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The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – the Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Zoe Hauser – Jaguar Spirit
- Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
- Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and The Portrait of Doom
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- D.C. Carlisle – Surviving Eros: The Girl Under the Stars
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Strider Klusman – My Ransom
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
- Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
February 10, 2021
DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for YOUNG ADULT FICTION – 2019 CIBA Winners
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction, a division of the CIBAs

The CIBAs Search for the Best Young Adult Fiction

Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary. We love them all.

The 2019 DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK Awards First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Pamela Beason, author of The ONLY WITNESS, (a previous Overall CIBA Grand Prize Winner), announced the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Award Winners.

This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to All!
- Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
- Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
- Susan Brown – Twelve
- Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia
- David Patneaude – Fast Backward
- John Middleton – Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
- Jan Von Schleh – But Not Forever
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards

2019 Grand Prize Winner is:

But Not Forever by Jan Von Schleh

This is the badge for the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI —

Whispers by Lynn Yvonne Moon

We are accepting submissions into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards until June 30, 2021.

The 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

Don’t delay! Enter today!

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

If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
September 21, 2020
DANTE ROSSETTI SPOTLIGHT – Young Adult Novel Book Awards, #CIBAs
Do you have a Y/A Fiction manuscript or recently published novel?

Enter it today in the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards! Let us decipher the best of the best.

If you know anything about Chanticleer International Book Awards, you know that we never stop sharing the good news and accomplishments of our authors! Never!

What that means is we believe in book promotion, highlighting our winners, standing on our platforms, and telling the known world all about YOUR BOOK!

Sound good to you?

Enter your Y/A Fiction Novel TODAY into the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards.

The Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction are named for the British painter and poet,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Chanticleer has chosen Dante Rossetti as the namesake of our young adult fiction awards, because of Rossetti’s strong connection to works of beauty and emotions as swift as the changing seasons. Both aspects embody what it means to be young. We feel that the sentiment expressed by the Pre-Raphaelite movement exemplifies what inspires many authors to pick up their proverbial pens to express their emotions and their observations of the visceral dynamics of living.

Besides, he was a rock star. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an exclusive group in the mid-nineteenth century which garnered as much fame and attention as equatable to the Game of Thrones cast today.

The Love Song by Sir Burne-Jones who was mentored and influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

You won’t regret it – Just ask the following authors who did enter, and won!

The 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards GRAND PRIZE:

Whispers by Yvonne Moon

WHISPERS by Lynn Yvonne Moon

2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
First in Category Winners
- Climb, Run, Drown by Cheryl G. Bostrom
- Tookan Attack by Alex Paul
- Reality Gold by Tiffany Brooks
- 2nd Gen by Andrea and William Vaughan
- Change of Chaos by Jacinta Jade
- Sneaking Out by Chuck Vance
- Soul Sacrifice by Susan Faw
Here’s a little more about our Dante Rossetti … (can we claim him as our own?)

Rossetti’s paintings, in particular, were characterized by the long and wavy hair of young women. It is this youthful beauty that has been immortalized in his work and captures the immovable spirit of adolescence which is so fraught with changing emotions. These women he painted are often quite romantic. His wife would often model for the paintings or the wives of his friends in the Brotherhood. It was rumored that Rossetti had several lovers…

Visitors today can view Rossetti’s work at the Louvre or the Met. In addition to painting, he was also a writer. Several of his poems address emotions and feelings in all of their complexity, similar to his painted works.

La Viuda Romana, 1874 by our fav guy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The 2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

SLAVE to FORTUNE by D. J. Munro

2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners
- Nature’s Confession by JL Morin
- Cryptic Spaces: Dark Edge Rising by Deen Ferrell
- Track Two on Repeat by Rebekah N. Bryan
- Becoming Jonika by PJ Devlin
- Soul Sanctuary by Susan Faw
The 2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

SEER of SOULS by Susan Faw

2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners
- SeaJourney by Alex Paul
- School of Deaths by Christopher Mannino
- Souls Untethered (previously Xodus) by K.J. McPike
- The Other Side of the Wire by Harold Coyle
The 2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

The GIRL and the CLOCKWORK CAT by Nikki McCormack

2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners
- Alix Nichols – What If It’s Love
- Kathe Maguire – The Harriet Club
- Christopher Allen Poe – Dark Sight
- Danielle Burnette – The Spanish Club
- James Zerndt – The Cloud Seeders
- Pamela Beason – Race with Danger
- Luke Evans – Hex
- Gail Selvig – O.W.L.S. and Other Creatures of the Night
- Lis Anna-Langston for Tupelo Honey
The 2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

