Tag: Wartime Fiction

  • 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

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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

    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.

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  • The 2023 CIBAs Long List HEMINGWAY 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 all 2023 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction entries to the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (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 20st, 2024 in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST 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
    • Patrick McLaughlin – Cheerful Obedience
    • 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
    • Kevin L. Evans – The Bend of the Green
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Johanna van Zanten – Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    • 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
    • Patrick Greenwood – Sunrise in Saigon
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
    • J Robert Gould – The Last of the Greatest Generation

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    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

    Click here to see the 2022 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 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 which is sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    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!

  • The 2023 Hemingway Hall of Fame! One of the newest CIBAs open for submissions!

    “All you have to do is write one true sentence.
    Write the truest sentence that you know.”

    — Ernest Hemingway

    Hemingway at work.
    Ernest Hemingway hard at work over his typewriter

    The Hemingway Awards still feels new to us at Chanticleer, but it’s quickly become one of our most popular divisions.

    Since the 1900s, there have been international wars:  World War I and World War II. Proxy wars of the Cold War such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. As of late, the Gulf Wars and now the Ukraine fight against the Russian Invasion are the current ongoing embattlements.

    Given the dates of these actual wars, fictionalized accounts and novels were submitted to the Gothe Book Awards for post-1750s historical fiction. However, with the 2020 CIBAs (Chanticleer International Book Awards) we received so many Goethe entries that were war-time fiction that the judges deemed that a new division was needed to recognize the many qualified submissions. We chose the Hemingway Book Awards as the name of the new division for wartime fiction.

    No American writer is more associated with writing about war in the early 20th century than Ernest Hemingway. He experienced it firsthand, wrote dispatches from innumerable frontlines, and used war as a backdrop for many of his most memorable works.- The National Archives, Prologue | Spring 2006

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    Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer, recuperates from wounds at ARC Hospital. Milan, Italy.
    Please credit “Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston” for the image.

    “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Hemingway

    According to Seán Hemingway, his grandfather’s war dispatches “were written in a new style of reporting that told the public about every facet of the war, especially, and most important, its effects on the common man, woman, and child.” This narrative style brought to life the stories of individual lives in warfare and earned a wide readership. Before the advent of television and cable news, Hemingway brought world conflicts to life for his North American audience. [Editor’s Annotation: Perhaps the Europe and the Western World] The National Archives, Prologue | Spring 2006

    Take the plunge and submit to us by October 31 to enter the Hemingway Book Awards for Wartime Fiction 2023 CIBAs!

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right
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    Wartime Fiction set in the twentieth century asks us to reflect most keenly on the most difficult times in our recent history. At Chanticleer, we are here to face war time history with the Hemingway Awards 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.

    To read more about Ernest Hemingway, please click here. 

    Please note that fictional accounts of the United States Civil War should be submitted to the Laramie Book Awards for Americana Fiction. It is sobering to note that more human life was lost in the Civil War than in ALL of the wars, battles, and skirmishes that the U.S. has participated in added together. Civil wars are considered to be the most deadly of all wars. [Editor’s Note: The recorded 620,000 killed in the USA Civil War were white men. The actual inclusive number is considered to be more than 800,000.]

    Historical Book Awards here at Chanticleer Reviews and the CIBAS.

    The CIBAs started with one historical fiction division, The Chaucer Book Awards, which split off the Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s historical fiction. Then the Goethe Book Awards split off a new division, the Hemingway Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

    The Hemingway Awards might be young, but we already have three amazing Grand Prize Winners to share with you!

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    RUNNING WITH CANNIBALS
    By Robert W. Smith

    Robert W. Smith tells the story of a forgotten war and the fractured peace that follows in his powerful historical fiction novel, Running with Cannibals.

    It has been said that “War is hell.” It has also been opined that “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Running with Cannibals is a no-holds-barred, candid portrayal of a war that is glossed over in U.S. history, the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. It was the first war fought overseas by the U.S.

    Running with Cannibals begins with an unnamed man on the run from an unjust accusation bought with blood and money.

    Read more here!

    EO-N Cover

    EO-N
    By Dave Mason

    A young boy in Norway makes a discovery while playing with his dog, opening the mystery of EO-N by Dave Mason, a detective story spanning multiple decades and both sides of the Atlantic, a deep dive into the horrors of Nazi Germany, and a heartfelt love story.

