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Goethe Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The other three Historical Fiction Genres are the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction, the Chaucer Awards for Early Historical Fiction, and the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2022 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Goethe Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

  • Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
  • Jenny Brav – The Unbroken Horizon
  • Eric Schumacher Ramirez – Children of Kings
  • Jeff Winstead – The Last Battle of the Revolution
  • Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey
  • Daniel V. Meier, Jr. – Blood Before Dawn
  • Pat Benedict Jurgens – Falling Forward: A Woman’s Journey West
  • Scott Kauffman – Saving Thomas
  • Jody Hadlock – The Lives of Diamond Bessie
  • Rita Bozi – When I Was Better
  • Judith F. Brenner – The Moments Between Dreams
  • Brigitte Goldstein – Court of Miracles
  • Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann
  • Susanne Dunlap – The Portraitist
  • Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
  • Lilianne Milgrom – L’Origine: The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece
  • Robert W. Smith – Running with Cannibals
  • Todd M. Johnson – The Barrister and the Letter of Marque
  • Brett Savill – Lie of the Land
  • Alice McVeigh – Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
  • Jennifer Newbold – The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody
  • Tamar Anolic – Tales of the Romanov Empire
  • Julieta Almeida Rodrigues, Ph.D. – Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment
  • Leslie Johansen Nack – The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies
  • James D. Nealon – Confederacy of Fenians

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021Goethe Awards is:

After the Rising & Before the Fall

By Orna Ross

After the Rising and Before the Fall CoverGoethe 2021 Grand Prize Winner Badge for After the Rising by Orna Ross

Click here to see the 2021 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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