Tag: Long List

  • The 2022 Laramie Book Awards Long List for Americana Fiction – a division of the 2022 CIBAs

    The 2022 Laramie Book Awards Long List for Americana Fiction – a division of the 2022 CIBAs

    Laramie Americana, Western Pioneer, Civil War Fiction Award

    The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre.  The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Laramie Americana entries to the 2022 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Laramie Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

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

    • Jerry E. Bustin – Outlaws, Renegades, and Prickly Pear Jam
    • Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions: The Women of Wyatt Earp
    • Shanna Hatfield – Distracting the Deputy
    • James W McDonopugh – A Distant Ridge
    • Bruce Gardner – Seeing Glory: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith, and the American Civil War
    • David Nix – Dead Man’s Hand
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – JTs World
    • Susan Higginbotham – John Brown’s Women: A Novel
    • Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
    • T.K. Conklin – Guarded Hearts
    • Larry Boucher – Ferris Station
    • Larry Boucher – The Scout
    • Ed Davis – The Last Professional
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – How the West Was Won then Lost …. Decimation
    • M.J. Hayes – Son of the Mountain
    • Sophia Alexander – Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
    • Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
    • Dena Smallwood – Syrie
    • Betty Willis – Texas Quest
    • Shanna Hatfield – Holiday Hope
    • Susanna Lane – Imperfect Promise
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Ursula’s Inheritance
    • Harriet Cannon – Exiled South
    • Margaret Arross – The Priest and the Charlatan
    • Margaret Arross – El Viento
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Blood (Northern Wolf Series Book 3)

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 LARAMIE Awards is Tom Sawyer Returns by E.E. Burke

    Click here to see the 2021 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Laramie Book Awards for Americana Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

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

    CAC23 – Turn it up to 11! April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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

    Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!

    As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com. 

  • The M&M 2022 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2022 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Cozy and not-so-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem. The M&M Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards.)

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 M&M entries to the 2022 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2022 M&M Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the next level of achievement in the CIBAs. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies on April, 27-30, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    These titles have advanced to the LONG LIST of the 2022 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Scott Kauffman – Saving Thomas
    • Miriam Verbeek – The Website
    • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Frozen in Motion
    • Kathleen Kaska – Murder at the Menger and Eagle Crossing
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Missing at Harmony Festival
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Styled for Murder
    • Charlotte Stuart – Not Me: Speluncaphobia, Secrets & Hidden Treasure
    • Charlotte Stuart – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
    • M. A. Winslow – Cradle of Storms
    • Sallie Barr Palmer – Name Your Poison
    • Nicole Asselin – Concession Stand Crimes
    • Tony Garritano – I Saw What I Saw: A Harmony Neighborhood Mystery
    • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes
    • Lynn Slaughter – Deadly Setup
    • Doug Dorsey – Kick Ball Slay: An Introduction To West Coast Swing…AND A Murder Mystery
    • Cheryl Denise Bannerman – Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping
    • Rima Ray – Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls
    • Roxanne Dunn – Murder Undetected
    • Susan Wingate – Gag Me: A Friday Harbor Novel
    • Landis Wade – Deadly Declarations
    • Judy L Murray – Murder in the Master
    • Jen Shieff – The Final Call
    • Dime Sheppard – Crime Writer
    • Betty Jean Craige – Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo
    • TJ Stecker – Dishonored
    • Henry G. Brinton – Windows of the Heavens
    • Lori Robbins – Murder in Second Position
    • Traci Andrighetti – Valpolicella Violet
    • Gail Meath – Songbird
    • Betty Jean Craige – Death in Potter’s Woods
    • Kathleen Rhoads Carpenter – Summer’s Cloud Over Berry
    • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
    • M. K Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery
    • Carl and Jane Bock – Grace Fully
    • Carl and Jane Bock – Day of the Jaguar
    • Elizabeth Woolsey – Horse Doctor Adventures Small Town Secrets
    • M. K. Dean – An Embarrassment of Itches
    • Ellen Butler – Pharaoh’s Forgery

    Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.