    A small metal fragment leads to the discovery of a downed WWII twin-engine Mosquito fighter-bomber hidden in snow and glacial ice for nearly 75 years. The crash site yields an initial set of clues, one of which finds its way across the world to Alison Wiley, a biotech CEO in Seattle. Having recently lost her mother, and, a few years earlier, her brother in Afghanistan, she finds her days full of despair, but the discovery makes a distant connection to her long-lost grandfather, and she flies to Norway. There, she meets Scott Wilcox, a Canadian researcher assigned to investigate the discovery after his government learned that the crashed aircraft belonged to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Their attraction is both intellectual and emotional, but the quest to uncover the plane’s mysteries and the fate of Alison’s grandfather place any romance to the side.

    At first, the crash doesn’t appear exceptional, until certain contradictory and confusing clues emerge that make it clear that the circumstances that led to the plane’s fate were anything but simple.

    Read more here!

    THE QUISLING FACTOR
    By J. L. Oakley

    During World War II “quisling” became a byword for a particular type of traitor, one who not only betrays their own country but also actively collaborates with the invaders. The origin of the term was taken from an actual person, a Norwegian named Vidkun Quisling, who didn’t merely cooperate with the Nazis but actually headed a collaborationist regime in his own country.

    The Quisling Factor takes place in the immediate post-war period, as the Nuremberg Trials are gearing up in Germany. Norway is conducting its own post-war legal purge of collaborators at all levels of government.

    The story is a direct follow-up to the author’s award-winning World War II novel, The Jøssing Affair. This second novel focuses on the physical and emotional toll of war, and its precarious weight of peace on the survivors.

    Read more here!


    Now that you’re set on your next reads, what are you waiting for? The only way to join this amazing list of Hemingway Winners is to submit today!

    The Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards Overall Grand Prize sticker for the CIBAs

    Those who submit and advance will have the chance to win the Overall Grand Prize of the CIBAs and $1000!

    The Blue and Gold Best Book Awards for the CIBAs
    You know you want it…

     

    Are you a Chanticleer Author who has some good news to share? Let us know! We’re always looking for a reason to crow about Chanticleerians! Reach out with your news to info@ChantiReviews.com

  • Happy Fourth of July from Chanticleer 2023

    Celebrating the 4th of July – Independence Day in the U.S.A.

    In July 1776 the United States declared Independence from England.

    John Dunlap printed copies of the Declaration of Independence in his Philadelphia shop on the night of July 4, 1776. (National Archives Identifier 301682)

    The primary freedoms that everyone remembers from the Declaration of Independence is “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” You can read the full Declaration here via the National Archives. It’s about two pages long and worth taking the time to review it.

    Of course, the Declaration of Independence didn’t mean freedom for all…

    Since US Independence was declared, the path to voting rights for all has been a long one getting from there to here, and there’s still more work to be done. You can read an abridged history of the journey of voting rights for women and people of color here, with special attention paid to the 19th Amendment.

    And we now have Juneteenth, a Texas holiday that is now celebrated nationwide. . The holiday celebrates a June 19, 1865 proclamation that freed enslaved peoples in Texas. Texas then, in 1979, became the first state to recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday. You can learn more about Juneteenth here.

    You can also read Ralph Ellison’s posthumously released novel by the same name.

    Clearly, the US Independence Day has a deep, rich history that still lives on and evolves today. The traditions to celebrate the Fourth of July also continue to change and grow with the world.

    Here in Bellingham, Wash., there will be a celebration at Zuanich Point Park and the Squalicum Boathouse. Events begin at 2pm, and, with sunset around 9:16pm, the big event begins at 10:30pm! You can learn more about this and other Whatcom County Events here.

    Fireworks go off behind Bellingham's Old City Hall for the Fourth of July Independence Day
    Bellingham’s Old City Hall

    It is also a time to remember those who serve and have served to preserve our nation’s independence and democracy.

    We invite you to  visit Chanticleer’s most recent Memorial Day post here.

    Finally, we want to celebrate the US Independence Day in the most Chanticleer way possible — by recognizing wonderful titles . We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

    Great Reads from Chanticleer Reviews

    US Fiction and Early History

    Delaware Before the Railroads

    DELAWARE BEFORE The RAILROADS
    By Dave Tabler

    Delaware Before the Railroads by Dave Tabler presents a captivating visual tale of this tiny state, from 1638 to 1832, ranging between early colonial settlements and the aftermath of America’s Independence.

