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  • The 2024 HEMINGWAY Book Awards WINNERS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe 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. For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Conan Parks on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • R L Pace – Rising Son

    • Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany

    • Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor

    • Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles

    • Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul

    • Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier

    • Bharati Sen – My War, My Child

    • H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 Hemingway Book Awards is:

    Of White Ashes

    by Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto

    Of White Ashes cover by Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto

    The blue and gold badge for the Hemingway Grand Prize winner for 20th c. wartime fiction

    You can see all of our amazing 2024 Hemingway Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in May. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

    Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

     

  • A Chanticleer Happy Birthday to Ernest Hemingway – A Man Who Defined His Times Through Writing

    This year we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s most important authors, Ernest Hemingway.

    Hemingway, black and white, typewriter, writing, desk, white shirt, glasses

    Born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, the influential American literary icon changed the style of novel writing by creating prose that was straightforward and concise, while not sacrificing the emotional impact and lyrical prose. Hemingway wrote about important and timely topics, such as war and the bloody sport of bullfighting, in an accessible way without losing the underlying meaning or sacrificing the emotional reaction he strove to activate in his readers. For this reason, he continues to be celebrated today. In honor of his 125th birthday, I’ll connect three of his most famous stories with the real-life events that influenced his writing.

    A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway, bodies, black background

    A Farewell to Arms – Exploring the Heart of A Young Man in Love and War

    After graduating high school, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star in Missouri, and the following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy during World War I. He was wounded by mortar fire and spent months recuperating under the care of an English nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, with whom he fell in love and had affair. She was an older woman who eventually broke Hemingway’s heart when she ended the relationship after he returned to the United States.

    In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s fictional character Lt. Frederic Henry falls in love with Catherine Barkley, and their relationship explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual connection Hemingway and van Kurowsky shared during the tumult of World War I.

    A Moveable Feast, Hemingway, paris, bridge, seine, river, trees, boulevard

    A Moveable Feast – A Writer’s Life in 1920s Paris

    Ernest Hemingway chronicled his early years as a struggling journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s in A Moveable Feast. The work mentions Paris’s legendary bars, cafes, and hotels of the era, and gives insight into his relationships with other notable cultural figures of the “Lost Generation,” such as  Sylvia Beach, Aleister Crowley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein.

    One scene in the book offers a moment of reflection for every writer. His first wife, Hadley Richardson, mistakenly throws out the only copy of a book he’d been working on. It’s a heartbreaking scene, but one that adds to the poignancy of the story.

    The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway, sea, boat, blue sky

    The Old Man and the Sea – The Death of the Writer’s Soul

    After a period of frustrating writers block, Hemingway published what would become his last significant work in 1952. “The Old Man and the Sea,” a novella about an aging fisherman in pursuit of a marlin off the coast of Cuba explores how perseverance and dignity are the “weapons” used to battle through a person’s struggles in life and the theme acts as an allegory of the writer’s own struggles to preserve his art in the face of the fame and attention.

    Hemingway struggled to produce a major literary work for more than a decade before the “The Old Man and the Sea” debuted, and despite some critics proclaiming it didn’t hold up next to his earlier works, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

    We will always remember Hemingway

    Oftentimes, Ernest Hemingway’s life is told as a series of amazing adventures, mental and physical suffering, lost loves, and a sad and unfortunate ending. Many would say his life was tragic, but that life provided a deep well of stories that propelled Hemingway to produce some of the most important literature in the American cannon. With the skill of a surgeon, Hemingway relied on lessons gained as a reporter to deliver emotionally impactful storytelling in a clear and concise way that many writers continue to turn to for inspiration and learning.

    Hemingway, Patio, black and white, drink, cocktail, smiling, man, white shirt, white shorts, liquor

    Happy 125th birthday, Ernest Hemingway!

    Interested in exploring the times Hemingway experienced through the storytelling of today’s authors? We encourage you to dig into stories written by Chanticleer’s authors who bring to life the early days of the Twentieth Century with the following books.

    Passage Home to Meuse
    First Prize Winner in the Chatelaine CIBA Division

    It’s 1923 and character Marie Durant Chagall is now 27 years old as she tells about her life-altering events inThe Passage Home to Meuse,thanks to author Gayle Noble-Sanderson. This is the second historical novel in the Meuse Trilogy. The world around Marie is still reeling from the devastation of World War I. She and the other characters in the book are learning how to continue living, and perhaps more importantly, wishing to find joy once again in life.