    Congratulations to Michale Scott Garvin whose work Ophelia’s Room took home the Grand Prize for the 2021 M&M Book Awards

    Blue and Gold Badge for the M&M Grand Prize Winner Michael Scott Garvin's book Ophelia's Room

    Ophelia's Room Cover

    “Michael Scott Garvin’s latest psychological thriller makes us question everything – and trust no one. Here’s one that will keep you up at night! Highly Recommended! – Chanticleer Reviews

    Here is the link to the 2021 M&M Book Award Winners!

    Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held during CAC23 on April 27-30, 2023  for the 2022 CIBA winners.

    Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

    We are now accepting entries into the 2023 M&M Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com. 

  • The CYGNUS 2022 CIBAs Long List for Science Fiction

    The CYGNUS 2022 CIBAs Long List for Science Fiction

    Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

    The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction entries  to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2022 Cygnus 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, CAC23.

    a Wreath surrounds CAC 2023 for the Chanticleer Authors Conference
    Save the Date! CAC23 is April 27-30, 2023 at the Hotel Bellwether

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

    • Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
    • Timothy S. Johnston – An Island of Light
    • Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
    • Charles Ross – The Future is a Memory
    • Sebastian Dax – Grasp of Erebus
    • J. N. Johnson – Pig
    • Annie Williams – Maximized Entropy: Death of the Internet
    • Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
    • D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
    • O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
    • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
    • Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
    • S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
    • S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
    • Steven Paul Terry – Star Revelations
    • Michael Simon – Extinction
    • Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
    • Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
    • Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
    • Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
    • PA Vasey – Harbinger
    • Sandra J. Jackson – Dancing in the Wind, Book 3 Escape Series
    • Dana Hayward – Entropy
    • John J. Spearman – Pike’s Passage
    • Steve Ramirez – The Great Migration
    • E. R. Harris – Surf the Milky Way
    • U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
    • Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
    • J. B. Christensen – Dylan McLeod-Vexor City
    • Lucien Telford – The Sequence
    • Kristopher Clewell – The Penrose Triangle
    • Wilson Whitlow – Consent, Vol. 1: Erdos
    • Chris Black – NORAD’s Ghost
    • Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
    • James McGill Jr – The Alien Agenda: The Earth is a Garden
    • Prescott Harvey – In Beta
    • Alex Usher – The Age Of Obsidian
    • Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident

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

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    Click here to see the 2021 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

    Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2021 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers & Picture Books – CIBAs Short List

    Two little chicks, fresh from their egg

    The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2021 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    •  David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Great Engine Room Takeover
    • Brooks Olbrys – Blue Ocean Bob Discovers His Purpose
    • Peggy Sullivan – Shadow Walkers, The Secret Lives of the Shy Sisters
    • M. Lisa Rinaca – Matt Needs A Werewolf
    • Dana Brackob – Molly: A Love Story
    • Andrea Vaughan – Victoria and the Big, Brave Breath 
    • Linda Harkey – The Remarkable Story of Willie the Crow
    • Brenda Faatz & Peter Trimarco – Now What?
    • Susan Faw – Poppy Ogopogo
    • Katy McQuaid – Everybody Loves Grace: An Amazing True Story of How Grace Brings Love to Everyone She Meets
    • Vincent Kelly – All People are Beautiful
    • Wanda Carter Roush – You Got This – A Tale of Courage
    • Denise Ditto – Tooth Fairy Day Celebration
    •  Avril van der Merwe – I Don’t Want To Be a Hyena
    • Stephanie Matolyak & Deborah Bailey – A Farm Animals’ Christmas – No Ordinary Farm
    • Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey Through Our Solar System
    • Steven Haggard – There’s an Elephant in My Room!
    • Zaynab Al-Yassiri – LunchBox Wisdom
    • Cindy A. Bell – I Love You, Fiorella, Flaws and All!
    • Kevin Brougher – Grandpa Kevin’s…Jack and the Bean Stalk
    • Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Stars of Wonder
    • Lauren Stockly – Mindful Monsters Therapeutic Workbook
    • Lauren Stockly – Be Mindful of Monsters
    • Kyle Poehls – From Nicholas To Christmas
    • Michael Ferrone – Frankenbots: Sunken City of Scraps
    • Karen B. Kurtz – Sophia’s Gift
    • M. Lisa Rinaca – Just James
    • Cynthia Kern O’Brien – I Don’t Want to go to Preschool, the Fairy Queen Call
    • Megan Herr – Lucas Takes His Food Allergies to Daycare
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Charlie Lou Goes to the Rodeo
    • Deborah Serani – Sometimes When I’m Mad