    Delaware’s place in this seminal time of United States history is carefully illustrated through pictures with wonderful captions. Delaware Before the Railroads highlights the significant role played by Delaware in America’s creation, uncovering surprising historical details such as the origin of log houses, a heroic figure who thwarted the British invasion of Canada, and the intriguing connection with Captain Kidd.

    The pictures and captions are highlighted by sidebar paragraphs that deliver more knowledge about what life was like for the Swedes and Dutch who settled near Delaware Bay. They found, for instance, a “new world” of seafood they didn’t recognize, such as the crabs they called “sea spiders.”

    Read more here.

    Delphic Oracle Cover

    DELPHIC ORACLE, U.S.A.
    By Steven Mayfield
    Mark Twain Grand Prize Winner

    The Coen Brothers meet Garrison Keillor in Steven Mayfield’s quirky, offbeat, and often hilarious Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.

    One June afternoon in 1925, seventeen-year-old Maggie Westinghouse, out walking alone as was her custom, comes upon a stranger in a railroad switch-house asleep on a pile of gunnysacks. Maggie, who has always stood a little apart from the town, has recently begun to experience visions that come upon her “in a leisurely way,” ending in a swoon and a restless sleep filled with exotic talk of which she later has no memory. No one knows what to make of it, but they soon will. After this afternoon’s chance encounter with July Pennybaker, a charming grifter on the lam, her world will never be the same. Neither will the town of Miagrammesto Station.

    Eighty-nine years later, in the days leading up to and following the July 4th weekend, domestic dramas are playing out across Delphic Oracle, Nebraska (nee Miagrammesto Station).

    Read more here.

    Everything That Was Cover

    EVERYTHING THAT WAS
    By Conon Parks, Chris Sempek, Mike MacNeil, Larry Knight
    Somerset Grand Prize Winner

    Everything That Was echoes myriad broken emotions born of the world in turmoil after 9/11, intricate and politically bold, and as disturbing in its brutal humanity as it is satisfying with witty jests.

    The 9/11 terrorist attack has shattered the psyche of the American people. A volcanic eruption of questions demands the whys and hows of the attack. From this anger, a massive war on terror begins. This historical fiction reflects the chaos of 9/11 and its ensuing global chaos – resulting in a series of violent endeavors and events. Throughout Everything That Was, one can find a swarm of fragmented ideologies, mini memoirs of war veterans, and witness accounts – all screeching reasons for the attack, the ensuing war, and its consequences: political, ideological, and theological.

    The book’s very structure expresses the central ideas of its content, making for an affecting read.

    Read more here.

    Wartime Fiction and Non-Fiction

    Dear Bob Cover

    DEAR BOB: Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II
    By Martha Bolton with Linda Hope
    Military and Front Line Grand Prize Winner

    During World War II, Bob Hope traveled almost ceaselessly to outposts large and small, entertaining US troops – and inspiring them; Martha Bolton brings the extent of this work to light in Dear Bob.

    Writer Martha Bolton worked with and for comedian Bob Hope. Now, with Hope’s daughter Linda, she has gathered and organized the letters written to Bob by the soldiers he helped.

    Hope, English born, and born to entertain, once said he could not retire and go fishing because “Fish don’t applaud.” Among his sizzling lines – and there are hundreds recorded here – he told one audience that he’d gotten a wonderful welcome when he arrived at their camp: “I received a 10-gun salute… They told me on the operating table.”

    Read more here.

    SEEING GLORY: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith & the American Civil War
    By Bruce Gardner

    Seeing Glory by Bruce Gardner is a sweeping, thought-provoking Christian historical novel of the American Civil War. The novel portrays the critical roles of family ties and religious faith in shaping personal attitudes and actions towards the horrors of slavery and the war itself.

    Spanning the era from the famous abolitionist John Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 through the end of the war nine years later, Seeing Glory focuses on the gut-wrenching conflicts over slavery and the southern way of life faced by David, Emma, and Catherine Hodge, fictional siblings, raised on a wealthy plantation in Virginia.

    David returns home from a prestigious northern college filled with radical new perspectives. He challenges his father’s and his southern church’s assurances that the Bible says slavery is approved by God. When David calls out the truth as he now sees it, he ignites a firestorm that tears him away from his family at the beginning of the Civil War, sparking huge changes in their individual destinies. Soon after meeting Abel Bowman—an ardent abolitionist and follower of John Brown—David moves north to Ohio and becomes an embedded war reporter with Abel’s Union army regiment. Mutual zeal for the abolitionist cause abounds, but will it help or hinder the two men’s endurance of horrific battlefield violence and scandalous personal accusation?

