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The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Semi-Finalists – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For 20th century Wartime Fiction, see our new Hemingway Awards here.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Short List to the 2021 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists. 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 the Semi-Finalists of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Orna Ross – After the Rising
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
Good Luck to All in the next rounds that will determine the which titles advance to the FINALISTS Level.

A few entries have been moved to the 2021 Laramie Book Awards as per judges recommendations for Americana, Prairie,
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is Linda Ulleseit for The Aloha Spirit

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical 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.
April 27, 2022
The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For 20th century Wartime Fiction, see our new Hemingway Awards here.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2021 Goethe 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-Finals of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Anna Bullock – The Companion
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Sophia Alexander – Silk: Caroline’s Story
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Orna Ross – After the Rising
- Alfred Nicols – Lost Love’s Return
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
- Dana Mack – All Things That Deserve to Perish
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- J. E. Dyer – Barons
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
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 CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is Linda Ulleseit for The Aloha Spirit

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical 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.
January 30, 2022
The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For 20th century Wartime Fiction, see our new Hemingway Awards here.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction entries to the 2021 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Goethe Shortlist. 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–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Sandra Vasoli – The Masterpiece Pursuit
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Anna Bullock – The Companion
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
- Michael J. Coffino – Truth Is in the House
- Georgia Nicolle – Maiden Scars
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Victoria Laurienzo – Toolie
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Sophia Alexander – Silk: Caroline’s Story
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Julie Weary – Skeleton World
- Orna Ross – After the Rising & Before the Fall
- Alfred Nicols – Lost Love’s Return
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
- Emmett J Hall – Runaway
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
- Dana Mack – All Things That Deserve to Perish
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Adriana Girolami – The Zamindar’s Bride
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- J. E. Dyer – Barons
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
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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Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

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

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical 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 Authors: Cathy Ace and Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
September 18, 2021
GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Novels – a division of the 2020 CIBA Awards
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

We have received a large number of Historical Fiction in the last years to the point that we need a new division! See Hemingway Awards for our new division!

The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

NOTE: We received so many wonderful historical novels that we decided that another division was needed—the Hemingway Book Awards for 20-century Wartime Novels—to recognized these important works. If you entered the Goethe Book Awards with a wartime novel (WWI, WWII, Vietnam Conflict, etc), please check the Hemingway Book Awards post.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 GOETHE Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the GOETHE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to the 2020 1st Place Winners in the GOETHE Book Awards!
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is:

Linda Ulleseit for

The Aloha Spirit

The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2021 GOETHE Book Awards are open. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
June 14, 2021
The 2020 Finalists for the GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction CIBAs
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.

The 2020 Finalists for the Goethe Book Awards

Congratulations to these works that advanced to the Premier Finalists Level of the CIBA judging rounds:
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Liza Nash Taylor – Etiquette for Runaways
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2021. The 2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 26, 2021
The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the GOETHE Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST to the SHORT LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.

The 2020 Semi-Finalists for the Goethe Book Awards
- James Hockenberry – Send The Word
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
- Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- D.V Chernov – Commissar
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Liza Nash Taylor – Etiquette For Runaways- A Novel
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
- Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions, and then all Finalists will be announced at the VCAC21 ceremonies.

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The 2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.
April 5, 2021
The GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The GOETHE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we 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. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBA Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
- James Hockenberry – Send The Word
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- T. Matt Ryan – One Hell of a Shipmate
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- James Padian – A Patriot’s Challenges
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- Betty Bolte – Notes of Love and War
- Carrie Kwiatkowski – Revolution
- Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
- J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
- Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
- Lindsey Fera – Muskets and Minuets
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- D.V Chernov – Commissar
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Kate Dike Blair – The Hawthorne Inheritance
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- John M. Millar – The Wars Among the Paines
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
- Elizabeth Bell – Necessary Sins (Lazare Family Saga, Book One)
- Eileen Harrison Sanchez – Freedom Lessons – A Novel
- Elizabeth St. Michel – Lord of the Wilderness
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Destiny, Book III of The Prophecy
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
- Jenny Ferns – Ripple Effect: Because of the War
- Gin Westcott – Tangle of Time
- James Ross – Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
- Gregory Erich Phillips – Guilty as Angels
- Vicky Oliver – Love and Suffrage in Manhattan
- Roger Newman – Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
- Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
- Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
Good Luck to All!

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction?

