The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an author’s imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 from the 2025 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2025 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Goethe Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

• Alex Alvin – A Countess From Moscow
• Alice Mcveigh – Marianne a Sense and Sensibility Sequel
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Allie Cresswell – Tall Chimneys
• Art Young – Downeyoshun
• Barbara Southard – Unruly Human Hearts
• BL Smith – The Unpleasantness on Orchard
• Bonnie Suchman – What Remains Is Hope
• Carol Nickles – Thumb Fire Desire
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Once Upon a Safehouse
• Charlotte Whitney – A Tiny Piece of Blue a Novel
• Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
• Debra Lee – Pullman
• Domnica Radulescu – My Father’s Orchards
• Florence Chien – Hollow Whispers of the Wind
• Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Jewels
• Jessica Levine – Three Cousins
• Jill G. Hall – On a Sundown Sea a Novel of Madame Tingley and the Origins of Lomaland
• Joan Fernandez – Saving Vincent a Novel of Jo Van Gogh
• Joanne Howard – Sleeping in the Sun
• Katie Churchill-King – Prince of Wales Fort 1770
• Kelly Scarborough – Butterfly Games
• Kirsten Mickelwait – The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty
• Lew Paper – Legacy of Lies an Historical Thriller
• Linda Cardillo – Paint the Wind
• M. E. Torrey – Fox Creek
• N.J. Mastro – Solitary Walker a Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
• Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
• Pat Black-Gould and Steve Hardiman – All the Broken Angels
• Radu Guiasu – The Faraway Mountains
• Raquel Y. Levitt – The Seer
• Richard Leslie Brock – The House of Ilya
• Robert Kehlmann – The Rabbi’s Suitcase
• Robert L Jones – The Unbroken Trail
• S. Scott Anderson – The Scott Boys the Saga of the Scott Family in East Tennessee
• Sabrina Lund – Consequence of Power Isabella’s Season
• Suzanne Uttaro Samuels – Seeds of the Pomegranate
• Thomas M. Wing – In Harm’s Way

Congratulations once more to the 2024 Goethe Grand Prize Winner for Historical Fiction

Abigail’s Song

By Alina Rubin

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an author’s imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 first look rounds from all 2025 Goethe Late Historical Fiction entries to the 2025 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Goethe 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, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

• Alex Alvin – A Countess From Moscow
• Alice Mcveigh – Marianne: A Sense and Sensibility Sequel
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Allie Cresswell – Tall Chimneys
• Apple An – Daughter of Blue City: A Novel of Coming-Of-Age Through Revolutionary China
• Art Young – Downeyoshun
• Barbara Southard – Unruly Human Hearts
• BL Smith – The Unpleasantness on Orchard
• Bonnie Suchman – What Remains Is Hope
• Carol Nickles – Thumb Fire Desire
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Once Upon a Safehouse
• Charlotte Whitney – A Tiny Piece of Blue: A Novel
• Chris Bennett – The Road to Revolution
• Debra Lee – Pullman
• Domnica Radulescu – My Father’s Orchards
• Douglas A. Gosselin – Doctrine of Shadows
• Elise Keitz Harlow – When Bone Melts
• Florence Chien – Hollow Whispers of the Wind
• Gary Gabel – The Constitution Kids
• Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Jewels
• Jessica Levine – Three Cousins
• Jill G. Hall – On a Sundown Sea: A Novel of Madame Tingley and the Origins of Lomaland
• Joan Fernandez – Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo Van Gogh
• Joanne Howard – Sleeping in the Sun
• Kathleen Williams Renk – No Coward Soul Have I
• Katie Churchill-King – Prince of Wales Fort 1770
• Kelly Scarborough – Butterfly Games
• Kirsten Mickelwait – The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty
• Lew Paper – Legacy of Lies: An Historical Thriller
• Linda Cardillo – Paint the Wind
• M. E. Torrey – Fox Creek
• N.J. Mastro – Solitary Walker: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
• Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
• Pat Black-Gould and Steve Hardiman – All the Broken Angels
• Radu Guiasu – The Faraway Mountains
• Raquel Y. Levitt – The Seer
• Richard Leslie Brock – The House of Ilya
• Robert Kehlmann – The Rabbi’s Suitcase
• Robert L Jones – The Unbroken Trail
• S. Scott Anderson – The Scott Boys: The Saga of the Scott Family in East Tennessee
• Sabrina Lund – Consequence of Power: Isabella’s Season
• Shawn Hays and Stephen Hays – What Light Was
• Suzanne Uttaro Samuels – Seeds of the Pomegranate
• Thomas M. Wing – In Harm’s Way