LEGACY: Biodome Chronicles Book One by Jesikah Sundin

2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners
- Padgett Lively for Odette Speex: Time Traitors, Book 1
- Gretchen Wing for The Flying Burgowski
- Jesikah Sundin for Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles, Book 1
- Roni Teson for Twist
- S.A. Hunter for Elanraigh: The Vow
- Nely Cab for Fruit of Misfortune: Creatura Book 2
- Chris Pawlukiewicz for Dreams of a Red Horizon
- Scott Smith for An Outcast State
- Stephanie Keyes for The Star Catcher
- Elizabeth Barlo: Ruth 66
- Tiana Warner for Ice Massacre
- Elisabeth Hamill for Song Magick
- Mark Murphy for The Curse of the Thrax
- Kirsten Pulioff for The Escape of Princess Madeline
- Ben Hutchins for The Lackawanna Prophecies: Black Shadow
The 2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

The BOREALIS GENOME by Thomas & Nancy Wise

2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners
- Cryptic Space – Book One: Foresight by Deen Ferrell
- Creatura by Nely Cab
- Sanctuary by Pauline Creeden
- The Undead by Elsie Elmore
- Spirit Legacy by E.E.Holmes
- The Immortal Game by Joannah Miley
- Black Crow, White Lie by Candi Sary
- All is Silence by Robert L. Slater
- Leon Martin and the Fantasy Girl by Andre Swartley
Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Dante Rossetti Awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!

Do your works have what it takes to make it through the CIBA judging rounds? Submit manuscripts and published works into the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs!

The last day to submit your work is June 30, 2020. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the 2019 CIBA prizes at CAC20 in September.

The deadline for 2020 YA submissions is June 30, 2020. Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2020 will be announced on April 18, 2021.

Any entries received after June 30, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Young Adult Fiction. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2021 CIBA winners will be held on April 2022.

As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your work deserves! Enter today!

The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

The winners will be announced at the 2019 CIBA Awards Ceremony in September 2020, which will take place during the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of celebrations!

Don’t delay! Enter today!
June 26, 2020
The FINALISTS Announcement for the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, and the CIBA judges will evaluate them for the CIBA Levels of Achievement. They will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Fiction among them. The CIBAs discover today’s best books!

The 2019 CIBAs received an unprecedented number of entries making this book awards program even more competitive. More entries along with more competitive works make the final rounds of judging even more demanding. The judges have requested a new level of achievement to be added to the rounds to acknowledge the entries that they deemed should receive a high level of recognition.

We decided that this was the time to incorporate the new level – The FINALISTS – as requested by the CIBA judges. This new level will be incorporated into the 2019 CIBAs Levels of Achievement. The FINALISTS were selected from the entries that advanced to the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Semi-Finalists.

Congratulations to the 2019 DANTE ROSSETTI FINALISTS
- Veronica Myers – Winter’s Progeny
- Julieanne Lynch – Beneath the Lighthouse
- Jacinta Jade – Change of Darkness
- Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
- Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
- Ted Neill – Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies
- A. Cort Sinnes – Quicksilver
- C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
- Jan Von Schleh – But Not Forever
- Susan Brown – Twelve
- Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia
- Zachry Wheeler – Max and the Multiverse
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago: Book I The Novus
- David Patneaude – Fast Backward
- John Middleton – Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.

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

The Finalists and the Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and at the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony.

Congratulations to the authors whose works have advanced to the FINALISTS Level of Achievement!

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions FINALISTS. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, September 5th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the September 5th at the postponed 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

Grand Prize Ribbons!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 Dante Rossetti Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is May 31st, 2020. The winners will be announced in April 2021.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
May 12, 2020
The ROSSETTI Book Awards for YA FICTION SHORTLIST for the 2019 CIBAs
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2019 SHORTLIST.

Congratulations to the 2019 Dante Rossetti Shortlisters!
- Navya Sarikonda – The Enchanters’ Child
- J.A. Roth – When The Bee Stings
- Veronica Myers – Winter’s Progeny
- Zachary Ryan – High School Queens
- Julieanne Lynch – Beneath the Lighthouse
- Jacinta Jade – Change of Darkness
- Kelly Watt – The India Diaries: Book One Tiger’s Rock
- J. Taylor Baker – The Cardorian Complex
- Glen Sobey – No Fences in Alaska
- Jan Von Schleh – But Not Forever
- Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
- Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
- Ted Neill – Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies
- A. Cort Sinnes – Quicksilver
- Leslea Wahl – Where You Lead
- C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
- Susan Brown – Twelve
- J.T. Blossom – The Tunes of Lenore
- James M Roberts – The Crossroads of Logan Michaels
- Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia Futuris
- Kristina Bak – Nowever
- Zachry Wheeler – Max and the Multiverse
- V. A. Givens – Sealed with a Twist
- Tom Edwards – The Honourable Catherine
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago: Book I The Novus
- David Patneaude – Fast Backward
- John Middleton – Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
Good luck to all!

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction?

These entries are now in competition for 2019 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC20 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction.
As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
November 7, 2019