Congratulations to Kari Bovee whose work Peccadillo at the Palace – An Annie Oakley Mystery took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Goethe Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 Goethe Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies will be held April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Goethe 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.
December 21, 2020
FULL CIRCLE: A Refugee’s Tale by Joe Vitovec – WWII Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, European WWII Refugee Historical Fiction

In the prologue of this lucid and gripping novel, Joe Vitovec notes that although Full Circle: A Refugee’s Tale is fiction, he “attempts to acquaint the reader with some of the locales and events that made this period so memorable, and leave a record for those who may one day wish to revisit the past.” He has done an extraordinary job with this literary recreation of the experiences of the “displaced persons” following World War II.

Vitovec takes the reader on a journey that begins with a boy in 1938 in a small town in Czechoslovakia and ends some fifty years later with that boy, now a middle-aged man, returning to his childhood home. What transpires in the intervening years is the heart of this politically and emotionally complex story, one with which many will be able to relate, while others will learn from and perhaps consider the current global refugee crisis with fresh insights and compassion. It is not a tale any reader will likely forget.

Jan Neuman is only eight when the men of his village leave for a military encampment and prepare to fight the Nazis who have invaded their lands. They never get the chance. As decreed by the Munich Conference, this area of Czechoslovakia is handed over to Hitler and made a German protectorate. The townspeople feel demoralized and live in constant terror that the Germans will arrest them for showing the slightest loyalty to their ousted leader or native culture. They endure degradations, subsisting on soup bones and potatoes, and Jan’s father, the town’s tailor, is made to sew Nazi uniforms.

Years pass, and finally, the Allied invasion buoys their spirits and hopes. One miraculous day, there are American soldiers in town, happy to share cigarettes and peanut butter, and make friends with the locals. Jan, a teenager, views the Americans as “bordering on godlike,” as does everyone in the village. This euphoric time is short-lived, however, with the departure of the liberating soldiers and arrival of the Russians, followed by a communist coup. The communists are eager to make arrests, and the townspeople become fearful and distrustful of one another.

As a student who works on a political newspaper, Jan is brought to the communists’ attention and will likely be arrested. When he hears of a resistance army being formed elsewhere, he stealthily leaves town with his friends. However, just as their fathers were denied the chance to fight, Jan and his friends discover that the resistance military base is in fact a refugee camp in Regensburg. Although it’s technically an American camp, it is run by Germans. He and his friends are told, “As refugees, you have no citizenship status, no rights.” Conditions are harsh, the camp overcrowded with Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, and Czechs. Morale is exceedingly low as people wait to see where they’ll be sent next. Although everyone wants to go to America, there are no fast or direct routes. Indeed, Jan’s refugee life has just begun.

Like so many others, Jan must attempt to rebuild his life again and again. Over the next two years, he will travel from camp to camp, make an ill attempt to join the French Foreign Legion, experience a devastating low outside the sewers of Paris, fall in love, and finally sail to America where his troubles are far from over.

Vitovec delivers a riveting story in beautiful and poignant prose, reminding us that the impact of war can be total, even for those who never set foot on a battlefield. Political losses hurt people deeply, but the loss of sense of self is endlessly tragic. Displacement is not just a geographic issue, but a psychological one. How much of our identity is built on where we are from? Who are we if we belong to no country? Imagine, if you can, owning nothing but memories, memories of a time and place, of a people who used to belong to a country and spoke its language. Imagine every identifying detail scrubbed from you, the only thing that motivates you is the instinct to stay alive. For years, the existence of the displaced boiled down to just that – a place to lay their heads at night, bread to keep their stomachs from aching, and perhaps the tiniest glimmer of hope that they were y headed somewhere that wasn’t yet another refugee camp, a place they would one day call home.

A book for political leaders, teachers, students, and anyone with a desire to not repeat the past. It’s a book that serves to remind us of what we have and what can be taken from us at a moment’s notice.

Full Circle, A Refugee’s Tale by Joseph Vitovec won First in Category in the CIBAs 2018 Goethe Awards for Late Historical Fiction.

December 10, 2019
FENIAN’S TRACE by Sean P. Mahoney – Historical Fiction, British & Irish Literary Fiction, Irish Historical Fiction

Rory McCabe and Conor O’Neill are hard-working 12-year-olds, whose exploits and progress are narrated by the namesake of Clancy’s Pub who’s taken a liking to them. At times, he rewards the boys’ efforts with tales of their shared Irish heritage, its heroes and its glories. The boys have very different personalities, as Clancy discerns from their reactions to his lore. Rory is outraged as he hears of Ireland’s treatment by the British, while Conor accepts the information more quietly, studiously.

