The 2022 SHORTS CIBAs Finalists for Short Stories and Essays

The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Story Collections and Anthologies. 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 the 2022 Shorts Book Awards Short List to the 2022 Shorts Book Awards 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. 

NOTE: We are posting the Collections and Novellas in a separate post.

These titles are in the running for First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories and Essays!

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

• Louise Lenahan Wallace – Mud on the Range
• Susannah Dawn – The Case To Be Me
• Brian Feutz – Masquerade
• Linda Lee Keenan – The Sentinel
• Mike Murphey – Old Man Baseball
• Lloyd Jeffries – Buried in the Stars
• Alice McVeigh – Capturing Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Short Story
• Miriam Polli – Agathos
• Tom Durwood – Jayani’s Big Gamble
• Ellen Notbohm – What She Thinks About When She Thinks About Shoes
• Robert Phillips – The Dummy
• Mekiya Outini – The Man Who Misspelled God
• J.L. Oakley – Sons and Streams
• Donna LeClair – I Am Human
• George T. Arnold – Those phone calls
• Claudia Carbonell – Hututu
• Ray Dionne – Harvest Day
• Suzanne Smith – Bullets and Bustles
• Suzanne Smith – The Scalp Collector
• Leslie Wibberley – The Poison Garden

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Toni Ann Johnson for Homegoing

Click here to see the 2021 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Shorts Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

Please click here for more information.

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

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