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!
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.
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.
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.
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. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST.
The 2020 Shortlist for the Goethe Book Awards
James Hockenberry –Send The Word
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
T. Matt Ryan –One Hell of a Shipmate
Richard Alan Schwartz –Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
Kari Bovee –Folly at the Fair
James Padian –A Patriot’s Challenges
Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
Kit Sergeant –The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
J.P. Kenna –The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
Jomo Merritt –Sons of a Mauffen King
J.L.Oakley –The Quisling Factor
Brigitte Goldstein –Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
D.V Chernov –Commissar
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
Nancy H. Wynen –We Did What We Could
Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
John Hansen –Secrets of the Gros Ventre
Eileen Harrison Sanchez –Freedom Lessons – A Novel
Elizabeth St. Michel –Lord of the Wilderness
Donna Scott –The London Monster
Jerena Tobiasen –The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
James Ross –Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
Jule Selbo –Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
Linda Stewart Henley –Estelle: A Novel
Gregory Erich Phillips –Guilty as Angels
Vicky Oliver –Love and Suffrage in Manhattan
Roger Newman –Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
Theo Czuk –Hastings Street: Boulevard Of Blues
Sandra Perez Gluschankoff –Thorns for Raisel
Ben Wyckoff Shore –Terribilita
Carmela Cattuti –Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
Wendy Long Stanley –The Power to Deny
David Selcer –The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
Pyram King –Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
Lucinda Brant –Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
Cris Harding –Red Wing
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The 2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.
The CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking for the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 CHAUCER Shortlist. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 Chaucer Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction.Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas
Patrick E. Craig – The Mennonite Queen
Regan Walker – Summer Warrior
N.L. Holmes – Bird in a Snare
Leah Angstman – Out Front the Following Sea
Bob Atkinson/Thoren Syndergaard – Ripley of Valor
Seven Jane – The Isle of Gold
Edward Rickford – The Bend of the River: Book Two in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy
Helena P. Schrader – The Emperor Strikes Back
B.L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
Catherine Meyrick – The Bridled Tongue
Dave & Steve Curliss – To Give Thanks – Our Pilgrim Ancestors
Dick Rosano – Islands of Fire: The Sicily Chronicles, Part I
Brook Allen – Antonius: Son of Rome
Sherry V. Ostroff – Caledonia
Amy Wolf – A Woman of the Road and Sea
Tony Dietz – Eve 1057
Marilyn Pemberton – Song of the Nightingale: a Tale of Two Castrati
K.M. Butler – The Welsh Dragon
Robert Wright – The Stone Gardner’s Fire, Second Book of the Before They Awaken Trilogy
Jim Fuxa – At War with Mars
Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
Marc Graham – Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun
Indra Zuno – Freedom Dues
Samary K. Birkline – MacGregor Strong
Janet Wertman – The Path to Somerset
Good Luck to All in the Next Rounds!
Congratulations to James Conroyd Martin whose work Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodoratook home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chaucer Book Awards and the overall BEST BOOK Grand Prize for 2019.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The Search for the Best New Post-1750s Historical Fiction
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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 – all set after the 1750s. We love them all.
The 2019 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Kaylin McFarren, CLUE Grand Prize winner 2017 – Twisted Threads, announced the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards.
This is the Official 2019 LIST of the GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift
Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls
Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery \
Mike Jordan – The Runner
J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
The GOETHE Book Awards
Grand Prize Winner is
Peccadillo at the Palace – An Annie Oakley Mystery
by Kari Bovee
This is the digital badge for the 2018 GOETHE Grand Prize Winner – The LOST YEARS of BILLY BATTLES by Ronald E. Yates.
How to Enter the GOETHE Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2021 GOETHE Book Awardsuntil June 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards are closed.
The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in mid-October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com ==we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Welcome to the SPOTLIGHT on post-1750 Historical Fiction novels… in other words,
Welcome to the GOETHE Book Awards!
Why do we like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe so very much? It’s simple! He’s the guy who wrapped up everything we believe in with this simple sentence:
“Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
Of course, this was also said about Goethe (Super Goethe by Ferdinand Mount) that “…[his] company could be exhausting. One minute he would be reciting Scottish ballads, quoting long snatches from Voltaire, or declaiming a love poem he had just made up; the next, he would be smashing the crockery or climbing the Brocken mountain through the fog.”
