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The 2023 Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey 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 a Journey of 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 Semi-Finalist Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Journey Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Finalist authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
- Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
- Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
- Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
- Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
- Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
- Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
- Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
- Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
- Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
- Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
- Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
- Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
- Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
- Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
- Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
- Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
- Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
- Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
- Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between
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 2022 JOURNEY Awards is:

A Fraction Stronger

by Mark Berridge

See our full list of 2022 Journey Winners here

The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions are already open for the 2024 Journey Awards! Learn more here!

April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
February 8, 2024
The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries
The M&M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Cozy and not-so-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem. The M&M Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles have advanced to the SHORT LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
- Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
- Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
- Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
- B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
- B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
- Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
- Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
- Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
- Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
- Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
- Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
- Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
- Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
- Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
- Topper Jones – All that Glisters
- Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
- A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
- Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
- Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
- E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
- Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
- Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
- Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
- Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
- M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
- Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
- Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
- Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
- Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
- Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
- Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
- Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
- Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
- Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
- Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
- Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
- D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
- Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
- Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
- Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
- Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
- M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
- Paisley Summer – Walk in the Light
- Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
- Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
- Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
- Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
- Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
- Amy S. Peele – Hold
- Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
- Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
- D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
- Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
- Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
- Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
- Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
- Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
- Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
- J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
- Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
- T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1
Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

A Spying Eye

A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

by Michelle Cox

Here is the link to the 2022 M&M Book Award Winners!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 M&M Book Awards for Cozy-And-Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
February 1, 2024
The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Short List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Hemingway SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA division Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Linda Joy Myers – The Forger of Marseille
- Elaine Aucoin Schroller – Dare Not Tell
- Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
- William McClain – Alice’s War
- J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
- Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
- Patricia Wilson – An Island Promise
- Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
- Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees
- Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
- Kathryn Brown Ramsperger – A Thousand Flying Things
- Lou Dischler – The Last Newsreel
- Martin Roy Hill – Codename: Parsifal
- Trish MacEnulty – Secrets and Spies
- Marina Osipova – The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory
- Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
- J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
- Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
- Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
- Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
- Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
- Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
- Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
- Richard Bareford – Veterans Key
- Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
- Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
- John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
- Suzanne Trauth – What Remains of Love
- Robert L. Decker – Not to Reason Why
- Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
- Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
- Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
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Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book Awards is:

Running with Cannibals

by Robert W. Smith

See the full list of 2022 Hemingway Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
February 1, 2024
The 2023 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Short List to the 2023 Clue Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
- Nancy Adair – The Appearance of Guilt
- Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
- Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogotá
- Jonny Thompson – Atlantis
- Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
- T.O. Paine – The Excursion
- Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
- Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
- Charlotte Stuart – Forget or Forgive? NEVER
- Jim Nesbitt – The Dead Certain Doubt: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
- Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
- Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
- J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
- Mark James – Friendship Games
- Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
- Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
- Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
- Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
- Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
- Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
- Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
- Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
- Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
- Melissa L. Berger – What Mae Brings: A Novel
- Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
- Decima Blake – Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
- Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
- Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
- Kathryn Lane – Missing in Miami
- Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
- D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
- Lisa Towles – The Ridders
- Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
- Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
- Martha Crites – Danger to Others
- Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
- Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
- Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
- Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
- V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
- Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
- T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
- Mary Keliikoa – Hidden Pieces
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 2022 CLUE Awards is:

Have You Seen Me?

By Alexandrea Weis

See the Full List of 2022 Clue Award Winners here!

The 2023 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
January 29, 2024
The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense
The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

For other Mystery Divisions see our Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels and our M&M Awards for Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards Short List to the 2023 Global Thriller SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- E.S. Ramirez – In the Fangs of Jackals
- Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
- Jayson Adams – Ares
- D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol: Dragon
- Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
- Mark James – Friendship Games
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Cobra Pose
- Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy (The Winters Sisters Book 5)
- Randall Krzak – Ultimate Escalation
- Dr. Frank J. Sapienza – The Greater Good
- Hank Scheer – Fade to Blue
- Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
- Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
- Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
- J. Lee – The Deadly Deal
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy
- David Wickenden – The Home Front
- E Alan Fleischauer – The Doctor is Invisible
- Jeff Sheckter – The Daedalus Protocol
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 2022 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

Hybrid Hysteria

By Charlie Robinson
The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
January 28, 2024
The Chaucer 2023 Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 judging rounds from the 2023 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction Short List to the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. Winners will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Gail Avery Halverson – A Sea of Glass
- Gina Buonaguro – The Virgins of Venice
- Griffin Brady – The Hussar’s Duty
- James Hutson-Wiley – The Merchant from Sepharad
- Regan Walker – The Strongest Heart
- Juliette Godot – From the Drop of Heaven
- Stefan Scheuermann – Kyra
- Kelly Evans – Turning the World to Stone – The Life of Caterina Sforza Part One 1472 – 1488.
- Yvonne Korshak – Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
- Robert S Phillips – Elodia’s Knife
- C.V. Lee – Token of Betrayal
- Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Map Colorist: A Novel
- Rozsa Gaston – Margaret of Austria
- Mary Pat Ferron Canes with JR Foley – Dark Queen of Donegal
- Kerry Chaput – Daughter of the Shadows
- Margaret Porter – The Myrtle Wand
- Anthony R. Licata – Caesar Obsessed: Passion, Conquest, and Tragedy in Gaul
- Rebecca Kightlinger – The Lady of the Cliffs: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book Two
- Adrienne Dillard – Keeper of the Queen’s Jewels: a novel of Jane Seymour
- Brigitte Goldstein – Princess of the Blood-A Tapestry of Love and War in 16th-Century France
- Adam Alexander Haviaras – Sincerity is a Goddess: A Dramatic and Romantic Comedy of Ancient Rome
- K.M. Butler – House Aretoli
- David Tory – Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles
- A. L. Kucherenko – Knight’s Pawn
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CHAUCER Awards is:

Mack Little, author of

Daughter of Hades

Click here to see the 2022 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025.

Please click here to submit to the 2024 Chaucer Awards

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!

As always, please contact us with any questions or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
January 25, 2024
The 2023 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Short List for Early Readers & Picture Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 judging rounds from the 2023 Little Peeps Early Readers Long List to the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards Short List. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Little Peeps Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Michele L. Sayre – The Unluckiest Leprechaun by Far (Happy Tails)
- Ginger Smith – The Magic Blanket
- Cheryl Carpinello – Grandma Tales 3: Vampires in the Backyard and A Fish Tale
- Janet Earnest-Jenkins – Hoppin’ Hankaroo-Zoo Adventure
- Michele L. Sayre – What I Would Wish to Be (Wonders of Childhood & Beyond)
- Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – The Accidental Orchestra
- Beth Davis – Hanna the Hawk is a Super Youneek Beast
- Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners
- W. B. Murph – Molly’s Miracle
- TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island, a tiny filly from a small farm earns her “filly esteem” while working among giant draft horses on Mackinac Island
- Michael Dow, RN, MS – Nurse Florence® for Beginning Readers: Help, I’m Bleeding!
- Joy K. Ball – Winnie’s Christmas Treasure Hunt
- Kimberly Delude – Freddie the Fly: Seeing Through Another Lens
- Brenda Wilson Huddleston – Liam & Little Tail
- Cynthia C. Huijgens – Polar Bear and the UFO
- Joshua Swank – Barry the Brave: A Flowerageous Journey to Courage
- Michael Michie – Pablo Avocado
- Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish
- O.L. Flubermin – A Dinosaur Named Alone: What Will I Do?
- Susan Sullivan – Bob Tales, Land of the Woody Warbles
- Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast
- Carolyn Wild – Jacob Sheep: Do You Have A Little Lamb?
- Michele L. Sayre – The Not So Funny Bunny (Happy Tails)
- Carolyn Wild – I Like Ducks: All Year Long
- Laura Teste – Book of Bad Bargains
- Chloe and LaRanda Burke – Keys to Your H.E.A.R.T.
- Katrina Johnson – Captain Patch and the Treasure of the Sea Gods
- Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
- Miki Taylor – Bentley’s Fantabulous Idea
- Victoria Smith – Priscilla and Tux: Brothers are Caring
- Brenda Wilson Huddleston – The Squirrel & the Dragonfly
- Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
- Tzuri King & Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over
- Lynne Marie – The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project
- Conrad J. Storad – Story Monster’s S.T.E.A.M. chronicles. Book one, Night watchers : nocturnal creatures of North America : coyotes, snakes, owls, spiders, and more
- K.R. King – Charlie the Champion
- Beth Davis – Mykal the Monkey is a Super Youneek Beast
- Hillary Harper – Thankful FUR You
- Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden
- Carolyn Wild – This Kitten; Has Blue Eyes
- Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze
- Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed The War Over
- David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: Do the Robot!
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Mr Moon Mr Moon
- Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – A Secret in the Deep
- Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta
- Kristin Crowell Ellis – Firefly Fran’s Fran-tastic Day
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – A Child’s Love
- TK Sohal and Ms. Raman Kaur – Twin Adventures
- Lori Keenen Smith – Lorlee and the Light
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – What Little Girls Can Do!
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans
- Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes
- Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – Picnic Pandaemonium
- Anthony Delauney – Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet
- Laura Shovan – Welcome to Monsterville
- Erik Perezbrain – Good Luck is My Guardian Angel
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer and The Jared Box Project
- Katharine Mitropoulos – Ready… Set… Frog!
- Katherine Lockwood – Why Me, Mama?
- Anthony C. Delauney – Michael and Hannah and the Magic Money Tree
- Joey Benun – Pebbles and the Biggest Number
- Dominique Ellis – The Wisdom Tree: A Father’s Love
- T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve
- Katrina Johnson – Lily’s Song
- Laura Teste – Book of Best Words
- Betsy Coffeen – Cate and the Garden Bandits
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 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Ravens Roost

by Maggie Bates

See the Full List of 2022 Winners here

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Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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.

