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, 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.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LISTERS!
- Brent Golembiewski –Flat Earth
- Jonas Saul –The Immortal Gene
- Tiffany Meuret –A Flood of Posies
- R. Welsh – The Great Filter
- Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- B.T. Keaton – Transference
- Mark D. Owen – Impact
- JL Morin – Loveoid
- Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
- Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
- R.S. Harmon – Captain’s Covenant
- Liam King – Grit
- Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
- Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
- Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt #6
- Samuel Finn – A Voice From The Moon
- Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
- Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- C. Hofsetz – Enemy of the Gods #4
- Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR the World Of Z: The Dawn of Athir
- PA Vasey – Trinity’s Fall
- Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – The Luna Missile Crisis
- William X. Adams – Alien Body
- KeJo Black – A Kingdom in Shards
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- C.M. Aquavella – Transformation: The Circusity
- J.T. Blossom – Lenore and the Problem With Love – When You Go to College Save the Planet
- Alexander Usher – Experience Extracted
- Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
- Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
- Cary Allen Stone – SEEDS: The Journey Begins
- Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
- Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
- Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
- Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso
- Alan J. Steinberg – To be Enlightened
- Michelle Tanmizi – Late Dawn
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
The next round of judging will decide which books move on to the Semifinalist positions for the 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction novels.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 CYGNUS Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
Don’t wait! Click here to enter today!
