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
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
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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
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.
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