    Marie is at home in France, seeking peace within, as well as for those around her. She looks for ways to help others who are in need, and her nursing skills come in handy to help this farming community. Nearby she’s found a sense of belonging with the Sisters at the Chapel, and her friendships continue with Henri and others.

    Continue Reading here…

    A War in Too Many Worlds Cover

    A War in Too Many Worlds

    Musician-turned-time-traveler John Patrick Scott adds spy and saboteur to his resume while undercover in Germany in the final months of World War I, in A War in Too Many Worlds, the third installment of Elizabeth Crowen’s thrilling sci-fi series, The Time Traveler Professor.

    Meanwhile, Scott’s once and future collaborator in psychic experiments, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is back in Britain sharing real time-travel adventures with the inventor of the fictional time machine, H.G. Wells.

    Continue Reading here…

    The cover of A Week at Surfside Beach by Pierce Koslosky Jr

    A Week at Surfside Beach
    By

    Vacationers from all walks of life converge on Portofino II-317C, South Carolina, a quaint blue beach house, in Pierce Koslosky Jr.’s short story collection, A Week at Surfside Beach.

    From May 30th-December 26th each group of people comes to stay one week at a time, to forget their cares of the big city, to work, to celebrate, or to simply get away. Surfside Beach has much to show them, including temperamental weather.

    The small town itself offers a charming supermarket where fishing supplies, whoopie pies, and local southern favorites can be found. The Christmas vacationers, the final of the thirteen beach house renters, struggle to find a tree in time; a real tree simply wouldn’t allow enough space for the family to sleep, and the fake tree would cost too much. But they find arts and crafts supplies in town, to fashion a paper Christmas tree during a day of rainy weather.

    Continue Reading here…

    The Sower of Black Field Cover

    Sower of the Black Field
    By

    In The Sower of Black Field, Katherine Koch’s historical fiction novel, Father Viktor Koch— a 67-year-old Catholic priest— presides over a monastery in a small German village, as the Nazi regime sweeps through the country.

    The time is April, 1941. Fr. Viktor’s order, the U.S.-based Passionists, built the monastery eight years prior, providing employment for most of the villagers and remaining a symbol of their faith.

    Fr. Viktor has lived in Europe for over 20 years, but balances his love of Germany, its land, its mysticism, with his American roots. He will need all his personal and religious resources over the next four years as the Nazis take hold in the village and, later, the Americans come to “de-Nazify” the town and hold its people responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust.

    Continue Reading here…

    Hemingway, Library, books, writing, desk, chair, shorts, white shirt, glasses, writing, papers

    Thank you for joining us in celebrating America’s literary icon, Ernest Hemingway!

    Do you have a book that deserves to be discovered? You can always submit your book for an Editorial Review with Chanticleer!Chanticleer Editorial Review Packages are optimized to maximize your digital footprint. Reviews are one of the most powerful tools available to authors to help sell and market their books. Find out what all the buzz is about here.

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    The tiers of achievement for the CIBAs

    Submitting to Book Awards is a great way to get your book discovered! Anytime you advance in the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards, your name and book are promoted right here on our website, through our newsletter, and across social media. One of the best ways to engage in long tail marketing!

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right
    The 2024 Hemingway Awards are open until Oct 31, 2024!

    Thank you again to the authors who wrote these wonderful books, and to Ernest Hemingway, who inspired so many to pick up the pen!

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards WINNERS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe 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. For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Robert W. Smith on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Seasons By Sheraton in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code

    • Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees

    • Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire

    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable

    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War

    • Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway

    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown

    • William McClain – Alice’s War

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    The Silver Waterfall:
    A Novel of the Battle of Midway

    by Kevin Miller

     

    You can see all of our amazing 2023 Hemingway Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

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

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

    Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

     

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Finalists for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Finalists for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe 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 Semi-Finalists to the Hemingway 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 the 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
    • William McClain – Alice’s War
    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
    • Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
    • 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
    • J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
    • 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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

    Blue and Gold badge for finalists of the Hemingway award

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

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for 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 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

    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!

     

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Semi-Finalists for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe 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 Short List to the 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 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
    • 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
    • Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
    • J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
    • 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

    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.

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

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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 2022 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for 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!

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Short List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe 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

    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.

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

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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

    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

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for 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!

  • An Editorial Review of “Daddypaul and the Yo-Yo War” by Karl Larew

    An Editorial Review of “Daddypaul and the Yo-Yo War” by Karl Larew

    It is June 1946. Major Paul Van Vliet turns his 1940 maroon Buick Super sedan into Gunter Army Air Field grounds, just outside Montgomery, Alabama, where he is to teach at the AAF Communications Division. He is welcomed by his superior, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Wentz, who takes him to see the house Paul will occupy with his new bride, Betty, and stepdaughter, 11-year-old Rosalie.