So…, moving on… Goethe was also a very cool guy. In his lifetime, he saw the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750 through Mary Shelley’s publishing of Frankenstein in 1818 – and everything in between! Check out the list of what happened during those nearly seventy decades at the end of this post – you will be A-Mazed!
Now, Welcome to the GOETHE Hall of Fame!
We wish to congratulate 2018’s Goethe Book Awards Grand Prize Winner –
Billy Battles is as dear and fascinating a literary friend as I have ever encountered. I learned much about American and international history, and you will too if you read any or all of the books. Each is an independent work, but if read in relation to the others, the reader experiences that all too rare sense of complete transport to another world, one fully realized in these pages because the storytelling is so skillful and thoroughly captivating. Trust me; you’ll want to read all three volumes. Chanticleer Reviewer’s Note
Mr. Ronald Yates not only won Grand Prize in the CIBAs 2018 GOETHE Awards – he won OVERALL GRAND PRIZE!
To learn more about Ronald E. Yates, please click here.
Congratulations to the 2018 Goethe Book Awards First Place Category Winners!
Submit your manuscript or recently released Historical Fiction (post-1750s) to the Chanticleer International Book Awards!
Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Goethe Awards is June 30, 2020.Enter here!
Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced during our 2020 conference, #CAC20.
The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.
Any entries received on or after June 30, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards that will be announced in April 2022.
As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your historical fiction deserves! Enter today!
The GOETHE Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.
The 2020 winners will be announced at the CIBA Awards Ceremony during #CAC20. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations!
Goethe
Some events that occurred during Goethe’s lifetime:
1750 – The Industrial Revolution began in England
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria
1761 – The problem of calculating longitude while at sea was solved by John Harrison
1765 – James Watts perfects the steam engine
1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany
1774 – Goethe’s romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, propels him into European fame
1774 – Goethe’s play Gotz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang premiers in Berlin
1776 – America’s 13 Colonies declare independence from England. Battles ensue.
1776 – Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations (the foundation of the modern theory of economics)
1776 – The Boulton and Watt steam engines were put to use ushering in the Industrial Revolution
1783 – The Hot Air Balloon was invented by the Montgolfier brothers in France.
1786 – Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart premiered in Vienna
1789 – George Washington is elected the first president of the United States of America
1780 – Antoine Lavoisier discovers the Law of Conservation of Mass
1789 – The French Revolution started in Bastille
1791 – Thomas Paine publishes The Rights of Man 1792 – Napoleon begins his march to conquer Europe
1799 – Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt
1802 – Beethoven created and performed The Moonlight Sonata 1802 – A child’s workday is limited to twelve hours per day by the British parliament when they pass their first Factory Act
1804 – Napoleon has himself proclaimed Emperor of France
1808 – Atomic Theory paper published by John Dalton
1811 – Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes a hypothesis, about the number of molecules in gases, that becomes known as Avogadro’s Law
1811 – Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously. It was critically well-received
1814 – Steam-driven printing press was invented which allowed newspapers to become more common
1818 – Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein 1832 – Goethe’s Faust, Parts 1 & 2 are published posthumously (March 22, 1832)
In 1830, Eugene Delacroix created Liberty Leading the People to epitomize the French Revolution. The movement officially began with the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a day that is still celebrated in France. The French people were rebelling against the extreme wealth of the French royal family who overtaxed and underpaid the people of France to the point where they could not even feed themselves and had nothing to lose by going to battle. They were starving to death. The uprising of 1830 was featured in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables (1862)
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s (1980s) musical can look at Delacroix’sLiberty Leading the Peopleand hear the lyrics of the song that serves as a call to revolution:
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people. Who will not be slaves again.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix, 1830. On display at the Lourve, Paris.
Do you have an early historical fiction manuscript or recently released novel? Submit your work to the CIBA 2019 CHAUCER Awards by
June 30, 2020, and see how your work stacks up against others.
We know you want to – because we never tire of promoting our authors’ achievements!
As in Chaucer’s words in the Nun’s Priest Tale of the Canterbury Tales,
“For crowing there was not his equal in all the land.”
