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The 2025 Ozma Semi-Finalists for Fantasy Fiction
The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Magic, Steampunk and Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2025 OZMA Fantasy Fiction Short List to the 2025 Ozma Book Awards Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA.

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2025 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- A.T. Balsara – The Great and the Small
- Abigail O’Bryan – Iron Rose
- Anya Rousselle – The King’s Blade
- B.L. Mostyn – Heroes of Another Age
- David Nos – The Final War of Wizards and Dragons
- C.R. Ware – All We Have to Remember: Volume One of the Seventh Layer Saga
- Crystal D. Grant – Lightshed
- David Nos – The Final War of Wizards and Dragons
- Evette Davis – The Campaign
- Evette Davis – The Gift
- Helen Garraway – Sentinals Origins Part One
- J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
- J.C. Wade – Summer’s Reaping
- Jason P. Crawford – The Trials of Poseidon
- Jeffrey L. Kohanek – The First Wizard
- Molly M. Hammond – Daughter of Starlight
- Nicholas Varner – Warriors of the Red Wolf
- Nikhil Prabala – The Duchess of Kokora
- Nikki Mccormack – Child of Vanris (The Warden’s Son Book 1)
- Oleg Veretskiy – Tales of the Wandering Mists a Ukrainian Fairy Tale
- Palmer Pickering – Dark Town
- R. M. Krogman – Sundering
- Richard M Wagner – The Chronicles of Amerista: Griefold
- S.E. Reed – The Darkness of Dying in the Light
- S.G. Blaise – Eldryan Elders
- Samantha Schinder – The Drowners
- Sean M. Tirman – Dreamweavers LLC
- Simran Sadana – Itehas
- Tamar Anolic – The Keepers
- Ted Neill – Lost Elawn
- William H. Johnston – Shards of Unbroken Will
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Ozma Grand Prize Winner

A Circle of Stars

By Erin Lark Maples

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Ozma Book Award Winners for Fantasy Fiction.

Got your own Fantasy?

Submissions for the 2026 Ozma Awards and other Speculative Fiction Divisions are open now! For other genres, we still have 25 divisions open for the 2025 CIBAs! Whether you write mystery, romance, historical fiction, or something entirely different, there’s likely a perfect fit for your work.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17-19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
December 21, 2025
The 2025 Hearten Short List for Inspiring and Uplifting 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 in the judging rounds from the 2025 Hearten Non-Fiction Long List to the 2025 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2025 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC26).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 28 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 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2025 CIBAs.
- Alia Luria – Geri O Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin
- Andy Becker – Grandy Let’s Play: Reflections on the Joy Blessings and Wonder of Grandparenting
- Barb Drummond – I Finally Have the Smoking Hot Body I Have Always Wanted Having Been Cremated
- Brent Larsen – You Make My Heart Giggle Dad-isms the Wisdom and Wit of Dad
- Candace Macphie – Finding Color
- Cerridwen Fallingstar – Rocket in My Pocket: Defying Gravity with Levity, From the Frontiers of Space… To the Frontiers of Consciousness
- Charlene Pell – In This Altered Body: A Survivor’s Story of Resilience and Love
- Christine Amoroso – Bare Naked in Public: A Memoir
- Cynthia Waine Brandt – Song of the Cardinal: A True Story of Miracles and Magic After Heartbreaking Loss
- Doug Cameron – My Tarzan Tree and Other Farm Boy Memories
- Dr. Deb Miller – Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness
- Jeff Richards – Nothing Left To Lose: Or How Not To Start a Commune
- Jennifer Celeste Briggs – Watching Sarah Rise: a Journey of Thriving with Autism
- Julie Ryan Mcgue – Twice the Family: a Memoir of Love Loss and Sisterhood
- Kate Grant – No Woman Left Behind: a Journey of Hope To Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth
- Kathy Sechrist – Sara’s Redemption: a Journey of Courage Resilience and Hope
- Kay Brooks – Behind the White Beard Dale Ballew’s Story
- Kee Kee Buckley – Seeking Shama: Me, My Dog, and the Road To Inner Peace
- Maggie Enriquez – The Rebirth of a Phoenix
- Margie Crowe Wildblood – Because He Loved Me
- Marti Tote – Up Grief Creek Without a Paddle
- Patricia Eagle – Dog Love Stories the Canines Who Changed Me
- Rabei A. Wazzeh – The Masterpiece of Nature
- Rhona Morrison – From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships: Navigating life’s troubled waters with resilience and hope
- Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi – The Mango Chronicle
- Robert Macauley – Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul
- Stacey Hettes – Dispatches From the Couch
- Sue Vana – Shaken by God’s Love From Fear To Favor in Grief’s Upside-Down World
- Tammy Dietz – Falling From Disgrace
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 2024 Hearten Awards is:

Elk Love: A Montana Memoir

By Lynne Spriggs O’Connor

See the full list of 2024 First Place Hearten Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 16 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
December 16, 2025
The 2025 Hemingway Short List for Contemporary Wartime Fiction
The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th and 21st Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

These titles have moved forward from the 2025 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction Long List to the 2025 Hemingway Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Hemingway Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Adam Frosh – The Ghetto
- Chris Karlsen & Jennifer Conner – Broken Faces
- Don Jacobson – Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation
- Dorothea N. Buckingham – Code Name Rascal
- Elizabeth Crowens – Round Up the Unusual Suspects
- Florence Chien – Hollow Whispers of the Wind
- Hillary Tiefer – The Secret Ranch
- J.A. Nunn – The Stuff What Actually Is
- Jacek Waliszewski – Code Name Trifecta
- Jane Loeb Rubin – Over There
- Jay A. Cornils – The Cross of Lorraine
- Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Jewels
- John Winn Miller – Rescue Run Capt. Jake Rogers Daring Return To Occupied Europe
- Kate Birkin – Ava and Shalom
- Kim Dempster – The Color of Mourning
- Kit Sergeant – The Doctor of Auschwitz the Powerful True Story of One Woman’s Courage
- Kyle Palmer – The Last Rival a Time of Our Choosing
- Leslie R. Schover – Fission a Novel of Atomic Heartbreak
- M. G. Lamb – The Deserters
- Mike H. Mizrahi – The Weight of Loyalty
- Ralph R. Rick Steinke – Vital Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Love Story
- Sergio Bossi and Paolo Zanardi – Wellington HZ182 When a Little Girl Defused the Bomb
- Sharon Maas – Soldier’s Girl
- Sherry Maysonave – Tatae’s Promise
- Steven Mayfield – Sixty Seconds
- Steven Schindler – Cover for Me
- Tim Rees – The Falklands Engagement
- Travis Davis – War on the Porch: A Doughboy’s Interview
- Wade Monk – The Imperfect Hand of Fate
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

Of White Ashes

By Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto

Click here to see the full list of 2024 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
December 15, 2025
The 2025 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe 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 Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an author’s imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2025 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2025 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Goethe Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!
- Alex Alvin – A Countess From Moscow
- Alice Mcveigh – Marianne a Sense and Sensibility Sequel
- Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
- Allie Cresswell – Tall Chimneys
- Art Young – Downeyoshun
- Barbara Southard – Unruly Human Hearts
- BL Smith – The Unpleasantness on Orchard
- Bonnie Suchman – What Remains Is Hope
- Carol Nickles – Thumb Fire Desire
- Carolyn Summer Quinn – Once Upon a Safehouse
- Charlotte Whitney – A Tiny Piece of Blue a Novel
- Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
- Debra Lee – Pullman
- Domnica Radulescu – My Father’s Orchards
- Florence Chien – Hollow Whispers of the Wind
- Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Jewels
- Jessica Levine – Three Cousins
- Jill G. Hall – On a Sundown Sea a Novel of Madame Tingley and the Origins of Lomaland
- Joan Fernandez – Saving Vincent a Novel of Jo Van Gogh
- Joanne Howard – Sleeping in the Sun
- Katie Churchill-King – Prince of Wales Fort 1770
- Kelly Scarborough – Butterfly Games
- Kirsten Mickelwait – The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty
- Lew Paper – Legacy of Lies an Historical Thriller
- Linda Cardillo – Paint the Wind
- M. E. Torrey – Fox Creek
- N.J. Mastro – Solitary Walker a Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- Pat Black-Gould and Steve Hardiman – All the Broken Angels
- Radu Guiasu – The Faraway Mountains
- Raquel Y. Levitt – The Seer
- Richard Leslie Brock – The House of Ilya
- Robert Kehlmann – The Rabbi’s Suitcase
- Robert L Jones – The Unbroken Trail
- S. Scott Anderson – The Scott Boys the Saga of the Scott Family in East Tennessee
- Sabrina Lund – Consequence of Power Isabella’s Season
- Suzanne Uttaro Samuels – Seeds of the Pomegranate
- Thomas M. Wing – In Harm’s Way
Congratulations once more to the 2024 Goethe Grand Prize Winner for Historical Fiction

