Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards 2014, a genre division of the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Award Writing Competitions.

cygnus-headerThe Cygnus Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Mythological, and Steampunk fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer Book Reviews Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards are:

  • Space Opera Sci-Fi Series: Citadel 7, Earth’s Secret: Enemy of Existence by Yuan Jur
  • Military Sci-fiction: Betrayal on Triton by Ryan Henry
  • Paranormal: The Unbeliever  by Zachary Kitchen
  • Dark Fantasy/Gamer:  Mythborn: Rise of the Adepts by Vijay Lakshman
  • Epic Fantasy: Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah Tay-Song
  • Speculative Fiction: The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey
  • Mythological: The Immortal Game by Joannah Miley
  • Sci-Fi: Shadow of the Last Man, Book 1 by J. M. Salyards
  • SciFi/Cyperpunk: Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles, Book 1 by Jesikah Sundin
  • Time Travel:  Timelapse by Lorrie Farrelly
  • Lab Lit SciFi:  The Borealis Genome by Thomas P. Wise and Nancy Wise
  • New Adult Dystopian: The Cloud Seeders by Jamie Zendt
  • New Adult Sci-Fi: ISO by H.G. Bleackly
  • YA Dystopian: All Is Silence by Robert L. Slater
  • Best SciFi Manuscript:  Natural Selection by Michael Simon

CONGRATULATIONS!

The 1st Place Category Winners compete for the CYGNUS AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position. The 2014 CYGNUS category winner was announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala in September 2015. See the Grand Prize Winners.

  • The deadline for The Cygnus Awards 2014 was Jan. 31, 2014.
  • The deadline for The Cygnus Awards 2015 is Jan. 31, 2015.

GRAND PRIZE Overall Cygnus Awards Winner from 2013:

2013-CygnusBennett R. Coles, Virtues of War.  

Titan U.K picked up VoW for a three book deal. Check out the cover reveal from TOR here. 

Tor.com is pleased to reveal Fred Gambino’s cover art for Virtues of War, a new military science fiction novel from Bennett R. Coles! Virtues of War is the first book in The Astral Saga trilogy, and will be published in June 2015 by Titan Books.

To view the 2013 CYGNUS Award Winners, please click here.

To compete in the 2015 CYGNUS Awards or for more information, please click here.

THE DEADLINE TO ENTER THE 2015 CYGNUS Novel Writing Competitions is January 31st, 2015.

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