The 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay 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 all 2021 Shorts Book Awards entries to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. 

NOTE: We are posting the Individual Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas in a different post. These are Collected Works

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

These titles have advanced to the Short List of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies and are in the run for the FINALISTS!

• Grendolyn Peach Soleil – The Mermaids Melt at Dawn for Fantasy and Myth
• Susannah Dawn – K Team – 4th Galactic Cavalry for Space Opera
• Russ Colson – Kernels of Mind – for Philosophical SciF
• Leah Angstman – Shoot the Horses First for Americana Fiction
• Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles for 20th c. Wartime Fiction
• Susannah Dawn – I’m Not What I Used To Be, Yet I Am Who I’ve Always Been – Excerpts From My Journey for Personal Journey Non-Fiction
• Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry for Family Stories
• Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal for Personal Growth and Romance
• Domenick Venezia – The Edwerd Chronicles for Magical Realism
• Dianne Ebertt Beeaff – On Traigh Lar Beach for Connections
• K. – Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories for Literary Love Stories
• Dreena Collins – She Had Met Liars Before for Literary
• Michael T. Tusa Jr. – A House Without Books for Social Themes and Philosophy
• Elizabeth Crowens – New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst for Anthologies and Mixed Media
• Jeff Richards – Everyone Worth Knowing for Literary
• Maria Rybakova – Quaternity: Four Novellas From The Carpathians for Contemporary Themes
• Frances Howard-Snyder – Through a Glass Darkly for Contemporary Themes
• Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Histories for Historical Comedy
• Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Fizzies for Satire
• James Musgrave – The Valley of the Dogs for Absurdism

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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 2020 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Pierce Koslosky Jr. for A Week at Surfside Beach

Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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