    Thus, Karl Larew introduces Part II of his trilogy, Paul’s Three Wars. In this second installment, Daddypaul and the Yo-Yo War, Larew documents the life of Paul over almost a decade, as he begins a new stage of his life.

    Paul eagerly meets the train bringing Betty and Rosalie to their new home. There is an abundance of love in this new family; Betty and Paul exchange a romantic hello, and Rosie excitedly greets her “Daddypaul!” Not long after the family is settled in, young Rosie is inspired by a concert violinist’s performance of Robert Schumann’s “Violin Concerto in D Minor” to begin violin lessons. But the thrill of learning to play under the tutelage of a Hungarian violinist soon sours. Pre-teen Rosalie must somehow find the courage to tell her family that her violin teacher has molested her. When she does, unforeseen consequences arise and Rosalie is distraught.

    A year later life is again changing for Paul and his family as they move to Falls Church, Virginia so Paul can work at the Pentagon. They also soon welcome a son, Daniel Evan Van Vliet. A healthy mother and son come home from Walter Reed Hospital, but Betty, usually so resilient, falls into post-partum depression. Rosalie, wise beyond her years, one day says, “Daddypaul, I think it’s time Mom talked to a psychiatrist.”

    Soon, it’s Paul’s turn to worry as a creeping fear settles into him that his career might have been jeopardized by the self-serving, gossipy tongue of his former second in command, Major Don Goffe. The worry is soon relieved, but this is not to be the last time that Major Don Goffe appears in Paul’s life.

    In spring 1949, the newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Van Vliet is assigned to temporary duty in South Korea to assess the ROK army’s communication needs in the “U.N. Police Action” against North Korea and the capability of the U.S. Army Signal Corps to meet them.  He returns home dismayed by the paucity of U.S. communication equipment and personnel.

    North Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel in the spring of 1950 and the “Police Action” intensifies. President Truman orders General MacArthur to send in 8th Army forces from Tokyo. The Van Vliets’ family life is interrupted when Paul is permanently assigned to the Signal Corps in Korea.

    Paul’s job is to “make sense out of the VHF relay radio system…banking radio waves off mountains and bending them around hilltops.” But he finds himself in actual combat at one relay station, attacked by North Koreans in the middle of the night. “Aim low, squeeze slow,” he instructs a young signalman-turned-rifleman. After an injury involving a mine, Paul is sent to Tokyo to recover, and once he has he is assigned to a desk job in Tokyo, only to find that his nemesis, Major Goffe, is again his second in command. Goffe again seeks to jeopardize Paul’s career. Paul learns from a retired Col. Mummert, now working for the Senate Armed Services Committee investigating how Senator Joseph McCarthy is getting military information to support his anti-communist witch hunt, that Goffe is one of McCarthy’s snitches.

    Larew expertly blends fact with fiction, using “letters” between Betty and Paul to keep us abreast of personal events in Falls Church and Pusan, Korea. The well informed and well written narration of historical events and figures blends well with the fictional accounts of Paul’s activity in the Signal Corps. The ROK army’s communication needs in the “U.N. Police Action” against North Korea and the capability of the U.S. Army Signal Corps to meet them.

    What a “yo-yo” war! – UN troops pushed south to the Pusan perimeter, North Koreans routed and driven north almost to the Chinese border, UN forces chased south again, North Korean/Chinese troops forced north beyond the 38th Parallel. The outspoken General MacArthur’s 52-year career ends when he is relieved of his duties by President Truman, and General Ridgway is commanding the 8th Army when Paul leaves for home in mid-summer 1951, returning to the Pentagon as Executive Officer of the Army Communications Service Division.

    Meanwhile, in Falls Church, Rosalie, a high school junior, beautiful with satiny red hair, continues her meteoric rise as a violinist, though her undivided attention to music leads to a slightly problematic social life. Betty has a full schedule of piano students and still makes time for Army wives activities and Danny is thrilled to have his dad home.

    Military and political history buffs, particularly military family members, and even romance lovers will find Karl Larew’s novels engaging reads. Karl Larew introduces Part II of his trilogy, Paul’s Three Wars, which follows “Paul, Betty, and Pearl,” a historical novel set in the WWII era, beginning at Pearl Harbor. Larew’s personal experience, as the son of Brigadier General Walter B. Larew (1904-1973), greatly enhances the accuracy of his description of military life as well as the military and political history of WWII and beyond in this American family saga.