    Read more here.


    US Flag in the wind

    This Independence Day, we wish you the following:

    May your family and loved ones be close and happy. May we share in the benefits of a community that cares for and loves each other.

    Happy Fourth of July from Sharon, Kiffer, David, Scott, Anya, Andy, and the whole Chanticleer Team!


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    Check out our Editorial Services here and our Manuscript Overviews here, OR, if your work is already polished to a fine shine, it’s time to submit to our Editorial Reviews here and our Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) here!

    Your book deserves to be discovered!

  • The HEMINGWAY 2022 CIBA WINNERS for 20th c. 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 J.L. Oakley on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 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 2022 CIBAs.

    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky

    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre

    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals

    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire

    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna

    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three

    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

    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!

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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.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • The 2022 HEMINGWAY CIBAs 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.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

    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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Short-timer: A Story of Love and War
    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky
    • Iain Stewart – Knights of the Air: Book 4 EXILE
    • Bob Van Laerhoven – The Shadow Of The Mole
    • M.N. Snitz – The Price for Glory
    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna
    • Teri M Brown – An Enemy Like Me
    • Samrat Mitra – Laddie Roy
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Men Who Strove With Gods
    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – On Prevailing Winds
    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
    • D.V. Chernov – Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia
    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre

    Blue and Gold badge for finalists of the Hemingway award

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hemingway Awards is EO-N

    by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2022 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 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 27 – 30, 2023! 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 11th annual conference and discover why!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 HEMINGWAY CIBAs Semi-Finalists for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    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.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction Short List to the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Hemingway Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

    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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Short-timer: A Story of Love and War
    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky
    • Iain Stewart – Knights of the Air: Book 4 EXILE
    • Bob Van Laerhoven – The Shadow Of The Mole
    • M.N. Snitz – The Price for Glory
    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna
    • Teri M Brown – An Enemy Like Me
    • Samrat Mitra – Laddie Roy
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Men Who Strove With Gods
    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – On Prevailing Winds
    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
    • D.V. Chernov – Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia
    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre
    • Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – The Scepter And The Isle

    Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards Semi-Finalist Badge with Blue Laurels

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hemingway Awards is EO-N

    by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2022 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 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 27 – 30, 2023! 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 11th annual conference and discover why!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 HEMINGWAY CIBAs Short List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    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.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction Long List to the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Hemingway Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

    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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Short-timer: A Story of Love and War
    • Nove Meyers – The O’Dell Cup
    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky
    • Iain Stewart – Knights of the Air: Book 4 EXILE
    • Bob Van Laerhoven – The Shadow Of The Mole
    • Sophie Neville – Love is for the Brave
    • M.N. Snitz – The Price for Glory
    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna
    • Teri M Brown – An Enemy Like Me
    • Samrat Mitra – Laddie Roy
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Men Who Strove With Gods
    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – On Prevailing Winds
    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
    • John West – The Psychiatrist: Conscript, Prisoner, Interpreter, Healer
    • D.V. Chernov – Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia
    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre
    • Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – The Scepter And The Isle

    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 to the next rounds of judging.

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hemingway Awards is EO-N

    by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2022 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 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 27 – 30, 2023! 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 11th annual conference and discover why!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 HEMINGWAY CIBAs Long List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    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.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction entries to the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Hemingway Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

    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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Short-timer: A Story of Love and War
    • Nove Meyers – The O’Dell Cup
    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky
    • Iain Stewart – Knights of the Air: Book 4 EXILE
    • Bob Van Laerhoven – The Shadow Of The Mole
    • Sophie Neville – Love is for the Brave
    • M.N. Snitz – The Price for Glory
    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna
    • Teri M Brown – An Enemy Like Me
    • Samrat Mitra – Laddie Roy
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Men Who Strove With Gods
    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – On Prevailing Winds
    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
    • Bo Gannon – Jungle Soup
    • John West – The Psychiatrist: Conscript, Prisoner, Interpreter, Healer
    • Sam Martin – Pictures of Anna
    • D.V. Chernov – Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia
    • M. B. Zucker – The Eisenhower Chronicles
    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre
    • Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – The Scepter And The Isle

    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 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hemingway Awards is EO-N by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2022 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 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  April 27 – 30, 2023! 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 11th annual conference and discover why!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • Part Two of The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

    Part Two of The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

    We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our second of three official postings.

