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 the 2023 Semi-Finalists to the Hemingway 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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are the FINALISTS 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
• William McClain – Alice’s War
• J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
• Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
• 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
• J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
• Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
• Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
• Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
• Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
• Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
• Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
• 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

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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 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

Running with Cannibals

by Robert W. Smith

See the full list of 2022 Hemingway Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

Please click here for more information.

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

• The Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction 
• The Chaucer Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction 
• The Goethe Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction 

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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