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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.

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

The 2021 SHORTS Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner were announced by David Beaumier on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the SHORTS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SHORTS Grand Prize Winner.

 

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

 

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

  • Gina Detwiler – Before: Jared’s Story

    Mysteries and Suspense  (Mystery/Thriller/CLUE)

    • M. K. Wiseman – Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper of Whitechapel

      The Historicals (Chaucer/Goethe/Hemingway)

      • Elizabeth Wolf – The Royal Foetus: A very short novel based on the very short life of King Louis XVII

        Somerset – Literary & Contemporary Fiction

        • Toni Ann Johnson – Homegoing

        Box of Chocolates Assortment

        • Lindy Miller – Sleigh Bells on Bread Loaf Mountain

        Narrative Non-Fiction

        • Vicky Oliver – A Valentine to my Mothers and Other Dubious Role Models

        Graphic Stories

        • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Short Story Awards is:

        Homegoing

        by Toni Ann Johnson

        Homegoing Cover

        Grand Prize Badge for Toni Ann Johnson's Homegoing

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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        The 2022 SHORTS Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2022 SHORTS Book Awards are open until the end of December. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!