The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Laramie Americana Short List to the 2022 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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following Semi-Finalist authors and their works!
Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions: The Women of Wyatt Earp
Shanna Hatfield –Distracting the Deputy
Bruce Gardner –Seeing Glory: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith, and the American Civil War
E. Alan Fleischauer –JTs World
Susan Higginbotham –John Brown’s Women: A Novel
Debra Whiting Alexander –A River for Gemma
T.K. Conklin –Guarded Hearts
Larry Boucher –The Scout
Ed Davis –The Last Professional
E. Alan Fleischauer –How the West Was Won then Lost …. Decimation
Sophia Alexander –Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
Gail Hertzog –Crossing the Ford
Dena Smallwood –Syrie
Shanna Hatfield –Holiday Hope
Eileen Charbonneau –Ursula’s Inheritance
Harriet Cannon –Exiled South
Margaret Arross –El Viento
Daniel Greene –Northern Blood (Northern Wolf Series Book 3)
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
CAC23 – Turn it up to 11! 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.
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books.These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2022 CIBAs.(For Young Adult Fiction see ourDante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see ourGertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Little Peeps Early Readers Long List to the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
Philippa Rae – Harold Goes To School
Sara Tabibzadeh – Two Cherries
Ghazal Mousavi – I’m Scared Too!
Masoud Malekyari – Being the Best
David Rodriguez III – The Many Adventures of Bruiser The Jack Russell Terrier MVP: Most Valuable Pup
Ruthie Godfrey – God Made It All
Anthony C. Delauney – Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work
Cynthia Kern OBrien – Marky the Magnificent Fairy
Travis D. Peterson – Ada and the Helpers
Fragile Tossa – Climate Change Team
Helen M. Waters – A Story About Sprout
Micai Reigo Nethercott – Buddy and Bailey’s Alaskan Adventure
Richard Ceasor – Grandma I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale
Susan Conrad – Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz
Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey to the Oceans
Cynthia C. Huijgens – A Fish Called Andromeda
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
Valerie Ramer – Alastair McAllister Goes to School
Peggy Sullivan – Montana Cats
Danielle Diestl – Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues
Maggie Bates – Ravens Roost
Cheryl Denise Bannerman – The Gecko Without An Echo
Anthony C. Delauney – Dash and Nikki and The Jellybean Game
Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd – Mighty Mara
S McMichael – Happenstance Farms Catch That Pony
David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale
Cindy L. Rodriguez – Three Pockets Full: A story of love, family, and tradition
Kathy Joy – Will You Hold my Story?
Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
Eve Cabanel – Eli and the Mystery of the Hallowshine Dragon
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.
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.
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 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 Long List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey Semi-Finalists. 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!
Join us in celebrating the ShortList authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Ian Gregory – On Insanity
Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
Denise Collins – What Happened to John
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021JOURNEY Awards is:
Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
Andrea Wilson Woods
The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2023JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July.Enter here!
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.
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Laramie Americana Long List to the 2022 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions.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 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works!
Jerry E. Bustin –Outlaws, Renegades, and Prickly Pear Jam
Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions: The Women of Wyatt Earp
Shanna Hatfield –Distracting the Deputy
Bruce Gardner –Seeing Glory: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith, and the American Civil War
E. Alan Fleischauer –JTs World
Susan Higginbotham –John Brown’s Women: A Novel
Debra Whiting Alexander –A River for Gemma
T.K. Conklin –Guarded Hearts
Larry Boucher –Ferris Station
Larry Boucher –The Scout
Ed Davis –The Last Professional
E. Alan Fleischauer –How the West Was Won then Lost …. Decimation
Sophia Alexander –Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
Gail Hertzog –Crossing the Ford
Dena Smallwood –Syrie
Betty Willis –Texas Quest
Shanna Hatfield –Holiday Hope
Susanna Lane –Imperfect Promise
Eileen Charbonneau –Ursula’s Inheritance
Harriet Cannon –Exiled South
Margaret Arross –El Viento
Daniel Greene –Northern Blood (Northern Wolf Series Book 3)
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.
Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
CAC23 – Turn it up to 11! 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.
