
- Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
- Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
- Denise Collins – What Happened to John
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Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

Andrea Wilson Woods

The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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 11th annual conference and discover why!
February 22, 2023
The 2022 CLUE CIBA Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers
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 all 2022 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Clue Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Finalists and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Marie Sutro – Dark Obsessions
- J.J. Clarke – Dared to Dream
- Martin Roy Hill – Upriver
- Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes, a Babs Norman Mystery
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Spree, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Kevin G. Chapman – Dead Winner
- Michael Stockham – Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
- Michael Pronko – Azabu Getaway
- Saralyn Richard – Bad Blood Sisters
- Brenda Stanley – The Still Small Voice
- Bryan Cassiday – Knot of Fear
- Danielle M. Wong – Last Liar Standing
- Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
- Arthur Herbert – The Bones of Amoret
- Britt Lind – Malevolence – A Hollywood Mystery
- D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
- Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
- Paul Attaway – Eli’s Redemption
- Paul Attaway – Blood in the Low Country
- Lisa Towles – Ninety-Five
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Susan Wingate – When You Leave Me
- Alexandrea Weis – Have You Seen Me?
- Jodé Millman – Hooker Avenue
- Brian Cuban – The Ambulance Chaser
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CLUE Awards was:

The Vines

by Shelley Nolden

See the full list of 2021 winners here!

The 2022 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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February 20, 2023
The 2022 SHORTS CIBAs Short List for Collections and Novellas
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

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 in the judging rounds from the 2022 Entries to the Shorts Book Awards Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist Positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

NOTE: We are posting the Short Stories and Essays in a different post.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Novellas!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me
- Kelly Evans – Stubborn: A Greek Comedy
- Susan Lehmann – Southern Lies and Homicides, Tales of Betrayal and Murder
- Susannah Dawn – I Am Who I’ve Always Been: Journey Excerpts
- Virginia Crow – Haunting Whispers of Highland Waters
- Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
- Dale L. Roberts – Infestate
- Walli Ann Wisniewski – Wanderings in Opera Shoes
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – A Colossal Injustice: A Griffin Knight Corporate Murder Mystery
- Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – Do Nothing: A Griffin Knight Murder Mystery Thriller
- Chris Bennett – Advent – A Road to the Breaking Short Story
- Sara Connell – Ghost House
- Don Daglow – The Last One on the Run
- Edward Morrow – Tree S.T.A.R.S: Dominion
- Barry Robbins – The Trump Diaries 2024
- Linnea Tanner – Two Faces of Janus
- Tessa Floreano – Slain Over Spumoni
- Jacek Waliszewski – Air Boat – Love is an Adventure
- Andrew Farkas – The Great Indoorsman
- W.A. Pepper – DoGoodR: A Tanto Thriller
- Pat Wahler – The Christmas Keepsake
- Britt Lind – A Fate Worse Than Death
- Arthur Herbert – Lockdown: A Collection of Dark Tales
- Mohan Ranga – Geetha Essay – Domestic Work
- Endy Wright – The Garden Plot Diaries
- Suzanne Smith – The Mortal Vampire
- S A Melia – Aliens in Windsor
- Tamar Anolic – The Lonely Spirit
- Mekiya Walters – Cassandra Says
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Elizabeth Crowens for
New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst

Click here to see the 2021 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Shorts Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

Don’t Miss out! April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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!
February 17, 2023