Tag: Winners

  • The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Finalist for Early Readers and Children’s Books

    The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Finalist for Early Readers and Children’s Books

    Two little chicks, fresh from their eggThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Early Readers and Picture Books. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 Finalist List for the 2024 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
    • Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
    • Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
    • Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
    • Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
    • Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
    • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
    • Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
    • Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
    • Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
    • Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
    • Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
    • Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
    • Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
    • Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
    • Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
    • Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
    • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
    • Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
    • Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

    Blue and Gold badge for the finalists of the Little Peeps awards for early readers

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

    The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

    By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans by Scrap University for winning the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Short Story Awards Semi-Finalists for Short Stories and Essays

    The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Form Fiction. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    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  from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Short Form Content, singular short stories, essays and shorter Collections. The Long form Shorts (over 100 pages) Semi-Finalists List will be posted separately.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Susannah Dawn – It’s in the Grey Zone We Find The Colors
    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Soldier Jacob
    • Trudy Wells-Meyer – Regifting with a Twist
    • Burl Harmon – Being 100 Years Old
    • KD Sherrinford – Christmas at The Saporis
    • Mike Murphey – The Claunch Ness Monster
    • Lisa G. Spicer – Letters From Tacoma
    • Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
    • Deborah L. King – Attention Accepted
    • Tessa Floreano – Shadows of the Adriatic
    • J.J. Clarke – Deadly Ambition
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – A Circle of Sabbaths
    • Glen Dahlgren – The Dice of Chaos
    • PJ Devlin – Sleeping Out
    • PJ Devlin – Running
    • Glendall C. Jackson III – Naked Came the Detective
    • Carol L. Wright – Apple, Table, Penny… Murder
    • Hannah Stone – The Weight of Bone and Feather
    • L. Burton Brender – Stories from the War
    • Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro – Dream Rut: Navigating Your Path Forward
    • Tosca Lee – The Cancun Game

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

    The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

    By Catherine Brown

    A Manuscript

    Blue and Gold Badge Recognizing The Heart of Kublai Khan's Menagerie Keeper by Catherine Brown for winning the 2023 Shorts- Short Prose Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Collections, Essays, and Novellas.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Shorts Award Semi-Finalists for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

    The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Stories. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    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  from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    Please Note: There are two Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Long Form Content, Novellas, and Collections. The short form Shorts (100 pages or less) Semi-Finalist List will be posted separately.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi – Something About Lizzy
    • Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury
    • Susan L Rae – Teaching Treason: A Gabby Baxter Mystery
    • Paper Lantern Writers – Beneath a Midwinter Moon
    • Cynthia Geouge Davis – Catfish Corner
    • Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold
    • Deborah L. Staunton – Untethered
    • Jennifer Saviano – Joy Ride
    • Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box and Other Stories
    • Anne B. Barriault – Tales from Naples and Sorrentine Stories
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
    • Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

    Shelter In A Hostile World

    By Mack Little

    Blue and Gold Badge Recognizing Shelter in a Hostile World by Mack Little for winning the 2023 Shorts- Collections and Novellas Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections!

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Semi-Finalist for Early Readers and Children’s Books

    Two little chicks, fresh from their eggThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SEMI-FINAL LIST. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
    • Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
    • Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
    • Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
    • Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
    • Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
    • Ollie Miller – What is This?
    • Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
    • Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
    • Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
    • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
    • Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
    • Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
    • Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
    • Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
    • Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
    • Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
    • Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
    • Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
    • Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
    • Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
    • Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
    • Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
    • Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
    • Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
    • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
    • Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
    • Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
    • Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

    The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

    By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans by Scrap University for winning the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The Laramie Awards 2024 Finalists for Americana Fiction

    The Laramie Awards 2024 Finalists for Americana Fiction

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 from the 2024 LARAMIE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
    • Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
    • David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
    • Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
    • Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
    • David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
    • Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
    • Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
    • Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
    • Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
    • Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
    • Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
    • John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
    • Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
    • C.M. Huddleston – Esther
    • Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
    • Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)

