The 2022 CIBAs Short List for Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction

The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2022 CIBAs OZMA division.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Long List to the 2022 Ozma Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS 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 Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

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

• Linnea Taner – Skull’s Vengeance
• Eva Doherty Gremmert – The Fairy Fort
• David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
• Philip Carlisle – Surviving Eros
• Sarah Morrell – Beauty Within
• Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy (the Chronicles of Chaos book 2)
• KC Cowan – Raeka’s Story
• McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
• J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
• M. K. Wiseman – Magical Intelligence
• D. K. Marley – Kingfisher
• Edward Pontacoloni – The Rookery
• K.L. Kolarich – House of Bastiion
• Stavros Saristavros – Tome of Syyx
• Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
• K.N. Salustro – The Roar of the Lost Horizon
• AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
• Helen Garraway – Sentinals Across Time
• J.L. Delavega – Smoke and Other Storms
• S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
• Amy Wolf – Dragons of Light and Chaos
• Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – Cold as Hell
• C.D. Allen – Seagrass Maggie
• Grayson W. Hooper – Shadebringer

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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 OZMA Awards is:

Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846

by Laurel Anne Hill

The 2022 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 OZMA Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!