The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2023 CIBAs OZMA division.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Ozma Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are the Ozma Book Awards Finalists for Fantasy Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

  • Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm: Book One: The Scales of Balance
  • L.R. Braden – Of Mettle and Magic
  • Lilla Glass – The Unseen
  • Ross Hightower & Deb Heim – Argren Blue
  • Amber Kirkpatrick – Until the Rising
  • Charles Allen – The Order of the Red God
  • Jaime Castle & Andy Peloquin – Black Talon
  • Crystal D. Grant – Shadowcast
  • Ekta R. Garg – In the Heart of the Linden Wood
  • D. K. Willis – The Unexpected
  • Dale Griffin – The Last Lion of Karkov
  • Jonathan Uffelman – Book of Leprechauns: The Lore Gatherers
  • PM Black – The Solar Realm – Silver Slayer
  • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
  • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
  • L. Ryan Storms – Temper the Dark
  • Alex B. Harper – Of Light and Nightmares: The Ashes of Magic Trilogy, Volume I
  • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada

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

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 OZMA Awards is:

Soar a Burning Sky

By Steven Michael Beck

The Ozma Grand Prize Badge for Soar a Burning Sky by Steven Michael Beck

See the full list of 2022 Ozma Award Winners here

The 2023 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2024 OZMA Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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