Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the SOMERSET  AWARDS 2014 for Literary and Blended Genre Fiction, a division of Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Writing Competitions.

SomersetThe SOMERSET Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Literary and Blended Genre Fiction. The First Place Category Winners will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala held in late September 2015.

 

 

 

Congratulations to The SOMERSET FIRST PLACE Category 2014 Award Winners:

  • Social Issues:  Thomas McNeely for Ghost Horse
  • Satire: Steve Lundin for The Manipulator, a Private Life in Public Relations
  • Literary: Tom Glenn for No-Accounts, Dare Mighty Things
  • Contemporary: Judith Kirscht for Home Fires
  • New Adult: Tanya Fife for Lost and Found in Missing Lake 
  • YA/Juvenile Fiction:  E. F. Winters for Memeloose, The Island of the Dead
  • Adventures/Suspense: Jim Hennigan  for Recording a Kill
  • International Intrigue: Rian Everest for The Tangerine Trio
  • Mainstream: Nancy Adair for Soon Coming
  • Women’s Fiction: Jessica H. Stone for The Last Outrageous Woman
  • Blended Literary Fiction: Michael Olin-Hitt for The Homegoing 

Honorary Mentions:

  • Enid Harlow for Good to Her
  • Thomas Whaley for Leaving Montana
  • Kate McKenna for True Stories of Local Heroes
  • Angela Brackeen for Lark, in Her Element
  • Laurie Fitzpatrick for Niello
  • Michael Hurley for The Vineyard
  • Ken Swarmer for Family of the Year

CONGRATULATIONS!

To view the 2014 Somerset Finalists whose works made it to the short list, please click here.

Good Luck to the Somerset First Place Category Winners as they compete for the Somerset AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position!

The 1st Place Category Winners compete for the SOMERSET AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position. The 2014 SOMERSET category winner was announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala in September 2015. See the Grand Prize Winners.

The deadline for The SOMERSET Awards 2014 was November 30, 2014.
The deadline for The SOMERSET Awards 2015 is November 30, 2015.

GRAND PRIZE Overall SOMERSET  Awards 2013 Winner was:

Jeremy Bullia for Individually Wrapped

The OVERALL CHANTICLEER GRAND PRIZE WINNER for 2013 came from the Somerset Awards: Michael Hurley for The Prodigal

To view the 2013 SOMERSET Award Winners, please click here.

To enter the 2015 SOMERSET  Awards, please click here. The deadline is November  30, 2015.

To enter your work into a Chanticleer Writing Competition, please click here. 

CBR’s rigorous writing competition standards are the reason literary agencies seek out our winning manuscripts and self-published novels. Our high standards are also another reason our reviews are trusted among booksellers and book distributors.Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media, L.L.C. retains the right to not declare “default winners.” Winning works are decided upon merit only. Please visit our Contest Details page for more information about our writing contest guidelines.

Please do not hesitate to contact Info@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions about CBR writing competitions. Your input and suggestions are important to us.

Thank you for your interest in Chanticleer Book Reviews international writing competitions.