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The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).
Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Zoe Hauser – Jaguar Spirit
- Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
- Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and The Portrait of Doom
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- D.C. Carlisle – Surviving Eros: The Girl Under the Stars
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Strider Klusman – My Ransom
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
- Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction.
As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
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