The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST.  

The 2020 Shortlist for the Goethe Book Awards

• James Hockenberry – Send The Word
• Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
• Conor Bender – Jubilee
• Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
• Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
• Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
• Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
• Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
• T. Matt Ryan – One Hell of a Shipmate
• Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
• Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
• James Padian – A Patriot’s Challenges
• Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
• Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
• J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
• Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
• J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
• Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
• D.V Chernov – Commissar
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse 
• Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
• Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
• Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
• Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
• Pamela Jonas – For Love of Family: A Slovak Immigrant Novel
• John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
• Eileen Harrison Sanchez – Freedom Lessons – A Novel
• Elizabeth St. Michel – Lord of the Wilderness
• Donna Scott – The London Monster
• Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
• James Ross – Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
• Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
• Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
• Gregory Erich Phillips – Guilty as Angels
• Vicky Oliver – Love and Suffrage in Manhattan
• Roger Newman – Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
• Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard Of Blues
  
• Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
• Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
• Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
• Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
• David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
• Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
• Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery 
• Cris Harding – Red Wing

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Goethe  Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. 

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. 

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

The ShortListers’ 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 submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The  2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.