The  Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging talent in 20th Century Wartime Historical Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a NEW division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). 

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs in this new and important division.

New Division at the CIBAs: The Hemingway Book Awards

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The Hemingway Book Awards competition is our nod to one of our favorite 20th Century American novelists, journalists, and short story authors, Ernest Hemingway. Born on July 21, 1899, Hemingway was one of many who experienced the massive global shift from regional wars to large-scale, world wars. The events he lived through made him the man we know today. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, Hemingway’s influence reaches virtually all genres of literature. (Find out more about the man here.)

The 2020 HEMINGWAY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips, Overall Grand Prize Winner in the 2014 CIBAs for his manuscript, Love of Finished Years, which is now a top-selling historical fiction novel that deals with World War I.

Congratulations to all!

• Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
• J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
• Conor Bender – Jubilee
• Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
• Catherine A. Hamilton –Victoria’s War
• Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
• Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
• Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse 

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 HEMINGWAY Awards is:

J. L. Oakley

The QUISLING FACTOR

The 2021 HEMINGWAY 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!

The HEMINGWAY Book Awards is  open to take submissions for 2021! Click here to enter the Hemingway Book Awards

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.