The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Magic, Steampunk and Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 OZMA Fantasy Fiction entries to the 2024 Ozma Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Ozma Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Four Points by Sheraton sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

K.N. Salustro – A Whisper from the Edge of the World
J.V. Rutz – The Illusion Killer and the Phantom Magician
Susannah Dawn – Search for the Armor of God
Chloé A.H. Lewis – The Covenant Of Saints
Helen Garraway – Sentinals Banished
James McKenna – An October’s Journey: Poe’s Final Gift
Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
Elana Gomel – Nine Levels
Steve Stine – I, Enoch
Anton Anderson – The Seekers: Kirin
Jenn Lees – Of High Kings and Mages: Arlan’s Pledge Book Three
Curt Locklear – Treasure and Murder In Ireland
Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
Marieke Lexmond – The Queen of Fairy, The Madigan Chronicles #6
Jody Norman – New Trails
Charles Allen – A Graveyard of Ships
John Middleton – The Navel of the World
Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle – An Unexpected Hero
Mary K. Savarese – The StarWriters Club
Lynne Shaner – Journey to Everland Bay
A.S. Norris – The Hunted Mage: The Adventures of Jack Wartnose
Glen Dahlgren – The Realm of Gods
David V Mammina – Death or Volentus: Macabre Masquerade (Book 2)
David V Mammina – Death or Volentus
Kolton Fitz-Gerald – Leon Sharp: The Scourge of Night
Kolton Fitz-Gerald – Leon Sharp: The Tides of War
Alan B. Gibson – Summer Storm (Magic at Myers Beach, Book 2)
Zakary Bennett – Spirits of Leuun Shadows of the Chimera Vol 1
J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
Susan Wands – High Priestess an Empress, Book Two, Arcana Oracle Series
R. M. Krogman – Liberation
James Malone – The Song of Theodore-Return to Rainbow Gardens
Omayra Velez – The General’s Gift
J.M. Durham – Silla’s Awakening
Ross Hightower – Spirit Light Volume 1
Ross Hightower & Deb Heim – Desulti
Mark Stanley – Elven Blood: Volume 1 of the Vellhor Saga
Erin Lark Maples – A Circle of Stars
Evette Davis – The Others
M.D. House – Crossroads of Awakening Memory
Ryan Schuette – A Seat for the Rabble
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
Rebecca Warner – Journey of Souls
Luminescence Goh – Chronicles of the Enchanted Vanguard Seraphina and the Divine Mandate
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Serpent’s Spell
S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
Logan D. Irons – Oaths of Blood
Joseph P Macolino – The Battle for Erathal
Prue Batten – The Red Thread
Joy Ross Davis – The Goddess of Weaver Street
S.G. Blaise – Meddling Mages
W.B.J. Williams – Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War
T.E. MacArthur – A Place of Fog and Murder
Shami Stovall – Academy Arcanist
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
C.V. Vobh – The Yawning Gap
David Scidmore – Aylun

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Ozma Grand Prize Winner and Overall Grand Prize Winner

A Vengeful Realm

By Tim Facciola

Click here to see the full list of 2023 OZMA Book Award Winners for Fantasy Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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