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.

Please click here for more information.

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

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