The Shelley Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Paranormal Fiction. The Shelley Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Shelley Awards were formerly known as the Paranormal Awards. We are delighted to be able to honor the mother of science fiction with this award!

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird other-worldly stories, super humans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them for the 2024 Paranormal Book Awards!

These titles have moved forward in the first readers of the 2024 Shelley Supernatural Fiction entries to the 2024 Shelley Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Shelley 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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

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

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

• Peter B. Dedek – Captives of the River
• Stephanie Edwards – Lowcountry Charm
• Jennifer Anne Gordon – Pretty Ugly
• E.S. Magill – Magica Book Rise of the Cult
• Evette Davis – The Gift
• Charles Allen – Maid of the Feast
• Kristin Homer – A Taste for Fear
• D. L. Wilburn Jr – Vulture House
• Miki Mitayn – Heated Earth Aedgar Moves In
• Peter B. Dedek – Possessed
• Jenny Allen – The Lotus Tree Book 3 in the Lilith Adams Series
• C.W. James – Mindfield: a Paranormal Thriller for Teens
• L.E. Brooks – Avelina, The Cult of Anick: Book One
• Alexander Fernandez – Above the Ashes
• Gracie Dix – Vork Chronicles Welcome to Superhero School
• Keith Steinbaum – In Lieu of Flowers
• Tim Facciola – Ghosts of Rheynia
• Beth Castrodale – The Inhabitants
• AA DaSilva – Periphery
• Anika Savoy – Mayhem in Disguise
• Derek Wachter – Hidebehind
• Charles Allen – A Graveyard of Ships
• R.F PINA – Tears of the Aeon The Gothic War
• E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
• Derek Wachter – Solipsism
• Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
• Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle – Vein Pursuits
• Sharon Barnes – Shanghai Sunset
• Evette Davis – The Others
• Brian Blackwood – Fractured
• Mike Fiorito – For All We Know: A UFO Manifesto
• W.B.J. Williams – Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War
• Sherri L Dodd – Murder Under Redwood Moon
• Bradford Tatum – Hot Berry Punch
• LS Delorme – Bright Midnights
• Omayra Vélez – The General’s Gift
• Dennis D. Skirvin – Nicholas Knocker
• Joy Ross Davis – The Singer Sisters
• Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
• L. J. Aldon – Riddle of the Haunted Hoard

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 Paranormal Grand Prize Winner

Becoming Crone

By Lydia M. Hawke

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Paranormal Book Award Winners for Supernatural Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shelley Book Awards for Supernatural 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.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!