Tag: Historical Novel Society

  • The Chaucer 2024 Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

    The Chaucer 2024 Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

    A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottomThe Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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 from the 2024 CHAUCER Semi-Finalists to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards FINALISTS.  FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

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

    • Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
    • Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
    • Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
    • Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
    • Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
    • Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
    • C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
    • Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
    • Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
    • Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
    • Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
    • Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
    • M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
    • John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
    • Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
    • Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

    The Merchant From Sepharad

    By James Hutson-Wiley

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Merchant from Sepharad by James Hutson-Wiley for winning the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize

     

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

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Semi-Finalists for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Semi-Finalists for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

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

    • Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
    • Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider 
    • Mark Barie – For King Country and Love
    • Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
    • R L Pace – Rising Son
    • Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
    • David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
    • Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
    • Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
    • Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
    • Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
    • Shanna Hatfield – Molly
    • Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
    • Gary Santos – A Grand Pause
    • Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
    • Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
    • Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
    • Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
    • Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
    • Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
    • Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
    • H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

    The Silver Waterfall

    By Kevin Miller

    The Silver Waterfall Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Silver Waterfall by Kevin Miller for winning the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The Chaucer 2024 Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

    The Chaucer 2024 Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

    A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottomThe Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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 from the 2024 CHAUCER Short List to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS.  FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Early Historical Fiction!

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

    • Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
    • Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
    • Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
    • Jessica Russell – Hot Winter Sun
    • J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s War
    • Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
    • Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
    • Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
    • C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
    • Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
    • Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
    • Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
    • Johnny Teague – The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene
    • Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
    • Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
    • M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
    • John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
    • Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
    • Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

    The Merchant From Sepharad

    By James Hutson-Wiley

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Merchant from Sepharad by James Hutson-Wiley for winning the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize

     

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

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

    The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will berecognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

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

    • Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
    • Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
    • Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
    • Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
    • Brook Allen – West of Santillane
    • James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
    • Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
    • Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
    • Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
    • Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
    • Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
    • Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
    • John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
    • R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
    • Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
    • Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
    • Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
    • M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
    • Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
    • Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent

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

     

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

    If Someday Comes

    By David Calloway

    If Someday Comes Cover

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The Chaucer 2024 Short List for Early Historical Fiction

    The Chaucer 2024 Short List for Early Historical Fiction

    A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottomThe Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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 from the 2024 CHAUCER Long List entries to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Chaucer Semi-Finalists.  FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

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

    • Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
    • Mark Kraver – The Willow
    • Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
    • Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
    • Ursula Werner – Magda Revealed
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
    • Jessica Russell – Hot Winter Sun
    • J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s War
    • Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
    • Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
    • Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
    • C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
    • Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
    • Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
    • Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
    • Johnny Teague – The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene
    • Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
    • Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
    • M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
    • John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
    • Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
    • Catherine Hughes – In Silence Cries the Heart
    • Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

    The Merchant From Sepharad

    By James Hutson-Wiley

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Merchant from Sepharad by James Hutson-Wiley for winning the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize

     

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

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

    The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

    If Someday Comes

    By David Calloway

    If Someday Comes Cover

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Short List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Short List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

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

    • Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
    • Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider 
    • Mark Barie – For King Country and Love
    • Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
    • R L Pace – Rising Son
    • Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
    • David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
    • Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
    • Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
    • J.A. Nunn – The Stuff What Actually Is
    • Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
    • Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
    • Shanna Hatfield – Molly
    • Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
    • Gary Santos – A Grand Pause
    • Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
    • Steve Bassett – Love In the Shadows Passaic River Trilogy Comes to an End
    • Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
    • Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
    • Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
    • Jillianne Hamilton – The Land Girl on Lily Road
    • Jillianne Hamilton – The Hobby Shop on Barnaby Street
    • Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
    • Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
    • Ingrid McCarthy – Anna’s Shadow
    • Miles Watson – Sinner’s Cross
    • Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
    • H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

    The Silver Waterfall

    By Kevin Miller

    The Silver Waterfall Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Silver Waterfall by Kevin Miller for winning the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The Chaucer 2024 Long List for Early Historical Fiction

    The Chaucer 2024 Long List for Early Historical Fiction

    A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottomThe Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 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 first look rounds from all 2024 CHAUCER entries to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Chaucer Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Early Historical Fiction!

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

    • Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
    • Mark Kraver – The Willow
    • Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
    • Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
    • Ursula Werner – Magda Revealed
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
    • Jessica Russell – Hot Winter Sun
    • Eric C. Miller – No Sympathy For The Devil
    • J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s War
    • Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
    • Stefan Scheuermann & Paul Alexander – King of the Gulls
    • Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
    • Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
    • C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
    • Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
    • Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
    • Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
    • Johnny Teague – The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene
    • Sheri Graubert – Molly Shipton, Secret Actress
    • Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
    • Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
    • M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
    • John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
    • Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
    • Catherine Hughes – In Silence Cries the Heart
    • Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

    The Merchant From Sepharad

    By James Hutson-Wiley

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Merchant from Sepharad by James Hutson-Wiley for winning the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize

     

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

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

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

    The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Goethe Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

    If Someday Comes

    By David Calloway

    If Someday Comes Cover

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Long List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Long List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

    These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction entries to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Hemingway Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

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

    • Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
    • Dian Greenwood – Forever Blackbirds
    • Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider 
    • Kevin Schewe Md – Bad Love Medicine the Bad Love Series Book
    • Mark Barie – For King Country and Love
    • Mark Kraver – Janszoon in the Pursuit of Love Family and an Enduring Legacy
    • Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
    • R L Pace – Rising Son
    • Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
    • David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
    • Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
    • Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
    • Peter J. Marzano – Taken from Carinhall
    • J.A. Nunn – The Stuff What Actually Is
    • Diana Lee – The Green Crossing
    • Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
    • John Middleton – Noble Conspiracy
    • Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
    • Shanna Hatfield – Molly
    • Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
    • Gary Santos – A Grand Pause
    • Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
    • Steve Bassett – Love In the Shadows Passaic River Trilogy Comes to an End
    • Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
    • Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
    • Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
    • Jillianne Hamilton – The Land Girl on Lily Road
    • Jillianne Hamilton – The Hobby Shop on Barnaby Street
    • Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
    • Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
    • Ingrid McCarthy – Anna’s Shadow
    • Miles Watson – Sinner’s Cross
    • Jamie Kirkpatrick – This Salted Soil
    • Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
    • H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

    The Silver Waterfall

    By Kevin Miller

    The Silver Waterfall Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Silver Waterfall by Kevin Miller for winning the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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

    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!