The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Laramie Americana Long List to the 2023 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 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 20th, 2024 in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
Heidi M. Thomas – Rescue Ranch Rising
Barbara Salvatore – The Trail to Niobrara
Barbara Toomer – Season of Our Reckoning
Deborah Hufford – Blood to Rubies
George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
Kimberly Burns – The Redemption of Mattie Silks
Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
E. Alan Fleischauer – Chip Heller Man of Valor
Donna E. Lane – This Hallowed Ground
Martha Engber – The Falcon, the Wolf, and the Hummingbird
James Holland – Vigilante Love Song: Alice Roosevelt and The White House Gunfighters
Myra Hargrave McIlvain – The Knotted Ring
K.S. Jones – Tastefully Texas
Venetia Hobson Lewis – Changing Woman
T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
Joan Koster – That Dickinson Girl: A Novel of the Civil War
Thomas Goodman – The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
J. Stanion – My Place Among Them
Shanna Hatfield – Love on Target
JR Holland – Alice Roosevelt and the White House Gunfighters
John Hansen – Grays Lake
Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 3 The Founding
Julia Brewer Daily – The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch
David Calloway – If Someday Comes
K. S. Jones – Change of Fortune
Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time
T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
Sophia Alexander – Homespun
Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)

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

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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 2022 LARAMIE Awards is:

Guarded Hearts

by T.K. Conklin

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Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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