     


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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is Masoud Malekyari for Great As A Button

    Cover for Great as a Button by Masoud Malekyari

    A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Little Peeps Children’s Books Great as a Button by Masoud Malekyari

    Click here to see the 2020 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Early Readers Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Literature. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:

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

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

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

  • The 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

    The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Shorts Book Awards entries to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (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. 

    NOTE: We are posting the Individual Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas in a different post. These are Collected Works

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies!

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    These titles have advanced to the Short List of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies and are in the run for the FINALISTS!

    • Grendolyn Peach Soleil – The Mermaids Melt at Dawn for Fantasy and Myth
    • Susannah Dawn – K Team – 4th Galactic Cavalry for Space Opera
    • Russ Colson – Kernels of Mind – for Philosophical SciF
    • Leah Angstman – Shoot the Horses First for Americana Fiction
    • Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles for 20th c. Wartime Fiction
    • Susannah Dawn – I’m Not What I Used To Be, Yet I Am Who I’ve Always Been – Excerpts From My Journey for Personal Journey Non-Fiction
    • Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry for Family Stories
    • Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal for Personal Growth and Romance
    • Domenick Venezia – The Edwerd Chronicles for Magical Realism
    • Dianne Ebertt Beeaff – On Traigh Lar Beach for Connections
    • K. – Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories for Literary Love Stories
    • Dreena Collins – She Had Met Liars Before for Literary
    • Michael T. Tusa Jr. – A House Without Books for Social Themes and Philosophy
    • Elizabeth Crowens – New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst for Anthologies and Mixed Media
    • Jeff Richards – Everyone Worth Knowing for Literary
    • Maria Rybakova – Quaternity: Four Novellas From The Carpathians for Contemporary Themes
    • Frances Howard-Snyder – Through a Glass Darkly for Contemporary Themes
    • Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Histories for Historical Comedy
    • Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Fizzies for Satire
    • James Musgrave – The Valley of the Dogs for Absurdism


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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Pierce Koslosky Jr. for A Week at Surfside Beach

    The cover of A Week at Surfside Beach by Pierce Koslosky Jr

     

    Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

    FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

  • The 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas (Individual Works) – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, and Novellas. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

    The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Shorts Book Awards entries to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Shorts Finalist positions.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners will be announced on June 25th  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. 

    NOTE: We are posting the Collected Works such as Short Story or Essay Collections and Anthologies in a different post. These are Individual Works

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    Out of This World Fiction  (Cygnus (SciFi), OZMA (Fantasy), Paranormal (Supernatural)

    • Susannah Dawn – Command of the Butterfly
    • Susannah Dawn – On The Run With Meagan Wise
    • J.L Oakley – Dragons End
    • Karina McRoberts – Dargo – Eco Hero!
    • Susan Faw – The Wizard of Bastion
    • Diamond Ligues – The Bird of Hermes Shall Get its Wings
    • M.J. Fitzmaurice – The Night Warrior
    • Gina Detwiler – Before: Jared’s Story
    • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
    • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask

      Mysteries and Suspense  (Mystery/Thriller/CLUE)

