Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre.  The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Laramie Americana Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Laramie Book Awards FINALISTS. 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 FINALISTS of the 2023 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

  • Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
  • Barbara Salvatore – The Trail to Niobrara
  • George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
  • Kimberly Burns – The Redemption of Mattie Silks
  • Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
  • Myra Hargrave McIlvain – The Knotted Ring
  • K.S. Jones – Tastefully Texas
  • Venetia Hobson Lewis – Changing Woman
  • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
  • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
  • Joan Koster – That Dickinson Girl: A Novel of the Civil War
  • Thomas Goodman – The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
  • J. Stanion – My Place Among Them
  • Sophia Alexander – Homespun
  • Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 3 The Founding
  • Julia Brewer Daily – The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch
  • David Calloway – If Someday Comes
  • Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time
  • T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
  • Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)

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

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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 2022 LARAMIE Awards is:

Guarded Hearts 

by T.K. Conklin

The 2022 Laramie Grand Prize Badge for Guarded Hearts by T.K. Conklin

Click here to see the 2022 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

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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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