Abigail’s Song

By Alina Rubin

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
December 12, 2025
The 2025 Journey Short List for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction
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 the 2025 Journey Non-Fiction Long List to the 2025 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2025 Journey Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC26).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 28 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 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2025 CIBAs.
- Amanda Carrasco – Becoming the Brave One
- Amy Mackin – Henry’s Classroom: a Special Education in American Motherhood
- Ana Hebra Flaster – Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio To a New Hampshire Mill Town
- Anne Abel – High Hopes
- Anselm Ezemson – Chasing Closure: a Life on the Edge of Belonging
- Baldur Einarsson – Ice and Fire: Thawing a Murderer’s Heart
- Barbara Jenkins – So Long As It’s Wild
- Beth Granger – Born and Razed: Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle
- Brandi Dredge – Girl Uncoded: a Memoir of Passion Betrayal and Eventual Blessings
- Brian J. Quattlebaum – A Mad Box of Rain
- Carl Gorham – My Life in a Garden: Love, Loss, and Mulch: a Single Dad Seeks Answers in Nature
- Carol Odell, LICSW – Girl Groomed: a Therapist’s Memoir of Trauma
- Carolyn Saletto – One Hazel Green Eye
- Casey Mulligan Walsh – The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted Everything I Feared
- Chanchal Garg – Unearthed: the Lies We Carry & the Truths They Bury
- Cheryl Landes – The Best I Can Do: A True Story of Navigating the Complexities of Mental Illness and Homelessness
- Christine Amoroso – Bare Naked in Public: a Memoir
- Cynthia Moore – Dancing on Coals: a Memoir of an Overperformer
- Cynthia Waine Brandt – Song of the Cardinal: a True Story of Miracles and Magic After Heartbreaking Loss
- Damien Thompson – And Then I Would Fly
- Debbie Hartung – The Factory of Maladies: Seven Days on a San Francisco Psych Ward
- Deborah M. Foster – What’s So Bad About Being Poor: Our Lives in the Shadows of the Poverty Experts
- Diane C Pomerantz Ph.D. – Lost in the Reflecting Pool: Surviving Narcissistic Emotional Abuse
- Emily Sayre Smith – Smartass: Memoir of a Mouthy Girl
- Franke James – Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me
- Gavin O’Donnell – Father’s Day
- Heidi Yewman – Dumb Girl
- Hendrika De Vries – Open Turns
- Jacquelyn Dickey – The Dash
- Jane Cafarella – Cleaved: a Story of Loss, Legs, and Finding Family
- Janine Kovac – The Nutcracker Chronicles
- Jennifer Celeste Briggs – Watching Sarah Rise a Journey of Thriving with Autism
- Julie Randall – Patient 71: an Inspiring True Story of a Mother’s Love That Fueled Her Fight To Stay Alive
- Kathy Sechrist – Sara’s Redemption: A Journey of Courage Resilience and Hope
- Kelly-Anne Kerley – Breaking Up with My Wheelchair
- Lucie Frost – How the Hell Did I Not Know That: My Midlife Year From Couch To Curiosity
- Marti Tote – Can You Ride a Raindrop To the Ocean
- Mary Garden – My Father’s Suitcase
- Mary Jumbelic M.D. – Speak Her Name
- Mia Bolton – As We Bloom: Wisdom From Extraordinary Everyday Women & Gender Nonconforming People
- Mitchell Raff – Little Boy I Know Your Name
- Nin Mok – Suddenly Silent and Still
- Peter Flom – Twice as Weird: A Memoir about Twice Exceptionality
- PJ Hamilton – From the Piney Woods 2nd Edition
- Robert Carney – Unscarred
- Robert Macauley – Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul
- Ryan Mcdermott – Downriver: Memoir of a Warrior Poet
- Sondra R. Brooks – Not Good Enough Girl: A Memoir of an Inconvenient Daughter
- Stacey Hettes – Dispatches From the Couch
- Steven Simmons Shelton, MA, JD – Memoir of a Mangled Mind: How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities
- Wendy Crockett and Ian McPhee – Pushing Miles: A chronicle of Motorcycles, Mayhem, and Mettle
- Wilma Macliver – Life Behind the Masks
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 2024 JOURNEY Awards is:

Unfollow Me

By Kathryn Caraway

See the full list of 2024 First Place Journey Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
December 8, 2025
The 2025 Collections and Anthologies Long List
The Collections and Anthologies Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Story Collections. The Collections and Anthologies 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 Collections and Anthologies Awards discovers the Best New Short Form Collections in Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction, Poetry Collections and Multi-Author Anthologies. 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 all of the 2025 Collections and Anthologies entries to the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Award 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, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Collections and Anthologies Book Awards novel competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Aj Watson – False Sight
- Brittany Micka-Foos – It’s No Fun Anymore
- Carol Van Den Hende – Dear Orchid
- Chad Boles – Adrift in Skinny Water
- Charlie Steel – Three Days Under the Sun and Other Tales of the Old West
- Christy Matheson – The Horned Women and Other Stories Contemporary Retellings of Irish Fairy Tales
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- David C. Metz – Nick and Lorraine Were Lovers Stories
- Dreena Collins – Life Lines and Other Stories
- Jalyn Renae Fiske – Side Quest Stories
- Janet K. Shawgo – My Sister’s Quilt
- Jason Colpitts – The Meaning of Beauty and Other Short Stories Anthology
- Jess Anselment – Strong Heart a Story of Coming Home
- John Bukowski – Shadows and Dust
- Jude Berman – Shot a Dictionary of the Lost
- Julia Marie Davis – Catbird
- Kat Farrow – Dark Threads a Gathering of Dark Fantasy Tales Vol. 1
- Lee Orlich Bertram – Insistence Persistence and Resistance
- Linda Lee Keenan – Dancing with Angels True Stories of the Unexpected
- Lisa Clute – Monsters Under the Magnolias
- Maggie Enriquez – The Rebirth of a Phoenix
- Mary Paula Hunter – Can I Have a Hug First
- Nancy Joie Wilkie – The River Keeper and Other Tales
- Natia Khaduri – And You Cannot Tell Me Why I Must Not Love You Anymore
- Olga Podoprigora – The Banana From Space and Other Stories From Riverstone
- Paris Rosemont – Barefoot Poetess
- Radu Guiasu – A Good Day and Other Mostly Humorous Stories and Lists
- Rich Elliott – The Secret History of Famous People
- Stephen C. Pollock – Exits
- Theresa Griffin Kennedy – We Learned To Live in the Castle Stories
Congratulations once more to the 2024 SEA Shorts Grand Prize Winner

Dream Rut

By Dr. Yumiko Shimabakuro

Illustrated by Jieyu Deng

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Collections and Anthologies Book Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction Collections, Poetry Collections, and Anthologies!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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!
December 5, 2025
The 2025 Somerset Long List for Literary & Contemporary Fiction
The Somerset Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes to compete in the Somerset Book Awards (the CIBAs). 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 2025 Somerset entries to the 2025 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 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, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Literary and Contemporary Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Adam Strassberg – December on 5C4
- AG Flitcher – Wasp Oil
- AK Logan – Masks of Silence
- Allie Cresswell – The Cottage on Winter Moss
- Anna Binder Reardon – Wethersfield Road
- Anne Freeman – The Time After Now
- Anne Heinrich – Violet Is Blue
- Art Young – Downeyoshun
- B.E. Kennedy – County Kildare
- BL Smith – The Unpleasantness on Orchard
- Brian Hackett – Leaving Naples
- Bruce J. Berger – Forgiven a Novel
- Carolyn Summer Quinn – The Mystery From Way Back When
- Catherine Matthews – Roadside Sisters
- Chadwick Wall – The Fertile Crescent
- Cheryl Grey Bostrom – What the River Keeps
- Chip Jacobs – Later Days
- Christopher Woods – Some Rainbow
- Chuck Locklear – Being Hope
- Curtis Andrew Burton – Bloom a Novel
- Dan Schorr – Open Bar a Novel
- Daniel Oakman – Fire in the Head
- Dave Pearce – Fighters of Fire
- David Galef – Where I Went Wrong
- Debz Hobbs-Wyatt – If Crows Could Talk
- Dennis D. Skirvin – The Gentlemen’s Club and the Great Ferris Wheel
- Elizabeth A. Tucker – The Pale Flesh of Wood
- Elizabeth Conte – Life of Her
- Francis-Adrien Morneault – The Light of Faded Stars
- George Petersen – The Summer of Haight
- Gregg Brandalise – The Death of Us All
- Isaac Thorne – Tab’s Terrible Third Eye
- J.J. Cheng – Phoenixa the Nest a Mystical Quest for the Cheng Legacy
- Jacci Turner – Love Virus
- Jane Ward – Should Have Told You Sooner
- Jimmy Cela – Hotel Bahnhof
- Jude Berman – The Vow a Novel
- Judith Jackson-Pomeroy – Weight of a Woman
- Julie Hammonds – Blue Mountain Rose a Novel in Five Acts
- Kathleen Stone – Missing From Me
- Kipling Knox – How To Love in a World Like This
- Leslie A. Rasmussen – When People Leave a Story of Love Lies and Finding the Truth
- Linda Paul – Fabricated
- LK Quinn – The Toffee Man and the Kingdom of Ends
- Lya Badgley – The Thirty-Fifth Page
- Magdalena & Ashe Stevens – Fragments
- Mark A. Gibson – Roses in December Hamilton Place Book II
- Mark Mustian – Boy with Wings
- Maxsense Maximus – Two Euro Candles a Memoir of Faith Trauma and Quiet Miracles
- Michelle Daniel – A Scarlet Mind
- Natia Khaduri – I Forgave You
- Peter Gooch – Seren
- R. B. Shifman – Paper Airplane Broken Bones
- Radu Guiasu – The Faraway Mountains
- Rick Lenz – Mit Out Sound
- Robert L Jones – 1911
- Robert L Jones – Hope
- Robert L Jones – Hopeless
- Robin Merle – A Dangerous Friendship
- Ruby Soames – Homewrecked
- S.E. Beathan – Nothing Lost
- Sam Martin – Bitterblue
- Sarah E. Pearsall – The Summer Knows
- Shawn Hays and Stephen Hays – What Light Was
- Steve Schlam – The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane
- Su Chang – The Immortal Woman
- Susan Ellison Busch – Chance at Life
- Susan Poole – Out of The Crash
- Suzanne Uttaro Samuels – Seeds of the Pomegranate
- Terri Hanauer – The Lightness of Rain
- Thomas Trabulsi – The Fire Service of Sachem City
- Tong Ge – The House Filler
- Trisha T Pritikin – Then Came the Summer Snow an Atomic Age Hero’s Journey
- Tudor Alexander – The Last Patient
- Wendy J. Dunn – Shades of Yellow
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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Somerset Grand Prize Winner

Vermilion Harvest

By Reenita Malhotra Hora

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Somerset Book Award Winners for Literary Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Somerset Book Awards.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 discover why!
December 3, 2025
The 2025 SEA Shorts Awards Short List for Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas
The SEA 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 SEA Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Short Form Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction and Essays. 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 2025 SEA SHORTS LONG LIST to the 2025 SEA Shorts Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 SEA Shorts Award Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2025 SEA Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- AJ Skelly – Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor
- C. V. Lee – Her Noble Groom
- Catherine Brown – Purrfect Revenge
- Cathryn Devries – Son of Osivirius
- Charlie Robinson – Bow Tie Sex a Serious Scientific Study
- Chell Linn Araya – Don’t Talk To Strangers
- Christopher Macdonald – The Wobbly Man
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Pioneer Christmas Beyond the Oregon Trail
- Dr. Gregory Steinberg – No More To Lose Till Death Do Us Part
- Gail Heath – Minuet
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – All Is Fair
- Grace Haygood – A Love To Call Home
- J. L Oakley – Mr. Brown Reads
- Jackson Kuhl – The Island of Small Misfortunes
- Jalon J Jakab – Inside the Walls
- Jamie Kirkpatrick – The Dreamcatcher
- Joseph Kovler – At the Corner of Hitler and Goering
- Julia Marie Davis – Catbird
- K. E. Adamus – To Outwit the Fate
- Katherine Smith Dedrick – Tangled Verdict
- Kathleen Kaska – The Diary of Simone Lablanc
- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – An Accidental Muse
- Lasse Toft – 70 Things You Can Do While Being Hospitalized
- Linda Harris Sittig – B-52 Down the Night the Bombs Fell From the Sky
- Maggie Enriquez – The Rebirth of a Phoenix
- Marie Sutro – For the First Time
- Marie Sutro – Not the North Pole
- Marie Sutro – You Oughta Know
- Mary Ann Bernal – Anarose and Medusa’s Curse
- Morris Hoffman – Boy of Heaven
- Murray Eiland – Mount Zephon Gateway To Mot
- Murray Eiland – Philosopher of Fire
- Paisley Summer – The Movie Theatre
- PJ Devlin – Original Sins
- Richard Leslie Brock – Cephalonia
- Richard Leslie Brock – The Atonements
- Ruud Richardson – The Spy: A Short Story
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – The Life & Times of Sarah Good Accused Witch
- Sarena Straus – The Patchwork Man
- T.O. Paine – The Abduction
- TK Sheffield – Horse Thief: A Nomad Vet with a Score To Settle Takes on Horse Thieves in a Midwest Showdown
- TK Sheffield – The Glitching Ghoul: AI Terror at a Writer’s Retreat
Congratulations once more to the 2024 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

Something About Lizzy

By Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi

Click here to see the full list of 2024 SEA Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 SEA Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Novellas, and Essays!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
November 10, 2025
The 2025 Little Peeps Long List for Picture and Children’s Books
The 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 in the first look rounds from all 2025 LITTLE PEEPS entries to the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Little Peeps 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, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Alison Frenz – I Bet I Can Make You Yawn
- Amy B. Mccoy – Katie Finds Her Voice: A Story About Autism
- Andrew Woolnough – Nuts About Dinosaurs
- Andy M Riley – Finding Hanna’s Happy Place
- Angelina Natale – Peanut and Butter: A Sky View Farm Adventure
- Ann P. Borrmann – You Little Monkey
- Ann P. Borrmann – Never Take a Pirate’s Pearls
- Anna Gerrodette – Wild Rides with Pedal and Blaze
- Anne Polli – Mason the Magnificent
- Antonia Blackmore & illustrated by Sarah P Sharpe – Figgles & Flo the Elephant in the Room
- Ben St. James – Cowboy Cooper and the Ghost Town
- Brandon Moore – Bridget Kimble Learns Self Control
- Bridgetta Tomarchio – Monsters Don’t Say Meep Even the Tiniest Roar Can Make the Biggest Difference
- Brittany Petish- Sally the Brave
- Cal Lopez & Natalia Ulloa – Humans Are Awesome: A Kid’s Guide to Staying Smarter Than AI
- Carrie A. Buck – Ivy Learns to Share
- Christine Kessides – Tail Tale Too
- Corey Turner – Cloudy Days
- David Waugh – Benny the Lost Balloon
- Deborah L. Staunton – Owls Can’t Sing
- Dzvinka Hayda – The Legend of the Dipper
- Ellissa Schwartz – This Day I Hold Dear
- Everett Livingston – The Story of You
- G.R. Foster – The Puppy That Wanted to Be a Flower
- Gail Heath – Miracle on the Mountain: An Appalachian Christmas
- Glenda Keiper – Clancy McFancy and the Tree with Bright Green Leaves
- Gretchen K. Webber – Beanie the Weenie
- J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown Visits a Bee Farm
- J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown’s Messier Than Messy Room
- J.W. Zarek – Bella-Brown Grandma’s Missing Butterfly Locket
- J.W. Zarek – The Stomp-Clomp-Clump Monster Above the Bed
- Jane Xu – Can Pandas Be Koalas Too
- Jessica A. Macpherson – The Little Things We Do
- Jessica Mcanelly – Birdie’s Picnic Party a Tasty Take on Food Safety
- Jomo Jesus Thomas Suriel – The Angry Vacuum
- Kate Shooltz – Kate the Earthling
- Kelly Curtin and Molly Hallinan – Molly and Potato
- Kenneth Brown – Saving Private Brown
- Kim P. Chesney – A Mysterious Night at the Library
- Kim Sloan – Billy Bob’s Adventures Learning the 50 States
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The Problem with Science Fairs, Cicadas, and Sewers
- Kristy Whilden – Alice’s Colorful New World
- Laura Ball – Albert the Donkey Solves a Mystery
- Leslie Calimeri – One Day with Dinosaurs
- Lisa Mueller – Dot’s Spots
- Lolisa Marie Monroe – Dungoolee
- Lori Hoffman Penna – Catawampus the Story of a Crooked Cat
- Lori Orlinsky – Being Middle
- M.D. Mcalister – Phin York and the Giants of Wintercoombe
- Mark Anthony King – Trigger the Dog That Thought He Was a Horse
- Michele L Sayre – The Long Lazy Summer Wonders of Childhood Beyond
- Michelle Mcalister – Carolina Is a Knight
- Michelle Mcalister – Gilly Green Will Sing
- Michelle Mcalister – Nighttime for Everyone
- Michelle Mcalister – Snelliot the Bold
- Mike Darcy – Little Joe and the Big City
- Mike Stonecypher – There’s a Girebra in the Forest
- Miki Taylor – Bentley Finds a Hippopotomonsterous
- Mr. Steve – Fishing Is Fun
- Mr. Steve – The B Hive
- Nicole Metas – Hemi Bunny Finds a Mommy
- Olga Podoprigora – The Banana From Space and Other Stories From Riverstone
- Once Upon a Dance – Bellyrina
- Paloma Williams – Milo’s Big Beautiful Journey
- Pamela Gray Willcox – Tux the Little Emperor
- Patty York Raymond – There Was a Tenacious Teacher Who Scarfed Down a Sticker
- Payton Lynch – The Journey To You
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – W Is for Winnipeg a Little Architect’s ABC
- Robin Currie – How Do You Sleep
- Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
- Sally Kashner – River Song
- Sally Kashner – The Night Has a Secret
- Sherry Roberts – Amica Helps Zoe
- Sherry Roberts – Just Call Me Pardner
- Shlomo Goldman – Ryder the Spider Discovers the Body
- Svetlana Kitik – Mother’s Mega Marrow: a Gardening for Kids Nature Storybook About Growing Food, Sharing, and Outdoor Learning
- Sydney Roubian – Scarecrow Finds a Heart
- Tamara Neal – I Know Why the Red Bird Talked
- Thomas Anthony – Walter the Polar Bear
- TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island Small Hooves Big Heart Island Adventures Start
- Tom Morency – Doris the Dragon
- Vassi Rombis – Luna the Little Witch the Magic of Teamwork
- Victoria Fletcher – Lovely Locks of Gold
- Wanda Carter Roush – The Jellybean Gospel the Born-Again Bunny
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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

