Short Story Awards for Shorts, Novelettes, Novellas, and Short Story Collections Semi-Finalists – a Division of the 2020 CIBAs

The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Novelettes, Novellas, and Short Story 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.

After several years of requests, the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards program now offers a division for Short Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction in 2020. Since it is a new division, we are still ironing out the proverbial wrinkles. However, it has proven to be quite popular, so we will continue to offer it in our book awards program.

We are honored to announce the following authors and their works as the first Semi-Finalists of the Short Story Awards, a new division of the 2020 CIBAs.

Congratulations to the first Semi-Finalists of The Short Stories

Short Stories and Novelettes Categories 

Historical Fiction (Chaucer/Goethe/Laramie) 

• • Ronald Canfield – Life’s Reflections – A Fateful Weekend
  • Kristie Clark – Dragon of the Sea
  • Shannon Pearson – The Broom
  • Marina Osipova  – From Stalin with Love
  • Kathryn Gauci – Code Name Camille 
  • Michelle Rene Magee – The Dodo Knight
  • Grendolyn Soleil – Snow Dust and Boneshine: The Chronicles of Granny Witch
  • Vali Benson – Blood and Silver
  • Alan E. Fleischauer – Just Another Morning

Mystery & Suspense  (M&M/Clue)

• • J. J. Clarke – Dared to Fly
  • Charlie Lehman – Tiger
  • Ronald Canfield – Fate’s Intervention
  • Alan E. Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
  • Alan E. Fleischauer – Just Another Morning
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Reaching Hope, Dog Talk
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Christmas Chemistry, Forever Christmas in Glenville
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Twice As Bad, Miss Demeanor, P. I.  Series
  • James G. Skinner – The Room

Out of This World Fiction (Cygnus/OZMA/Paranormal)

• • Grendolyn Soleil – Snow Dust and Boneshine: The Chronicles of Granny Witch
  • Lindy Ryan – Dead of Winter
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Reaching Hope, Dog Talk
  • Alexandrea Weis – Sisters of the Moon
  • Cheri Kay Clifton – Yesteryear’s Destiny
  • Nancy Thorne – Normal Come Christmas
  • Alan E. Fleischauer – The Birthday Gift
  • Andrew Dana Hudson and Jay Springett – In The Storm, A Fire
  • Sarena Ulibarri – Inviting Disaster
  • Robin Lee Lovelace – Savonne, Not Vonny
  • Viktoria Schlachta – Koozebanian Exile – A secret darker than the Black Sea
  • Patricia Theisinger – Joy In Four Parts
  • Jeremy Robertson – Trouble in Tinseltown: A Ghost Story
  • Jeremy Robertson – Haunters of Dreamer’s Den #4. Nap or Trap
  • Christopher Kezelos – The Sasquatch of Jackson Farm

Fiction/Contemporary/Literary/Satire

• • Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Reaching Hope, Dog Talk
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Christmas Chemistry, Forever Christmas in Glenville
  • Susan Lynn Solomon – Reunion
  • Charlie Lehman – Serve the People
  • Alan E. Fleischauer –  The Chalice
  • Jennifer L Heckman – Dancing Through Tears
  • V. P. Evans – N
  • V.P. Evans – W
  • Michelle Rene Magee – Danielle’s Inferno
  • Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice

Chatelaine

• • Joanne Jaytanie – Reaching Hope, Dog Talk
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Christmas Chemistry, Forever Christmas in Glenville
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Miss Demeanor, P.I.
  • Vicki Batman – Raving Beauty
  • Richard Alan Schwartz – Trust? It’s All About Trust
  • Gail Meath – Fire Blossom 

Short Story Collections

Congratulations to the  first Short Story Collections  Semi-Finalists

• Lawrey Goodrick – Odd One Out
• Janet Oakley – Hilo Bay Mystery Collection
• Sean Thomas Dwyer – Voices I Hear
• Susan Lynn Solomon – T’was the Season
• Jean Rover – And Then Spring Comes
• Pierce Koslosky Jr. – A Week at Surfside Beach
• Matthew Buscemi – The Shipwright and Other Stories
• David W Thompson – ‘Possum Stew
• Abbe Rolnick – Tattle Tales: Essays and Stories Along the Way
• J. Nell Brown – Orphan Tree and the Vanishing Skeleton Key

Chanticleer Blue Ribbons

Blue Ribbon Award Winners for the 2020 Short Story Awards will be announced on June 5, 2021 at the annual CIBA Ceremonies that will be held at the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 SHORT STORY Awards, a division of the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. 2021 Award Winners will be announced and recognized at the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2021 CIBA Ceremonies that will take place April 7 – 10, 2022, at the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

The 2021 FICTION SERIES Book Awards Winners will be announced on June 5, 2021 at the 2020 CIBA Winners Ceremonies that will take place at the the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.  

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 FICTION BOOK SERIES Awards, a division of the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. 2021 Award Winners will be announced and recognized at the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2021 CIBA Ceremonies that will take place April 7 – 10, 2022, at the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us by email with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com

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Keep on Creating! Keep on Writing! 

The Chanticleer Team