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January 25, 2024
The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction
The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. 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 in the judging rounds from all 2023 Hearten Non-Fiction Short List to the 2023 Hearten Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Lynne M. Kolze – Please Write: Finding Joy and Meaning in the Soulful Art of Handwritten Letters
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Patience Insanity & Wisdom
- Lisa Niver – Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty
- Lally Pia – The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor
- Duncan McLauren – Owning Your Destiny
- Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
- Shanita Liu – Dear Durga: A Mom’s Guide to Activate Courage and Emerge Victorious
- Trudy Wells-Meyer – Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be
- Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®
- Tony Jeton Selimi – A Path to Excellence
- Art Berman – Art in the Middle Ages: A Memoir of Midlife Renaissance
- Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
- Patrick M. Garry – The Power of Gratitude: Charting a Path Toward a Joyous and Faith-Filled Life
- Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
- Kate Hudson-Hall – Anxiety Hacks: Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness
- Hollie Stuart – I Can See For Miles
- Cory Mortensen – The Buddha and the Bee
- Julie Scolnik – Paris Blue
- Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
- Steven Greenebaum – An Afternoon’s Dictation: Inclusive Revelation for the 21st Century
- Dian Seidel – Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand
- Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
- Grant Harper Reid – The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College
- Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
- Catherine DeMonte – Beep! Beep! Get Out of My Way!: Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life
- Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success (It’s All About Love)
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 HEARTEN Awards is:

Inner Trek
– a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

By Mohan Ranga Rao

Click here to see the 2022 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC24.

Please click here for more information.

See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
January 18, 2024
The 2023 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Middle Grade Fiction
The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 judging rounds from the 2023 Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Fiction Short List to the 2023 Gertrude Warner Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
- Tomás Pérez-Zafón – Trotter and the Twins: The Magic of Imagination
- Sue C Dugan – SOS
- Gregory Saur – Drowning Hate
- Jenna L. Campbell – Camp Silversand and the Lost Heart of the Lake
- Alex Paul – The Amarrat Invasion
- Marsha Tufft – The Sea Turtle Spy Project: Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures? Book 4
- Chris Norbury – Little Mountain, Big Trouble
- V Knox – Snow Behind the Door
- Zane Re-Bloom – The Magic of Moon & Herbs
- Malinda Andrews – Awaken
- Marsha Klopmeier Tufft – The Buoyancy Project: Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures, Book 2
- Peter Serko – Hattie’s War
- Andrew Dolberg and Rob Long – The Great Weather Diviner: The Untold Origin of Punxsutawney Phil
- Vincent M. Miceli – The Last Triceracorn, Book One
- Liese Sherwood-Fabre – Wilhelmina Quigley: Magic School Dropout
- Eileen Hobbs – Under the Golden Rain Tree
- Caryn Rivadeneira – Frankinschool (Book 1): Monster Match
- Elizabeth R. Jensen – Fire & Wolves: A Tale of Etria
- Maxine Rose Schur – The Word Dancer
- Kevin Dunn – Vicious is My Middle Name
- Sheri Graubert – Molly Shipton, Secret Actress
- Barbara Gold – Operation Save PawPrints, an Izzy Rose Green Mystery
- Susan Diamond Riley – The Sea Witch’s Revenge: A Delta & Jax Mystery
- Rae Knightly – EXOSTAR (The Lost Space Treasure Series, Book 1)
- Alisse Lee Goldenberg & Joseph Goldenberg – Lucky At Bat
- Mark Cheverton – Facing the Beast Within
- L.T. Caton – Find Me In Time: Meeting Columbus
- Cintia Alfonso Fior – Moraline
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
- Ben Gartner – One Giant Leap
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 2022 GERTRUDE WARNER Awards is:

MYSTERY FORCE, Volume 1

by Ted Neill and Suzi Spooner

See the Full List of Gertrude Warner 2022 Winners here!

The 2023 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2024 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards are open now! Enter here!

See all 25 of our CIBA Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
January 14, 2024
The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 judging rounds from the 2023 Laramie Americana Short List to the 2023 Laramie Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
- Heidi M. Thomas – Rescue Ranch Rising
- Barbara Salvatore – The Trail to Niobrara
- George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
- Kimberly Burns – The Redemption of Mattie Silks
- Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Chip Heller Man of Valor
- Martha Engber – The Falcon, the Wolf, and the Hummingbird
- James Holland – Vigilante Love Song: Alice Roosevelt and The White House Gunfighters
- Myra Hargrave McIlvain – The Knotted Ring
- K.S. Jones – Tastefully Texas
- Venetia Hobson Lewis – Changing Woman
- T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
- Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
- Joan Koster – That Dickinson Girl: A Novel of the Civil War
- Thomas Goodman – The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
- J. Stanion – My Place Among Them
- Shanna Hatfield – Love on Target
- Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 3 The Founding
- Julia Brewer Daily – The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch
- David Calloway – If Someday Comes
- K. S. Jones – Change of Fortune
- Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time
- T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
- Sophia Alexander – Homespun
- Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)
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 2022 LARAMIE Awards is:

Guarded Hearts

by T.K. Conklin

Click here to see the 2022 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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 12th annual conference and discover why!
January 14, 2024