Island Moon

By Ruth Amanda

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!
October 29, 2025
Five Days Remain: The Series, Collections, Nellie Bly, and Military and Front Line Awards call!
The 2025 CIBAs Close Soon!

Don’t let your book miss out!
Only 5 days left to submit your books to these prestigious CIBA Divisions and embark on an extraordinary journey to success.

The Chanticleer International Book Awards provide ongoing recognition that amplifies authors’ digital footprints through high-traffic website features, social media promotion, newsletter spotlights, and long-tail marketing that continues promoting winners throughout the year and beyond!

The Series, Collections and Anthologies, Nellie Bly and Military and Front Line Awards are still open!

Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Series Awards!
- Karen Inglis – Secret Lake Mystery Adventures
- Glen Dahlgren – The Chronicles of Chaos
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Salem Stories
- Taryn R. Hutchison – A Cold War Trilogy
- Kari Bovee – The Pryce of Murder
- J.L. Oakley – The Jossing series
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina Series
- Mike Murphey – Tales of Physics, Lust and Greed
- Rose Prendeville – Brides of Chattan
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Series Grand Prize Winner:

A Vengeful Realms

By Tim Facciola

Collections and Anthologies is our Newest Division, recently split off of the SEA Shorts Award!

SEA Shorts now covers Short Stories, Essays and Novellas together, and Collections and Anthologies is for exactly that, Multi-Story Collections and Multi-Author Anthologies!
The Nellie Bly Award for Journalistic and Research-Based Non-Fiction
- Carla Conti – Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir
- Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
- Bonnie Bley – Stolen Voices: Missing and Murdered in Big Horn County
- Sarah Towle – Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Nellie Bly Grand Prize Winner:

The Sing Sing Files

One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and A 20 Year Fight For Justice

By Dan Slepian

Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Military and Front Line Awards for Service to Others Non-Fiction!
- Roderick S. Haynes – Unauthorized Disclosures a Navy Memoir of the 1980s
- David Huntley – The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: a WWII Final Honor
- Patrick Hogan – Coincidence, You Say?
- Shari Biery – It’s Your Turn How To Rediscover Yourself Prioritize Your Well-Being Thrive with Purpose
- Max Lauker & Antonio Garcia – Number 788: My Experiences in Swedish Special Operations – Preparing for NATO and the War on Terror
- Bibi LeBlanc – Wings of Freedom – The Story of the Berlin Airlift | Flugel der Freiheit – Die Geschichte der Berliner Luftbrucke
And a huge round of applause to our 2024 Military and Front Line Grand Prize Winner:

Memoirs From The Front Lines

Four States, Two Years, One Pandemic

By Kim Sloan

The CIBAs provide a ladder to success with a range of achievement tiers and expert long tail marketing strategies. From the highly anticipated Long List to the prestigious Overall Grand Prize Winner, the CIBA lists energize both authors and readers, maximizing your digital footprint and expanding your fan base.

We are always eager to support the Best Books through the CIBAs. Join the ranks of celebrated authors who have already taken this critical step in their publishing.

Your book deserves to be discovered, celebrated, and shared with the world. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your talent and gain valuable exposure at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (April 17-19, 2025) where Winners from all 28 Book Award Divisions will be announced and honored.

In a world hungry for good books, your story deserves to be heard. Submit now and leave a lasting impression.

Let’s celebrate exceptional storytelling together!

Your book deserves to be discovered

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October 26, 2025