    The winners were recognized at the CIBA ceremony held on June 25th, 2022 In-Person and broadcast live via ZOOM at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

     

    The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians flying in and watching from around the globe and North America.

    We cheered on the CIBA winners with our drink of choice, whether in-person or Virtual!

    Btw, Kiffer’s favorite Champagne!

    We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 25 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

    A pyramid showing the different levels of CIBA Achievement

     

    We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2021—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

    This post will recognize the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the Laramie, Chaucer, Goethe, Hemingway, Chatelaine, Mark Twain, and Somerset Awards.

    For the Cygnus, Ozma, Paranormal, Global Thrillers, M&M, Clue, Little Peeps, Gertrude Warner, and Dante Rossetti Book Awards, please click here for Part 1.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Book Awards, place click here for Part 3

    Coveted Chanticleer Blue Ribbons!

    We are honored to present the

    2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards

    Grand Prize Winners 

    The 2021 CIBA Winners! 

     


     

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

    The LARAMIE Book Awards for

    American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

    The Grand Prize Winner is

    TOM SAWYER RETURNS by E.E. Burke

     


    The Chaucer Awards for Historical Novels

    The CHAUCER Book Awards for

    Pre-1750s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Too soon the night Grand Prize Badge

     

    TOO SOON THE NIGHT by James Conroyd Martin

    Too soon the night cover

     

    • John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane – Olympia: The Birth of the Games
    • Janet Wertman – The Boy King
    • Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: All Manner of Things
    • Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Lines Between Us: A Novel
    • Patricia Bracewell – The Steel Beneath the Silk
    • James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

    The GOETHE Book Awards for

    Post-1750’s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    After the Rising Goethe Grand Prize Badge

    AFTER THE RISING by Orna Ross

    After the Rising Cover

     

    • Ron Singerton – The Refused
    • Drema Drudge – Victorine
    • Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
    • Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
    • Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
    • Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    The HEMINGWAY Book Awards for

    20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    EO-N Hemingway Grand Prize Badge

     

    EO-N by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

     

    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Far On The Ringing Plains
    • Marian Exall – Daughters of War
    • Marina Osipova – Too Many Wolves in the Local Woods
    • Richard Alan Schwartz – The Soldier: A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
    • Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy    

     

    Romance Fiction Award

    The CHATELAINE Book Awards for

    Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    The Long Desert Road Chatelaine Grand Prize Award Badge

     

    THE LONG DESERT ROAD by Alex Sirotkin

    The Long Desert Road Cover

     

    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said — A Novel
    • Evie Alexander – Highland Games
    • Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
    • Kana Wu – No Secrets Allowed
    • Emma Lombard – Discerning Grace
    • John W. Feist – The Color of Rain

     

    The MARK TWAIN Book Awards

    for Humor and Satire

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Certified Mark Twain Grand Prize Badge

     

    CERTIFIED by Roger Wilson-Crane

    Certified Cover

     

    Blue and Gold Mark Twain First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

    • Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Lou Dischler – My Only Sunshine: Getting Straight with the Bomb
    • Andy Becker – The Kissing Rabbi: Lust, Betrayal, and a Community Turned Inside Out
    • Anne Pfeffer – Binge  

    The SOMERSET Book Awards

    for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Lies in Bone

     

    LIES IN BONE by Natalie Symons

    Lies in Bone Cover

     

    Blue and Gold Somerset First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

    • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
    • Robert Gwaltney – The Cicada Tree
    • Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
    • Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann, a historical novel
    • Douglas Green – A Dog of Many Names
    • Barbara Linn Probst – The Sound Between the Notes
    • M. J. Simms-Maddox – The Mysterious Affair at the Met

     


    Congratulations to ALL!

    We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

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    Not seeing your Division? Try the links below!

    For the Cygnus, Ozma, Paranormal, Global Thrillers, M&M, Clue, Little Peeps, Gertrude Warner, and Dante Rossetti Book Awards, please click here for Part 1.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Book Awards, place click here for Part 3

    And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2021 CIBAs!

    Stay Tuned for Part 3 which will announce the Overall Grand Prize Winner!

    We are now accepting entries into the 2022 and 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://test.chantireviews.com/contests/

    As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com — We will try our best to respond within 3 business days.

    Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2021 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team