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The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the Rossetti Book Awards Division of the 2020 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. (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 Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- 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
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

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 Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

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!
April 4, 2021
Part Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners
We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The winners were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies that were held on during VCAC September 8 – 13, 2020 by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

We cheered on the CIBA Premier Finalists with our bubbly of choice from wherever we were Zooming!

The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America. A virtual happy hour was held following each evening’s announcements.

We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

Grand Prize Ribbons!

We are honored to present the

2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

Grand Prize Winners

The 2019 CIBA Winners!

The LARAMIE Book Awards for American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

The Grand Prize Winner is

SEVEN APRILS by Eileen Charbonneau
- - E. Alan Fleischauer – Rescued
    
    Lynwood Kelly – The Gamble: Lost Treasures
    
    David Fitz-Gerald– Wanders Far-An Unlikely Hero’s Journey
    
    Juliette Douglas – Bed of Conspiracy
    
    John Hansen – Hard Times
    
    J. R. Collins – Spirit of the Rabbit Place
The CHAUCER Book Awards for

Pre-1750s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

FORTUNE’S CHILD: A Novel of Empress Theodora

by James Conroyd Martin
- - Gail Avery Halverson for The Skeptical Physick
    
    Linda Cardillo for Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
    
    June Hall McCash for Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
    
    James Hutson-Wiley for The Sugar Merchant
    
    Catherine Mathis for Death in Coimbra
    
    Patricia J. Boomsma for The Way of Glory
    
    A.L. Cleven for 26.2
The GOETHE Book Awards for

Post-1750’s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

PECCADILLO at the PALACE by Kari Bovee
- - Vanda Writer for Paris, Adrift
    
    PJ Devlin for Wissahickon Souls
    
    Mary Adler for Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
    
    Mike Jordan for The Runner
    
    J.G. Schwartz for The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for

Early Readers and Picture Books

Grand Prize Winner is

GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie

by Trevor Young & Eleanor Long
- - Sylva Fae and Katie Weaver for Elfabet
    
    Lauren Mosback for My Sister’s Super Skills
    
    Norma Lewis for Totem Pole
    
    Kizzie Jones for A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes: How MORE Dogs Came to Be
    
    Justine Avery forWhat Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
    
    Kasey J. Claytor for Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside
    
    Robert Wright Jr for Mummy in the Museum
GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for

Middle-Grade Books

Grand Prize is

The VALLEY of DEATH, Book 5 by Alex Paul
- - Amber L. Wyss – Phoenix Rising
    
    M.J. Evans – PINTO!
    
    Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate
    
    Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale
    
    Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers
    
    Alex Paul – The Valley of Death, Book 5, Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals
    
    C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
    
    Trayner Bane – Windhollow and the Axe Breaker (Windhollows, Book 3)
    
    Carolyn Watkins – The Knock…a collection of childhood memories
The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards

for Young Adult Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

BUT NOT FOREVER by Jan Von Schleh
- - 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
Congratulations to ALL!

We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

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Please standby for our next posts that will honor:
- Chatelaine Book Award Winners
- Somerset Book Award Winners
- Journey Book Award Winners
- Nellie Bly Book Award Winners
- Instructional and Insight Book Award Winners
And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2019 CIBAs!

Here is the link to the first installment for announcing the 2019 CIBAS.

Stay tuned for PART 3 of the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Award Winners

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 and 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com We will try to respond within 3 business days.

Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2019 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team
October 11, 2020
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
The 2019 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – The Long 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 and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2019 Dante Rossetti Shortlist. The ShortListers’ works will compete for the 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.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST 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.
- Navya Sarikonda – The Enchanters’ Child
- J.A. Roth – When The Bee Stings
- Nick Korolev – Jerry Swift and Chiron’s Pride
- Leslie Wibberley – Seriously, Universe?
- Zachary Ryan – High School Queens
- Veronica Myers – Winter’s Progeny
- Julieanne Lynch – Beneath the Lighthouse
- Jacinta Jade – Change of Darkness
- Kelly Watt – The India Diaries: Book One Tiger’s Rock
- Alex Paul – The Valley of Death, Book 5, Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals
- J. Taylor Baker – The Cardorian Complex
- Glen Sobey – No Fences in Alaska
- Jan Von Schleh – But Not Forever
- Christine Gallagher – Swimming Without Goggles
- Samantha Long – Hopelessly Devoted
- Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
- Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
- Ted Neill – Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies
- Rachel VanZandt – Return of the Eagle
- Thomas Corrigan – Right Now Is Worth It
- A. Cort Sinnes – Quicksilver
- Leslea Wahl – Where You Lead
- C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
- Susan Brown – Twelve
- Susan Brown – Catching Toads
- J.T. Blossom – The Tunes of Lenore
- James M Roberts – The Crossroads of Logan Michaels
- Michael R. French – Beginner’s Guide to Winning an Election
- Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia
- 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
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction?

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

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: https://www.chantireviews.com/services/Young-Adult-Novels-Writing-Contest-p21521206

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
August 3, 2019
SPOTLIGHT on DANTE ROSSETTI Awards — Young Adult Fiction
The Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction are named for the British painter and poet,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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.

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, 2019. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize at CAC20 on September 5th.

The deadline for 2019 submissions is June 30, 2020. Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced on September 5th, 2020.

Any entries received after June 30, 2019, will be entered into the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Young Adult Fiction. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.

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 CIBA Awards Ceremony on September 5th, 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 dinner, networking, and celebrations!

Don’t delay! Enter today!
May 30, 2019