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  • The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards 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 Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Hearten 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 titles are 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.

    • 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
    • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
    • 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
    • Kate Hudson-Hall – Anxiety Hacks: Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness
    • Cory Mortensen – The Buddha and the Bee
    • Julie Scolnik – Paris Blue
    • 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
    • Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success (It’s All About Love)

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      Blue and Gold badge for the finalists of the Hearten award

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

      Inner Trek
      – a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

      By Mohan Ranga Rao

      Inner Trek Cover

      The 2022 Hearten Grand Prize Badge for Inner Trek 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!

       

    • The 2023 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Early Readers & Picture Books

      Early Readers and Picture booksThe 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 Semi-Finalists 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 Short List to the 2023 Little Peeps 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 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 – 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
      • Kimberly Delude – Freddie the Fly: Seeing Through Another Lens
      • 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
      • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Bargains
      • Chloe and LaRanda Burke – Keys to Your H.E.A.R.T.
      • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
      • Victoria Smith – Priscilla and Tux: Brothers are Caring
      • Brenda Wilson Huddleston – The Squirrel & the Dragonfly
      • Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
      • 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
      • 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!
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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.

      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 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

      Ravens Roost 

      by Maggie Bates

      Raven's Roost CoverThe Little Peeps 2022 Grand Prize Badge for Ravens Roost by Maggie Bates

      See the Full List of 2022 Winners here

      PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

       

      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 Laramie Book Awards Finalists for Americana Fiction

      The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Finalists for Americana Fiction

      Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe 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 Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Laramie Book Awards 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 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • Sophia Alexander – Homespun
      • 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
      • Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time
      • T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
      • Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)

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

      Laramie Book Awards

       

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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 LARAMIE Awards is:

      Guarded Hearts 

      by T.K. Conklin

      The 2022 Laramie Grand Prize Badge for 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!

       

    • The 2023 NELLIE BLY CIBAs Finalists for Journalistic Non-Fiction

      Nellie Bly AwardsThe Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Long Form Journalistic and Investigative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards  (CIBAs).

      Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. 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 the 2023 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2023 Nellie Bly Book Awards FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Nellie Bly 1st PLACE WINNERS AND GRAND PRIZE. 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 the FINALISTS in the 2023 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

      Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

      • Meghan Elizabeth Kallman & Josephine Ferorelli – The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
      • Tessa Floreano – Italians in the Pacific Northwest
      • Paul Kix – You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
      • Roland Lazenby – Magic: The Life of Earvin “Magic” Johnson
      • Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins – On the Rocks
      • Johnson Nganga Mbugua – Martyrdom Christian, Kenya Chapter 1498 CE to 2020 CE Portuguese, Mau Mau, Al-shabaab-Related and other Martyrs also Biblical and Early Christian Martyrdom
      • Lyndsie Bourgon – Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
      • Stephen Watts – Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure
      • Qin Sun Stubis – Once Our Lives
      • Trisha T. Pritikin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
      • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
      • Jonathan Geoffrey Dean – Salt & Light; The Complete Jesus

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

      The Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 NELLIE BLY Awards is

      Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism from Syria to the Capitol Siege
      By       Rita Katz

      Saints and Soldiers Cover

      The Nellie Bly Grand Prize Badge for Rita Katz and her book Saints and Soldiers

      Click here to see the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

      We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 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, Screenwriter Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and coach and inspiring Mark Berridge, with more to be announced. CAC is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author and achieving your publishing goals.

      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 Shorts Award Short List for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

      The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

      The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. 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 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.

      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 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections,  Novellas, and Essays!

      Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

      • Michele L. Sayre – A Ghoulish Good Time – Tales to Make You Scream
      • Seán Thomas Dwyer – Tiptoeing Past the Dragon
      • Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – Miami Vengeance: A Griffin Knight Conspiracy Mystery
      • Elizabeth Chesla – You Cannot Forbid the Flower
      • David Joseph – I Didn’t Know What to Say, So I Just Said Thanks
      • Louise Lenahan Wallace – The Windows of his Heart
      • Brittany Eden – Wishes
      • J. I. Rogers – The Korpes File Series – Short Stories: Vol 1
      • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4
      • D. C. Gomez – Recruited
      • Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – The Windy City Terror: A Griffin Knight Horror Mystery
      • Vali Benson – Blood and Silver
      • Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest
      • JuJu – The Costly Wish
      • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
      • Elizabeth R. Jensen – Fire and Wolves: A Tale of Etria
      • Ekta R. Garg – The Truth About Elves
      • Gary Baysinger – A Kind of Homecoming
      • Paper Lantern Writers – Unlocked
      • Celaine Charles – Stained Glass Secrets and Star Wishes
      • Scott Swanson – Philly’s Bridge And Other Northwest Stories
      • Turtle – A Grading of the Human Species
      • Laurie Stevens – The Devil and Daniela Webster
      • Mack Little – Shelter in a Hostile World

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

      PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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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 SHORTS Awards is:

      God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

      by Lori Lee Peters

      The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Short Story Awards is:

      Old Man Baseball

      by Mike Murphey

      The Grand Prize for Short Stories and Essays in the Shorts Awards for Old Man Baseball by Mike Murphey

      See the full list of Shorts 2022 Winners here (Collections and Novellas)

      And Here (Short Stories and Essays)

      We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Shorts Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

      Please click here for more information.

      Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

      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, 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 Shorts Award Short List for Short Stories and Essays

      The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Story Collections and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

      The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. 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 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 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 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. 

      Note: These are for Short Stories and Essays. There is a separate post for Novellas, Collections, and longer Essays

      These titles are in the running to be Semi-Finalists of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Anthologies!

      Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

      • Catherine Brown – The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper
      • Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
      • Luray Embers – No Cat Is An Island
      • A.J. McCarthy – A Rock
      • A.J. McCarthy – The Strike
      • Brian Feutz – Pity the Peasants
      • Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury: A Jane Austenesque short story
      • Brittany Eden – Candles in the Dark from Fantasea
      • Logan D. Irons – Bridge of Kings
      • Sallie Barr Palmer – Conversation with a Vampire
      • Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
      • Marie Sutro – Son Down
      • Larry Sherrer – Spirit Letters
      • PJ Devlin – Sea Purses
      • Morgan Sloan – The Awakening
      • Sharon E. Cathcart – Rose in Bloom
      • S.M. Stevens – The Wallace House of Pain
      • Robert S Phillips – The Great River
      • George T. Arnold – Confession of a “Grammarholic”

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

      PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

      God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

      by Lori Lee Peters

      The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Short Story Awards is:

      Old Man Baseball

      by Mike Murphey

      The Grand Prize for Short Stories and Essays in the Shorts Awards for Old Man Baseball by Mike Murphey

      See the full list of Shorts 2022 Winners here (Collections)

      and here (Short Stories and Essays)

      We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Shorts Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

      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, 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 Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

      The 2023 Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

      Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe 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.

       

      Blue and Gold Badge for the finalists of the Journey non-fiction awards

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

      A Fraction Stronger 

      by Mark Berridge 

      A Fraction Stronger Cover

      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!

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      Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

    • The 2023 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Short List for Early Readers & Picture Books

      Early Readers and Picture booksThe 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

      Raven's Roost CoverThe Little Peeps 2022 Grand Prize Badge for 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!

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      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!

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      Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

    • 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

      Inner Trek Cover

      The 2022 Hearten Grand Prize Badge for Inner Trek 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!

       

    • The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction

      The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction

      Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe 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

      The 2022 Laramie Grand Prize Badge for 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!