Congratulations once more to the 2024 Goethe Grand Prize Winner for Historical Fiction

Abigail’s Song

By Alina Rubin

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will berecognized 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 FIRST PLACE of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

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

• Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
• Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
• Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
• Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
• Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
• Brook Allen – West of Santillane
• James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
• Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
• Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
• Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
• Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
• Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
• Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
• John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
• R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
• Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
• M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
• Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
• Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent

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

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

If Someday Comes

By David Calloway

Click here to see the full list of 2023 GOETHE Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late 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!

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. 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 sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

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

• Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
• Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
• Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
• Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
• Louis Trubiano – What Once Was Promised
• Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
• Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
• Susan Higginbotham – The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
• Brook Allen – West of Santillane
• James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
• Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
• Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
• Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
• Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
• Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
• Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
• John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
• R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
• Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
• M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
• João Cerqueira – Perestroika
• Adrienne Stevenson – Mirrors & Smoke
• Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
• Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent
• Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s

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

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

If Someday Comes

By David Calloway

Click here to see the full list of 2023 GOETHE Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late 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!

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 from the 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Goethe Semi-Finalists. 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 sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

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

• Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
• Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
• Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
• Jeanne Gehret – Secrets to the Wind
• Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
• William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
• Louis Trubiano – What Once Was Promised
• Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
• Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
• J.R. Holland – Vigilante Love Song
• Susan Higginbotham – The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
• Brook Allen – West of Santillane
• James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
• Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
• Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
• Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
• Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
• Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
• Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
• Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
• Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
• John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
• R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
• Annette Gagliardi – Ponderosa Pines: Days of the – Deadwood Forest Fire
• Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
• M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
• Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
• João Cerqueira – Perestroika
• Adrienne Stevenson – Mirrors & Smoke
• Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
• C.M. Huddleston – Esther
• Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
• Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent
• Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s

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

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

If Someday Comes

By David Calloway

Click here to see the full list of 2023 GOETHE Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late 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!

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. 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 first look rounds from all 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction entries to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Goethe 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 sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

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

• Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
• Nancy Burkhalter – Mesmer: The Tale of a Medical Maverick
• Nancy Burkhalter – The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, and La France
• Benjamin Kwakye – Seasons of Four Faces
• Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
• Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
• Jeanne Gehret – Secrets to the Wind
• Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
• William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
• Louis Trubiano – What Once Was Promised
• Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
• Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
• Mark Kraver – Janszoon: In the Pursuit of Love, Family, and an Enduring Legacy
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
• Robert Brighton – The Phantom of Forest Lawn: Romance and Redemption in the City of the Dead
• J.R. Holland – Vigilante Love Song
• Teri M Brown – Daughters of Green Mountain Gap
• Susan Higginbotham – The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
• Brook Allen – West of Santillane
• James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
• Don Jacobson – In Westminster’s Halls: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
• Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
• Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
• Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
• Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
• Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
• Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
• Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
• Diana Lee – The Breaking Room
• Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
• Susan McGuirk – Missing Friends
• Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
• John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
• Jude Berman – The Vow: A Novel
• R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
• Annette Gagliardi – Ponderosa Pines: Days of the – Deadwood Forest Fire
• DL Fowler – Lincoln’s Angel: the Rebecca Pomroy Story
• Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams
• Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
• Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
• Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
• M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
• Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
• João Cerqueira – Perestroika
• Adrienne Stevenson – Mirrors & Smoke
• Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
• C.M. Huddleston – Esther
• Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
• Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent
• Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
• Janice Sebring – Fearful Breakers
• Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s
• Vicky Oliver – Firebrands

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

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

If Someday Comes

By David Calloway

Click here to see the full list of 2023 GOETHE Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late 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!