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The 2024 Somerset Awards Long List for Literary and Contemporary Fiction
The Somerset Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Contemporary and Literary 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 contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. 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 first look rounds from all 2024 SOMERSET Contemporary Fiction entries to the 2024 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Somerset 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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Contemporary and Literary Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Conon Parks – Down and Out in Omaha
- Samantha Schinder – Loud Voices
- Rachel Valencourt – Twilight’s Brightest Star
- Deonna Kay – The Measure of Enough
- Torres & Firsht – Tell Me Your Plans
- Robert Steven Goldstein – Golda’s Hutch
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- Robert Gwaltney – Sing Down the Moon
- Ann Bancroft – Almost Family
- Kat Caldwell – Bended Loyalty
- Christina Boyd – Woman in the Painting
- Lisa Gruwell Spicer – Radio Smokva a Croatian American Story
- David B. Seaburn – Until It Was Gone
- Maryann Clarke – Secrets at the Aviary Inn
- Craig Allen Heath – Killing Buddhas
- Wesley J. Wildman – The Winding Way Home
- Leslie Wibberley – The Unraveling of Emma Hill
- Leslie Kain – What Lies Buried
- Melissa Connelly – What Was Lost
- Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
- Alissa Butterworth – To Die Is Different Than Supposed
- Jonna Lyons Johnson – Tapping Light
- Neroli Lacey – The Perfumer’s Secret
- Rupert Taylor – Please Let Me Destroy You
- Zelly Ruskin – Not Yours to Keep
- Donna Norman-Carbone – Of Lies and Honey
- Julie Weary – Never, Ever, Always
- D. L. Whipple – The Outcast
- John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
- Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice, Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
- William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
- Judith Krummeck – The Deceived Ones
- Leilana Rae – The Meaning Between Us
- Tamara Hart Heiner – Of Life, Love, and Other Noble Pursuits
- Ruth F. Stevens – The Unexpected Guests
- Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
- Allan Ishac – The Mystic In The Mews
- Keith McWalter – Lifers
- Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
- J. Drew – On the Surface of the Sun
- Joy Ross Davis – The Goddess of Weaver Street
- Dianne C. Braley – The Summer Before
- Phyllis Gobbell – Prodigal
- Stephanie Alexander – Mean Low Water
- S.M. Stevens – Beautiful and Terrible Things
- Natia Khaduri – A Soldier’s Burden
- Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
- Jeff Hartman – How To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
- Rich Miller – It Rhymes With Truth
- Anthony Horton – Unpaved
- Anne Heinrich – God Bless The Child
- Tamar Anolic – Like Water and Ice
- Patricia Averbach – Dreams of Drowning
- Antonia Gavrihel – Back to One: Take 4 Slating Magic Hour
- John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
- Meredith Walters – This Animal Body
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree: An Extraordinary Saga of Seven Generations
- Cheryl Grey Bostrom – Leaning on Air
- Erika Shepard – Abomination Child
- Leslie DeBrock – The Frog-Eyed Gospel, A Texas Exodus
- Mary Behan – Finding Isobel
- Linda A Lavid – Quigley Tree: A Novel
- Chris Chan – She Ruined Our Lives
- Ann Bancroft – Almost Family
- Jeffrey Blount – Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way
- R.w. Meek – The Dream Collector: Sabrine & Sigmund Freud
- Mary Elizabeth Gillilan – Confluence
- Holly C LaBarbera – All I Know
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Somerset Grand Prize Winner

