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Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

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. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

(For Middle-Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Early Readers and Picture Books, pleases visit our Little Peeps Awards page.)

The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner were announced by Peggy Sullivan on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

  • Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
  • Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy     
  • Felicia Farber – Ice Queen      
  • Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair    
  • Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
  • Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive     
  • L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable    
  • Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road      
  • Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach      
  • Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Book 1, Chorduroys and Too Many Boys™)    

 

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:

    Dallas Woodburn for

    The Best Week That Never Happened

    Cover of The Best Week That Never Happened by Dallas Woodburn

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Winner Badge for the Dante Rossetti Awards for The best week that never happened by Dallas Woodburn

    The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open until the end of June. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.