Celebrating the Art of the Short but Spectacular Writing
“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” ― David Sedaris
The Short Story Book Awards is a new and fast-growing Chanticleer Book Award Division. Featuring any of our 23 Fiction or Non-Fiction genres, these Awards are different from our other programs in that they have two tracks: One that features Individual Works and another that features Collected Works.
Generally, we announce 5 First Place Winners and 1 Grand Prize Winner for Individual Works and the same for Collected Works. This lets each type of work shine. You can see the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists of our 2020 inaugural Short Story Awards here and the 2021 Winners here for collected works and here for individual works.
Short Stories and Essays stand well apart from their 50,000+ word counterparts in both Fiction and Non-Fiction. N.K. Jemisin, three-time Hugo Award Winner for her brilliant Broken Earth Trilogy, credits writing short stories as the method by which she learned how to create tightly written stories with no fluff. Her talent shines in her collection How Long ’til Black Future Month?
In working with a shorter format, a writer must commit to only putting in what matters to their story. This is true of longer formats, but readers are much less forgiving when a short story or essay feels trivial.
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
The Shorts Hall of Fame from Chanticleer
We’re honored to have received so many excellent submissions in the past. Is your story the next one we’ll discover? Check out these Best Books from Chanticleer.
A Week at Surf Side Beach By Pierce Koslosky Jr. 2020 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Collections
Vacationers from all walks of life converge on Portofino II-317C, South Carolina, a quaint blue beach house, in Pierce Koslosky Jr.’s short story collection, A Week at Surfside Beach.
From May 30th-December 26th each group of people comes to stay one week at a time, to forget their cares of the big city, to work, to celebrate, or to simply get away. Surfside Beach has much to show them, including temperamental weather.
The small town itself offers a charming supermarket where fishing supplies, whoopie pies, and local southern favorites can be found. The Christmas vacationers, the final of the thirteen beach house renters, struggle to find a tree in time; a real tree simply wouldn’t allow enough space for the family to sleep, and the fake tree would cost too much. But they find arts and crafts supplies in town, to fashion a paper Christmas tree during a day of rainy weather.
Savonne, not Vonny By Robin Lee Lovelace 2020 Shorts Grand Prize for Novellas
Robin Lee Lovelace evokes a world in which the mystical intertwines with the everyday in Savonne, Not Vonny, a coming-of-age story set in rural Louisiana.
Nine-year-old Savonne lives in a small room at the back of Mama Gwen’s whorehouse, in Indianapolis in the ’60s. Her mama is one of the working girls, and her father is Mama Gwen’s own son. Savonne’s daddy dotes on her, and Mama Gwen loves Savonne like the daughter she never had; the two of them together make a loving home for Savonne, in the midst of their raucous brothel.
By contrast, Savonne’s birth mother rarely pays her any mind. A “crazy-ass woman” with a temper “as hot as a Mississippi afternoon,” Coco is not at all opposed to beating the bejesus out of someone. In a fury one night, she does something that cannot be undone, and in her headlong flight out of town, she takes Savonne with her.
Note: Savonne, Not Vonny, is due to be released as part of Lovelace’s collection, A Wild Region. Keep an eye on her website here for the latest updates. The collection is expected to be published on April 28, 2023.
New York, Give Me Your Best or Your Worst By Elizabeth Crowens 2021 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Collections
A strong collection of work and art, powered by inspiration and the beauty of New York.
The Review for New York: Give Me Your Best or YourWorst is still forthcoming, but we featured author Elizabeth Crowens’ accomplishment in putting together this unique anthology here.
Homegoing By Toni Ann Johnson 2021 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Novellas
Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson is an intimate portrait of a middle-aged African-American woman dragging herself hand over hand out of grief and despair.
This story begins with her aching, echoing pain after the one-two punch of a miscarriage and the dissolution of her marriage. Her journey takes her back to the upper-middle-class white suburb where she grew up, through childhood memories that refuse to be denied and to, of all times and places, a funeral.
Something and someone is supposed to be buried. Certainly the deceased. But quite possibly the woman who has held on to her losses and her grudges long enough to poison her own future.
Thank you for celebrating these Shorts Awards Grand Prize Winners with us!
Have a Short piece of Fiction, Non-Fiction, or a Collection? Your work deserves to be discovered. Submit today!