You Can’t Fool A Mermaid

By Judy Keeslar Santamaria

Click here to see the full list of 2023 SOMERSET Book Award Winners for Contemporary Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 SOMERSET Book Awards for Contemporary 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!
December 26, 2024
The Dante Rossetti Awards 2024 Long List for Young Adult Fiction
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI entries to the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Dante Rossetti 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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Pam Binder – Raven Spirit
- Mark Kraver – The Willow
- John Be Lane – The Future Lies a Post-Dystopian Romantic Thriller
- Valerie Biel – Beyond the Cemetery Gate the Secret Keeper’s Daughter
- C.W. James – The Tomb of Ptahmes
- Kevin O’Flaherty – The Evolution of Nora O’Brien Pacheco
- Miki Mitayn – Heated Earth Aedgar Moves in
- Tory Gates – How the Story Ends
- Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Sacrifice (Book 2 of The Witches of Windsor)
- C.H. Brown – The Appearance of Power
- Sally DiPaula – Captain Moretti’s Daughter
- Laurie Stevens – The Return
- B. Lynn Goodwin – Disrupted
- Nat Bickel – The Catalyst
- Kelly Vincent – Ugliest
- Jeff Hartman – How To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
- John Daze – Rogues of the Crosslands Azorias Blade
- Lenore Borja – The Lost Portal (Mirror Realm Series Book II)
- C.E. Brown – Seeing Gray
- V. Romas Burton – Justified
- Kathryn Silver-Hajo – Roots of the Banyan Tree
- Michael J Bowler – Forever Boy
- Steve Schafer – eMortal
- CC Robinson – Divided: Book One In The Divided Series
- Glen Dahlgren – The Realm of Gods (The Chronicles of Chaos Book Three)
- Leslea Wahl – Charting the Course
- Jonathan Floyd – Lost on the Edge of Eternity
- Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pittman – Spectral Evidence
- M. Ch. Landa – Vandella: Resilience
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – Journey’s Travels – Mirrors
- D. K. Yamashiro – Anela’s Club
- J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
- John Middleton – The Pool of Initiation
- E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
- Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
- Rebecca A. Nagy – Phoenix Rising: Initiation
- Felicia Farber – Fake Out
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
- Maggie Hill- Sunday Money
- Joshua Witmyer – The Death of Capitalism
- Vito Dibarone – Botheration: Part One: The Missing Link
- Vito Dibarone – Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany
- Jennifer Haskin – The Clockwork Pen
- Maryanne Melloan Woods – Lazarus
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner

Sour Flower

By Maryanne Melloan Woods

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult 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!
December 22, 2024
The Laramie Awards 2024 Long List for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE entries to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Laramie 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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Robert Brighton – Winter in the High Sierra a Love Story
- Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
- Linda Paul – The Last Gypsy Queen
- Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
- Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – 1886 the Last Campaign
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
- Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
- Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
- Imogen Martin – Under A Gilded Sky
- Jonita Mullins – The Tearful Trail
- Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
- Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
- CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
- Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
- Brook Allen – West of Santillane
- Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
- John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
- Craig Hipkins – Bandy
- John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
- Josie Olsvig – Freedom’s Tears The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina and Port Royal Sound
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
  Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
  Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
- Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
- Paul Buchheit – 1871: Rivers on Fire
- Lynn Downey – Dude or Die
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western 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!
December 20, 2024
The 2024 Gertrude Warner Long List for Middle Grade Fiction
The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 GERTRUDE WARNER Middle Grade entries to the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Gertrude Warner 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.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Brian Starr – The Missing Children of Blackwood
- Valerie Biel – Haven
- Thomas Kuhn – Tommy Rocket and the Goober Patrol
- Michael L Ross – The Horse at Phantom Beach
- Norah Lally – Back To Bainbridge
- CK Van Dam – When the Chokecherries Bloom
- Lawrey Goodrick – Half-Life
- Christopher & Christine Kezelos – Intergalactic Jack and the Child of the Prophecy
- Debbie Noble Black – Deetjen’s Closet
- Gregory Saur – Drink the Blood
- M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams-The Story of a Girl and Her Pit Pony in the Coal Mines of South Wales
- ~CRK – ZCN & Friends: The Angel’s Curse
- Elisa Eliot – Zak Vs. Zombies
- Donald Willerton – War Train
- Claire Bahamon – The Giving Gifts
- M.C. Dingman – Samantha Smee: A Pirate’s Life
- Maggie Lynch – The Power of S.A.D.
- Jason Colpitts – Miss Adventure’s Misadventures
- Stephanie Brick – The Secret Doors of Cannondale
- Jane Hershberger – World of Green, World of Gray
- Sue C. Dugan – Mayday
- Douglas D. Meredith – Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two
- Douglas D. Meredith – Water: Generation Mars, Book Three
- Carolyn Armstrong – No Time To Waste
- Sherry Roberts – The Galaxy According to Cece
- Linda Moore Kurth – Born for Trouble
- Laura J Peterson – The Totally Tubular Travels of Josie Baker
- Susan Diamond Riley – The Sea Devil’s Demise: A Delta & Jax Mystery
- T. Lynne Jackson – Mr. K’s Sonata – A WWII Novel
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
- Bronwen Butter Newcott – Race to the Great Invention
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Serpent’s Spell
- Jill Pabich – A Misery of Magpies
- Aaron Arsenault – The Climate Diaries: Book One: The Academy
- Dr. Mythomaniac – The Strange Case of Mr. Beets
- Tamar Anolic – The Tunnel to Darkness and Light
- Sandy Grubb – Just Like Click
- David Towner – The Spectacular Life Of Benito Martin Del Canto
- Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Gertrude Warner Grand Prize Winner