      • Monique Snyman – Black Mariah: Victoria West, Northern Cape, South Africa
      • Dalton Mire – A Chance to Serve
      • M. K. Wiseman – Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper of Whitechapel
      • Lori Robbins – Leading Ladies

          The Historicals  (Chaucer/Goethe/Hemingway)

          • David Martyn – Huldah and the Last Righteous King.
          • Kristie Clark – Dragon of the Sea
          • Nicole Evelina – Consequences
          • Joy Ross Davis – The Sutler of Petersburg
          • Elizabeth Wolf – The Royal Foetus: A very short novel based on the very short life of King Louis XVII
          • Breakfield and Burkey – Out of Poland

          Box of Chocolates Assortment

          • Lindy Miller – Sleigh Bells on Bread Loaf Mountain
          • James Musgrave – The Castaways of Mar-a-Lago
          • Barry Robbins – Oh Daddy Chronicles: The Tasting
          • David Perlmutter – No Son Of Mine
          • Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
          • Jean-Jacques Jura – Acadian Chronicles: When Ancestors Look Down

          Somerset – Literary & Contemporary Fiction

          • Toni Ann Johnson – Homegoing
          • Mekiya Walters – Bathwater (or, The Miseducation of Ness Chairmonte)
          • Esta Lemon – The Name.
          • Frances Howard-Snyder – Face to Face
          • J.F. Penn – Blood, Sweat, and Flame
          • Dalton Mire – A Minefield of Memories
          • Grace Sikorski – How To Become a Mother

          Narrative Non-Fiction

          • Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
          • J. L. Oakley – Putting Things Away
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Love
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves 
          • Vicky Oliver – A Valentine to my Mothers and Other Dubious Role Models
          • Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

          This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews. FB rules — not ours.

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

           

          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Robin Lee Lovelace

          for Savonne, Not Vonny

          Cover of Savonne, Not Vonny by Robin Lee Lovelace

          Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

        • The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

          The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

          Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

          The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

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

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

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

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

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

          Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
          • Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
          • Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
          • Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
          • William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
          • Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
          • Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
          • Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
          • Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
          • Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
          • Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
          • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
          • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
          • Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
          • Krista Nerestant – Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma 
          • Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
          • Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
          • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
          • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
          • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability 
          • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
          • Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon

          If you entered your work into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see it on the list, please check our other non-fiction divisions, as the judges may have deemed that the work belongs in a different division. The many works that have been entered into the Journey Book Awards should have trigger warnings. This is why the judges requested the new division of the Hearten Book Awards for inspirational/uplifting works that overcome adversity. Other works may have moved to other divisions such as Nellie Bly or the Shorts if they did not meet word count requirements.

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of  Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil 

          The cover for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

          Blue and Gold Journey Grand Prize Winner Badge for The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt

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

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

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

           

           

        • The 2021 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

          The Boxcar Children from the famed series by Gertrude Warner

          The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction.  The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          The Gertrude Warner Book Awards competition is named for Gertrude Chandler Warner, the wonderful author of The Boxcar Children.

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards here and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards here.

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

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

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

          These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

          Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Didem Saracel – Story of Carbon
          • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
          • Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
          • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
          • B.L. Smith – Serious Business on Albatross Lane
          • K.P. Boardman – The Falling Sisters
          • Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
          • J. B. Spector – The Sunlit Curse, Book 1 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
          • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
          • James Love – Max Voltage: Multiverse Mayhem
          • Ben Gartner – Sol Invictus
          • Ronnie Swire Siegel – Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm
          • Esta Lemon – The Loser Blog
          • KS Mitchell – The Mystery of the Golden Ball: Pen & Quin International Agents of Intrigue
          • McKemie Huston – Return of the Last Prism
          • Emmett J Hall – RUNAWAY
          • Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
          • Raea Gragg – Mup
          • Moira Siobhan – Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe
          • Laurie Calkhoven – Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training
          • Peter Solomon – The Stardust Mystery
          • D. H. Timpko – The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment
          • Susan McCormick – The Antidote
          • Gloria Two-Feathers – Buck Keeper of the Meadow
          • Jay Spencer – The Phantom Airplane Mystery

