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 the 2023 Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Somerset Book Awards 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 the FINALISTS 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.

• Judy Keeslar Santamaria – You Can’t Fool a Mermaid
• Leslie Tall Manning – Feral Maril and Her Little Brother Carol
• Deborah Hufford – Blood to Rubies
• Charlotte Beck – A Good Day To Die
• Nova Garcia – Not That Kind of Call Girl
• Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogota
• David Fitz-Gerald – If It’s the Last Thing I Do
• Jo Deniau – Hologram
• J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
• B. Lynn Carter – Jus Breathe
• Jennifer Gold – Halfway to You
• Jacqueline Boulden – Her Past Can’t Wait
• Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
• Leslie Liautaud – Black Bear Lake
• Chera Thompson – Dawned on the Danube
• Kevin Lavey – The Return of Jason Foxx
• Dennis Must – MacLeish Sq.
• Margaret Klaw – Every Other Weekend
• Julia Brewer Daily – No Names to Be Given
• Ann Curtin – Muldoon’s Walking
• Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
• Linn Aspen – The Dreamtidings of a Disgruntled Starbeing: Life with a psychopathic brother
• James Gish, Jr. – When Blackbirds Dream
• Donna Norman-Carbone – All That is Sacred

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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 was:

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 2024 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

Please click here for more information.

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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