At the End: “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” ― Ray Bradbury
IN-Person Registration for the Chanticleer Authors Conference is Open
– 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.
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books.These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2022 CIBAs.(For Young Adult Fiction see ourDante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see ourGertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Little Peeps Early Readers entries to the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Little Peeps Shortlist. 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Deborah Bailey and Stephanie Matolyak – A Farm Animals’ Day at the Fair
Charly Froh – The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Magic of Friendship
Beth Bacon – The Panda Cub Swap
Sherrie Cosens – The Trouble With A Flying Mouse
Philippa Rae – Harold Goes To School
Sara Tabibzadeh – Two Cherries
Ghazal Mousavi – I’m Scared Too!
Masoud Malekyari – Being the Best
David Rodriguez III – The Many Adventures of Bruiser The Jack Russell Terrier MVP: Most Valuable Pup
Ruthie Godfrey – God Made It All
Anthony C. Delauney – Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work
Cynthia Kern OBrien – Marky the Magnificent Fairy
Dyanna Morrison – For the Love of Buddy
Travis D. Peterson – Ada and the Helpers
Fragile Tossa – Climate Change Team
Stephan Theo and JL Morin – Tuck-a-tuck Dragon
Helen M. Waters – A Story About Sprout
Lori Croy – The Hole Story
Micai Reigo Nethercott – Buddy and Bailey’s Alaskan Adventure
Richard Ceasor – Grandma I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale
Susan Conrad – Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz
Matilde Léon – The Money-Smart Mermaid
Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey to the Oceans
Cynthia C. Huijgens – A Fish Called Andromeda
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
Valerie Ramer – Alastair McAllister Goes to School
Peggy Sullivan – Montana Cats
Danielle Diestl – Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues
Maggie Bates – Ravens Roost
Cheryl Denise Bannerman – The Gecko Without An Echo
Kathleen J. Shields – The First Unibear
Anthony C. Delauney – Dash and Nikki and The Jellybean Game
Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd – Mighty Mara
S McMichael – Happenstance Farms Catch That Pony
S McMichael – Happenstance Farms A New Home
Nan Evenson – Good Night (Not Really): Let’s Count Forward AND Backward
David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale
Cindy L. Rodriguez – Three Pockets Full: A story of love, family, and tradition
Kathy Joy – Will You Hold my Story?
Auralee Arkinsly – Roo’s Fine Flapping Day
Abbe Rolnick – Bubbie’s Magical Hair
Eve Cabanel – Eli and the mystery of the Hallowshine dragon
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.
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.
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 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 2022 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey 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 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!
Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Ian Gregory – On Insanity
Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
C.J. Hudson – Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street
Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
Carter Obasohan – Notes From Out West
Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
Tina Scott – The Forbidden Fruit: A True Story of Sex, Drugs, and the Afterlife
M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
Linda Kolsky – Heavenly Hindsights: How One Mother Found Meaning in her Life After the Death of Her Child
Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
Denise Collins – What Happened to John
Lynette Ingram – Flares from a Fallout Shelter
Linda Lee Henderson – Wake Up Mom!
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.
Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews
Orclick hereto go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021JOURNEY Awards is:
Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
Andrea Wilson Woods
The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2023JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July.Enter here!
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.
Looking at the I&I, Harvey Chute, and Mind & Spirit Awards
There are two types of Non-Fiction that we commonly see: Narrative Non-Fiction and Prescriptive Non-Fiction.
Just what is the difference between types of Non-Fiction?
Narrative often makes the most sense, but that doesn’t mean that Prescriptive Non-Fiction deserves a bad rap. Let’s look at some definitions:
Narrative Non-Fiction:
The primary focus is story. Often a beginning, middle, and end, it stands strong with most fiction stories, with the notable difference that it is, in fact, Non-Fiction. Memoir is similar, though obviously focused on one person’s first person experience of their own life.
Prescriptive Non-Fiction:
The primary focus here is conveying a message. Narrative and writing style help convey this message in the same way it conveys theme in a Narrative Non-Fiction. The person writing must be an expert in the subject. How else do you make a full book of it?
While we’re going to focus on three different genres of Prescriptive Non-Fiction, you can always read more about it through resources like this one here.
