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The Short Story 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. 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 in the judging rounds from all 2021 Shorts Book Awards Short List to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

NOTE: We are posting the Collected Works such as Short Story or Essay Collections and Anthologies in a different post.
These are Individual Works

These titles are the FINALISTS of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards  for Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

Out of This World Fiction  (Cygnus, OZMA, Paranormal)

  • Susannah Dawn – Command of the Butterfly
  • Gina Detwiler – Before: Jared’s Story
  • Susan Faw – The Wizard of Bastion

    Mysteries and Suspense  (Mystery/Thriller/CLUE)

    • Dalton Mire – A Chance to Serve
    • M. K. Wiseman – Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper of Whitechapel

      The Historicals (Chaucer/Goethe/Hemingway)

      • Kristie Clark – Dragon of the Sea
      • Elizabeth Wolf – The Royal Foetus: A very short novel based on the very short life of King Louis XVII
      • Breakfield and Burkey – Out of Poland
      • Joy Ross Davis – The Sutler of Petersburg
      • Nicole Evelina – Consequences

        Somerset – Literary & Contemporary Fiction

        • Toni Ann Johnson – Homegoing
        • Mekiya Walters – Bathwater (or, The Miseducation of Ness Chairmonte)
        • Frances Howard-Snyder – Face to Face
        • Dalton Mire – A Minefield of Memories
        • Grace Sikorski – How To Become a Mother

        Box of Chocolates Assortment

        • Lindy Miller – Sleigh Bells on Bread Loaf Mountain
        • Jean-Jacques Jura – Acadian Chronicles: When Ancestors Look Down
        • Barry Robbins – Oh Daddy Chronicles: The Tasting

        Narrative Non-Fiction

        • Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
        • J. L. Oakley – Putting Things Away
        • Vicky Oliver – A Valentine to my Mothers and Other Dubious Role Models

        Graphic Stories

        • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
        • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask

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

         

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Robin Lee Lovelace for Savonne, Not Vonny

        Cover of Savonne, Not Vonny by Robin Lee Lovelace

        Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

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        Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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