The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 HEMINGWAY Wartime Fiction entries to the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Hemingway 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 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for Wartime Fiction!

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

Gary Baysinger – What We Say in the Dark
Dian Greenwood – Forever Blackbirds
Larry Allen Lindsey – One Rogue Raider
Kevin Schewe Md – Bad Love Medicine the Bad Love Series Book
Mark Barie – For King Country and Love
Mark Kraver – Janszoon in the Pursuit of Love Family and an Enduring Legacy
Mark Demeza – The Thirteenth Child
R L Pace – Rising Son
Michael J. Summers – Cherry Blossoms in Winter
David Scott Richardson – An Empty House Doesn’t Sneeze
Dave Mason – Between the Clouds and the River
Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – Sweet Sorrow: Book 3 of The Jungle War series
Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
Peter J. Marzano – Taken from Carinhall
Eldo St. David – The Stuff What Actually Is
Diana Lee – The Green Crossing
Tim Turner and Moisey Gorbaty – The Reluctant Conductor
John Middleton – Noble Conspiracy
Kay Smith-Blum – Tangles
Shanna Hatfield – Molly
Bruce K. Berger – Brothers Bound
Gary Santos – A Grand Pause
Kathryn Gauci – Midnight in Istanbul
Steve Bassett – Love In the Shadows Passaic River Trilogy Comes to an End
Loretta Goldberg – Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: A World War II Novel of Love and Loss
Libby Fischer Hellmann – Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy
Julie Burnette – An Island Long Ago
Jillianne Hamilton – The Land Girl on Lily Road
Jillianne Hamilton – The Hobby Shop on Barnaby Street
Travis Davis – One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
Bharati Sen – My War, My Child
Ingrid McCarthy – Anna’s Shadow
Miles Watson – Sinner’s Cross
Jamie Kirkpatrick – This Salted Soil
Constance Hays Matsumoto & Kent Matsumoto – Of White Ashes
H. W. “Buzz” Bernard – When Heroes Flew
Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers

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 Hemingway Grand Prize Winner

The Silver Waterfall

By Kevin Miller

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Award Winners for Wartime Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 HEMINGWAY Book Awards for Wartime 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.

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