    Laramie Book Awards

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

    The Last Man

    By Thomas Goodman

    Blue and Gold badge recognizing The Last Man by Thomas Goodman for winning the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Finalists for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards FINALISTS LIST. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE & GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Finalists List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

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

    Blue and Gold badge for the finalists of the Hearten award

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The Laramie Awards 2024 Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction

    The Laramie Awards 2024 Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE Short List to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
    • Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
    • Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
    • Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
    • David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
    • Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
    • Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
    • David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
    • Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
    • Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
    • Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
    • CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
    • Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
    • Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
    • Brook Allen – West of Santillane
    • John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
    • Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
    • Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
    • Craig Hipkins – Bandy
    • John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
    • C.M. Huddleston – Esther
    • Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
    • Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
    • Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
    • Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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

    We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

    The Last Man

    By Thomas Goodman

    Blue and Gold badge recognizing The Last Man by Thomas Goodman for winning the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize

     

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

  • The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Short List for Early Readers and Children’s Books

    Two little chicks, fresh from their eggThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS LONG LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
    • Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
    • Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
    • Michele L. Sayre – Along Came Spider the Making of a Superhero the Web Society
    • Jack Wiens – What Bear Said
    • Anne Lacourrege – The Greatest Treasure
    • Rory Foresman – Timber and Loony Moony Night Rescue Book 2
    • Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
    • Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
    • Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
    • Ollie Miller – What is This?
    • Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Santa Claus Celebrates Jesus’s Birthday
    • Robyn McCullough – The Journey of the Wee Shell
    • Tracy Spring – Love Doesn’t Care Who You Love
    • Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
    • A.J. Chilson – Mary the Merry Miracle
    • Ben St. James – Guinea Pig Power
    • Brian Cleven – Kenzie Runs the World
    • Grace Wolf – May I Come to Your Party?
    • Stephen G. Bowling – Grandma’s House is Haunted
    • P.E. Calvert & Charlotte Calvert Piel – WWCC Heroes: Pablo’s Adventure
    • Irit Tal – Popina & Slumberina
    • Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
    • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
    • Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
    • Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
    • Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
    • Samantha Pillay – When I’m the President
    • Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
    • Daryllen Stone – Sienna the Spotless Giraffe
    • Ruthie Godfrey – Grumpy Grump
    • Regina Tranfa – My Dad Took Me To Dinosaur land
    • Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
    • Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
    • Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon Finds His Family
    • Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
    • Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
    • Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
    • Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
    • Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
    • Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
    • Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
    • Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
    • Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
    • Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
    • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
    • Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
    • Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
    • Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
    • Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
    • Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

    The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

    By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

    blue and gold badge recognizing The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans by Scrap University for winning the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

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    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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  • The Laramie Awards 2024 Short List for Americana Fiction

    The Laramie Awards 2024 Short List for Americana Fiction

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE Long List to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Laramie Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
    • Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
    • Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
    • Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
    • David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
    • Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
    • Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
    • David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
    • Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
    • Imogen Martin – Under A Gilded Sky
    • Jonita Mullins – The Tearful Trail
    • Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
    • Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
    • CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
    • Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
    • Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
    • Brook Allen – West of Santillane
    • Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
    • John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
    • Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
    • M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
    • Craig Hipkins – Bandy
    • John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
    • Josie Olsvig – Freedom’s Tears The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina and Port Royal Sound
    • C.M. Huddleston – Esther
      Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
      Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
    • Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
    • Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
    • Lynn Downey – Dude or Die
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

    The Last Man

    By Thomas Goodman

    Blue and Gold badge recognizing The Last Man by Thomas Goodman for winning the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize

     

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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    Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!

     

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS LIST. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Semi-Finalists List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Jia Apple – The Tell
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
    • Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

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

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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 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

    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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!