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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
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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.

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December 6, 2021
HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – a division of the 2020 CIBAs
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging talent in 20th Century Wartime Historical Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a NEW division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs in this new and important division.

New Division at the CIBAs: The Hemingway Book Awards

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The Hemingway Book Awards competition is our nod to one of our favorite 20th Century American novelists, journalists, and short story authors, Ernest Hemingway. Born on July 21, 1899, Hemingway was one of many who experienced the massive global shift from regional wars to large-scale, world wars. The events he lived through made him the man we know today. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, Hemingway’s influence reaches virtually all genres of literature. (Find out more about the man here.)

The 2020 HEMINGWAY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips, Overall Grand Prize Winner in the 2014 CIBAs for his manuscript, Love of Finished Years, which is now a top-selling historical fiction novel that deals with World War I.

Congratulations to all!
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- Catherine A. Hamilton –Victoria’s War
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 HEMINGWAY Awards is:

J. L. Oakley

The QUISLING FACTOR

The 2021 HEMINGWAY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

The HEMINGWAY Book Awards is open to take submissions for 2021! Click here to enter the Hemingway Book Awards

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
June 14, 2021
GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Novels – a division of the 2020 CIBA Awards
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

We have received a large number of Historical Fiction in the last years to the point that we need a new division! See Hemingway Awards for our new division!

The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

NOTE: We received so many wonderful historical novels that we decided that another division was needed—the Hemingway Book Awards for 20-century Wartime Novels—to recognized these important works. If you entered the Goethe Book Awards with a wartime novel (WWI, WWII, Vietnam Conflict, etc), please check the Hemingway Book Awards post.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 GOETHE Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the GOETHE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to the 2020 1st Place Winners in the GOETHE Book Awards!
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is:

Linda Ulleseit for

The Aloha Spirit

The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2021 GOETHE Book Awards are open. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
June 14, 2021
The 2020 Finalists for the GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction CIBAs
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.

The 2020 Finalists for the Goethe Book Awards

Congratulations to these works that advanced to the Premier Finalists Level of the CIBA judging rounds:
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Liza Nash Taylor – Etiquette for Runaways
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2021. The 2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 26, 2021
Part Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners
We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The winners were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies that were held on during VCAC September 8 – 13, 2020 by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

We cheered on the CIBA Premier Finalists with our bubbly of choice from wherever we were Zooming!

The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America. A virtual happy hour was held following each evening’s announcements.

We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

Grand Prize Ribbons!

We are honored to present the

2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

Grand Prize Winners

The 2019 CIBA Winners!

The LARAMIE Book Awards for American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

The Grand Prize Winner is

SEVEN APRILS by Eileen Charbonneau
- - E. Alan Fleischauer – Rescued
    
    Lynwood Kelly – The Gamble: Lost Treasures
    
    David Fitz-Gerald– Wanders Far-An Unlikely Hero’s Journey
    
    Juliette Douglas – Bed of Conspiracy
    
    John Hansen – Hard Times
    
    J. R. Collins – Spirit of the Rabbit Place
The CHAUCER Book Awards for

Pre-1750s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

FORTUNE’S CHILD: A Novel of Empress Theodora

by James Conroyd Martin
- - Gail Avery Halverson for The Skeptical Physick
    
    Linda Cardillo for Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
    
    June Hall McCash for Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
    
    James Hutson-Wiley for The Sugar Merchant
    
    Catherine Mathis for Death in Coimbra
    
    Patricia J. Boomsma for The Way of Glory
    
    A.L. Cleven for 26.2
The GOETHE Book Awards for

Post-1750’s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

PECCADILLO at the PALACE by Kari Bovee
- - Vanda Writer for Paris, Adrift
    
    PJ Devlin for Wissahickon Souls
    
    Mary Adler for Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
    
    Mike Jordan for The Runner
    
    J.G. Schwartz for The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for

Early Readers and Picture Books

Grand Prize Winner is

GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie

by Trevor Young & Eleanor Long
- - Sylva Fae and Katie Weaver for Elfabet
    
    Lauren Mosback for My Sister’s Super Skills
    
    Norma Lewis for Totem Pole
    
    Kizzie Jones for A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes: How MORE Dogs Came to Be
    
    Justine Avery forWhat Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
    
    Kasey J. Claytor for Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside
    
    Robert Wright Jr for Mummy in the Museum
GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for

Middle-Grade Books

Grand Prize is

The VALLEY of DEATH, Book 5 by Alex Paul
- - Amber L. Wyss – Phoenix Rising
    
    M.J. Evans – PINTO!
    
    Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate
    
    Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale
    
    Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers
    
    Alex Paul – The Valley of Death, Book 5, Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals
    
    C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
    
    Trayner Bane – Windhollow and the Axe Breaker (Windhollows, Book 3)
    
    Carolyn Watkins – The Knock…a collection of childhood memories
The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards

for Young Adult Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

BUT NOT FOREVER by Jan Von Schleh
- - Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
    
    Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
    
    Susan Brown – Twelve
    
    Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia
    
    David Patneaude – Fast Backward
    
    John Middleton – Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
Congratulations to ALL!

We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

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Please standby for our next posts that will honor:
- Chatelaine Book Award Winners
- Somerset Book Award Winners
- Journey Book Award Winners
- Nellie Bly Book Award Winners
- Instructional and Insight Book Award Winners
And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2019 CIBAs!

Here is the link to the first installment for announcing the 2019 CIBAS.

Stay tuned for PART 3 of the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Award Winners

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 and 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com We will try to respond within 3 business days.

Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2019 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team
October 11, 2020