Tag: Writing competitions

  • The 2024 Shorts Book Awards WINNERS for Short Stories and Essays

    The SEA Shorts 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.

    The SEA Shorts Awards are named for Sharon E. Anderson, one of the first winners of the Shorts Awards and our Chief Editor of Reviews. Sharon is dearly missed, and we are grateful for the opportunity to honor and remember her with this Award.

    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 Sean Dwyer on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the SEA SHORTS AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SEA SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Soldier Jacob

    • Burl Harmon – Being 100 Years Old

    • KD Sherrinford – Christmas at The Saporis

    • Mike Murphey – The Claunch Ness Monster

    • Lisa G. Spicer – Letters From Tacoma

    • Glen Dahlgren – The Dice of Chaos

    • PJ Devlin – Running

    • Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 SEA Short Story Awards is:

    Dream Rut: Navigating Your Path Forward

    by Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro

    Dream Rut Navigating Your Path Forward cover by Yumiko Shimabukuro

    You can see all of our amazing 2024 SEA 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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

    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 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 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 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    Team Chanticleer!

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

    Two little chicks, fresh from their eggThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in 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 Jonna Laster on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2024 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 2024 CIBAs.

    • Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts

    • Raven Howell – Keep Trucking

    • Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson

    • Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain

    • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to The Scrapyard!

    • Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

    Island Moon

    by Ruth Amanda

    You can see all of our amazing 2024 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!

    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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in May. 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 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 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 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    Team Chanticleer! 

  • The Global Thriller 2024 Book Awards Winners for High Stakes Suspense

    The Global Thriller 2024 Book Awards Winners 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.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Isaac Fozard on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of

    the GLOBAL THRILLER BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners

    and

    the GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the GLOBAL THRILLER BOOK AWARDS for High Stakes Fiction and Lab Lit, a division of the 2024 CIBAs.

    • T.O. Paine – The Delusion

    • Charlie Robinson – Heavy Hysteria: A Novel of Corporate Intrigue Involving the Minerals of this Sacred Earth

    • Tony Ollivier – The Tokyo Diversion

    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel

    • Ron Singerton – Ruptured

    • Sheri T. Joseph – Edge of the Known World

    • Carla Seyler – A Place Unmade

    • Randall Krzak – Frozen Conquest

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

    A Blanket of Steel

    By Timothy S. Johnston

    You can see all of our amazing 2024 Global Thriller 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. Our handle is @ChantiReviews

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

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

    NOTE:  We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 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 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    Team Chanticleer! 

  • The 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards Winners for Business & Finance

    Three Black stripes on a yellow badge CIBA BadgeThe HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-fiction.

    The Harvey Chute Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Damien Fozard on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2024 LIST of the HARVEY CHUTE BOOK AWARDS

                First Place Category Winners and the HARVEY CHUTE Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to

    the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of

    the HARVEY CHUTE BOOK AWARDS for Business and Enterprise

    • Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

    • Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities

    • Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy

    • Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook

    • Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing  

    The Grand Prize Winner for

    the CIBA 2024 HARVEY CHUTE Awards is:

    Stop Worrying about Money

    By Jacqui Clarke

    Stop Worrying About Money Cover

    You can see all of our amazing 2024 Harvey Chute 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. We thank you for participating in the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

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

    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.

    NOTE:  We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 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.

    Again, thank you so much for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

    The Chanticleer Team

     

  • The 2024 Harvey Chute Awards Finalists for Business and Enterprise

    Three Black stripes on a yellow badge CIBA BadgeThe Harvey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books to the test and choose the best among them.
    See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction Semi-Finalist to the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

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

    1. Ben Peterson – Engage Your Destiny
    2. Daniel C. Rodgers – Escape the Clock Your Program Guide for Financial Freedom and Early Retirement
    3. Richard Weylman – 100 Proven Ways To Acquire And Keep Clients For Life
    4. Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
    5. Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities
    6. Anastasia Karklina Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
    7. Zontee Hou – Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
    8. Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
    9. Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
    10. Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
    11. Nick Barter & Christopher Fleming – Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of
    12. Jacqui Clarke – Stop Worrying About Money

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

    Blue and Gold badge for the Finalists of the Harvey Chute Business Nonfiction Award

     

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Harvey Chute Awards is:

    Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

    By Nancy Harhut

    blue and gold badge recognizing Using Behavioral Science in Marketing by Nancy Harhut for winning the 2023 Harvey Chute Grand Prize

     

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Harvey Chute Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

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

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

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

    The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper

    By Catherine Brown

    A Manuscript

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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

     

  • The 2024 Short Story Awards Finalists for Novellas, Essays and Collections

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

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

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 SHORTS AWARDS SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

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

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

    Shorts Finalist Badge for Short Prose, Novellas, and Collections

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

    Shelter In A Hostile World

    By Mack Little

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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

  • The 2024 Somerset Awards Finalists for Literary and Contemporary Fiction

    The 2024 Somerset Awards Finalists for Literary and Contemporary Fiction

    The Somerset Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Contemporary and Literary Fiction. The Cygnus 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 contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 SOMERSET Contemporary Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Somerset Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Contemporary and Literary Fiction!

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

    • Conon Parks – Down and Out in Omaha
    • Robert Gwaltney – Sing Down the Moon
    • Ann Bancroft – Almost Family
    • Christina Boyd – Woman in the Painting
    • Maryann Clarke – Secrets at the Aviary Inn
    • Leslie Wibberley – The Unraveling of Emma Hill
    • Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
    • Neroli Lacey – The Perfumer’s Secret
    • Donna Norman-Carbone – Of Lies and Honey
    • John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
    • Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice, Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
    • Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
    • Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
    • Anthony Horton – Unpaved
    • Anne Heinrich – God Bless The Child
    • Cheryl Grey Bostrom – Leaning on Air
    • Erika Shepard – Abomination Child
    • Leslie DeBrock – The Frog-Eyed Gospel, A Texas Exodus
    • Jeffrey Blount – Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Somerset Grand Prize Winner

    You Can’t Fool A Mermaid

    By Judy Keeslar Santamaria

    Blue and Gold Badge Recognizing You Can't Fool a Mermaid by Judy Keeslar Santamaria for winning the 2023 Somerset Award

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 SOMERSET Book Award Winners for Contemporary Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 SOMERSET Book Awards for Contemporary Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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

     

  • The 2024 Harvey Chute Awards Semi-Finalists for Business and Enterprise

    Three Black stripes on a yellow badge CIBA BadgeThe Harvey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books to the test and choose the best among them.
    See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction Short List to the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Harvey Chute Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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

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

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

     

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

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

    • Ben Peterson – Engage Your Destiny
    • Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
    • Richard Weylman – 100 Proven Ways To Acquire And Keep Clients For Life
    • Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
    • Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities
    • Anastasia Karklina Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
    • Zontee Hou – Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
    • Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World
    • Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
    • Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
    • Steve Waddell, MBA, PMP – Valuepreneuers: The New Rules for Building Products, Growing Your Business, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
    • Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
    • Nick Barter & Christopher Fleming – Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of
    • Jacqui Clarke – Stop Worrying About Money

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

     

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Harvey Chute Awards is:

    Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

    By Nancy Harhut

    blue and gold badge recognizing Using Behavioral Science in Marketing by Nancy Harhut for winning the 2023 Harvey Chute Grand Prize

     

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Harvey Chute Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Two little chicks, fresh from their eggThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Early Readers and Picture Books. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Finalist List for the 2024 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

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

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

    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

    The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

    By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

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

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

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

    Please click here for more information.

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

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

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

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