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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 division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The 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 and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the Semi-FInalists of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

  • P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
  • Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
  • Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
  • B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
  • M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
  • Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
  • Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
  • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
  • E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
  • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
  • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
  • Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
  • Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
  • Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
  • Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
  • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
  • Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
  • Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
  • Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
  • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
  • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
  • Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
  • John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
  • L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
  • Shay Siegel – Fractured

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

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

Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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