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The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction entries to the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 Chaucer Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. Winners will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on April 29, 2023, at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

  • Patrice Adair – The Viking Girl
  • Eric Schumacher Ramirez – The Hummingbird & The Serpent
  • Aaron Mead – Neither Slave nor Free
  • Regan Walker – Bound by Honor, Book 2 in The Clan Donald Saga
  • David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
  • Daniel V. Meier, Jr. – Bloodroot
  • GK Johnson – The Zealots
  • Kerry Chaput – Daughter of the King
  • Tonya Ulynn Brown – The King’s Inquisitor
  • A. M. Linden – The Valley: Book Two of the Druid Chronicles
  • Jean Gill – The Ring Breaker
  • Patricia Bernstein – A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
  • Lee Swanson – A Dangerous Journey Home
  • Meredith Allard – Down Salem Way
  • Elizabeth R. Andersen – The Scribe
  • Brigitte Goldstein – Princess of the Blood – A Tapestry of Love and War in 16th-Century France
  • Rozsa Gaston – Anne and Louis Forever Bound
  • Amy Maroney – Sea of Shadows
  • Amy Maroney – Island of Gold
  • Karen Martin – Dancing the Labyrinth
  • Kelly Evans – Unfinished: The Inspired Life of Elisabetta Sirani
  • Donna Scott – The Tacksman’s Daughter
  • Mary Ann Bernal – Forgiving Nero
  • Eileen Stephenson – Imperial Passions – The Great Palace
  • Philip Remus – Collegium, Brotherhood of Rogues
  • M.D. House – The Barabbas Legacy
  • Cindy Burkart Maynard – Finding the Way
  • Rebecca Kightlinger – Megge of Bury Down: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book One
  • Susanne Dunlap – Voices in the Mist
  • Philip Remus – Gods of Men, Where the Spartans are Made
  • Mack Little – Daughter of Hades
  • Prue Batten – Reliquary – Book One of The Peregrinus Series
  • Alexander Geiger – Immortal Alexandros 
  • Anna Belfrage – The Castilian Pomegranate
  • Andrew Rowen – Columbus and Caonabó: 1493-1498 Retold

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

 

 

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CHAUCER Awards is Too Soon the Night by James Conroyd Martin

Too soon the night cover

Too soon the night Grand Prize Badge

Click here to see the 2021 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here to submit to the 2023 Chaucer Awards

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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