The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

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. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Fiction entries to the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway 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 (CAC24).

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

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20st, 2024 in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

Linda Joy Myers – The Forger of Marseille
Elaine Aucoin Schroller – Dare Not Tell
Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
William McClain – Alice’s War
J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
Patricia Wilson – An Island Promise
Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees
Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
Kathryn Brown Ramsperger – A Thousand Flying Things
Lou Dischler – The Last Newsreel
Martin Roy Hill – Codename: Parsifal
Patrick McLaughlin – Cheerful Obedience
Trish MacEnulty – Secrets and Spies
Marina Osipova – The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory
Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
Kevin L. Evans – The Bend of the Green
Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
Johanna van Zanten – Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
Richard Bareford – Veterans Key
Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
Suzanne Trauth – What Remains of Love
Robert L. Decker – Not to Reason Why
Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
Patrick Greenwood – Sunrise in Saigon
Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance
J Robert Gould – The Last of the Greatest Generation

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book Awards is:

Running with Cannibals

by Robert W. Smith

Click here to see the 2022 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

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

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

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