The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Michelle Cox on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the LARAMIE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the LARAMIE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to the FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS of the Laramie Book Awards for Americana, Western, and First Nation Fiction, a division of the 2023 CIBAs.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

• Barbara Salvatore – The Trail to Niobrara

• T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring

• Thomas Goodman – The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery

• Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time

• Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)

• K.S. Jones – Tastefully Texas

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 LARAMIE Awards is:

The Last Man

by Thomas Goodman

You can see all of our amazing 2023 Laramie Finalists! Congratulations to all and thank you for submitting!

Well done climbing the CIBA Levels of Achievement!

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank  you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.

Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

Team Chanticleer!