The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction entries to the 2023 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Somerset 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 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 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Literary and Contemporary Fiction!

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

• Mhani Alaoui – The House on Butterfly Street
• Khristin Wierman – This Time Could Be Different
  
• Judy Keeslar Santamaria – You Can’t Fool a Mermaid
• KP McCarthy – Mortal Weather
• Leslie Tall Manning – Feral Maril and Her Little Brother Carol
• Marcia Peck – Water Music: A Cape Cod Story
• Deborah Hufford – Blood to Rubies
• David Joseph – I Didn’t Know What to Say, so I Just Said Thanks
• Charlotte Beck – A Good Day To Die
• Kimberly Sullivan – Rome’s Last Noble Palace
• Scott Swanson – Sweet Tooth
• Ruth F. Stevens – My Year of Casual Acquaintances
• Ann Marie Jackson – The Broken Hummingbird
• George R. Wolfe – Into the River of Angels
• Arthur Byrd – Crossing Lake Pontchartrain
• Nova Garcia – Not That Kind of Call Girl
• McKinley Aspen – Cogitatio: Shadows in the Wind
• Carrie Simmons – Lovers’ Jewelry
• Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogota
• David Fitz-Gerald – If It’s the Last Thing I Do
• Pam Landen – If You Find Me Worthy
• Dian Greenwood – About the Carleton Sisters
• Lou Dischler – Oracle to the Underworld
• A.J. Kohler and Susan Lynn Solomon – The Magician
• Bob Holt – Firebird
• Jo Deniau – Hologram
• J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
• B. Lynn Carter – Jus Breathe
• George Brown – Who Killed Jerusalem?
• Krishma Tuli Arora – From Ash to Ashes
• Terry Tierney – The Bridge on Beer River
• Jennifer Gold – Halfway to You
• Jacqueline Boulden – Her Past Can’t Wait
• Giselle Mehta – Vectors in the Void
• Mary Avery Kabrich – The Journal of Hidden Truths
• Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
• Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
• Leslie Liautaud – Black Bear Lake
• Victoria Costello – Orchid Child
• Nancy Joie Wilkie – Faraway and Forever: More Stories
• Barbara Francesca Murphy – Ever After
• Chera Thompson – Dawned on the Danube
• Kevin Lavey – The Return of Jason Foxx
• Dennis Must – MacLeish Sq.
• Margaret Klaw – Every Other Weekend
• D.R. Ransdell – Carillon Chase
• L.S Case – A Hundred Days Till Tomorrow
• Patricia Sands – The Secrets We Hide
• Elayne Klasson – The Earthquake Child: A Novel
• Judy Lannon – Nine Days
• Michele Chynoweth – The Wise Man
• Karla Huebner – Too Early to Know Who’s Winning
• Leslie A. Rasmussen – The Stories We Cannot Tell
• Debra Thomas – Josie and Vic, a novel
• Julia Brewer Daily – No Names to Be Given
• Rick Shands – Frame 39
• Joe Pace – Moss
• Ann Curtin – Muldoon’s Walking
• Kathy Sechrist – Success Is The Best Revenge
• Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
• Michele Kwasniewski – Falling Star Book Three of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart Series
• Linn Aspen – The Dreamtidings of a Disgruntled Starbeing: Life with a psychopathic brother
• James Gish, Jr. – When Blackbirds Dream
• Victoria Costello – Orchid Child
• Donna Norman-Carbone – All That is Sacred
• Laura Albu – The Undines

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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 SOMERSET Awards is:

Everything That Was 

by Conon Parks 

Click here to see the 2022 Somerset Book Award Winners for Literary and Contemporary Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 Chanticleer In’tl Book Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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