Three Genres of the CIBAs for Prescriptive Non-Fiction
While you can see our full list of Non-Fiction Genres (including the newest for Military and Front Line Books) here, we consider our I&I, Harvey Chute, and Mind & Spirit Book Award Programs to be closest to Prescriptive Non-Fiction. The main focuses for these three Awards programs are How-To, Business & Finance, and Spirituality and Mindfulness.
There’s a good deal of overlap with the other Awards as sometimes the instructional side of a workbook takes over more than the part that looks directly at financial or spiritual welfare. However, the key here is that you learn while enjoying a book. Maybe the book is framed through someone’s personal experience, their clinical experience, or told in the form of a travelogue, but no matter what it brings you through to a new understanding by the end.
What Does Prescriptive Non-Fiction Look Like?
Examples are always best in these cases. Here are some of our favorite Non-Fiction books that we’ve reviewed recently focusing on How-To, Business & Finance, and Spirituality.
EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM: How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships
By Sandy Gerber
Emotional Magnetism: How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships is a self-help and marketing book in one—in fact, it’s a self-marketing book.
A seasoned marketing professional, author Sandy Gerber uses common elements in marketing theory to aid those who wish to enhance their communication skills and ability to get along with people around them. It’s easy to be misunderstood or unheard, and it’s even easier to be at cross-purposes, leading to frustration and animosity. But using Gerber’s SAVE technique, understanding what we mean and what we need becomes clear.
In this work, we learn what emotional magnetism is, and how well we can communicate when we learn how to harness it. We also learn about how emotional magnetism can be repelled when it’s not done right. But in order to use emotional magnetism, we must first learn what the emotional magnets are, using the acronym SAVE—short for safety (S), achievement (A), value (V), and experience (E)—and how they are reflected in our personalities.
HEALING OUT LOUD: How to Embrace God’s Love When You Don’t Like Yourself
By Sandi Brown & Michelle Caulk
Two writers – friends, and former counselor and client – combine forces to create Healing Out Loud, a dynamic book aimed at understanding and overcoming the deficits that life hands us.
Sandi Brown, a radio personality with more grit than she realizes, seeks professional help. Michelle Caulk’s therapeutic methodology perfectly suits this case. The two offer examples of wishing for and finding true mental health through the development of a remarkable communicative relationship.
Each chapter of the pair’s psychological explorations begins with a memory from Sandi, accompanied by her expanded view of incidents from childhood and beyond. These ruminations are then matched by counselor Michelle’s personal grasp of Sandi’s specific dilemmas, and well-constructed guidelines for a healing process that readers can incorporate into their own lives. Sandi, grappling with low self-esteem, was traumatized as a child when her father left her mother and brother, loudly and finally, with no explanation.
WELFARE CHEESE to FINE CAVIAR: How to Achieve Your Dreams Despite Your Upbringing
By Thomas Wideman, MBA, PMP
First Place Winner in the Harvey Chute Awards
Thomas Wideman, the author of this dynamic self-help manual, Welfare Cheese to Fine Caviar: How to Achieve Your Dreams Despite Your Upbringing, rose from poverty and dismay to a life of security and personal achievement through techniques he shares with readers who can incorporate them into their own life plans.
Wideman came from an impoverished African American family wracked by confusion, chaos, and, at times, criminality. His mother had three sons by three fathers, and he would come to know his own father only peripherally, eventually learning that the man murdered people and subsequently died in prison. The boy grew up in tough neighborhoods and ate “welfare cheese” (a block of pre-sliced heavy American cheese that supposedly melted well). Every month, making ends meet became more and more difficult. In an early chapter of this finely woven chronology, we see him taking food from trains parked along the railroad tracks and running from the authorities. In this, as in each new chapter, he speaks of confronting severe issues and finding ways to resolve them. In the case of the theft and other childhood incidents of fighting, experiencing bullies, and battling racism, he speaks of making up his mind that “my circumstances need not be my limitation.”
A math whiz, Wideman found his strengths through schoolwork, striving for A’s instead of merely accepting B’s.