We titled the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) division for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction the Chaucer Awards, after the English poet and author of the Canterbury Tales, because #CHAUCER.
But seriously, did you know that The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works in the English language? In fact, it was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed. So, yeah, #Chaucer
A woodcut from William Caxton’s second edition 0f the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483
Some interesting tidbits about Geoffrey Chaucer
born c. 1342/43 probably in London. He died on October 25, 1400
his father was an important London vintner
His family’s finances were derived from wine and leather
Chaucer spoke Middle English and was fluent in French, Latin, and Italian
He guided diplomatic missions across the continent of Europe for ten years where he discovered the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio whose The Decameron had a profound influence on Chaucer’s later works
He married well as his wife received an annuity from the queen consort of Edward III
His remains are interred in the Westminster Abbey
As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your historical fiction deserves! Enter today!
Welcome to the CHAUCER BOOK AWARDS HALL OF FAME
Click on the links below to read the Chanticleer Review of the award-winning work!
Regency: Traitor’s Gate by David Chacko & Alexander Kulcsar
Women’s Fiction/WWII: Wait for Me by Janet K. Shawgo
Medieval/Dark Ages:Divine Vengeanceby David Koons
Women’s Fiction/World History: Daughters of India by Kavita Jade
What are you waiting for? Before long the CHAUCER Book Award deadline will be history.
Submit your manuscript or recently released Historical Fiction (pre-1750s) to the Chanticleer International Book Awards!
Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Chaucer awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!
Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced on September 5, 2020.
Any entries received on or after June 30, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.
As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your historical fiction deserves! Enter today!
The CHAUCER Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.
The 2020 winners will be announced at the CIBA Awards Ceremony on September 5, 2020, which will take place during the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations!
The CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The CHAUCER Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named forGeoffrey Chaucerthe author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s. Our judges will read them to discover the best among them. The CIBAs discover today’s best books!
The 2019 CIBAs received an unprecedented number of entries making this book awards program even more competitive. More entries along with more competitive works make the final rounds of judging even more demanding. The judges have requesteda new level of achievementto be added to the rounds to acknowledge the entries that they deemed should receive a high level of recognition.
We decided that this was the time to incorporate the new level – The FINALISTS – as requested by the CIBA judges. This new level will be incorporated into the 2019 CIBAsLevels of Achievement. The FINALISTS were selected from the entries that advanced to the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards Semi-Finalists.
Congratulations to the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards FINALISTS
James Conroyd Martin –Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Gail Avery Halverson –The Skeptical Physick
Susanne Dunlap –Listen to the Wind
Linda Cardillo –Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
Cryssa Bazos –Severed Knot
Kate Murdoch– The Orange Grove
June Hall McCash –Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
James Hutson-Wiley –The Sugar Merchant
Alexandrea Weis –Realm
Catherine Mathis –Death in Coimbra
Patricia J. Boomsma –The Way of Glory
A.L. Cleven –26.2
Anna Belfrage –The Cold Light of Dawn
E. L. Diamond –The Wolf of God
These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
Congratulations to the authors whose works have advanced to the FINALISTS Level of Achievement!
The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners, the First Place Category Position Award Winners, and all Semi-Finalists will be announced at the postponed 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Gala, now re-scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2020.
Join us at the Chanticleer Authors Conference at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. Use our link above to register now for this exciting event!
We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2020. The winners will be announced in April 2021.
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 SLUSH pile to the LONG LIST to the Goethe Shortlist and have now advanced to the Goethe Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Congratulations to the 2019 Goethe Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction Semi-Finalists
James Anderson O’Neal – Riley and the Great War
Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift
Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
Kari Bovee – Girl with a Gun
Kari Bovee – Grace in the Wings
PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls
John Hansen – Hard Times
Patricia Suprenant – Journey to the Isle of Devils
Lee Hutch – So Others May Live
Mike Jordan – The Runner
Lisa Braver Moss – SHRUG: A Novel
Sandra Wagner-Wright – Two Coins: A Biographical Novel
J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
Marina Osipova – How Dare The Birds Sing
Marilyn Pemberton – The Jewel Garden
Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at theApril 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2020. The 2020 winners will be announced in April 2021.
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 CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Women’s Fiction:
