Tag: Writing competitions

  • The 2023 OZMA Book Awards FINALISTs for Fantasy Fiction

    The 2023 OZMA Book Awards FINALISTs 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. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2023 CIBAs OZMA division.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Ozma Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are the Ozma Book Awards Finalists for Fantasy Fiction!

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

    • Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm: Book One: The Scales of Balance
    • L.R. Braden – Of Mettle and Magic
    • Lilla Glass – The Unseen
    • Ross Hightower & Deb Heim – Argren Blue
    • Amber Kirkpatrick – Until the Rising
    • Charles Allen – The Order of the Red God
    • Jaime Castle & Andy Peloquin – Black Talon
    • Crystal D. Grant – Shadowcast
    • Ekta R. Garg – In the Heart of the Linden Wood
    • D. K. Willis – The Unexpected
    • Dale Griffin – The Last Lion of Karkov
    • Jonathan Uffelman – Book of Leprechauns: The Lore Gatherers
    • PM Black – The Solar Realm – Silver Slayer
    • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
    • L. Ryan Storms – Temper the Dark
    • Alex B. Harper – Of Light and Nightmares: The Ashes of Magic Trilogy, Volume I
    • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada

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

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

    Soar a Burning Sky

    By Steven Michael Beck

    The Ozma Grand Prize Badge for Soar a Burning Sky by Steven Michael Beck

    See the full list of 2022 Ozma Award Winners here

    The 2023 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2024 OZMA Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The 2023 Shorts Award Short List for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.

    All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections,  Novellas, and Essays!

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

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

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

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

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

    God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

    by Lori Lee Peters

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

    Old Man Baseball

    by Mike Murphey

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

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

    And Here (Short Stories and Essays)

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

    Please click here for more information.

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

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

     

  • The 2023 CIBAs Humor and Satire Short List

    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. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Humor and Satire Fiction Long List to the 2023 Humor and Satire Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Humor and Satire SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2023 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition!

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

    • Kenneth Arbogast – Whinesburg, Ohio
    • Lou Dischler – The Rising
    • Tom Strelich – Water Memory
    • Mike Murphey – Quantum Consequence… Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 5
    • Matthew Binder – Pure Cosmos Club
    • Bill Boggs – Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns
    • Lou Dischler – Locking up Daddy
    • W.T. Kosmos – Blaze Union and the Puddin’ Head Schools
    • James Krieger – Not My Best Idea
    • Eileen O’Finlan – All the Furs and Feathers
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansioins
    • T.C. Morrison – Send in The Tort Lawyer$
    • Jason Ollander-Krane – Circus Home: A Novel of Life, Love and New Jersey
    • Douglas Bachmann – Afterlife
    • Dr. Meander Swotty – Lower Education
    • Allyson Rice – The Key to Circus-Mom Highway
    • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Herbert Quarry Affair #2
    • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
    • J Paul Rieger Jr (JP Rieger) – Clonk!
    • Rob Brownell – Invention Is a Mother
    • Doug Cameron – Dysfunctional Regulatory Bodies: Scarecrows and Stupidity
    • David Grubb – A Trip From God Book 1
    • T.K. Sheffield – The Valentine Line

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

     

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Humor and Satire Awards is:

    Delphic Oracle, U.S.A
    By Steven Mayfield

    Delphic Oracle Cover

    The Mark Twain Grand Prize for Steven Mayfield and his book Delphic Oracle U.S.A.

    Click here to see the 2022 Humor and Satire Book Award Winners.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Mark Twain Book Awards for Humor and Satire Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Screenwriter Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and coach and inspiring Mark Berridge, with more to be announced. CAC is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author and achieving your publishing goals.

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The 2023 Shorts Award Short List for Short Stories and Essays

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24). The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

    God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

    by Lori Lee Peters

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

    Old Man Baseball

    by Mike Murphey

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

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

    and here (Short Stories and Essays)

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

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

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

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

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

    These titles have moved forward from the Semi-Finalist Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Journey Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

     

    These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

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

    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
    • Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
    • Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
    • Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
    • Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
    • Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
    • Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
    • Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
    • Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
    • Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
    • Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
    • Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
    • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
    • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
    • Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
    • Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
    • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
    • Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
    • Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between

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

     

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

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

    A Fraction Stronger 

    by Mark Berridge 

    A Fraction Stronger Cover

    See our full list of 2022 Journey Winners here

    The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions are already open for the 2024 Journey Awards! Learn more here!

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

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

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British 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.)

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles have advanced to the SHORT LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
    • Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
    • B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
    • B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
    • Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
    • Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
    • Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Topper Jones – All that Glisters
    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
    • Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
    • Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
    • Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
    • Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
    • Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
    • Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
    • M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
    • Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
    • Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
    • Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
    • D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
    • Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
    • Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
    • Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
    • Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
    • M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
    • Paisley Summer – Walk in the Light
    • Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
    • Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
    • Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
    • Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
    • Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Amy S. Peele – Hold
    • Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
    • Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
    • D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
    • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
    • Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
    • Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
    • Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
    • J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
    • Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
    • T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1

    Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    Here is the link to the 2022 M&M Book Award Winners!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 M&M Book Awards for Cozy-And-Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Short List 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. 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 in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Hemingway SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA division Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

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

    • Linda Joy Myers – The Forger of Marseille
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – Dare Not Tell
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
    • William McClain – Alice’s War
    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
    • Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
    • Patricia Wilson – An Island Promise
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees
    • Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
    • Kathryn Brown Ramsperger – A Thousand Flying Things
    • Lou Dischler – The Last Newsreel
    • Martin Roy Hill – Codename: Parsifal
    • Trish MacEnulty – Secrets and Spies
    • Marina Osipova – The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory
    • Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
    • J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
    • Richard Bareford – Veterans Key
    • Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
    • John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
    • Suzanne Trauth – What Remains of Love
    • Robert L. Decker – Not to Reason Why
    • Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
    • Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance

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    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for Running with Cannibals by Robert W. Smith

    See the full list of 2022 Hemingway Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

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    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The 2023 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers

    The 2023 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers

    Thriller Suspense Fiction AwardThe 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).

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Short List to the 2023 Clue Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

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

    • Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
    • Nancy Adair – The Appearance of Guilt
    • Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
    • Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogotá
    • Jonny Thompson – Atlantis
    • Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
    • T.O. Paine – The Excursion
    • Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
    • Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
    • Charlotte Stuart – Forget or Forgive? NEVER
    • Jim Nesbitt – The Dead Certain Doubt: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
    • J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
    • Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
    • Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
    • Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
    • Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
    • Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
    • Melissa L. Berger – What Mae Brings: A Novel
    • Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
    • Decima Blake – Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
    • Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
    • Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
    • Kathryn Lane – Missing in Miami
    • Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
    • D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
    • Lisa Towles – The Ridders
    • Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
    • Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
    • Martha Crites – Danger to Others
    • Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
    • Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
    • Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
    • Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
    • V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
    • Mary Keliikoa – Hidden Pieces

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

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

    Have You Seen Me?

    By Alexandrea Weis

    The Clue Awards Grand Prize Badge for the 2022 Winner Have You Seen Me? by Alexandrea Weis

     See the Full List of 2022 Clue Award Winners here!

    The 2023 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

  • The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    Global ThrillerThe Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

    For other Mystery Divisions see our Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels and our M&M Awards for Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards Short List to the 2023 Global Thriller SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

    These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

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

    • E.S. Ramirez – In the Fangs of Jackals
    • Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
    • Jayson Adams – Ares
    • D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol: Dragon
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Cobra Pose
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy (The Winters Sisters Book 5)
    • Randall Krzak – Ultimate Escalation
    • Dr. Frank J. Sapienza – The Greater Good
    • Hank Scheer – Fade to Blue
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
    • J. Lee – The Deadly Deal
    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy
    • David Wickenden – The Home Front
    • E Alan Fleischauer – The Doctor is Invisible
    • Jeff Sheckter – The Daedalus Protocol

    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 2022 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

    Hybrid Hysteria

    By Charlie Robinson

    The Grand Prize Badge for the Global Thriller Awards for Hybrid Hysteria by Charlie Robinson

        The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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

         

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

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

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2023 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Little Peeps Early Readers Long List to the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards Short List. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Little Peeps Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

        These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

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

        • Michele L. Sayre – The Unluckiest Leprechaun by Far (Happy Tails)
        • Ginger Smith – The Magic Blanket
        • Cheryl Carpinello – Grandma Tales 3: Vampires in the Backyard and A Fish Tale
        • Janet Earnest-Jenkins – Hoppin’ Hankaroo-Zoo Adventure
        • Michele L. Sayre – What I Would Wish to Be (Wonders of Childhood & Beyond)
        • Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – The Accidental Orchestra
        • Beth Davis – Hanna the Hawk is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners
        • W. B. Murph – Molly’s Miracle
        • TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island, a tiny filly from a small farm earns her “filly esteem” while working among giant draft horses on Mackinac Island
        • Michael Dow, RN, MS – Nurse Florence® for Beginning Readers: Help, I’m Bleeding!
        • Joy K. Ball – Winnie’s Christmas Treasure Hunt
        • Kimberly Delude – Freddie the Fly: Seeing Through Another Lens
        • Brenda Wilson Huddleston – Liam & Little Tail
        • Cynthia C. Huijgens – Polar Bear and the UFO
        • Joshua Swank – Barry the Brave: A Flowerageous Journey to Courage
        • Michael Michie – Pablo Avocado
        • Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish
        • O.L. Flubermin – A Dinosaur Named Alone: What Will I Do?
        • Susan Sullivan – Bob Tales, Land of the Woody Warbles
        • Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Carolyn Wild – Jacob Sheep: Do You Have A Little Lamb?
        • Michele L. Sayre – The Not So Funny Bunny (Happy Tails)
        • Carolyn Wild – I Like Ducks: All Year Long
        • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Bargains
        • Chloe and LaRanda Burke – Keys to Your H.E.A.R.T.
        • Katrina Johnson – Captain Patch and the Treasure of the Sea Gods
        • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
        • Miki Taylor – Bentley’s Fantabulous Idea
        • Victoria Smith – Priscilla and Tux: Brothers are Caring
        • Brenda Wilson Huddleston – The Squirrel & the Dragonfly
        • Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
        • Tzuri King & Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over
        • Lynne Marie – The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project
        • Conrad J. Storad – Story Monster’s S.T.E.A.M. chronicles. Book one, Night watchers : nocturnal creatures of North America : coyotes, snakes, owls, spiders, and more
        • K.R. King – Charlie the Champion
        • Beth Davis – Mykal the Monkey is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Hillary Harper – Thankful FUR You
        • Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden
        • Carolyn Wild – This Kitten; Has Blue Eyes
        • Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze
        • Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed The War Over
        • David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: Do the Robot!
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Mr Moon Mr Moon
        • Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – A Secret in the Deep
        • Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta
        • Kristin Crowell Ellis – Firefly Fran’s Fran-tastic Day
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – A Child’s Love
        • TK Sohal and Ms. Raman Kaur – Twin Adventures
        • Lori Keenen Smith – Lorlee and the Light
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – What Little Girls Can Do!
        • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans
        • Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes
        • Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – Picnic Pandaemonium
        • Anthony Delauney – Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet
        • Laura Shovan – Welcome to Monsterville
        • Erik Perezbrain – Good Luck is My Guardian Angel
        • Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer and The Jared Box Project
        • Katharine Mitropoulos – Ready… Set… Frog!
        • Katherine Lockwood – Why Me, Mama?
        • Anthony C. Delauney – Michael and Hannah and the Magic Money Tree
        • Joey Benun – Pebbles and the Biggest Number
        • Dominique Ellis – The Wisdom Tree: A Father’s Love
        • T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve
        • Katrina Johnson – Lily’s Song
        • Laura Teste – Book of Best Words
        • Betsy Coffeen – Cate and the Garden Bandits

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

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

        Ravens Roost 

        by Maggie Bates

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

        See the Full List of 2022 Winners here

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        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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