The two boys will soon meet a beautiful girl, Maria, the daughter of a well-to-do neighbor secretly aligned with a revolutionary resistance movement. Both will fall in love, but of the two, Rory will be the more open about his interest, while Conor will hold back, respectful but clearly smitten.

When the deep divide between Ireland and its oppressors begins to heat up, the boys, older now and more independent, again respond differently. Rory wants to join in and even die, if need be, for freedom, while Conor takes a more practical path. Then circumstances force both of them to the test, to demonstrate their deepest loyalties.

Author Sean P. Mahoney has won a prestigious Nicholl Fellowship for his screenplay version of Fenian’s Trace, which he subsequently adapted to the novel. The story focuses on the Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish patriots rose up, incensed by fighting alongside the British in World War I, while Britain continued the suppression of Irish rights. It is into this hotbed of revolutionary fervor that Rory and Conor, along with many others, are swept up.

Mahoney peppers his narrative with atmospheric touches, including many Irish words and speech cadences (captured wonderfully in the audiobook narration of Liam Carney) along with the fabled legacy of Fenian’s Trace, a patriot’s gravesite. It is on those grounds that the boys establish their chosen fortress, with significant consequences.

This wide-ranging panorama is a rich mix of folklore and fact, heroism during warfare, politics, and a star-crossed youthful love affair that will take on increasingly deeper meaning and, in the end, call for the ultimate sacrifice. Fenian’s Trace will appeal to readers across several genres, and as one might expect from Mahoney’s success in screenwriting, readers will delight in this colorful tale that begs for a cinematic version.

Fenian’s Trace won 1^st Place in the 2017 Goethe Awards for Historical Fiction (post-1750s).

September 10, 2019
La LUMINISTE by Paula Butterfield – Women Impressionists, European Historical Fiction, Franco-Prussian War

Berthe Morisot knows from a young age that she is destined to be an artist but living in nineteenth-century France severely limits her path. As a girl, she longs for the education any male artist would receive, and though her parents support her dream at first, Berthe isn’t even allowed to view some of the great works deemed unsuitable for females.

Before long, she realizes she is uninterested in being any man’s student, wanting instead to explore her own style, painting the world of a modern woman–a real, intimate representation, not the perfection shown by most male artists. When her sister Edma, who originally paints with Berthe, marries and becomes the picture of femininity, Berthe feels the societal pressure to give up her painting and choose a husband. The one man she feels any connection to, fellow artist Edouard Manet, is a controversial rogue, and although she knows he feels for her, too, he marries another.

However, the two cannot break free of their would-be love, and when Berthe decides to model for Edouard, she is more tantalized than ever. As her fascination turns to obsession, Berthe will be forced to choose between her desire to be a respected artist or the fallen lover of a scoundrel. It will take a revolution for Berthe to have either.

This first-person fictionalized autobiography littered with famous Impressionists is the story of a woman’s love affair of both art and a man. In discovering her style, she finds a love she didn’t want and often questions the sanity (and more importantly) the healthiness of that love. As though her struggle to be an independent artist in a world of oppression isn’t already enough, Berthe knows she should dislike, maybe even despise, Edouard but is drawn to the proverbial flame. Unable to have him but unwilling to give him up creates clashing needs: becoming an independent woman but still tangled in what is proper and expected.

On top of her obsession for him, she is torn between admiration and envy of this man who often feels as much repression as Berthe and wonders which she’ll lose first, her determination to paint or her societal constraints.

A modern woman trapped in the nineteenth century, Berthe embodies the female struggle. Limited in infinite ways by societal views on women, she navigates a world of male domination in life as well as art, evolving much more quickly than her beloved Paris. If she marries, she wrestles with whether she is giving in or growing up, but as she matures in both art and life, she becomes angry with herself for her single-minded obsession of Manet and decides he is “not worthy of the woman [she would] become,” a woman (like so many modern women) who will find a way to have both a ground-breaking career and a family. As the list of prohibitions rises, so does her determination, and though her fight is for the individual woman (herself), it transcends that.

Just like Berthe Morisot’s paintings, La Luministe shows a real woman, a woman with hopes and dreams that outreach her environment. Just as Paris was thrust into the turmoil and deprivations of war with Germany, Berthe set herself free in a bloody battle of change. This novel will show readers the beauty and struggle of both the artist and the female spirit.

Paula Butterfield won 1st Place in the 2015 Chaucer Awards for La Luministe. (Because we have split the Historical Fiction Awards into two categories, La Luministe is considered a Goethe Award Winner!)

February 18, 2019