EXOSTAR

By Rae Knightly

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy 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!
December 19, 2024
The Chaucer 2024 Long List for Early Historical Fiction
The 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.

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
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

The Merchant From Sepharad

By James Hutson-Wiley

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!
December 19, 2024
The 2024 Short Story Awards Short List for Short Stories and Essays
The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Form Fiction. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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 from the 2024 SHORTS LONG LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Shorts Award Semi-Finalist positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Short Form Content, singular short stories, essays and shorter Collections. The Long form Shorts (over 100 pages) Long List will be posted separately.

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 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Susannah Dawn – To Label or Not to Label the Box… That is the Question
- Susannah Dawn – It’s in the Grey Zone We Find The Colors
- Susannah Dawn – On The Run With Meagan Wise
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Soldier Jacob
- Trudy Wells-Meyer – Regifting with a Twist
- Burl Harmon – Being 100 Years Old
- Jessica Russell – Worthy of Tears
- KD Sherrinford – Meet Me in Milan
- KD Sherrinford – Christmas at The Saporis
- Mike Murphey – The Claunch Ness Monster
- Lisa G. Spicer – Letters From Tacoma
- Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
- Deborah L. King – Attention Accepted
- Tessa Floreano – Shadows of the Adriatic
- J.J. Clarke – Deadly Ambition
- Susan Lynn Solomon – A Circle of Sabbaths
- Glen Dahlgren – The Dice of Chaos
- PJ Devlin – Sleeping Out
- PJ Devlin – Running
- Glendall C. Jackson III – Naked Came the Detective
- Carol L. Wright – Apple, Table, Penny… Murder
- Hannah Stone – The Weight of Bone and Feather
- L. Burton Brender – Stories from the War
- Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro – Dream Rut: Navigating Your Path Forward
- Tosca Lee – The Cancun Game
Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

By Catherine Brown

A Manuscript

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Collections, Essays, and Novellas.

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!
December 13, 2024
The 2024 Shorts Award Short List for Novellas, Essays, and Collections
The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Stories. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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 from the 2024 SHORTS LONG LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Shorts Award Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Long Form Content, Novellas, and Collections. The short form Shorts (100 pages or less) Short List will be posted separately.

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 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi – Something About Lizzy
- E.M. Schorb – Resurgius, a Sex Comedy
- Cindy Ellen Hill – Leeds Point
- Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury
- Susan L Rae – Teaching Treason: A Gabby Baxter Mystery
- Paper Lantern Writers – Beneath a Midwinter Moon
- Peter Dingus – Worlds in Transition
- J.R. Rice – Broken Pencils
- Cynthia Geouge Davis – Catfish Corner
- Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold
- Deborah L. Staunton – Untethered
- Jennifer Saviano – Joy Ride
- Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box and Other Stories
- Anne B. Barriault – Tales from Naples and Sorrentine Stories
- Derek Wachter – Solipsism
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
- Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays
Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

Shelter In A Hostile World

By Mack Little

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections!

