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  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards WINNERS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Robert W. Smith on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Seasons By Sheraton in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code

    • Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees

    • Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire

    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable

    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War

    • Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway

    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown

    • William McClain – Alice’s War

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    The Silver Waterfall:
    A Novel of the Battle of Midway

    by Kevin Miller

     

    You can see all of our amazing 2023 Hemingway Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

    Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

     

  • The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards WINNERS for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

     1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Mohan Ranga Rao on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the HEARTEN BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their award-winning works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus

    • Lisa Niver – Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty

    • Lally Pia – The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor

    • Tony Jeton Selimi – A Path to Excellence

    • Trudy Wells-Meyer – Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be

    • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm

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

    Running Away From the Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    You can see all of our amazing 2023 Hearten Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

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

    Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    Team Chanticleer! 

     

  • The M&M 2023 Book Award WINNERS for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Book Award WINNERS for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe M&M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre.  The M&M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, not-so-cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards, and for international intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)

     1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Gail Halverson on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points By Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the M&M BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner.

    M&M Blue and Gold 1st Place Badge Image

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait

    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story

    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions

    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles

    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew

    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail

    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley

    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Haunting at Linley

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    You can see all of our amazing 2023 M&M Finalists here! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

    Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

  • The 2023 Goethe Book Awards WINNERS for Late Historical Fiction

    The 2023 Goethe Book Awards WINNERS for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    The other three Historical Fiction Genres are the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction, the Chaucer Awards for Early Historical Fiction, and the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Hemingway on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Seasons By Sheraton in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the GOETHE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

     

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

    • Lisa Voelker – The Spoon

    • Robert W Smith – A Long Way from Clare

    • David Calloway – If Someday Comes

    • Mitzi Zilka – Water Fire Steam

    • Susanne Dunlap – The Adored One

    • Linda Ulleseit – The River Remembers

    • Nicole Evelina – Catherine’s Mercy

    • William Maz – Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs

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

    If Someday Comes

    By

    David Calloway

    You can see all of our amazing 2023 Goethe Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

    Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

    Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

     

  • The 2023 Shorts Award WINNERS for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

    The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

    The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    NOTE: We are posting the Short Stories and Essays in a different post. This Official Announcement is for Novellas and Collections.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by [enter] on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Seasons by Sheraton in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

    This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the SHORTS BOOK AWARDS for Collections and Anthologies First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

     

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

    • Paper Lantern Writers – Unlocked

    • Elizabeth Rau – The Good Slope

    • Mack Little – Shelter in a Hostile World

    • Seán Thomas Dwyer – Tiptoeing Past the Dragon

    • Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest

    • JuJu – The Costly Wish

    • Gary Baysinger – A Kind of Homecoming

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

      Shelter in a Hostile World

      by Mack Little

      PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

      Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

      Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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      A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

      NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

      Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

      Team Chanticleer

    • The 2023 Humor and Satire Book Award WINNERS!

      The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Humor and Satire. The Humor and Satire Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

      Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring  satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

      1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by T.K. Conklin on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

      This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the Humor and Satire BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the Humor and Satire Grand Prize Winner.

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

      • Mike Murphey – Quantum Consequence: Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 5

      • Eileen O’Finlan – All the Furs and Feathers

      • Allyson Rice – The Key to Circus-Mom Highway

      • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Herbert Quarry Affair

      • Lou Dischler – The Rising

      • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions

      • Tom Strelich – Water Memory

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Humor and Satire Awards is:

        Quantum Consequence: Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 5

        by Mike Murphey

        You can see all of our amazing 2023 Humor & Satire Finalists here! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

        Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

        Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

        NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

        Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        The Chanticleer Team

      • The 2023 CLUE Book Awards WINNERS for Suspense/Thrillers

        The 2023 CLUE Book Awards WINNERS for Suspense/Thrillers

        Clue Awards for Suspense Thriller NovelsThe Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

        1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by D.D. Black on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

        This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the CLUE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CLUE Grand Prize Winner.

        Blue and Gold Clue 1st place badge

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

        • Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder

        • Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death

        • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath

        • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley

        • Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak

        • Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited

        • Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery

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

        The Other Murder

        By Kevin G. Chapman

        You can see all of our amazing 2023 Clue Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

        Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

        Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

        NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

        Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        Team Chanticleer 

      • The 2023 OZMA Book Awards WINNERS for Fantasy Fiction

        The 2023 OZMA Book Awards WINNERS for Fantasy Fiction

        The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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.

         1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Steven Mayfield on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

        This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the OZMA BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the OZMA Grand Prize Winner.

        OZMA 1st Place Blue and Gold Badge

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

        • Lilla Glass – The Unseen

        • Charles Allen – The Order of the Red God

        • Jaime Castle & Andy Peloquin – Black Talon

        • Jonathan Uffelman – Book of Leprechauns: The Lore Gatherers

        • PJ Devlin – The Chamber

        • Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm: Book One: The Scales of Balance

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

        A Vengeful Realm  Book One: The Scales of Balance

        By Tim Facciola

        You can see all of our amazing 2023 Ozma Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

        Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

        Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

        Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

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

        NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

        Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        Team Chanticleer! 

         

      • The 2023 Shorts Book Awards WINNERS for Short Stories and Essays

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

        The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction.

        NOTE: We are posting the Novellas, Long Essays, and Collected Works in a different post. These are Short Stories and Essays

         1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Mike Murphey on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

        This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the SHORTS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

        Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of Individual Short Stories, Novellas, and Essays Awards,  a division of the 2023 CIBAs.

        Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

        • A.J. McCarthy – The Strike

        • Brian Feutz – Pity the Peasants

        • Catherine Brown – The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

        • Logan D. Irons – Bridge of Kings

        • Marie Sutro – Son Down

        • Robert S Phillips – The Great River

        • S.M. Stevens – The Wallace House of Pain

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Short Story Awards is:

        The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

        A Manuscript

        by Catherine Brown

        You can see all of our amazing 2023 Shorts Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

        Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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

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

        Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

        Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

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

        NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

        Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        Team Chanticleer!

      • The Little Peeps 2023 Book Awards Winners for Early Readers and Children’s Books

        Early Readers and Picture booksThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

         1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Gail Noble-Sanderson on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

        This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the LITTLE PEEPS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LITTLE PEEPS Grand Prize Winner.

        Little Peeps 1st Place Best in Category Blue and Gold Badge Image

        Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Children’s Picture Books, a division of the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast

        • Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish

        • Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden

        • Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta

        • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

        • T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve

        • Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

        The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

        by Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover, and Jessica Alexanderson

        You can see all of our amazing 2023 Little Peeps Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

        Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

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

        NOTE:  We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

        Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        Team Chanticleer!