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 GERTRUDE WARNER Awards is Kelly Oliver for Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter

          Cover of Kassy O'Roarke Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver

          A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Readers Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver
          Click here to see the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

        • The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

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

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

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

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

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
          • Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
          • Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
          • Lisa Smith Molinari – The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com  
          • Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
          • Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
          • Wendy Sanford – These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
          • Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
          • Jeremy Rhyne – His Name is Cwiz
          • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
          • Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them 
          • George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
          • Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
          • Leah Witman Moore – Loving You Big: Embracing the Unexpected
          • Shelby Wagner – Learning to Dance in the Rain II
          • Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee 
          • Rod Baker – Unexpected Treasures – Running a Mental Health Nonprofit
          • Linda Jamsen – Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding 
          • Evelyn LaTorre – Love in Any Language
          • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
          • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
          • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
          • Robert E. Lofthouse – Honor Through Sacrifice
          • Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Love
          • Jane Eden – Nail Soup
          • Allison Hong Merrill – Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
          • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
          • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
          • Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
          • Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
          • Kim Fairley – Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
          • George Kohn – Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot
          • Sara Easterly – Searching for Mom: A Memoir
          • Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love 
          • Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home 
          • Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
          • Audrey Stelzig and Norman L. Johnson, MD – Grandpa, Were You Ever a Kid
          • Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
          • Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana #2
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • Colonel Van H. Slayden, USAF, with Patrecia Slayden Hollis – Normandy to Nazi Surrender, Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
          • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
          • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs 
          • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
          • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Three
          • Marcus A. Nannini – Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power  
          • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
          • Gerri Almand – Running from Covid in our RV Cocoon

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 HEARTEN Awards is Judy Gaman for Love, Life, and Lucille

          Cover of Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

          Blue and Gold Badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Hearten Awards Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

          Click here to see the 2020 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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

           

           

        • The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

          I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA Badge

          The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight non-fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented.  The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

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

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

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

          These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!

          Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

          • Aaron Taylor – Stretching Your Way to a Pain-Free Life: Illustrated Stretches for Sports, Medical Conditions and Specific Muscle Groups
          • Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
          • Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (co-authors) – Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World
          • Brian Dillon – From Ex To Excellence  
          • David Perlmutter – The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows 
          • David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
          • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
          • Eleanor K. Smith and Margaret Pastor – One School’s Journey – Further Down the Path
          • George Marino, CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
          • Geraldine Clouston and Susan Weintrob – indieBRAG Eat, Read & Dream Cookbook
          • Jennifer George – Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing 
          • Jim & Jessica Braz – Baby Out of Wedlock  
          • Judy Taylor – Breaking the Boundaries: The Rug Hooking Artistry of Sharon Johnston 
          • Kaitlyn Jain – Passports and Pacifiers? Traveling the World, One Tantrum at a Time 
          • Kelly Tan Peterson, Dan Peterson, MD. – KETO BAKED
          • M. J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. – A Handbook for Emerging and Seasoned Authors
          • Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson – Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
          • Phoebe Walker – Freedom Found – Productive and Joyful Living In Spite of Chronic Pain
          • Rob White – The Maestro Monologue
          • Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
          • Sabbithry Persad – What Is Coronavirus? How It Infects, How It Spreads, and How to Stay Safe
          • Stan Bernard, MD, MBa – BRANDS DON’T WIN: How Transcenders Change the Game
          • Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage  
          • Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls   
          • Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
          • Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
          • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two 
          • Jan Kaa Kristensen – Splitting Up Without Falling to Pieces
          • Melanie Choukas-Bradley – Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
          • Vindy Teja – YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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          The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 I&I Awards is Wendela Whitcomb Marsh for Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success

          Cover for Independent Living with Autism by Wendela Whitcomb Marsh

          Blue and Gold I & I 2020 Grand Prize Winner Badge for

          Click here to see the 2020 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

          We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

          Please click here for more information.

          See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

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

           

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

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