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!
December 12, 2024
The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Short List for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction
The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.
- Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
- Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
- Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
- Wendy B. Correa – My Pretty Baby: A Memoir of Seeking Truth and Finding Healing
- Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
- David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
- Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
- Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
- Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
- Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
- Jia Apple – The Tell
- Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
- Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
- Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
- Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
- L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
- Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
- Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
- Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
- Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
- Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
- Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
- Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
- Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
- Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
- Laura Hall – Affliction: Growing Up With A Closeted Gay Dad
- Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
- Louise Privette and Tristan Peigné – Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
- Ben LeBoutillier – Practical Advice for a Better World
- Kathleen Watt – REARRANGED: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
- Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®
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 2023 Hearten Awards is:

Running Away From The Circus

By Nove Meyers

See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-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!
December 5, 2024
The 2024 Hemingway Book Awards Long List for 20th & 21st c. Wartime Fiction
The 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.

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.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

The Silver Waterfall

By Kevin Miller

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!
November 14, 2024
The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Long List for Early Readers and Children’s Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps 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 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 2023 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 first look rounds from all 2024 LITTLE PEEPS entries to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Little Peeps 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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
- Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
- Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
- Michele L. Sayre – Along Came Spider the Making of a Superhero the Web Society
- Michele L. Sayre – Oh No Bunny You’re Still Not Funny Happy Tails
- Jack Wiens – What Bear Said
- Anne Lacourrege – The Greatest Treasure
- Rory Foresman – Timber and Loony Moony Night Rescue Book 2
- Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
- Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
- Ollie Miller – What is This?
- Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
- Elizabeth Fulgaro – Santa Claus Celebrates Jesus’s Birthday
- Robyn McCullough – The Journey of the Wee Shell
- Tracy Spring – Love Doesn’t Care Who You Love
- Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
- A.J. Chilson – Mary the Merry Miracle
- Ben St. James – Guinea Pig Power
- Brian Cleven – Kenzie Runs the World
- Grace Wolf – May I Come to Your Party?
- Stephen G. Bowling – Grandma’s House is Haunted
- P.E. Calvert & Charlotte Calvert Piel – WWCC Heroes: Pablo’s Adventure
- Irit Tal – Popina & Slumberina
- Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
- Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
- Yolanda S Pascal – High Hopes Big Dreams
- Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
- Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
- Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
- Samantha Pillay – When I’m the President
- Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
- Daryllen Stone – Sienna the Spotless Giraffe
- Ruthie Godfrey – Grumpy Grump
- Regina Tranfa – My Dad Took Me To Dinosaur land
- Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
- Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
- Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon Finds His Family
- David Huerta – Why Max “Meows” and Risa “Nyaas”?: Cracking the Code of Animal Sounds Across Cultures
- Lynn Helton – Min: the Cat Who Guards the Castle
- Jeff Dorrill – Brunt and Eggbert
- Jill Neimark – Forest Joy: Mindfulness in Nature
- C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle’s Big Rescue
- Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
- Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
- Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
- Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
- Mike Darcy – Little Joe and the Big Rain
- Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
- Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
- Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
- A.J. Chilson – When Un-Bear-Able Braxton Bullied Me
- Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
- Mary Brodsky – Dew Falls Lightly
- Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
- Annette Gagliardi – Resourceful Erica
- Kathleen J. Shields – The First Unicorn – Bedtime Inspirational
- Dee Write – Little Ruth First Day of School
- Roni McFadden – Romeo and Emilia
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
- Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
- Deborah L. Staunton – Owls Can’t Sing
- Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
- Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
- Carrie A. Buck – Ivy’s Dinosaur Tea Party
- Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
- J.E. Rogers – Dressing for Dreamtime
- Antwinette Scott – When I Was
- Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
- Ann P. Borrmann – Chester the (almost) Pirate
- Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s 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!
November 13, 2024