The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Long List and have advanced to the SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists. 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 SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

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

• Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
• Lou Dischler – Locking Up Daddy
• Marie Powell – Spirit Sight (Last of the Gifted: Book 1)
• Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Serpent
• J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
• Lynn Yvonne Moon – Mirrors: Book 2 of Journey’s Travels
• B. Lynn Carter – The Eyes Have It
• Jack O’Brien – The Last U-Boat
• Lou Dischler – Jokes to Tell When You’re Dead
• Stephen Haunts – Diary of a Martian: Soul Soldiers
• M.J. Evans – Finding Fionn – A Mystery Inspired by the Kidnapping of the Irish Racehorse Shergar
• Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
• S.P. Somtow – Club X: Vampire in the Closet
• Robert Wright Jr – Red Snow – A Twisted Fairy Tale
• Brendan Corbett – The Thief and the Historian
• George R. Wolfe – Into the River of Angels
• Art Lionson – Woodland
• Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
• Michele Kwasniewski – Falling Star: Book 3 of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
• Liz Alterman – He’ll Be Waiting
• S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
• Janilise Lloyd – The Whisperer’s Wish
• Yun Johnson – The Book of Lost Spirits
• V. Romas Burton – Fortified
• Joan Wright Mularz – Slate
• Aurora Winter – Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse: The Marvelous Multiverse App
• W.W Marplot – Time Story
• Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
• Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
• Addison Martinez – Astro
• K.M. Messina – Gemja – The Message
• Tamar Anolic – Two Sisters of Fayetteville
• Vincent J. DeVito – Where the Crane Lands
• Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
• W.T. Kosmos – Blaze Union and the Puddin’ Head Schools
• M.J. Evans – The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
• John Blossom – The Last Football Player
• Jennifer Haskin – Hierarchy of Blood
• Jennifer Haskin – The Clockwork Pen
• Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
• Susan Dwyer – Strangers Saints and Sinners

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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 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:

Wages of Empire

by Michael J. Cooper 

The 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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