The 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction – the Short List

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Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels. The Laramie 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, the wild west, pioneering, Civil War, North American History, and First Nation Novels.. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Laramie Book Awards?

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST. 

Congratulations to the following titles who have advanced to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards SHORTLIST!

  • Fred Dickey – Days of Hope, Miles of Misery  
  • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts? The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls 
  • DL Fowler – The Turn      
  • JR Collins – Legend of Swell Branch
  • John W. Bebout – The Cause of Darkness- A Story of the Civil War    
  • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
  • James Kahn – Matamoros
  • Gerry Robinson – The Cheyenne Story    
  • J. Palma – The Chaffee Sisters   
  • Susan Higginbotham – The First Lady and the Rebel    
  • Barbara Salvatore – Magghie    
  • J.C. Graves – Death is a Sharpshooter    
  • J.B. Richard – Jesse   
  • Terry D. Heflin – Scarlet Hem
  • Mike Shellenbergar – Quail Creek Ranch
  • Mike Shellenbergar – Refuge
  • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
  • Van Temple – Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Struggle  
  • Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Trouble the Water, a Novel
  • John Hansen – Elk Meadows
  • E. Alan Fleischauer – Hunted
  • Daniel Greene – Northern Wolf
  • W. Hock Hochheim – Rio Grande Black Magic
  • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender to Honor 

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels Fiction. 

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction?

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

Laramie Book Awards

The ShortListers’ 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 submissions into the 2021 Laramie Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is July 31st, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

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.

2021-04-07T20:34:58-07:00By |

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