GATHERING PEBBLES: Learning How to Make Your Own Chicken Soup
By David Okerlund
Inuit of the Canadian Arctic are known for creating stone structures used as navigational points and message centers for fellow travelers. Some of these directional monuments provide a spiritual connotation meant to enrich the journey.
Gathering Pebbles is David Okerlund’s own “inukshuk” of sorts, a book filled with stories, recollections, and memorable life events that have become part of his personal road map for living. Okerlund, a world-class inspirational speaker, shares his best stories to help you create your own life-path. He shares this collection of nuggets in the interest of helping others along their chosen path and hoping to encourage their own “gathering” and sharing of valuable knowledge.
Okerlund directs his writing in a casual, user-friendly style. Each of the book’s chapters is highlighted as a pebble gathered on his winding life’s path. Titles are effectively posed as questions to help draw readers into the topic at hand. Each chapter is formatted with a variable mixture of contemplative quotes, poetry, recaptured historical moments, and personal experiences, to showcase qualities such as perseverance, retaining a sense of childhood wonderment, the importance of faith, and following your dreams.
Each of these books does an excellent job navigating their genres (and their cover designs!), making it clear who they appeal to and how they can help the reader.
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Laramie Americana entries to the 2022 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Laramie Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions.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 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 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Jerry E. Bustin – Outlaws, Renegades, and Prickly Pear Jam
Pamela Nowak – Necessary Deceptions: The Women of Wyatt Earp
Shanna Hatfield – Distracting the Deputy
James W McDonopugh – A Distant Ridge
Bruce Gardner – Seeing Glory: A Novel of Family Strife, Faith, and the American Civil War
David Nix – Dead Man’s Hand
E. Alan Fleischauer – JTs World
Susan Higginbotham – John Brown’s Women: A Novel
Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
T.K. Conklin – Guarded Hearts
Larry Boucher – Ferris Station
Larry Boucher – The Scout
Ed Davis – The Last Professional
E. Alan Fleischauer – How the West Was Won then Lost …. Decimation
M.J. Hayes – Son of the Mountain
Sophia Alexander – Tapestry: A Lowcountry Rapunzel
Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
Dena Smallwood – Syrie
Betty Willis – Texas Quest
Shanna Hatfield – Holiday Hope
Susanna Lane – Imperfect Promise
Eileen Charbonneau – Ursula’s Inheritance
Harriet Cannon – Exiled South
Margaret Arross – The Priest and the Charlatan
Margaret Arross – El Viento
Daniel Greene – Northern Blood (Northern Wolf Series Book 3)
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
CAC23 – Turn it up to 11! 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.
We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our third and final of three official postings.
CIBA Grand Prize Ribbons!
The winners were recognized at the CIBA ceremonies held on June 25th, 2022 in-person and by ZOOM webinars at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.
The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America.
Raising our glasses to cheer the CIBA Winners!
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!
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 2019—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
Seven Non-Fiction Divisions:
Journey, Hearten, Harvey Chute, Mind and Spirit, I & I, Military & Frontline and Nellie Bly
along with the FIRST Winners for the
Short Story, and Book Series Awards,
and concluding with the
OVERALL 2021 GRAND PRIZE WINNER
for the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards
J.W. Zarek will also be awarded $1,000 USD in recognition of her 2021 BEST BOOK of the YEAR – Chanticleer International Book Awards – Sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews & Media.
A Chanticleer Review ofThe Devil Pulls the Stringswill be featured in the in the Chanticleer Reviews OnWord Magazine (print and epub) along with other promotional and marketing opportunities along with an interview with the author, J.W. Zarek.
Thank you J.W. Zarek for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. We look forward to receiving future work in our CIBAs.
CONGRATULATIONS J.W. Zarek!
Six Grand Prize Winners with J.W. Zarek, the 2021 Overall Grand Prize Winner!
From all of us at Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chanticleer Reviews.
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Be sure to register early for the 11th Chanticleer Authors Conference that will start on April 23rd, 2023 with the 2022 CIBA banquet and ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 25th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Be well. Stay Healthy. Take Care!
An email will go out to all 2021 CIBA award winners prior to October 30, 2022, with instructions, links, and more information about the awards packages. We appreciate your patience. As stated many times before “One does not need to be present at the CIBA ceremony and banquet to win. But it sure is a lot more fun!”
As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
